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How to get what you want in the ERP Jungle. A guide to Vendor Selection

Changing core business applications can be a daunting challenge. Finding a single solution for your entire organisation and integrating it with your existing IT estate is not a simple thing to do...

Open source is the disruption that enterprises need. First of two-part series from SUSE

Enterprises are now able to reduce costs and complexity, and accelerate product development cycles and infrastructure management, using open source software. An ideological movement founded in the last century is powering digital transformation for enterprises...

Digital transformation 2.0. ADNOC takes enterprise agility to new levels with SAP S/4HANA

ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) has been one of the key drivers for the UAE’s economy for the last 40 years. It is the twelfth largest oil producer in the world generating in excess of 3 million barrels...

Melissa Di Donato – how far have we really come?

Melissa Di Donato dares to be different. And she is daring you to be the same. The new CEO of SUSE is unashamedly taking aim at the issue of gender-bias and diversity while hatching a plan to grow SUSE into a global powerhouse.

Why is transformation failing in our universities?

The irony of lagging progress for ERP in educational faculties. Few, if any sectors, could benefit more from an overhaul of systems and processes than higher education (HE). Yet, virtually every attempt...

It’s no longer a two-horse race

As the post-modern ERP market matures there’s more choice than ever and the opportunities for ERP buyers could not be better. It used to be said that no-one ever got sacked for choosing Oracle or SAP...

Do women [still] really have more to prove?

We can walk the same walk, but do we talk the same talk? Georgina Elrington looks at how the simple conditioning of genders will keep the diversity conversation going...

For the challengers

IFS may be the biggest (and best) ERP vendor that you haven’t heard of. With sales approaching $700m and plans to hit the $1bn mark by 2021, IFS is a taking a refreshing approach to selling enterprise technology...

Has the face of consulting changed forever?

In my former life as editor of a corporate finance magazine I was no stranger to the offices of the big five (as it was then). They were often dark, uninspiring, misogynistic places where partners sat at oak desks wearing...

What future for on premise?

As a journalist, I find myself at the same crossroads as many CIOs; I know cloud technologies – whether applications or infrastructure – are complete game changers. I understand that AI-infused ERP systems...

Customisation

There was once a well-trodden path for ERP implementations. Buy a licence from Oracle or SAP for some generic finance and HR software and then give Deloitte or Capgemini several million pounds to dismantle...

IPO set to catapult Infor into the big league

Charles Phillips is not your typical American tech CEO. He is an elegant man. Gently spoken, thoughtful in his responses and his calm and measured tone is to the point and unexaggerated; a far cry from...

Artificial Intelligence

Do you know what it is? AI is the hottest topic in tech right now. But, like with so many other hot topics there is a lot of confusion, misunderstanding and false narrative...

The Business of Delivering (Anything)

Wider and more complex supply chains come with multiple points of failure. In this section, ERP Today’s feature editor, Helen Peatfield investigates the challenges arising from burgeoning...

RIP Systems Integrators

The role of the system integrator is changing almost as fast as the technologies that they are implementing. Can SIs disrupt themselves as well?

Experience & Expectation ERA

What does the X factor say about your company? Wanting to deliver great experiences is one thing but doing it well is quite another. In this section, Helen Peatfield looks at understanding what...

Power to the people – Putting HR at the heart of your business

Addressing process progress for profit from your most valuable resource. Enabling your people and your processes for optimum profit. Digital HR and human capital management (HCM) applications are playing an increasingly major...

People platform for people businesses

Mike Ettling takes over at Unit4 and talks exclusively to ERP Today about the driving force behind the people agenda and what it takes to be a successful CEO in the fast-paced world of ERP and HCM technology...

It’s 2019 and ERP platforms matter

It used to be that functionality was all and everything for ERP selection, but this has fundamentally changed as platforms are the base that powers successful enterprises in the 21st century...