Uncategorised

Where AI and digital twins meet supply chain in Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM

As companies grapple with supply chain challenges, Oracle is enhancing its Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing platform with AI capabilities aimed at optimizing logistics, improving decision-making, and reducing costs, thereby enabling organizations to better anticipate disruptions and foster stronger customer relationships.

Application Development and Integration

Appian end-to-end process automation starts with partners

At the Appian World 2024 conference, Appian highlighted the significant contributions of its partners, announcing award winners including KPMG for transformation, Groundswell for growth, Ignyte for innovation, and Perficient for delivery, each recognized for their exceptional work in leveraging the Appian platform to drive customer success and innovation.

photograph of a road in a desert leading to mountains during sunny day; digital transformation concept

Cloud Platform and Technology

Don’t forget the cloud on the road to AI digital transformation

AI and cloud solutions are transforming business operations by enhancing efficiency and agility, yet many organizations remain in the experimentation phase with AI in the cloud, emphasizing the need for tailored strategies that align these technologies for optimal growth, data security, and operational advancement.

More4apps graphic poster, stating "Getting more from your Oracle ERP: an ERP Leader's Guide"

Cloud Platform and Technology

Effective management and modernization of ERP systems are essential for business efficiency, yet many leaders face challenges with data accuracy and user support, prompting the need for solutions like More4apps to streamline data processes and enhance organizational productivity.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Nutanix analysis details ‘cloud smart’ workspace embrace of multicloud

Nutanix's sixth annual Enterprise Cloud Index survey reveals a shift towards 'cloud smart' strategies among organizations, emphasizing hybrid multi-cloud adoption driven by performance, cost management, and sustainability concerns, while highlighting ransomware recovery challenges and significant migration activity.

Application Development and Integration

NTT Low-Latency Network connects urban & suburban datacenters in US & UK

At the Upgrade 2024 conference, NTT Corporation showcased its All-Photonics Network (APN) technology, achieving under 1 millisecond latency for connections between datacenters in the U.S. and U.K., paving the way for enhanced AI analysis and financial services.

Data and Data Management

DataStax acquires Langflow for easier gen-AI, at scale

DataStax has acquired AI startup Langflow to enhance the development of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications, providing developers with a user-friendly visual framework and one-click deployment to accelerate generative AI application creation.

Application Development and Integration

The FlowDown podcast

The article provides links to stream a podcast episode on YouTube and Spotify.

Analytics and AI

How built in AI-functionality supercharges manufacturing processes

AI, exemplified by IFS Cloud, significantly enhances manufacturing efficiency and quality by enabling production controllers to monitor operations, troubleshoot issues, and optimize schedules through real-time data visualization and automated planning.

Data and Data Management

Video: Road to SAP S/4HANA

Wherever you are in your process to move to SAP S/4HANA, SNP software approach can help you get there smoothly. Rather than having to move everything manually, we use a system X-Ray to detect everything you have an enable decision making.

image of a grey cloud with screws inside of it and lines of data stretching from behind

Data and Data Management

Making sense of cloud-first ERP with Britvic

Implementing a cloud-based ERP system offers significant benefits such as reduced costs and faster ROI, but organizations must carefully consider data migration strategies and potential risks, as exemplified by Britvic's successful use of an iPaaS solution for its digital transformation.

abstract photograph of a big city with interconnected wires and digital profiles of people

Cloud Platform and Technology

Data in the cloud drives employee onboarding for MOD Pizza

Shifting to cloud-based ERP systems can enhance operational efficiency and scalability, but organizations must also prioritize effective onboarding processes to improve employee retention and satisfaction, as demonstrated by MOD Pizza's automated onboarding transformation.

abstract image of long exposure of the highway and data signs on the sides

Analytics and AI

AI-driven analytics can change the way you use your data

AI-driven data analytics automates and accelerates the analysis of vast business data, enhancing speed, accuracy, and insight, while requiring pervasive connectivity for optimal effectiveness.

Application Development and Integration

ERP Today Live! with IBM and Oracle

IBM’s Chacko Thomas, Nirmal Assudani and Oracle’s John Barcus discuss how companies can use a new Oracle-IBM solution in the aftermarket sector.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Couchbase accelerates AI-adaptive apps with vector injection

Couchbase, Inc. has launched vector search in its Couchbase Capella and Couchbase Server to enhance the development of AI-powered adaptive applications, allowing for hybrid searches that streamline data processing and improve application performance across various platforms.

Analytics and AI

NTT & Red Hat ‘edge up’ AI analytics with IOWN

The IOWN initiative, driven by photonic technology and collaboration between companies like NTT, Red Hat, and Nvidia, aims to enhance real-time AI data analysis at the edge by using an All-Photonics Network for lower latency and power consumption, ultimately contributing to a sustainable and smarter society.

Application Development and Integration

eBook – Making your workload setup a breeze with modernized management apps

Unifii has launched a Workload Management App designed to streamline business operations by replacing inefficient manual processes and legacy systems like spreadsheets and shared mailboxes with a tailored digital solution that enhances productivity, communication, and governance.

Application Development and Integration

Third-party support for Oracle

Read this paper from Spinnaker to learn how you can find cost predictability, architectural freedom, and increased service quality for your Oracle investment.

Analytics and AI

Salesforce and AWS step up to bolster AI safety and drug discovery

Salesforce has announced it has been selected to join the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help facilitate AI collaboration.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Ten things great manufacturers won’t do

This briefing by Global Shop Management lists the ten things the best manufacturers try not to do and how their business has succeeded amid the challenges in keeping a modernized ERP.

Application Development and Integration

The ultimate guide to buying ERP software

Read the guide by Global Shop Solutions to help you through the entire ERP buying journey. From learning the ERP software basics, to budgeting, to building a complete checklist for evaluation potential providers, this guide covers everything you will need to make critical decisions.

Automation

Why Does ‘Composable’ Have to Be Limited to ERP? by Boomi

The concept of a composable architecture is linked to ERP — breaking apart specific components into bite-size pieces that can be more quickly and easily updated or exchanged for new functionality without having to tackle the entire massive application. Read the blog by Boomi.

Application Development and Integration

The Value of Data for a Composable ERP Architecture by Boomi

SAP and Oracle users are being forced into cloud migration, but many other businesses are jumping at the opportunity to relinquish on-premises application management for a cloud- or hybrid on-premises/cloud architecture. And that means dealing with a lot of data, and a lot of applications. Read the blog by Boomi.

Automation

CloudBolt drives ‘cloud ROI’ with augmented FinOps

CloudBolt aims to redefine FinOps by introducing Augmented FinOps capabilities in 2024, utilizing AI and ML to optimize cloud investment and shift the focus from merely cloud-first strategies to more value-driven cloud management.

Application Development and Integration

eBook: Three ways to approach digital transformation

In this eBook, we will discuss the most common problems modern organizations face and how those issues drive the need for digital transformation. In addition to providing answers to these problems, it will outline the three recommended approaches and the benefits your organization can expect from a digital transformation.

Automation

Transforming the Aftermarket Supply Chain

Read the solution brief to learn how to enhance, optimize and streamline supply chains, meet your organization's KPIs with zero-latency solutions, and gain a competitive advantage in the aftermarket space.

Application Development and Integration

SAP observability widened by Dynatrace & SoftwareOne collaboration

SoftwareOne Holdings AG has partnered with Dynatrace to enhance observability in SAP systems, utilizing AI to optimize performance, security, and compliance, addressing the complexities of SAP environments.