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Rootstock Launches Summer ’25 Release with AI Agent, New Data Grid, and Expanded Financials
Analytics and AI
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
Cloud Platform and Technology
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.
Modernizing Mission Driven Retail with Epicor
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.
How RFK Racing leverages SYSPRO ERP on and off the race track.
ERP Strategy and Planning
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
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.
The Hidden ROI of Testing and Monitoring in ERP Systems
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.
Your Next ERP Will Think for Itself: Microsoft’s Bold Vision for Autonomous ERP
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.
Blue Diamond Growers
Supply Chain Management
The Power of 4: Blue Diamond’s Transformation Journey
How Blue Diamond Growers solved supply chain issues and ESG metrics.
Tech Transformation 2025
Analytics and AI
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.
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.
Oracle GRC
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.
Dell and Microsoft cybersecurity
Security
Dell Strengthens Cybersecurity for Microsoft Customers
Dell Technologies and Microsoft are enhancing AI adoption to protect data and improve cybersecurity for multicloud environments.
Inetum
Analytics and AI
The Future of Digital Transformation
Insights from Inetum UK CEO Kathy Quashie 
Analytics and AI
Engineering Trust in the Heart of AI
Insights from PWC’s UK Head of AI Public Policy and Ethics.
Infor Targets business velocity
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 Today billboard
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.
Accelalpha
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.
Enterpryze CEO
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.
Coopers
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.
Kaizens
Data and Data Management
Finding Zen with Data Management
Wasantha Kumara, CEO of Kaizens Group talks data management and AI
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