April 2019Issue 1

COVER STORY

Angela Mazza Teufer rejoins Oracle to lead ERP business across Europe By Paul Esherwood

Angela Mazza Teufer is Oracle’s beacon for enterprise applications and cloud across Europe. After a long career at rival, SAP, she rejoined Oracle just nine months ago with a mandate to grow the cloud business across Europe. Paul Esherwood spoke exclusively to the new SVP at OpenWorld and posed a series of questions which are reported below...

EDITOR'S CHOICE

Workday Rising 2022 event preview By Adrian Bridgwater

What can we expect from Workday Rising Europe 2022?

Editor’s Words.By Paul Esherwood

Many high-performing businesses have discovered the fragility of their systems and processes...

FEATURES

What future for on premise?By Paul Esherwood

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...

Are you ready to get ready for the cloud?By Paul Esherwood

For decades we have believed that our business processes were the horse and the system was the cart. Now, CEOs are being urged to switch that long held belief and embrace a new way of working that puts...

Customisation By Paul Esherwood

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 By Paul Esherwood

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 By Paul Esherwood

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...

Cloud Wars By Bob Evans

As cloud computing becomes the foundation of the emerging digital economy, the future of work in this fast-paced new world is being shaped by a new generation of SaaS applications that are infused with AI...

Expert Opinions

The Power of Purpose By Stephen Jamieson

It wasn’t Bono who stole the show at Davos. It wasn’t even Will.i.am, Marc Benioff or Gary Cohn. Nor was it...

ERP Readiness in the Public Sector By Tony Summers

People often make assumptions about the difference between public sector versus private sector readiness. The most common is that there is a great deal more due diligence, bureaucracy and compliance hurdles compared to private businesses. That somehow, the private sector...

DLT An introduction to distributed ledger technology By Ian Smith

Distributed ledger technology (DLT), also known as a shared or distributed ledger, is amongst the most frequently used buzzwords in business. However, despite the attention it receives and its widely mooted...