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The hidden gem in SAP RISE’s crown: the SAP Business Network

SAP’s RISE initiative has a lot of moving parts that together offer customers and prospects important incentives to move to the cloud.

Enterprises better strap in for a journey to the metaverse

When social media giant Facebook changed the name of its holding company to Meta in late 2021, both the internet and enterprise world were abuzz with confusion over what it all meant.

Platforms matter in 2022 EAP is key for ERP success

Back in 2019, I had the pleasure to author a piece for ERP today on why platforms matter. Since, the industry has not stood still, and platforms have become stronger, broader and more important for all ERP vendors.

IT makes business dreams real

Every company’s ambitions are now digital. As a result, IT permeates organizations and influences outcomes in every corner of the enterprise. Whether you sell cars or clothes, entertainment or detergent, your business architecture is likely indistinguishable from your technology architecture.

Platforms that deliver value through employee engagement

Over the last 18 months we have seen the constant rise in the industry narrative from the SaaS cloud platform providers regarding the importance of delivering ‘experiences that matter’.

The age of pay transparency the role of tech and data

It is no secret to anyone by now that our access to technology and data is creating increasing transparency in all areas of life - and the salary data, pay fairness and pay equity in particular are no exception.

Hot right now? Six key points to build ESG into your ERP

Most readers will need little persuading that sustainability is a hot topic for business leaders. This heat comes from a number of factors, including: the risk of fines and reputational damage from non-compliance with sustainability regulation; falling revenues if customers’ growing environmental and ethical expectations are not met.

Happy Green New Year?

While many thought that the pandemic might knock ESG approaches off course as companies and investors went ‘back to basics’, it seems that the opposite has happened. Three quarters of all investors surveyed said they’re now more likely to divest shares of companies with poor ESG performance post-pandemic.

The cloud goes Vertical

The backdrop – commercial elasticity and the demand for workloads. The cloud has been one of, if not the, most transformative IT innovations in the short history of the IT discipline. The ability to convert CAPEX into OPEX has an irresistible lure to enterprises in a pandemic world more than ever.

RIP Systems Integrators, long live Value Creators!

In a piece from 2019 entitled RIP System Integrators, Paul Esherwood asked the rhetorical question — can systems integrators re-invent themselves as quickly as the technology changes that they put in place for customers of major IT vendors?

Unlocking the value of Smart contracts

The Ethereum whitepaper, written and released by Vitalik Buterin in 2013, put in motion the wheels of change that are set to have a profound impact across every industry in the coming years ahead.

The future of work in tech: Saying goodbye to women’s roles

It will come as no surprise to the readers of ERP Today that the future of work is shifting towards a more tech-focussed approach. We are constantly utilising the latest technology to create fresh workplace opportunities and tech skills are becoming increasingly in demand within the world of work.

All aboard the Green Regulation revolution

The words regulation and opportunity don’t typically appear in the same sentence, but the scale and depth of new sustainability rules can offer forward-thinking businesses the chance to gain advantage.

The procurement problem – Unlocking innovation and supporting SMEs

I recently spotted a tweet from Chris Bakke, an entrepreneur with a number of significant exits under his belt, that got me thinking. Why is procurement still such a challenging beast?

Success should be measured by the ‘externalities’ of the business

In the past, to evaluate the health and success of an enterprise, you would look to its balance sheet where the profit, margins, and revenue columns would lay bare the performance and trajectory of the business. But that myopic way of measuring success is...

Working from home

In March 2017, a video of two young children interrupting their father’s BBC interview about South Korea went viral. Professor Robert Kelly was quoted as saying: “I thought I’d blown it in front of the whole world,” when his children...

Inflection 2021 – The Missing Piece of the Enterprise Jigsaw

This year will see the continued evolution of SaaS cloud applications and once again we find ourselves at another inflection point. The next step brings into focus the final piece of the jigsaw and delivers on what ERP has been promising for decades - simply to make our lives easier at work.

Human to Human – How one vendor has humanised the software industry

Advanced is a software company that you may not have heard of, yet their products and services touch the lives of millions of people. If you have called NHS 111, travelled on a smart motorway...

Using digital tech for a fair Future of work

Throughout 2020 we have all had numerous conversations about how the pandemic has exposed rifts and inequalities in public health and the economy all over the world. Workplaces have not...

The economic benefits of Certainty

Certainty can be defined as the confidence that we have in our beliefs. It is a determining characteristic of how we perform as individuals, as a team and as a company. The more certain we are in our beliefs...

Intelligent Automation is the key to lasting business resilience

The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most disruptive business events in history - requiring immediate technology shifts for recovery, resilience and competitiveness...

Benchmarking project success

Isn’t it about time we had a way to really measure the success of ERP Implementations?

How creativity, bolstered by data, is forging a path to the circular economy

If anyone still doesn’t believe we’re in the midst of a climate crisis, they likely never will...

The state of the enterprise in 2020 and beyond

While the world struggles with its most severe pandemic in 100 or so years, the key underlying dynamics...

Are you ready to go all-in on SaaS?

Experience tells you that in the enterprise SaaS cloud market you are always selling...

There is an alternative to doom and gloom

Tough times sharpen our minds and force us to re-evaluate almost everything, both personally and...

Know your data

In 1963, Raymond De Roover published ‘The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank (1397-1494).’ It tells the story...