July 2023Issue 15

COVER STORY

Meet Maxi, Earth CEO – and savior of humanity By ERP Today

Welcome to 2033. On the anniversary of its ascendancy, we interview the benevolent AGI which runs our planet and drove CxOs to extinction, MAX1-GPT.

EDITOR'S CHOICE

On the brink of evolution By Paul Esherwood

Every earnings call and each event that I have attended has been dominated by one topic - Generative Artificial Intelligence - and so too is this issue of ERP Today.

Deltek: how the D.C. giant is going global with PSA By Giacomo Lee

ERP Today sits down with Deltek CEO Michael Corkery to discuss the company’s European chapter.

Beyond batch, how ERP steers faster with data streaming By Adrian Bridgwater

Living the data streaming dream, ERP shifts up a gear, as IFS and more explain.

Oracle Cloud World represents a maturation from ‘seller of tech’ to ‘partner for good’By Paul Esherwood

Oracle Cloud World represents the final piece in the jigsaw for Oracle's own journey of transformation and discovery.

FEATURES

Arcwide – tall and proud By Giacomo Lee

Happy first birthday to Arcwide as chief operating exec Andy Green discusses the integrator's unique position in the IFS ecosystem.

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Scaling startups for sustainable cities is a billion-dollar business By Giacomo Lee

ERP Today talks to AWS’ Jeff Kratz, general manager, worldwide public sector partners about scaling startups for sustainable cities.

Off with their head! Why more tech firms are ditching their HQs By Christine Horton

An increasing number of tech companies are abandoning the traditional HQ in favor of becoming “headquarter-less”, post-pandemic.

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FCDO digital transformation: one down, four to go By Marc Ambasna-Jones

Tim Jones, chief exec for finance and corporate at the FCDO, talks his part in the UK government’s major plan to overhaul Whitehall ERP.

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Going underground: The digital twin tech turning the Piccadilly line green By Cristina Lago

TfL partners up with a start-up to develop a digital twin which, if successful, could help make London Underground carbon neutral by 2030.

Expert Opinions

GenAI for enterprise: the AI guru view By Pascal Bornet & Kieran Gilmurray

Pascal Bornet and Kieran Gilmurray discuss the impact of GenAI, its impact in the workplace and how it has changed the workforce.

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The big supply chain data green-up By James Veale

James Veale, co-founder at GreenToken by SAP discusses ESG 'washing' and turning a green blockchain into reality.

How Kubernetes is steering ERP cloud deployments By Adrian Bridgwater

For many people, the real age of cloud composability started just less than a decade ago with the birth of Kubernetes in 2014.

Guest Contributors

Build a resilient organization ready for new global opportunities By Mike Ettling

Unit4’s CEO Mike Ettling on the global picture in business today as organizational resilience should be the watchword for every CEO.

Our AI future – the young professional view By Vivien Boche

Reader - are you ready for a trip with me into the world of ERP Tomorrow?

How to avoid a ChatGPT catastrophe By Vignesh Subramanian

Generative AI models such as ChatGPT give much debate around their potential to transform our everyday lives. But what about in an enterprise environment?

Did Visual Basic halt the rise of our robot overlords?By Stuart Browne

Robotic process automation (RPA) isn’t new. In the 80s, my dad ran a small engineering company. They bought their first IBM PC because it was the thing to do - and nobody could really fathom it out.

Risk needn’t break the bank: The fix is back office innovation By James Whybrow

With time ticking to sort operational resiliency rules, here’s how technology can help banks get to grips with risks.

Too much data and still no strategy?By Lars Hugo Braadland Olsen

In a world overflowing with information, how can businesses start managing their data more intelligently to improve strategy?