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Industries: the final frontier for cloud
Ever bought something new to find that it’s actually something old in a different wrapper? There are some great examples of deep domain experience, regulatory compliance and finely tuned capability - but there is also a lot of vapourware out there too. 
Boomerang hires and the importance of maintaining relationships with former employees
The battle for talent is well documented in this issue of ERP Today and virtually all large employers are in a race against time to find, hire and onboard the staff they need to meet their obligations.
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH
Can sustainable supply chains help firms rise above the greenwash noise and deliver real value to customers and the environment? Greta Thunberg has a point. We’ve heard it all before.
10 things to know Now about ServiceNow
ServiceNow is a company dedicated to making work, work better. With many of its core competencies resting in IT services management and IT operations management, ServiceNow was founded according to a simple vision detailed by founder and chairman of the board Fred Luddy.
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The state of AI and UK healthcare
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the pace of global change and the pressure on companies to respond. But, despite rapidly building their digital capabilities during the pandemic many  organisations are yet to fully embrace transformation
Productivity and people – why finance is so much more than balancing the books
Advanced CFO Andrew Hicks discusses insights and statistics that have come from the Advanced Workforce Trends Survey. The article analyses key take-outs from a finance perspective.
Can ERP save the world?
There’s a hypothesis in cosmology and astrophysics called the Fermi Paradox that ponders a simple question – where are the aliens? This thought experiment illuminates the contradiction between the absence of evidence for extraterrestrial life and the mathematical prediction that life should be evident throughout the cosmos
Why multi-cloud is the New Normal
Not long ago the IT landscape of an enterprise was a simple affair: one or a few data centres, usually determined by location requirements, would create a system landscape that every IT person with 10 or more year’s work experience grew up with. Fast forward to the 2010s and the landscape was characterised by duality – meaning that the data centres were still there – and a few workloads in the cloud, most likely a single cloud.
Will low-code / no-code drive or fix ERP technical debt?
It’s easy to jump on a bandwagon, especially in technology circles. When the next ‘killer app’ comes along (or the next Twitter starts to emerge), every protagonist, futurist, evangelist (and possibly a few tech-polygamists) wants a share of voice and a slice of the market pie.
Can a new entrant change the game in the experience economy?
Getting the band back together is not always a prudent idea. How many times have we seen legends reform in their twilight years only to undo their previous good work and rewrite their legacy with a failed attempt at making it again?
Living the EAM Dream: How asset management has changed
Asset Performance Management (APM) is the evolution of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), so how will this technology now be applied inside the Industry 4.0 universe to give us the Maintenance 4.0 intelligence we will need to keep running?
Tech trends report 2021
The Deloitte Tech Trends Report is in its twelfth year and looks at current, emerging and future technology trends. It’s essential reading for any digital leader considering it’s widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive and thorough reports of...
Employee expectations in a post-COVID world – a report from Workday and Peakon
2020 was the most disruptive year we’ve seen in recent history for both organisations and their employees when the global spread of COVID-19 completely changed the way we live and work. COVID-19, together with the wave of awareness that flooded...
The new era of hybrid work
COVID-19 has in many ways irrevocably changed the way we work. Almost overnight, organisations were forced to establish a new remote workforce. Kitchen tables became desks, and in-person meetings were replaced by video calls. Now, more than a year later,...
Why the mid-market is now fertile ground
The ERP industry can no longer overlook the potential of the mid-market. The mid-market could be forgiven if it suffers from middle child syndrome. Underserved and ignored by the industry for years, mid-market firms have historically been forced to compromise...
Global consultancies
Are they all the same and how are they meeting the growing demands from customers? When we hosted a similar session with three ERP vendors, it was quite easy to identify their different strategies, products and road maps, but of...
Products are dead, long live products – why servitisation could be key to post-pandemic recovery
Manufacturers, such as Rolls Royce, which took a reported £4bn hit in 2020, have long been big advocates of servitisation, a process that focusses on selling preferred outcomes, as opposed to individual products. It’s a model that has been around for...
Quantum ERP: a business ‘superposition’ for the future
Although still largely in its early stages of development, quantum computing could represent significant advancements for the way we operate and run the ERP systems of the future. But before we get to a ‘superposition’ in business with quantum ERP,...
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An alternative technology hot list for 2022
Top trends lists come and go like the wind. No year is complete without a raft of futurists and evangelists trying to tell us which new blocks of technology we’ll need to fit into our stacks next. So rather than...
A hospitality transformation journey into the unknown
After a year of virtually no international travel, the government has finally lifted restrictions and implemented a traffic light system for UK travellers to use at their discretion. Within hours of the announcement, thousands of Britons took to the web...
The student [e]xperience in higher education
Last year in March, ERP Today editor Paul Esherwood wrote a critical article on the dismal attempts at digital transformation in higher education (HE) facilities. Who was to know that a few days after that was published in ERP Today, that...
How technology is driving the new era of F1
No sport is more closely intertwined with the world of technology than Formula 1.  Ever since the globe’s premier motorsport series was first staged in 1950, teams have pushed the boundaries of invention to gain any possible advantage on the track....
Retail software & tech trends
Ask any retailer what keeps them awake at night and the majority will probably answer Amazon. The combination of product range, price, availability and delivery infrastructure has caught many asleep at the wheel. Just when everyone thought ecommerce was king...
Creating resilient end-to-end agility in the New Digital Supply Chain
COVID-19 has caused even the most robust supply chains to creak. What lessons can we learn and how should enterprises structure their supply chain so that digital technologies ensure goods and services flow?
Acumatica takes on Sage in the UK
Acumatica is the US-based cloud-native ERP vendor that has set its sights on a big slice of the UK market that is currently occupied by Sage. Acumatica is from the same stable as IFS...
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Going green with the Cloud
We’re encouraged to choose more sustainable options every day – and this extends to the decisions organisations make when purchasing technology. For any number of reasons, sustainability is an increasingly important factor in the IT decision making process today...
Michiel Verhoeven: Can a new MD move the needle for UK customers?
Back in July 2020, SAP appointed Michiel Verhoeven as managing director in the UK&I – until now we haven’t heard much from the new top man. In his first media interview since taking over the hot seat...
Chris Pope: Digital Workflows
ServiceNow is the digital workflow organisation that has been around for 15 years but has recently seen a huge rise in uptake for its services and has been catapulted into the media headlines following the arrival...
Danny Attias: #1 Ranked CIO in the UK
Anthony Nolan’s Danny Attias has been ranked the number one CIO in the UK. A mid-sized organisation that is dedicated to saving the lives of people with blood cancer, the...
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