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10 software testing fundamentals everyone should know

This article provides ten essential strategies for establishing an effective software testing function within organizations, emphasizing the importance of aligning testing with business processes, creating comprehensive test cases, facilitating user-friendly testing experiences, and integrating with development teams.

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Systems Administration

What is an Enterprise Applications Platform?

Read our comprehensive guide to EAPs to understand some of the key benefits of choosing an EAP Platform instead of an ERP system.

Systems Administration

Why we’re not an ERP, and why you probably don’t need an ERP for your business

Companies often seek ERP systems to centralize and streamline their operations, improve data consistency across departments, and support growth by replacing outdated applications with integrated solutions, while the Nextworld platform offers a more flexible and customizable alternative through its Enterprise Applications Platform (EAP).

Security

Identity Security Spotlight – Delinea acquires Fastpath

Delinea's acquisition of IGA vendor Fastpath is analyzed by Veza's CEO and CMO, highlighting key lessons and future expectations for 2024.

Financial Management

Internal Audit

Fastpath is an internal audit solution designed to streamline compliance and access management by automating processes, improving accuracy, and enabling efficient management of audit activities and cross-application risk.

Security

SAP Controls Series: Get SAP Under Control

The article discusses the complexities and risks associated with SAP access controls, highlighting issues such as improper provisioning, role bleed, and the challenges of managing user access, while emphasizing the need for regular reviews and clear policies to mitigate these risks.

Application Development and Integration

Tricentis: software testing is the ‘most valuable’ AI investment

A report by Tricentis reveals that testing is increasingly recognized as a critical area for AI investment in the DevOps lifecycle, with practitioners highlighting its potential to enhance efficiency and software quality while addressing challenges such as skills gaps and cost reduction.

Supply Chain Management

How Pragmatic AI can leverage your product lifecycle management

A webinar featuring experts in customer experience management will explore the integration of AI, data analytics, and personalization technologies, offering strategies for leveraging customer data, optimizing journeys, and enhancing engagement, along with real-world case studies and live demonstrations to help participants improve their CXM initiatives.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

QAD ERP O³: Optimizing People, Processes and Systems

The upcoming webinar will provide insights from industry leaders on digital transformation trends, practical implementation strategies, and live demonstrations of tools, while also featuring case studies and interactive Q&A to help attendees enhance their business processes and remain competitive.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Webinar: Introducing the Industrial Transformation Platform

The upcoming webinar will feature industry experts discussing the integration of advanced technologies into ERP systems, strategies for optimizing workflows, and successful case studies, while also providing a Q&A session and demonstrations of innovative ERP solutions to help organizations navigate common challenges and enhance their enterprise technology strategies.

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Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Customer Case Study: GHSP’s Move to QAD Adaptive ERP

GHSP, a leader in automotive and appliance components, upgraded to QAD Adaptive ERP to overcome challenges with their custom QAD ERP system, resulting in improved data accuracy, enhanced global processes, and significant time savings in operations.

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Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Customer Case Study: Integration Success with the QAD Industrial Transformation Platform

Beckett Air, Jel Sert, and Pharmacal successfully enhanced their manufacturing operations by integrating the QAD Industrial Transformation Platform with QAD Redzone, resulting in significant productivity improvements and better employee engagement amidst modern challenges.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Customer Case Study: NOBLE BIOMATERIALS

Noble Biomaterials, facing challenges from rapid growth and an outdated ERP system, implemented QAD Adaptive ERP to unify operations, enhance data accuracy, and improve efficiency, ultimately supporting their growth and operational excellence.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Top 5 Warning Signs Your Business Needs a New ERP System

Investing in a new ERP system can yield long-term benefits despite initial challenges, particularly if your company faces excessive manual processes, lacks real-time visibility, struggles to scale, has cybersecurity concerns, or experiences declining customer service.

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Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Manufacturers Need to Leave Periodic Transformation to the Cicadas

Cicadas' synchronized emergences symbolize a fleeting transformation in nature, paralleling the concept of digital transformation in manufacturing, which should be understood as an ongoing process of continuous adaptation and innovation rather than a one-time event.

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Analytics and AI

Will AI Pose a Threat to the ERP Marketplace

The live panel discussion explores how AI could reshape the ERP marketplace by highlighting both its potential benefits and challenges for resource management, featuring insights from industry leaders on the future of enterprise resource planning.

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Manufacturing Systems and Automation

How Manufacturers Can Thrive in the New Age of Disruption

In the volatile manufacturing landscape shaped by global disruptions, companies must adopt intelligence, innovation, and agility to transform internal processes, leverage advanced technologies, and effectively respond to market changes for long-term success.

Application Development and Integration

Using the AI Launchpad Service and Command Prompt Engineering

At the SAPinsider Vegas 2024 conference, participants in the inaugural Developers Challenge utilized the SAP AI Launchpad to showcase innovative applications of generative AI in just eight hours, highlighting the transformative potential of AI in software development alongside critical techniques like prompt engineering.

Enterprise Asset Management

EAM (Enterprise Asset Management)

The article outlines the importance of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) for manufacturers to maximize asset utilization, extend equipment life, support operational efficiency, and address key challenges such as diversity of assets, maintenance scheduling, hidden costs, and quality assurance.

Enterprise Architecture

What’s the True Cost of a Critical Business System Outage?

The article emphasizes the critical importance of managing risks associated with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to prevent disruptions, detailing a three-step approach for proactive system management that encourages manufacturers to move beyond mere maintenance towards strategic IT investments for enhanced resilience and alignment with business goals.

Cloud Platform and Technology

How to Choose the Right ERP Partner?

Choosing the right ERP partner is essential for addressing outdated systems, data issues, regulatory compliance, and market adaptability, emphasizing the need for a vendor with proven implementation success, alignment with business goals, flexibility for future changes, and a partnership that matches organizational culture.

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Analytics and AI

Enhancing your enterprise AI with the right tools

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing enterprise technology by enhancing productivity and optimizing business processes through tailored deployment of proprietary data, particularly when integrated with Process Intelligence to ensure accurate insights and mitigate issues like AI hallucinations.

Application Development and Integration

Webinar: Why you should defer migration to S/4HANA and RISE, presented by Rimini Street

The webinar discusses the importance of carefully considering the decision to migrate to S/4HANA, emphasizing that businesses should prioritize making moves that ensure a return on investment, particularly in light of alternative support options like Rimini Street that can extend the lifespan of current SAP systems.

Data and Data Management

Smooth seas ahead: Cruise line transforms data accuracy

The cruise industry is focused on cost reduction and debt management as it rebounds from the financial challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Application Development and Integration

Tricentis dials call to highlight poor mobile app quality

At SAP Sapphire Orlando 2024, Tricentis highlighted its AI-driven Tricentis Tosca Copilot tool aimed at enhancing mobile application quality, revealing that poor mobile app quality costs businesses significantly, while emphasizing the potential of AI and low-code/no-code solutions to improve testing efficiency and business outcomes.

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Supply Chain Management

What makes a robust supply chain solution?

Chi Park of Accelalpha discusses the impact of COVID-19 on supply chains, highlighting the need for enhanced visibility and robust solutions like their Command Center dashboard, which integrates various supply chain data and utilizes Oracle's AI capabilities, while predicting a resurgence of manufacturing in the U.S.

Application Development and Integration

ERP Today Live! with Boomi

In a discussion hosted by Giacomo Lee, Ed Macosky from Boomi addresses the challenges of AI integration in ERP systems, focusing on security and cost management to facilitate hybrid technology adoption.