Cloud Platform and Technology

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integrates smoothly with cloud platforms, representing a pragmatic evolution in technology. The collaboration between ERP and cloud technology offers practical advantages, including scalability, accessibility, and agility for businesses. This combination enables real-time collaboration, data analytics, and improved security. Embracing the cloud allows ERP systems to adapt dynamically to changing business needs. Cloud-based ERP solutions offer efficient resource utilization, cost-effectiveness, and swift deployment, contributing to operational efficiency. In the current landscape of digital transformation, the integration of ERP with cloud technology serves as a practical strategy, ensuring businesses remain adaptable, competitive, and technologically proficient.

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SAP unveils new updates to Spend Management and Business Network
SAP has enhanced its spend management solutions, SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass, by integrating the generative AI copilot Joule to automate and optimize spending processes, improve collaboration, and provide actionable insights, with availability planned for Q4 2024 and additional features aimed at streamlining procurement and supplier engagement set to launch in 2025.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Grow With Confidence
Wherever it comes from and wherever it lurks, for ambitious businesses, uncertainty is always the enemy of growth. The last thing businesses should have to deal with is any uncertainty in adopting what could be their first and last ever...
Cloud Platform and Technology
The Ideal Cloud ERP for Mid-Market Businesses? Why SAP S/4HANA Wins
This guide aims to make that choice clear and compelling: SAP S/4HANA is a tailored, high-performance ERP system designed specifically for high-growth companies. It meets and exceeds the specialized needs and challenges that business executives and IT decision-makers encounter. From...
Cloud Platform and Technology
SAP Business ByDesign – the Comprehensive Cloud Business Suite
SAP Business ByDesign is a modular and scalable cloud ERP solution designed to streamline processes across all areas of an organization, catering to SMEs, public sector entities, and large corporations with integrated reporting and user-friendly interfaces for efficient adoption.
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Cloud Today
When looking at cloud adoption, it’s often the financial products and older ERP systems that are slow to move off-prem.
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Overcoming data migration hesitancy with streamlined data integration
insightsoftware helps businesses with a solution that breaks down silos and leverages the power of Oracle data and other cloud data sources.
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Intacct for Construction
Sage Intacct for Construction offers a comprehensive, cloud-based solution for managing pre-construction, finance, and operations, featuring extensive partner integrations and real-time insights.
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Adaptive manufacturing practices – Part 1: Transforming Processes
The U.S. manufacturing sector is facing significant challenges due to geopolitical changes and a productivity plateau, necessitating an annual investment of $15 to $25 billion for recovery. However, AI-driven ERP solutions like the QAD O³ ERP can optimize processes for increased efficiency, agility, and resilience to help streamline manufacturing processes and raise productivity.
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The 5 Steps to Easy Cloud Migrations for Financial Companies
Companies in the finance industry face challenges in updating their ERP systems, including migration from legacy systems, change management, and employee training, but solutions like SAP S/4HANA offer a structured five-step process to ensure a smooth and efficient transition to cloud-based systems.
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Forterro’s Cloud ERP to support warehousing and Ecommerce
Forterro has launched Orderwise Cloud, a cloud ERP solution for retail and wholesale sectors, featuring integration with eBay and Amazon, enhanced security, scalability, and cost reduction, aimed at improving workflow automation and reducing ownership costs.
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Is Bluefield the Goldilocks of S/4HANA implementation strategies? SNP says it depends
What’s the best approach to S/4HANA implementation? ERP Today talks to SNP about greenfield, brownfield, and that Bluefield in the middle.
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NTT and IBM’s SimpliZCloud to support data for financial services
NTT Data and IBM launched SimpliZCloud ,a hybrid cloud service designed to enhance cloud transformation for financial institutions by optimizing costs and supporting critical workloads with a secure and scalable infrastructure on IBM’s LinuxONE.
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NVIDIA to partner with Salesforce for AI initiatives
NVIDIA and Salesforce have partnered to enhance Salesforce's Agentforce platform with predictive and generative AI workflows, enabling the development of autonomous agents and interactive avatars to improve productivity and customer experiences.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Salesforce introduces Data Cloud updates at San Francisco event
Salesforce introduced enhancements to its Data Cloud at Dreamforce 2024, featuring improved support for unstructured data, advanced AI capabilities, and robust security measures, aimed at optimizing customer experiences and data governance.
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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.
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Why Cloud ERP Is Right For Your Scaleup
Founders and CEOs of scaleups face a pivotal decision between expanding their IT landscape or integrating a public cloud ERP solution, which provides a flexible, modular architecture that supports growth, enhances operational efficiency, and fosters investor confidence while overcoming skepticism about its value.
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Oracle builds on database offerings with Google Cloud, AWS and Azure
At Oracle CloudWorld 2024, Oracle announced the launch of Oracle Database services on AWS and Google Cloud, and also developments with Azure, aiming to provide a seamless multi-cloud experience with enhanced database management and support for customers wanting to utilize multiple cloud platforms simultaneously.
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Is ERP, as we know it, dying? Nextworld says yessiree
EAP vendor Nextworld's Vito Solimen and Lyle Ekdahl speak to ERP Today to discuss the future of ERP and how to give systems a second life.
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Jürgen Müller’s departure marks yet another major SAP leadership shift
Jürgen Müller, SAP's CTO, is stepping down following the recent departures of other key executives.
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Industry-specific solutions can be key to the cloud – a speedy look at motorsports
Moving to the cloud, businesses should consider industry-specific solutions to enhance operations and drive digital transformation while navigating the complexities of cloud migration.
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ERP Today Live! with Epicor
Digital transformation: what does this term mean in the age of AI? And what do those in manufacturing and distribution require from their ERP systems to join the digital revolution?
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Knowing exactly when to join the cloud can determine business success
Rimini Street's Frank Reneke and Ryan Bendana discuss the importance of timing in implementing cloud-enhanced automation technology, advocating for a tailored approach to ERP upgrades through their Smart Path strategy.
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Just ten hours downtime: SNP rapidly shifts Coop to the cloud
Coop Switzerland partnered with SNP to migrate its critical SAP systems to the cloud, seeking minimal downtime and enhanced operational continuity.
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Staying cyber secure amongst the cyber chaos
Being cyber secure is paramount for organizations across the globe and protecting client and organizational data is the key to ultimately delivering success for your business.
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Under Armour and the strength in going over to cloud
Under Armour successfully migrated its SAP environments to AWS in 2021, modernizing its cloud infrastructure while minimizing disruption and ensuring security through a focused internal team and AWS Professional Services, ultimately enhancing its operational performance and innovation capabilities.
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Audi and SNP ride into cloud competitiveness
SNP's expertise in ALM and innovative software solutions have empowered Audi to navigate the migration to S/4HANA with confidence.
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Herbal medicine manufacturer makes S/4HANA shift with SNP
Global herbal medicine manufacturer, Bionorica, sought to convert its existing ERP ECC 6.0 system to SAP S/4HANA, and the project was made more complex by including new process changes in accounting.
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