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Scaling startups for sustainable cities is a billion-dollar business
ERP Today talks to AWS’ Jeff Kratz, general manager, worldwide public sector partners about scaling startups for sustainable cities.
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Off with their head! Why more tech firms are ditching their HQs
An increasing number of tech companies are abandoning the traditional HQ in favor of becoming “headquarter-less”, post-pandemic.  
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FCDO digital transformation: one down, four to go
Tim Jones, chief exec for finance and corporate at the FCDO, talks his part in the UK government’s major plan to overhaul Whitehall ERP.
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Going underground: The digital twin tech turning the Piccadilly line green
TfL partners up with a start-up to develop a digital twin which, if successful, could help make London Underground carbon neutral by 2030.
Battling uncertainty in a hybrid world: from 2022 to what’s ahead in 2023
For success in uncertainty in 2023, businesses are turning back to their fundamental values to produce the best results.
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Celonis – mining within 3D and ESG
Celonis co-CEO Alex Rinke exclusively talks with ERP Today about how Celonis Process Sphere eases supply chain disruption.
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Enterprise tech firms switch up their messaging
Christine Horton speaks with industry professionals detailing how enterprise tech firms now market themselves to potential customers. 
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The birth of fusion teams
How fusion teams speed up business transformation initiatives and reduce the barrier between IT and the rest of the business.
Prodding “The Diverted” towards real sustainability
Overmilked and electric: Resulting IT's founder says that for ESG effectiveness, it’s time to step away from Walking Tech dependency.
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How global consulting firms are adapting to life out of the box
There is no major technical complexity for GSIs to manage anymore. So how are Big 4 giants like KPMG, Deloitte and EY responding to increased demand for business process design and change management rather than tech implementations? 
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Big Miner: the hot potato in automation ethics
Intelligent automation is the hot potato every business wants to grab. But what will businesses need to consider to ensure data privacy for employees? And how long before hands are burnt as automation technology moves faster than ethics?
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Industry 4.0: How are firms addressing the skills shortage?
Despite the hype surrounding the next Industrial Revolution, there’s one big problem: a global skills shortage is hampering the progress of Industry 4.0. Christine Horton asks how firms will solve the problem.
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A new intersection: IT Policy-as-Code
Moving commercial business policy forwards into the digital age requires a deeper reliance upon cloud-native automation control. Here's why business policy and IT policy-as-code is the next intersection in ERP.
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Doctor Bot, curing the NHS backlog?
Technologists are out to heal the deficit in NHS resources, creating battalions of digital workers to bolster the front lines with intelligent automation. Neeti Mehta Shukla and Tremaine Richard-Noel are leading the charge.
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Money in Web3 needs neither crypto nor cyberspace
Accenture, Alibaba and more explain why the future of finance doesn’t necessarily involve cryptocurrency and extended reality 
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Moving from mid-market to enterprise ERP: when is the right time?
When should you consider upgrading your mid-market solution for an enterprise-level ERP system?
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The CFO is dead, long live the CTO
As hyperautomation technology advances, is the CFO about to see their role subsumed by a CTO? 
Awards
The ERP Today Awards 2022
Download the ERP Today Awards & Fundraiser Special Supplement 
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Snowflake: building data clouds around the world
Snowflake’s EMEA chief Alison Tierney on adapting to new regions and dishing data across all dimensions
Celebrate pioneers during time of disruption
Since its founding 50 years ago, SAP has strived to create positive economic, environmental and social impact, and the SAP Innovation Awards reflect that mission.
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From hard hat to high tech, the evolving role of frontline workers
We talk to Marne Martin, president of IFS Service Management, about how the benefits of a digitalised frontline are being felt by individuals and enterprises alike.  
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Navigating global supply chain disruption
It has never been more important to ensure supply chains are both resilient and sustainable. So how can organisations develop both short and long-term strategies to cope with global disruption?
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Samsara poised to disrupt world of physical operations
The IoT industry is more than 40 years old, but until recently most companies that strapped a device to a physical asset got little more than some binary data with almost zero value.
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Why partnering is a main strategy area for SAP
As underlined by Sapphire 2022, SAP has a vision to reinvent how the world runs as a network of intelligent, sustainable enterprises, growing towards a network of businesses in a sustainable world. Fuelling this is an overarching purpose to help the world run better and improve people’s lives. But even as a key player, SAP cannot meet all customer requirements by itself, and as such, partnerships are vital to be able to offer customers maximum added value and realise this grand aim.
Young professionals are keeping office space alive
Despite all the hype about remote work, Big Tech is still clearly invested in big bricks – and so are its younger workers.
The metaverse is a shiny new hammer, but what are the nails in enterprise tech?
Deloitte, ServiceNow, Zoom and more reveal exactly what they’re thinking about a business metaverse.    
Field service management solutions prepare for digital transformation
FSM solutions have been an important element in large enterprises’ operations. A raft of new technologies offers them the ability to streamline and improve service delivery.