APAC

Navigating the retail industry’s evolving supply chain landscape

In a rapidly evolving market, businesses must optimize their supply chains and adopt omnichannel strategies to meet shifting consumer demands while enhancing customer experience through improved inventory management and real-time visibility.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

NetApp Sells Spot FinOps Platform to Flexera for $100 Million

NetApp's sale of its Spot by NetApp FinOps business to Flexera for $100 million indicates a strategic shift towards cybersecurity and AI, prompting CIOs and senior leaders to reevaluate their cloud management strategies and focus on integrated solutions amidst evolving industry demands.

Analytics and AI

Is the future agentic for ERP?

The future is agentic - or is it? Microsoft and Celonis case studies may show ERP users the truth behind the AI agent hype.

Enterprise Architecture

SUSE gives retail the Edge with new suite

SUSE has unveiled updates to its SUSE Edge solutions, including SUSE Edge 3.2 and SUSE Edge Suite, designed to enhance operational efficiency, security, and innovation for retailers, showcased at NRF 2025 with features like real-time fraud detection and zero touch deployment.

Cloud Platform and Technology

What’s driving the move of vertical markets to the Cloud

Acumatica has reported a significant trend of businesses transitioning from basic accounting software to its cloud-based ERP solutions, demonstrating marked improvements in operational efficiency, financial visibility, and overall growth through various case studies across different sectors.

CRM and Customer Experience

HCLTech and Microsoft Expand Strategic Partnership to Transform Contact Centers with Gen AI and Cloud

HCLTech is expanding its partnership with Microsoft to enhance customer service through generative AI and cloud-based contact center solutions, becoming the exclusive professional services partner for Nuance’s Enterprise Professional Services while integrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center to drive operational efficiency and improved customer experiences.

Analytics and AI

82% manufacturers increasing budgets in 2025 to grow AI-ready ERP: Rootstock

A survey by Rootstock reveals that 82% of manufacturers plan to increase their AI budgets for 2025, highlighting a strategic shift towards integrating AI for operational efficiency and competitiveness, emphasizing the need for robust ERP systems to facilitate successful AI adoption.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Oracle brings “Xstore Factor” to retail in 2025

Oracle has launched an enhanced version of Xstore Point of Service, featuring a redesigned architecture and a mobile-friendly interface, enabling retailers to streamline operations and improve customer experiences through intuitive workflows and advanced data processing capabilities.

Analytics and AI

Google Cloud helps scale AI image generation amid rapid surge of user growth

Google Cloud has teamed up with Australian AI firm Leonardo.AI, recently acquired by Canva, to enhance its image generation capabilities for a rapidly growing user base of 29 million, aiming to improve infrastructure efficiency and introduce advanced features like Flow State for iterative image refinement.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

AWS Launches Infrastructure Region in APAC, Plans US$5 Billion Thailand Investment

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region to enhance cloud service availability, support Thailand’s digital transformation, create over 11,000 jobs, and invest more than US$5 billion in the country.

Business Process Management and Automation

Learn How (And Why) You Need to Effectively Map Business Processes

Business process mapping is a structured visual approach to optimizing organizational workflows that enhances communication, resource allocation, and compliance, involving seven key steps to identify, analyze, redesign, document, and continuously improve processes for better efficiency and productivity.

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Analytics and AI

AZN retailer chooses Coveo for SAP-flavored, AI-enhanced customer experience

AI platform Coveo has announced a collaboration with Freedom Furniture, with Coveo's AI Platform to improve product discovery.

Analytics and AI

How AI can drive more economic growth than lower taxes or less regulation, UK businesses weigh in

Most UK leaders' productivity is held back by economic headwinds, stress and difficulty implementing new productivity tools, survey shows.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Building bridges between business and IT with Celonis and Ardoq

Celonis and Ardoq recently launched a joint digital twin solution that closes that gap between the IT and the business side of organizations.

Human Capital Management

The intricacies of developing ERP training

How ERP end-users training is developed to maximize Oracle enterprise system investments.

Human Capital Management

The post-pandemic evolution of learning and development

The Covid-19 pandemic prompted organizations to pivot towards virtual training and digital learning platforms, leading to enhanced accessibility and flexibility in employee skill development through innovative methods like small group sessions, bite-sized training, interactivity, and follow-up sessions.

Human Capital Management

The Power of Oracle Guided Learning to support user adoption

To help Oracle users overcome issues, Fudgelearn offers Oracle Guided Learning, a support tool built into the Oracle Cloud Fusion Application.

Business Process Management and Automation

Celonis advancing the face of process intelligence the old-fashioned way

One company pioneering process mining and process intelligence is American-German data processing company, Celonis.

Human Capital Management

Applying user psychology for successful change management and ERP implementation

User psychology can lend a helping hand with change management as it relies on understanding the needs and concerns of end users/ employees to help navigate the challenges.

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Data and Data Management

Securing your data migration to a modern data warehouse with SNP Glue

Integrating SAP data with a modern data warehouse can provide you with the necessary business insights for unparalleled growth. SNP Glue is the tool that can help you migrate data to the warehouse securely and safely.