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The Agility Imperative and Nextworld
The Agility Imperative
How no-code platforms are reshaping manufacturing operations.
The Quantum Gambit and Sage
The Quantum Gambit
Sage CPO Walid Abu Hadba on navigating the agentic AI revolution, empowering SMBs to outmaneuver the giants, and why the real quantum threat isn’t what you think.
Your ERP Is Under Attack: Are You Ready?
How enterprise leaders are protecting business applications against soaring cyber threats and why you can't afford to wait.
Time’s Running Out on SAP ECC: Act Now to Avoid Soaring Risks and Costs
Thomas Failer, CEO of Data Migration International highlights why the move to SAP S/4HANA is a must today.
Oracle Unveils AI Agent Studio for Fusion Cloud Applications
Bridging AI Strategies: IBM and Oracle’s unified approach to Enterprise AI
IBM and Oracle are collaborating to integrate artificial intelligence into enterprise technology, enhancing efficiency, decision-making, and operational performance, while providing secure and scalable solutions that drive business transformation and innovation.
SYSPRO’s Next Chapter
Syspro’s Next Chapter: Fueled by Investment, Focused on Manufacturing’s Future
A look at how SYSPRO is rapidly advancing its growth, innovation, and transformation efforts.
Enterprise Views: Global Pharmaceutical Distributor Advances Digital Transformation with SAP S/4HANA
An international pharmaceutical wholesaler is implementing SAP S/4HANA to modernize its enterprise systems, enhance operational efficiency, and leverage AI-driven insights across its multi-country operations, with a structured three-phase transformation roadmap set between 2025 and 2028.
AI-Powered Testing
Protecting and Maximizing ERP Investment through Testing
As organizations upgrade to modern ERP systems like SAP S/4HANA, the CEO of Original Software, Colin Armitage, highlights the importance of streamlined, low-code testing solutions to ensure software quality amidst increasing update frequencies and complex application ecosystems, while suggesting that businesses should evaluate their pain points and focus on automating critical processes.
The Rise of Intelligent Business
AI is rewriting the rules for ERP users in the manufacturing and supply chain industries.
Meeting the Financial Needs of the Modern CFO with Trintech’s Michael Ross
CFOs are facing increasing challenges amid stagnant budgets and complex regulations, necessitating partnerships with specialized providers like Trintech to enhance ERP functionalities, leverage AI for automation, and adopt tailored solutions for diverse organizational needs, particularly in financial services and retail.
Technical Debt is the Silent Killer of ERP Transformation
ERP systems, often burdened by hidden technical debt from outdated customizations, are crucial for enterprise success but require a shift towards clean, agile practices and a mindset of ongoing modernization to avoid costly transformation failures.
Rootstock Launches Summer ’25 Release with AI Agent, New Data Grid, and Expanded Financials
AI, Data and Automation: Cutting through the Noise and Navigating the New Frontier of Enterprise Value
In the era of digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automation are not merely buzzwords—they are strategic imperatives. The convergence of these technologies is reshaping industries, redefining competitive advantage, and demanding a recalibration of executive decision-making. For C-level...
Van Oord builds its future on IFS Cloud
Charting a New Course: Van Oord Builds its Future on IFS Cloud
Van Oord, a leader in marine contracting, is transforming its operations by implementing IFS Cloud to unify its complex project management processes, enhance data-driven decision-making, and retain knowledge amid workforce changes, as part of its Founding the Future initiative.
How CFOs can Navigate Challenges to Deliver Real-time Results
The evolving role of CFOs requires them to be strategically involved across organizations, leveraging real-time data and advanced tools to drive performance, optimize operations, and support agile decision-making amid changing economic landscapes.
Navigating The Cloud: An SMB’s Perspective
Acumatica ERP users share their real-world experience of implementing and using a cloud-ERP system.
Modernizing Mission Driven Retail with Epicor
Modernizing Mission-Driven Retail
Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio transformed its retail operations by implementing the cloud-native Epicor Propello POS system, which enhanced efficiency, increased customer engagement and donations, and improved employee satisfaction, ultimately driving greater social impact.
How RFK Racing leverages SYSPRO ERP on and off the race track.
Behind the Pit Wall: How RFK Racing leverages SYSPRO ERP
RFK Racing leverages SYSPRO's advanced ERP technology to enhance operational efficiency, ensure compliance with NASCAR regulations, and master the complexities of inventory management, all of which contribute to their competitive edge in the high-stakes world of professional motorsports.
AP Automation
Leveling Up with Automation: How Lifetime Products Empowered its Workforce with Microsoft Dynamics 365
Lifetime Products successfully modernized its ERP system by adopting Microsoft Dynamics 365, enabling enhanced operational efficiency and employee development through automation and a collaborative workforce strategy that reallocates resources towards higher-value tasks.
Vertex: Connections That Win
Vertex, Inc., a leading global indirect tax technology company, experienced transformative growth in 2024 with a 16% revenue increase to $667 million and nearly doubled stock prices, driven by advanced capabilities and a commitment to long-term thinking, while emphasizing trust and collaboration with customers to navigate the evolving tax compliance landscape amid rapid changes in technology and regulation.
The Hidden ROI of Testing and Monitoring in ERP Systems
The Hidden ROI of Testing and Monitoring in ERP Systems
Effective management of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is crucial for modern businesses, as these dynamic platforms require ongoing testing, quality assurance, and real-time monitoring to mitigate risks and enhance performance, thereby transforming potential pitfalls into opportunities for growth.
Your Next ERP Will Think for Itself: Microsoft’s Bold Vision for Autonomous ERP
Your Next ERP Will Think for Itself: Microsoft’s Bold Vision for Autonomous ERP
Microsoft is transforming ERP systems from traditional user-initiated processes to intelligent, autonomous platforms that execute tasks independently, emphasizing continuous business value and adapting to user needs rather than the other way around.
Veolia’s Invoice Processing Rehaul
Veolia found itself struggling with a Shared Service Center (SSC) serving 30 entities of the group, performing inefficient legacy operations.
Blue Diamond Growers
The Power of 4: Blue Diamond’s Transformation Journey
How Blue Diamond Growers solved supply chain issues and ESG metrics.
Tech Transformation 2025
The 2025 Tech Transformation Playbook: Lessons from Leading CIOs
In a panel discussion featuring IT leaders, key trends highlighted include business process automation as a priority for 2024, the widespread yet uneven adoption of SAP S/4HANA, the ongoing challenges of AI integration, and the critical importance of data management for successful transformations, underscoring the need for bold organizational changes and a cultural shift towards digital and data-driven methodologies.
The Melting Pot of AI & ERP: Transforming Enterprises with Affective and Augmented Intelligence
The future of ERP systems lies in transforming them from transactional and reactive tools into intelligent, emotion-aware, and proactive decision-making partners by leveraging affective and augmented intelligence, enabling businesses to enhance operational efficiency, predict risks, and adapt seamlessly to challenges.
Oracle GRC
The End of Oracle GRC: Are You Ready?
With Oracle sunsetting its GRC solutions by May 2025, organizations must swiftly transition.
Dell and Microsoft cybersecurity
Dell Strengthens Cybersecurity for Microsoft Customers
Dell Technologies and Microsoft are enhancing AI adoption to protect data and improve cybersecurity for multicloud environments.
Inetum
The Future of Digital Transformation
Insights from Inetum UK CEO Kathy Quashie 
Engineering Trust in the Heart of AI
Insights from PWC’s UK Head of AI Public Policy and Ethics.