EMEA

Salesforce office building | Salesforce launches AI-powered capabilities and governance bundles

Salesforce appoints new president and chief legal officer

Salesforce has announced the appointment of Sabastian Niles as president and chief legal officer, overseeing the firm's legal affairs.

Enterprise Asset Management

Arcwide – tall and proud

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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Analytics and AI

US Trade Commission investigates OpenAI over deceptive practices

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into OpenAI in relation to unfair or deceptive privacy data practices.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Workday intros next-gen Elastic Hypercube Technology

Workday has introduced the next generation of its patented Elastic Hypercube Technology to help organizations manage changing business needs.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Accenture Federal Services bags $94m US Army contract

Accenture Federal Services (AFS) has secured a $94m US Army contract to transform the agency’s ICAM system.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Snowflake appoints James Petter head of EMEA sales

Snowflake has announced the appointment of James Petter as VP of EMEA Sales, responsible for leading Snowflake EMEA to business growth.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

Quantexa £200m+ AI investment to support UK Gov ambitions

Quantexa has announced that it will invest an additional £125m in the global artificial intelligence (AI) industry.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

SUSE Q2 results see shares down amid slowing revenue growth

SUSE’s financial results for Q2 2023 revealed a turbulent quarter with its revenue growing by one percentage point to $161.9m.

U.S. and China's flags placed next too each other

Analytics and AI

Robo trade wars as US to bar Chinese companies from buying AI cloud services

The U.S. administration is set to restrict Chinese firms’ access to U.S. AI cloud services to “close loophole in chip-export controls".

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Application Development and Integration

Microsoft welcomes “pragmatic solutions” in EU antitrust Teams probe

Microsoft is nearing a European Union antitrust investigation over Teams as its proposed competition remedies are found unsatisfactory. The development follows a 2020 action by now Salesforce-owned workspace messaging app Slack.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Infor chosen by food producer HAK to grow green efficiency

Infor has announced that Dutch producer of vegetables and legumes, HAK, is starting to implement its CloudSuite Food and Beverage solution.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

The World Economic Forum and Deloitte launch Quantum Readiness Toolkit to stem cybersecurity risk

The World Economic Forum and Deloitte have released a quantum toolkit to help protect organizations from developing cybersecurity risks.

Human Capital Management

Salesforce: new wares, $4bn UK investment in GenAI – whilst tackling consumer distrust

Salesforce unveiled its generative AI tools, Sales GPT and Service GPT, aimed at enhancing productivity and customer interactions while addressing concerns about data privacy and trust among users, during its World Tour London event, alongside announcing a $4 billion investment in its UK operations.

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Human Capital Management

Oracle unveils new AI-powered capabilities to enhance HR productivity

Oracle has announced the addition of generative AI-powered capabilities within its Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) to improve existing HR processes and drive faster business value, improve productivity and enhance the candidate and employee experience.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

Cost of living leads the conversation at AWS’s biggest UK&I summit

The cost-of-living crisis was a key theme at the AWS Summit in London, the hyperscaler's biggest conference in the UK&I region.

Small steps towards big sustainability goals

Rob Churchyard, global Oracle practice leader at IBM on the journey to sustainability: small steps to reach the end goal.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Gov Facility Services secures finance control in His Majesty’s Prisons with Oracle and IBM

At the collapse of the private facilities management firm, Carillion Plc, the Ministry of Justice created a new operating company, Gov Facility Services ltd, to run services within 49 UK prisons. The new firm had a tight deadline to secure procurement, payroll and financial control, to get operations in order.

Speed and compliance for M&G expansion with Oracle and IBM

M&G is a British company headquartered in London, operating for over 170 years in the savings, investments, and heritage industry.

How Oracle + IBM excel at enterprise cloud migrations

Over the years, IBM and Oracle have competed on several fronts. They’ve also nurtured a close alliance since the early 1980s. Setting the bar for 'co-opetition', here's how the relationship was born.

Supply Chain Management

M&D has a long way to go in protecting the supply chain

Very few manufacturers and distributors seemed invested in supply chain readiness during the pandemic.

In conversation with Unifii, one of the few independent Elite partners

It’s day one and you are in front of a new prospect – how do you articulate the ServiceNow proposition?

Oracle + IBM power HS2 into the fast lane

HS2 is implementing a comprehensive Oracle ERP Cloud solution to support its ambitious £55bn infrastructure project, aiming to enhance operational efficiency and data integration while addressing the complexities of managing a long-term, large-scale initiative.