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Cloud Platform and Technology
Earnings Update: The ERP Work Behind Levi’s Q2 19% E-Commerce Surge
Levi Strauss & Co. reported an 8% year-over-year revenue increase in its fiscal Q2, driven by strong e-commerce and direct-to-consumer sales, while highlighting progress in its ERP transformation by migrating Asia and Beyond Yoga to its new platform, aiming for a unified cloud ERP system to enhance operational efficiency and support future automation.
DLA ERP Modernization
Security
DLA’s ERP Modernization Race Shows How Audit Pressure Is Rewriting Federal Cloud Deals
DLA is years ahead of schedule on a major ERP modernization initiative aimed at reducing technical debt, improving auditability, and moving away from heavily customized systems. The effort highlights how cloud services, managed support, and process standardization are becoming foundational to federal ERP transformation.
IFS industrial AI and Microsoft
Service Management
IFS Brings Industrial AI to Microsoft’s Executive Demo Floor
IFS showcases its Industrial AI capabilities across Microsoft Experience Centers globally, demonstrating how autonomous agents can enhance asset-heavy operations by managing complex scenarios like packaging-line failures, ultimately highlighting the practical deployment of AI in operational environments.
ERP Strategy and Planning
WEINIG Group Unifies Global ERP on Dynamics 365
WEINIG Group, a leading manufacturer in the wood processing industry, partnered with Hitachi Solutions to consolidate a highly decentralised ERP landscape into one global Microsoft Dynamics 365 solution hosted on Azure. By moving from more than 80 separate ERP systems to a unified platform, WEINIG gained shared financial services, better inventory visibility, and common processes and data to support informed decision-making across its international operations
Analytics and AI
Nokia’s ERP Overhaul Shows Why AI Ambitions Are Moving to the Hyperscaler Layer
Nokia has signed a multi-year RISE with SAP agreement to consolidate multiple ERP systems into a unified SAP S/4HANA landscape hosted on Microsoft Azure, using clean-core principles and SAP's transformation methodology to prepare its global business backbone for embedded AI, operational resilience, and continuous cloud innovation.
Partnerships
Analytics and AI
EY’s Own ERP Migration Raises the Bar for Transformation Partners
EY's transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition on Microsoft Azure positions the firm as a credible transformation partner — one that has lived the operational, data, and change-management challenges it now advises on. This analysis explores what EY's internal migration means for ERP buyers evaluating systems integrators for their own RISE with SAP journeys.
Maersk Shipping Containers on trucks_SAP on Azure cost optimization
Cloud Platform and Technology
Maersk Uses SAP on Azure to Cut Costs and Enable AI-Driven Logistics
Maersk’s move to SAP on Azure highlights how cloud ERP modernization can reduce costs, improve operational control, and enable AI-driven decision-making at scale.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
SAP Business Data Cloud Expands to Azure Switzerland with EU Access Controls
SAP is preparing to launch its Business Data Cloud platform on Microsoft Azure infrastructure in Switzerland in the coming weeks, introducing a deployment designed to meet European data residency and governance requirements. The rollout includes “EU Access” availability, meaning data...
Analytics and AI
Microsoft Q2 2026 Results Show AI, Cloud Growth Accelerating as Spending Surges
Microsoft reported strong Q2 FY2026 results with $81.3 billion in revenue, driven by significant growth in cloud and AI services, despite a sharp increase in capital expenditures to support infrastructure demands, reflecting the company's aggressive AI ambitions.
Analytics and AI
MISO, Microsoft Partner on Azure-, AI-Powered Grid Platform to Streamline Planning Cycles
Microsoft and MISO are collaborating to develop an AI-driven data platform on Azure to enhance grid planning and operations, aiming to reduce analysis cycles from weeks to minutes and support a more resilient, data-informed energy system as demand for electrification and renewables grows.
Analytics and AI
Blue Yonder Taps Kelley Lear to Lead Global Alliances, Scale AI-Driven Supply Chain Ecosystem with Microsoft
Kelley Lear's appointment as corporate VP at Blue Yonder aims to enhance a 300-plus partner ecosystem focused on AI-driven supply chain solutions with Microsoft, emphasizing innovation, strategic alliances, and the use of agentic AI for better partner intelligence.
Analytics and AI
Microsoft Research Maps 2026 AI Agenda: From Lab Assistants to Trusted Agents
Microsoft Research forecasts 2026 as a pivotal year where AI evolves into collaborative 'digital coworkers' across sectors, emphasizing security, agentic systems, and quantum advancements that align with human-centered goals and redefine enterprise resource planning.
Analytics and AI
Anthropic Set to Donate MCP to New Linux Foundation Agentic AI Foundation
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) donation to the Agentic AI Foundation, under the Linux Foundation, aims to ensure its neutral governance and collaborative development within a multi-vendor environment.
ERP cloud lifecycle management dashboard showing integration complexity and AI-driven automation
Cloud Platform and Technology
Dynatrace Expands AI Cloud Operations With Microsoft Azure Integration
Dynatrace has launched a direct integration with Microsoft's Azure SRE Agent, enhancing AI-driven observability and automation for cloud operations, thereby enabling proactive issue detection and remediation within complex IT infrastructures on Azure.
Unit4 and Coda
Cloud Platform and Technology
Unit4 ERPx Lands on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Unit4's ERPx solution is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, allowing organizations in people-centric industries to efficiently deploy a modular, AI-powered ERP platform that enhances operational agility and streamlines procurement.
Dell and Microsoft cybersecurity
Security
Dell Strengthens Cybersecurity for Microsoft Customers
Dell Technologies and Microsoft are enhancing AI adoption to protect data and improve cybersecurity for multicloud environments.
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Data and Data Management
SAP Archiving in Microsoft Azure: Where to Start?
As enterprises embrace cloud solutions, integrating SAP archiving with platforms like Microsoft Azure has become a priority for many.
CEO Bill McDermott | ServiceNow sees “tailwind of growth” with GenAI in Q3 23 success
Analytics and AI
ServiceNow and Google Cloud Expand Partnership to Deliver AI-powered Tools to Millions of Users
ServiceNow and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to integrate ServiceNow's platform and workflows with Google Cloud, enabling AI-driven transformation across enterprise technology, enhancing data accessibility and workflows, with new AI-powered solutions set to launch by 2025.
Analytics and AI
Dell Technologies Accelerates AI Innovation and Strengthens Cybersecurity Strategies for Microsoft Customers
Dell Technologies has launched new AI innovations to streamline AI adoption, enhance cybersecurity, and simplify data management for Microsoft customers in multicloud environments, including services like Dell APEX File Storage and protection solutions aimed at improving operational efficiency and security.
Cloud Platform and Technology
South Korea: Microsoft Azure first hyperscaler to serve Korean public sector
Microsoft has become the first Big Tech company to receive certification under South Korea's Cloud Security Assurance Program, enabling its Azure services to be used by public institutions and marking a significant milestone for foreign cloud providers in the region's strict data security landscape.
Microsoft logo on a black front door | Cognizant and Microsoft expand partnership
Data and Data Management
Microsoft and Oracle expand multi-cloud partnership with new Database@Azure integrations
At Microsoft Ignite 2024, Microsoft and Oracle announced an expanded partnership featuring enhanced Oracle Database@Azure capabilities for data governance, analytics, and AI, integrating with Microsoft Purview for secure data management, introducing new networking features for enterprise security, and expanding availability across nine regions, while also planning to further enhance their collaboration with Exadata services.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Oracle announces a new era of collaboration at CloudWorld
Oracle CloudWorld heralded a flurry of announcements, focusing on the need to cater to customer demand and accelerate overall cloud adoption.
Image of a child dreaming covered in golden stars | Make-a-Wish, Microsoft Nerdio
Application Development and Integration
Close your eyes and Make-A-Wish: the UK charity’s journey to cloud
Oliver Wilson, technology manager at Make-A-Wish, tells ERP Today about leading a “period of digital change" at the charity with Microsoft and Nerdio.
image of Microsoft building | Power Platform Managed Identity
Application Development and Integration
Microsoft announces public preview of Power Platform Managed Identity
Microsoft has announced a public preview of its Power Platform Managed Identity support for Dataverse plug-ins.
Polaris Catalog | Snowflake launch increases interoperability with AWS, Salesforce and Microsoft
Application Development and Integration
Snowflake launch increases interoperability with AWS, Salesforce and Microsoft
Snowflake launched its Polaris Catalog, a vendor-neutral, open catalog implementation for Apache Iceberg providing an open standard of choice.
image of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK | Aberdeen City Council and Microsoft
Analytics and AI
Aberdeen City Council to double query responses with Microsoft chatbot
Aberdeen City Council has launched an enhanced version of its AB-1 in Azure, to optimize and scale its chatbot.
image of white fluffy cloud with blue sky | Microsoft and Submittable
Microsoft and Submittable collaborate on a new future of cloud
Microsoft has entered into a strategic partnership with Submittable to collaborate and innovate together to enable Submittable to develop new solutions powered by Microsoft Azure and Azure OpenAI Service.
Microsoft's office building | Microsoft’s shows positive Q1 2024 results amid faster cloud growth
Application Development and Integration
Microsoft shows positive Q1 24 results amid faster cloud growth
Microsoft’s fiscal first-quarter earnings outperformed analyst forecasts driven by revenue in Intelligent Cloud rising 19 percent to $24.3bn.
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St. Luke’s safeguards millions of patient records with Rubrik and Microsoft
Rubrik helps healthcare services non-profit achieve over 73 percent cost savings using data security solutions alongside Microsoft Sentinel.
Microsoft logo on a black front door | Cognizant and Microsoft expand partnership
Cloud Platform and Technology
Microsoft’s Q4 earnings beat expectations with AI and hybrid cloud
Microsoft’s financial results for Q4 2023 beat analyst expectations with $56.2bn in revenue as the tech giant leans onto its AI bet.
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