Guest Voices

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.

Survival strategies in a hybrid and multi-cloud world

There is no question anymore that technology progress has overtaken the technology demands of business best practices, creating the current need for experimentation and exploration of how to operate a business in the 21st century...

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...

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...

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...

RPA: the key to unlocking transformational value in ERP systems

As the business world grapples with the economic impact of the global pandemic, ERP systems are...

Flexible working: the policy that is implementing itself

I don’t think many of us understood what flexible work was until March 2020. Many of us in the ERP...

Work from Home

It’s all very well if you’re used to working from home (WFH), have honed your own tricks to manage...

Ground Zero – Rebuilding the Economy

Roll back to New Year’s Eve 2019 and the technology industry was looking forward optimistically...

Entrepreneurship, innovation and the mass movement of people

Entrepreneurs are by their very nature built for uncertainty. Their businesses too are built to...

The future of work won’t wait for you to evolve

Instead of a grand movement shaped by AI and automation, self-driving cars and trips to Mars...

A commitment to collaboration and circularity can spur a green recovery

Like many of you, it’s been months since I’ve sat in a conference room, debating and discussing business...

Delivering business continuity with Intelligent Automation

We cannot ignore the COVID-19 health crisis. Still, we must also recognise the shockwaves the...

Standardisation of data best practice in data migration

The world’s most valuable resource is data. The five most valuable companies in the world, Google...

The ‘New Normal’

Firstly, I sincerely wish good health to all ERP Today readers and their families in these challenging times...

Affective computing will transform the customer experience and the capabilities of AI

As our reliance on technology grows, devices are evolving to understand human emotions...

Sustainable technology for a sustainable world

As the effects of global warming become more prevalent year after year it will become increasingly difficult for politicians to water down and undermine the effects much longer...