ERP Today Magazine • 22nd March 2024

Integration is Innovation

ERP Today interviews Boomi CEO Steve Lucas, who shares all on being inspired by connecting the world and why AI transformation can only happen with your data house in order.

ERP Today Magazine • 21st March 2024

Cloudy with a chance of curveballs

The times are a-changing, and CloudRock probably know this better than most of the consultancies out there.

Mastering SAP • 24th January 2024

New SAP Financials a Pivotal Point on Cloud Roadmap, with AI Focus

The latest SAP financials have been released, coming at a pivotal time for the SAP user community. 2024 marks three years until the end of ECC support, and with some cloud migrations taking up to two years, it’s a matter of now or never for legacy customers to make the jump. So what’s the word from Walldorf?

SAPinsider • 24th January 2024

New SAP Financials a Pivotal Point on Cloud Roadmap, with AI Focus

The latest SAP financials have been released, coming at a pivotal time for the SAP user community. 2024 marks three years until the end of ECC support, and with some cloud migrations taking up to two years, it’s a matter of now or never for legacy customers to make the jump.

ERP Today • 1st December 2023

Vendors set out their AI stalls in 2023. Where were all the skills?

Vendor conferences are over for the year, with AWS re:Invent 2023 seeing out the season of big tech brands setting out their stalls with trademark glitz and glamor. As with any other year, the pattern was the same; if we set out an Excel spreadsheet of each conference and columns for check marks, we’d see the usual ticks for partnerships, product launches and AI (ad infinitum). Not so much on the checklist? Skills.

ERP Today • 15th November 2023

Workday rising – and dancing – with EMEA industry takeover

Workday Rising EMEA highlighted sustained growth and influence in EMEA for the company, with over 100 European-headquartered companies from more than 35 different industries having selected Workday in the current fiscal year.

ERP Today • 19th September 2023

Would Albert Einstein see Salesforce as AI "dreamforce" for good?

Salesforce Dreamforce 2023 finished last week, and AI was the big theme of the company’s flagship event. This will come as no surprise for anyone who attended Salesforce’s World Tour London event in the summer, which came subtitled as “AI Day” with the expected chibi-style branding of Albert Einstein caricatures. Said subtitle was writ large to the extent the World Tour aspect was almost blink and you’ll miss it.

ERP Today Magazine • 18th September 2023

Cormac Watters of Oracle: you got a big friend in Big Red

Cormac Watters, Oracle‘s EVP applications for EMEA, speaks to Giacomo Lee and Paul Esherwood in Dublin about how Oracle is opening up and telling a new kind of story: the once fearsome Big Red has become best friends with some of the world’s most philanthropic organizations.

ERP Today Magazine • 18th September 2023

Blue Marine Foundation: Saving our seas in real time

In our last cover story, ERP Today traveled ten years into the future. For this voyage, we sink 20 meters below the sea surface and beyond with Blue Marine Foundation, the winners of Transformation Project of the Year at the ERP Today Awards 2023.

ERP Today Magazine • 17th July 2023

Deltek: how the D.C giant is going global with PSA

By all rights, Michael Corkery should be fast asleep. The Deltek CEO has arrived in the UK on a red-eye from the States, yet by the time our interview takes place later in the afternoon, Mike (as he’s more commonly known) is full of energy and very much on-point in his answers to ERP Today.

ERP Today Magazine • 17th July 2023

Sustainable cities for AWS is a billion-dollar business

ERP Today talks to AWS public sector head Jeff Kratz on the sustainable cities of our future. As AWS‘s CEO Adam Selipsky put it, and like many others have said before, “climate change is the issue of our generation”. A nice sentiment, but often followed by generally lackluster next steps and a polite politician chinwag. So, when Amazon announced a program to foster the growth of clean tech innovation in startups, it was a clear sign that Big Tech was ready to put some money and infrastructure w

ERP Today • 12th June 2023

Cost of living leads the conversation at AWS Summit London

The cavernous enclave of the ExCel London center may not seem the likeliest contender for a message regarding the UK’s cost-of-living crisis. The theme though was a key one at AWS London Summit, the hyperscaler’s biggest conference in the UK&I region. In a neat move away from focusing solely on the landscape for enterprise clients, keynote speakers such as Renee Hunt, CTO for Compare the Market, referred on the main stage to the current status quo facing customers – not enterprise ones as such,

ERP Today • 25th May 2023

Can Accenture and Workday elevate the future of HCM?

The future of work and human capital management (HCM) has been a hot topic since the pandemic, and many a consultancy report has tried to stick a pin into the how and where when it comes to this decade’s workforce trends.

ERP Today North America • 4th May 2023

North America shows lowest growth in Capgemini Q1 results

Thursday saw the release of Q1 2023 results for Capgemini, with growth of over 10 percent during the quarter. The regions of EMEA, France and UK&I showed most growth in the period, with North America reporting the least increase.

WIRED UK • 1st December 2020

Six-Word Sci-Fi: Wired UK Magazine

And so long lived the Queen.

ERP Today North America Ed. • 26th March 2023

Celonis - mining within 3D and ESG

Think process mining, and you’re likely to think of Celonis. Co-founded in 2011 by co-CEO Alex Rinke, alongside Bastian Nominacher and Martin Klenk, the startup began as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, and within one year joined the SAP Startup Focus program. By 2015, Celonis was the first company from the program to sign a reseller agreement with SAP.

ERP Today Magazine • 20th March 2023

Ray Smith: Microsoft’s supply chain VP gives hard macro outlook

Interview with Ray Smith, supply chain chief at Microsoft on black swan events and data lakes.

ERP Today • 6th March 2023

Is Microsoft pushing one partner for Dynamics 365?

The illusion of choice – a tool often wielded by advertisers to make customers think they are in control of purchase decisions. The reality is the illusion remains just that: an illusion. And there is a certain illusory filter at play on the platform for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

ERP Today • 12th December 2022

War has no winners – besides Oracle and multi-cloud

Oracle and multi-cloud won big as Friday saw the US Department of Defense (DoD) announce the winners for its Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract. Four companies where chosen by The Pentagon to share the $9bn contract: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

ERP Today • 6th December 2022

Salesforce earnings up but Slack shows with second CEO exit

Salesforce beat quarterly expectations in a rocky day for the software giant, with stocks sliding in light of Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield leaving the top job at the Salesforce subsidiary on Monday.