Americas

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Maintain first place with enterprise automation

New technology and the widespread adoption of digital solutions have revolutionized how businesses operate, connect with customers and optimize their processes. It has become increasingly clear that leveraging technology is a necessity for sustained success.

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Enterprise Architecture

Elevating Workday ERP with Boomi and Huron

Having proper data governance and preparation can prevent errors, duplicate data and inefficiencies, but this can be difficult to achieve without the right tools and partners in place to elevate your ERP implementations.

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Analytics and AI

Stagwell leverages Google Cloud to boost GenAI marketing capabilities

Google Cloud and SADA, a Google Cloud Premier Partner, has entered into a partnership with Stagwell to develop GenAI marketing solutions that support Stagwell agencies, client partners and product development within the Stagwell Marketing Cloud (SMC).

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Analytics and AI

Accenture to launch GenAI studios to boost capabilities in NA

Accenture has announced its intentions to launch a network of GenAI studios in North America where companies can explore ways to optimize and reinvent their business through the responsible use of GenAI applications.

Application Development and Integration

Aspen reaps the benefits of STA’s ‘ITSM Connector for SAP’

Aspen Pharmacare successfully implemented STA Technologies' ITSM Connector for SAP within its SAP S/4HANA and ServiceNow environments, resulting in streamlined incident management, a 10% reduction in Helpdesk hours, and a goal to increase SAP ticket logging efficiency from 40% to 80%.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

At your service: SAP rolls out Cloud ALM SaaS extension

SAP Cloud ALM is extending its capabilities to centrally operate SaaS applications and custom extensions built and operated on SAP BTP.

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Analytics and AI

Anthropic leverages Google’s Cloud TPU v5e chips for AI inference

Google has expanded its partnership with Anthropic, committing to the highest standards of AI security and safety, and will allow Anthropic to leverage the latest generation Cloud TPU v5e chips for AI inference.

Cloud Platform and Technology

SAP HANA Cloud now supports AWS Graviton

SAP and AWS have announced that SAP HANA Cloud now supports Amazon Web Service Graviton processors with environmental benefits.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

NTT DATA’s group company snaps up Sapphire

NTT DATA Business Solutions AG, a group company of NTT DATA and SAP partner, has announced that it has acquired Sapphire.

Analytics and AI

Salesforce announces automotive cloud innovations for connected cars

Salesforce is coming out with automotive cloud innovations which will bring automakers connected vehicle visualization, actionable telematics and more.

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Analytics and AI

Oracle and Microsoft collab to support growth flurry of AI services

Oracle has announced a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to support the growth of AI services.

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Analytics and AI

SAP backs Aleph Alpha’s $500m series B round

SAP has joined a consortium of investors to back the series B round of GenAI developer, Aleph Alpha, totaling $500m.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

What the public sector can (and can’t) learn from private sector IT

Public sector IT professionals are liable to occasionally react skeptically when people try to apply what works for the private sector to their area of expertise – and well they might.

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Supply Chain Management

Uncovering EPG’s SAP-friendly LYDIA Voice app

At the sound of the user’s voice, LYDIA Voice is activated, maximizing security, boosting employee satisfaction and streamline processes.

Accenture and Salesforce team up to help life science companies

Accenture and Salesforce have announced they are investing in the development of Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud.

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Supply Chain Management

SAP certified Loftware Spectrum supports S/4HANA, Business Suite and ECC

Implementing an Enterprise Labeling Solution can accommodate a wide range of customer requests by offering automated, data-driven labeling.

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Samsara adds the City of Houston to its list of 2023 public sector partnerships

Samsara has announced it has been selected by the City of Houston to digitize its operations, with aims to help increase service transparency and sustainability, improve community safety and take data-informed actions.

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Basis Technologies: Dual maintenance in S/4HANA Brownfield migration

David Lees, CTO, Basis Technologies discusses what makes S4/HANA migrations a complex upgrade and how dual maintenance can overcome this.

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Here’s what the IoT industry needs to learn about trust

The IoT industry is overlooking some vital elements when trying to gain the trust of its prospective users. Here's what it can learn from the financial services sector.

Image of the sunrise over the city of Brisbane in Australia | Smart cities

Live awareness tech is shaping tomorrow’s smart cities

The quest for sustainable solutions and operational efficiency is a mission that has captured the world's attention. While the notion of smart cities is not new, the innovative power of sensory AI is rewriting the narrative, presenting not just promises - but tangible results.

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SAP Build Code embeds AI co-pilot Joule to Build better systems

SAP has launched SAP Build Code, an application development solution that utilizes AI co-pilot Joule by embedding AI-based code generation.

Cognizant and ISS extend partnership to drive innovation

In their partnership so far, Cognizant and ISS have successfully delivered an optimized scalable financial and accounting model which has been useful in improving efficiency and decreasing costs.

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Hitachi Vantara unveils Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One

Hitachi Vantara's latest platform helps scale data across complex and multi-cloud infrastructures including for SAP S/4HANA cloud migrations.

Application Development and Integration

AWS Q3 results show higher revenue, but slow sales

Amazon announced its Q3 financial results with the AWS cloud platform becoming a key driver of revenue, despite recently slow sales.

SAP debuts new CX generative AI capabilities

SAP has announced new generative AI capabilities dedicated to spanning its SAP Customer Experience (CX) portfolio.

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Financial Management

Accenture’s North America take-over continues with Comtech Group acquisition

Accenture has acquired Comtech Group, a consulting and program management company for infrastructure projects, headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Accenture to acquire ConcentricLife to boost marketing capabilities

Accenture has agreed to acquire ConcentricLife, a healthcare marketing agency helping Life Sciences brands build optimal experiences.

Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman and chief executive officer | IBM third-quarter

IBM’s Q3 23 growth driven by software and consulting

IBM has announced its third-quarter 2023 results with revenue totaling $14.8bn, an increase of 4.6 percent, up 3.5 percent at constant currency.

CEO Bill McDermott | ServiceNow sees “tailwind of growth” with GenAI in Q3 23 success

Analytics and AI

ServiceNow teases rivals with real GenAI “product” in Q3 23 success

ServiceNow has outperformed its guidance across most Q3 23 profitability metrics, citing GenAI impact as it increased 2023 guidance.

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Salesforce unveils Life Sciences Cloud for pharma organizations

Salesforce has announced Life Sciences Cloud, a secure platform for pharmaceutical and medical technology organizations to help them speed up drug and device development, enlist and retain patients across the clinical trail journey and leverage AI to deliver personalized experiences.