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Alison Tierney, GVP, EMEA
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.
Frontline workers Marne Martin
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.  
GearTrack and NexGen Tech Solutions Strengthen Intelligent SCM Partnership
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?
image of Sanjit Biswas, CEO and co-founder of Samsara | Samsara Q3
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.
Partnerships
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. 
Open Source ERP is no free lunch
The community contribution model of open source centralises around the practice of ‘code commits’ that sees users, teams and organisations actively working to share advancements for the collective benefit of others. 
Moving on: When it’s time to adopt a dedicated ERP system
The time will come when basic accounting software will no longer fulfil your growing business’ requirements. There often comes a point within a relationship when one party realises it’s time to move on.
Landed costs with NetSuite and CloudPaths
How can technology provide the tools to meet the future demands of sustainable supply chains?
What is Big Tech doing to ensure its customers are equipped with the tools and technologies to ensure that supply chains are optimised and sustainable?
SAP Suite sweet spots: how well do you know your SAP Suite?
A tour around the sometimes lesser-known elements of the SAP software suite is guaranteed to provide additional insight into how the company has built a whole which has always intended to be greater than the sum of its parts.
Augmenting the butterfly’s wing: new frontiers in supply chain technology
Tech can’t prevent every freak incident, but, as HS2, Accenture and Boomi reveal, innovative software can help industries protect their supply chains during times of chaos.
SAP security
Ukraine and the state of play in Enterprise Security
When it comes to cybersecurity, enterprise tech can no longer afford to ignore the threat of hostile nation states.
Being #2 set the stage for #1 in cloud ERP
Oracle has been on a journey of self-reflection over the last few years.The once brash and spiky vendor has reinvented itself with a new customer-centric narrative, a modernised partner network and a portfolio of products that has escalated it to the undisputed position as the world’s leading cloud ERP vendor.
The Now Platform is the foundation of ServiceNow’s success
The backdrop –enterprise application platform (EAP) matter more than ever. I contributed a piece to the Q1 2022 issue of ERP Today on the importance of EAPs and their key criteria that matter
The COVID-19 transformation of business transformation
According to management consultancy firm McKinsey, the average business in EMEA accelerated its digitisation by a factor of some seven years over the course of 2020.
Workflow becomes enterprise application’s cornerstone
ServiceNow has been on a roll and gaining traction in the enterprise application workflow arena. However, workflow is becoming a key element in all business applications and a fundamental digital transformation building block.
Abstract stock image | Oracle and Microsoft
Tech Trends Report 2022
The Deloitte Tech Trends report is in its thirteenth year and looks at current, emerging and future technology trends. It is essential reading for any digital leader and is widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive and thorough reports of its kind.
Tech talent shortage – why it’s time to get outside your comfort zone
The talent crisis continues to impact every aspect of the tech industry. There simply are not enough qualified individuals to support the work that is required – a problem that has been exposed by the acceleration in digital transformation necessitated by COVID-19.
How Innovation and Responsibility Drive a Sustainable Future This Earth Day
Taking control of your supply chain
Tackling Scope 3 emissions can seem like a daunting task - but it’s a necessary aspect of any net zero plan Coming out of COP26, business leaders across all industries pledged to accelerate climate action throughout every aspect of their organisations.
The IoT sweet spot – how much data is too much data?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer news. The Gartners of the world have made their predictions about the billions of connected devices and sensors that are on their way to run our world – and most of those predictions have come true. 
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.
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
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