March 2020Issue 4

COVER STORY

Mihir Shukla / Automation Anywhere CEO & Co-Founder

There’s a storm coming and it’s called RPA.By Paul Esherwood

Mihir Shukla is the CEO and co-founder of Automation Anywhere. By the end of this year his company will have over three million digital workers deployed in the world’s largest organisations. RPA is likely to be the most transformative technology to emerge from the digital revolution and Automation Anywhere is at the head of the field when it comes to capitalising on the burgeoning demands...

FEATURES

Sage is Resurgent and taking on the mid-market with Intacct. Sabby Gill speaks to Paul Esherwood By Paul Esherwood

Sage is a brand that we all know. It is one of the most iconic British companies and has more than 600,000 customers in the UK – more than any other tech company by far. Known for its small business accounting software, Sage recently acquired Intacct for a cool $850m and has set its sights firmly on the mid-market opportunity...

Speed wins out over size. Anton Chilton discusses how manufacturers can become adaptive enterprises By Paul Esherwood

Paul Esherwood sat down with Anton Chilton, CEO at QAD to discuss their new Adaptive ERP and how it works with global manufacturers to ensure they have the tools to be competitive in a highly disrupted sector...

How to get what you want in the ERP Jungle. A guide to Vendor Selection By Tom Calder

Changing core business applications can be a daunting challenge. Finding a single solution for your entire organisation and integrating it with your existing IT estate is not a simple thing to do...

Open source is the disruption that enterprises need. First of two-part series from SUSE By Thomas Di Giacomo

Enterprises are now able to reduce costs and complexity, and accelerate product development cycles and infrastructure management, using open source software. An ideological movement founded in the last century is powering digital transformation for enterprises...

Digital transformation 2.0. ADNOC takes enterprise agility to new levels with SAP S/4HANA By Paul Esherwood

ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) has been one of the key drivers for the UAE’s economy for the last 40 years. It is the twelfth largest oil producer in the world generating in excess of 3 million barrels...

Expert Opinions

Sustainable technology for a sustainable world By Wayne Lloyd

As the effects of global warming become more prevalent year after year it will become increasingly difficult for politicians to water down and undermine the effects much longer...

‘Automated’ data migration dreams By Steve Pullee

There are many products in the marketplace that profess to deliver an automated data migration experience. But is this really possible?

Where is the new money for ERP?By Mark Sweeny

In the cloud era, the ERP market that serves an organisation’s back office business operations is dominated by the tier one players of SAP, Oracle, and Workday...

AI is moving from the ‘why’ to the ‘how’By Gupreet Johal

When it comes to the growth and applications for artificial intelligence (AI), UK business leaders are enthusiastic...

Using data to make the world more circular By Stephen Jamieson

The worth of the global plastics market is estimated at £1.2bn but, from the moment it leaves the shelf, single-use plastic is perceived as...

How epic failure changed the world By Emma Sinclair MBE

Heard of Steve Jobs? Bill Gates? Steve Wozniak? Marc Porat? Likely not the last on the list but that’s about to change...

Purposeful profit By Zahra Bahrololoumi

Businesses are becoming more and more tech savvy. Technologists are constantly getting smarter and business leaders...

Modern Tax Technology – Beards Optional By Andrew Bohnet

The interesting thing about being a ‘tax person’ is the surprise most people get when they meet me for the first time..

Oil & Gas By Georgina Elrington

The stakes are high in a complex environment of multiple assets, complicated sites, global supply chains...

Blockchain, sustainable technology for a sustainable world By News

As the effects of global warming become more prevalent year after year it will become increasingly difficult...

Guest Contributors

How AI is influencing the invoicing and payment industry By Ian Thomson

Thanks to ever increasing levels of computing power and the availability of cloud services, artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied to business problems where unstructured data can be processed, and patterns understood very quickly, and more accurately than humans. AI...