UK/EMEA

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Sapphire and MyWave.AI give AI Copilot the wheel for SAP Business One

Sapphire and MyWave.AI announced the integration of SAP’s AI Copilot for Business One users, with the ultimate goal of enhancing and improving the user experience.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

Accenture unveils series of acquisitions to help clients around the globe

Accenture has announced a series of new acquisitions and expansion of capabilities to boost its portfolio and to aid its clients, worldwide.

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Analytics and AI

Boehringer Ingelheim and IBM collaborate to advance GenAI

IBM and Boehringer Ingelheim's partnership aim to accelerate the antibody discovery process to treat diseases like cancer, through in-silico processes.

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Supply Chain Management

Accenture and SAP to deliver new supply chain nerve center

Accenture and SAP will expand their partnership with a new supply chain nerve center that can reduce risk and enhance visibility.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

Tech Mahindra scores with AWS to enhance sports fan experience

Tech Mahindra is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a sports cloud platform.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

Unleashing the power of digital transformation

Whether it's a complete digital reinvention or a stepwise modernization, the time for action is now. A digital transformation can help boost effectiveness across the board and improve process efficiencies exponentially. What are you waiting for?

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Quality and Testing

AI – beyond chatbots and into testing automation

The latest technological advances are here to help your job, not replace it. Generative AI software can enhance the ERP testing lifecycle at every stage, boosting efficiency in multiple ways.

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Supply Chain Management

Latest Oracle mobile additions are a fresh shot of adrenaline for healthcare organizations

Oracle has upgraded their mobile capabilities to help healthcare organizations reduce inventory errors, improve restock efficiency and gain the visibility needed to better predict demand and optimize stock availability.

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Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Samsara supports drive for road safety charity Brake

Samsara announced it has become a supporting member of Brake, a road safety charity. Its recent support will help a drive to reduce road injuries, assist people affected by road incidents and campaign for safer roads.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

UKOUG is all for Oracle’s fresh face

At its 2023 user group conference, UKOUG has praised Oracle’s work to ‘freshen up’ its reputation, as Big Red continues to soften its approach to customer service, reacting to the rise in SaaS delivery requirements.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

Thomas McKeel joins Inoapps as global practice lead EPM

The appointment is said by the firm to signal the growth of Inoapps Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM).

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Quality and Testing

Third of businesses suffer financially from the cloud skills gap, SoftwareOne research reveals

A recent report by SoftwareOne Holding AG has shown 98 percent of global organizations are facing a cloud skills gap, resulting in an average of five month delays to digital transformation projects and a third of businesses taking a significant financial hit.

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Application Development and Integration

Inoapps and Oracle Cloud Apps: the first steps on the path to modernization

Modernizing processes and adopting new technology is an issue that needs to be addressed by most businesses. Before that decision is made, however, you need to identify what you hope to gain out of the new tech.

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Application Development and Integration

Norwegian Police investigate logistics upgrade with IFS Cloud

IFS announced that the Norwegian Police has upgraded to IFS Cloud to enhance preparedness and provide precise resource utilization and assets management across the force, when required.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

ServiceNow research: UK workforce agrees on mandatory digital education

New research from ServiceNow has found that 54 percent of UK office workers feel their formal education didn't adequately prepare them for working life.

Workday EMEA mid-size enterprise success

Human Capital Management

Workday Rising reveals “mass EMEA expansion scheme” success

Workday's momentum with mid-sized enterprises is partially due to the pre-configured version of Workday, named Workday Launch.

Data and Data Management

Moviynt’s Mobilium bridges gap for SAP connection

Moviynt’s SAP certified platform Mobilium bridges the gap between mobile devices and ERP systems, providing tools for SAP connection.

CRM and Customer Experience

Salesforce exec Denise Dresser appointed as new Slack CEO

Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff has announced the appointment of Denise Dresser as new chief executive officer of Slack.

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Enterprise Architecture

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.

Human Capital Management

Sage and Smart Pension team up to help automate pensions for SMEs

Smart Pension has partnered with Sage to collaborate on a ‘one-click’ pension solution for employers and advisers.

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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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Make shop floor workers your digital transformation focus

Industry 4.0 is already an established term and manufacturing companies are being urged to invest in new ways of designing and producing products. So, how does all of this affect your shop floor workers and, by extension, your business?

Automation

These advances in test automation could change everything for your ERP

While every new platform promises to “maximize efficiency” and “streamline processes,” it’s often a process of trial-and-error to find what really works. The cloud is exploding and test automation, as well as AI, are rising up to meet the world’s QA demands.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Neste builds a sustainable future with IBM and SAP S/4HANA

Neste and IBM’s partnership dates back from 2015, a time where the oil company made the decision to drop the “Oil” from its name and devote itself to adopt more sustainability measures in order to meet its ESG goals and assist in the fight against climate change.

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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.