ERP Today • 17th November 2022

The Carolean Era: crypto country change for the UK?

Charles III is King of the United Kingdom, ushering in a new Carolean era for the country. The short time since this landmark change has seen Rishi Sunak become UK prime minister, who, in his previous post as Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been viewed as a tech evangelist of sorts.

ERP Today • 11th November 2022

Adobe has already doomed the metaverse

There’s a great episode of Doctor Who where the stars start vanishing in the sky. Probably because of the Daleks or whatnot.

ERP Today • 11th November 2022

The Great Tech Redundancy is here again

There’s been a lot of talk about new themes in employment such as the Great Resignation and ‘quiet quitting’. Such trends probably gave the illusion that employees are in better control these days over their work situations and prospects.

WIRED • 3rd November 2022

Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You

In six words, write a story about living forever.

ERP Today • 28th October 2022

EY does the metaverse – can it save all things Meta?

Ernst & Young has updated EY wavespace™, a global network that provides clients experiences in the so-called metaverse space. The news comes one day after lacking financial results from Facebook owner Meta, the current figurehead of extended reality in enterprise.

ERP Today • 24th October 2022

IFS Cloud Cable Car brings B2B, TikTok to Royal Docks

Enterprise tech watchers and tourists take note: The London Cable Car is now known as the IFS Cloud Cable Car, with IFS’ biggest brand activation to date fully rolled out.

ERP Today • 13th October 2022

Crypto hedge bet? Google combines Coinbase into Cloud

Cryptocurrency platform Coinbase has selected Google Cloud as a strategic cloud provider, in a move touted as driving Web3 innovation and development. The news comes after Google’s recent partnership with the blockchain arm of embattled crypto service Binance.

ERP Today • 13th October 2022

APAC’s QR code solution solves a 21st century problem

The humble QR code represents a possible quantum leap in cross-border payment for Southeast Asia.

ERP Today Magazine • 27th September 2022

Money in Web3 needs neither crypto nor cyberspace

Accenture, Alibaba and more explain why the future of finance doesn’t necessarily involve cryptocurrency and extended reality.

ERP Today • 19th August 2022

Alibaba adds more autonomous autos to its Cloud

Deloitte China and Alibaba Cloud have jointly established the Deloitte-Alibaba Cloud Auto Industry Center. Based in Hangzhou, China, the center will focus on providing customers in the automobile industry end-to-end solutions including autonomous driving, intelligent manufacturing and digital marketing.

ERP Today • 18th August 2022

Google further exits Smart City stage with Cloud closure

Five years after its inception, Google Cloud’s IoT Core system is no more, pointing towards a further pivot away from smart city technology for Google and parent company Alphabet.

ERP Today Magazine • 14th June 2022

Young professionals are keeping office space alive

Despite all the hype about remote work, Big Tech is still clearly invested in big bricks – and so are its younger workers.

ERP Today Magazine • 14th June 2022

The metaverse is a shiny new hammer, but what are the nails in enterprise tech?

Deloitte, ServiceNow, Zoom and more reveal exactly what they’re thinking about a business metaverse.

ERP Today Special Report • 13th June 2022

Augmenting the butterfly’s wing: new frontiers in supply chain technology

Tech can’t prevent every freak incident, but, as HS2, Accenture and Boomi reveal, innovative software can help industries protect their supply chains during times of chaos.

ERP Today • 15th April 2022

All work and all play: Do young professionals really want an office metaverse?

Imagine you’re three weeks into the new job, and an email lands in your inbox. It’s the HR team, reminding you to take the mandatory cybersecurity training course you’ve completely forgotten about.

ERP Today • 18th March 2022

AI in healthcare: What now after Watson?

The start of the year saw the end of the road for IBM’s healthcare ambitions when Big Blue essentially sold off its Watson Health operation for reportedly more than $1bn.

ERP Today Magazine • 14th February 2022

Enterprises better strap in for a journey to the metaverse

When social media giant Facebook changed the name of its holding company to Meta in late 2021, both the internet and enterprise world were abuzz with confusion over what it all meant. After all, here was CEO Mark Zuckerberg talking about something called the ‘metaverse’, both to us and a digital image of himself in a rather pretentious promo video.

Electronic Payments International • 8th February 2022

Digital currencies: How to be more China, less El Salvador

February has been a busy month for digital currencies. In China, the Winter 2022 Olympics has led to a wider rollout for China’s official digital currency, the digital yuan. Last week also saw India announce plans to launch a central bank-run blockchain version of the rupee in 2023.

Verdict • 27th January 2022

How the 2022 Olympics will flaunt the Great Technology Wall of China

The 2022 Winter Olympic Games taking place in February in Beijing are already a hot potato for host nation China. Countries such as the US and Australia are diplomatically boycotting the event, whilst the official app for the event has been dogged by reports of technology flaws and political censorship.

Verdict • 25th January 2022

China metaverse trademarks knocked back as Beijing looks to grip the virtual world

The Chinese state is rejecting trademark applications relating to the metaverse, rebuffing companies big and small as hype ratchets up.