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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.

Financial Management

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.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Navigating The Cloud: An SMB’s Perspective

Acumatica ERP users share their real-world experience of implementing and using a cloud-ERP system.

Business Process Management and Automation

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.

Analytics and AI

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.

Financial Management

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.

Quality and Testing

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.

Analytics and AI

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.

Analytics and AI

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.

Supply Chain Management

The Power of 4: Blue Diamond’s Transformation Journey

How Blue Diamond Growers solved supply chain issues and ESG metrics.

Analytics and AI

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.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

The End of Oracle GRC: Are You Ready?

With Oracle sunsetting its GRC solutions by May 2025, organizations must swiftly transition.

Security

Dell Strengthens Cybersecurity for Microsoft Customers

Dell Technologies and Microsoft are enhancing AI adoption to protect data and improve cybersecurity for multicloud environments.

Analytics and AI

Engineering Trust in the Heart of AI

Insights from PWC’s UK Head of AI Public Policy and Ethics.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Infor Targets Business Velocity with ESG & AI Capabilities

Inside Infor's major updates to its cloud portfolio.

Analytics and AI

Is the future agentic for ERP?

The future is agentic - or is it? Microsoft and Celonis case studies may show ERP users the truth behind the AI agent hype.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Greetings from the new CEO of ERP Today!

An introduction from the new CEO of ERP Today, Mark Vigoroso.

ERP Strategy and Planning

The ERP Today Awards 2024: Celebrating Leaders and Disruptors

The ERP Today Awards 2024, held at The Park Plaza London Riverbank, celebrated innovations and leaders in the enterprise technology sector, with Codestone winning Transformation Project of the Year, SAP being named Vendor of the Year, and various companies recognized for excellence in areas including customer experience, finance solutions, HR tech, and operational innovation.

Analytics and AI

How Mastering ERP 2024 brought AI Wisdom to Enterprise Insiders

The Mastering ERP conference in London brought together ERP and AI professionals to discuss integrating AI into core applications, emphasizing the importance of trust, ethical considerations, and foundational strategies for successful adoption while highlighting current low rates of AI integration beyond customer service.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Data protection: The CTO perspective

The importance of cybersecurity, particularly data protection, within organizations, particularly the need for proactive measures such as employee education and external assessments to combat increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Alpha acceleration in digital transformation: The IBM-Accelalpha deal

What synergies will IBM’s recent acquisition of Accelalpha bring to clients and the Oracle ecosystem?

Business Process Management and Automation

How process intelligence impacts lives

Celonis sheds light on how process intelligence can facilitate better research and potentially justice reform in key US and UK departments.

ERP Strategy and Planning

How third-party support can help organizations avoid costly vendor lock-ins

Broadcom's acquisition of VMware in November 2023 introduced a controversial mandatory subscription model for customers, prompting discussions on how third-party support from firms like Spinnaker Support can help companies navigate potential vendor lock-ins and regain control over their IT strategies.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Enterpryze’s CEO on the future of ERP for SMEs

The evolution of ERP technology towards Composable ERP and SaaS highlights the benefits of flexibility, regular updates, and customer-driven development as key factors for small and medium enterprises to enhance efficiency and reduce complexity amidst changing market demands.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Twenty years of fortitude

In 2025, Cooper Software and IFS complete two decades of collaboration that has endured the test of time.

Data and Data Management

Finding Zen with Data Management

Wasantha Kumara, CEO of Kaizens Group talks data management and AI

Human Capital Management

The SAP HCM Roadmap: WeChat, Microsoft – and no AI agent hype

SuccessConnect, the annual flagship event for SAP SuccessFactors, pitched up in Lisbon, Portugal to share the latest updates to the SAP HCM suite.