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SAP innovation sweep at Sapphire with AI, Green Ledger and Accenture partnership By Stephanie Ball

SAP has unveiled a wide range of new developments at this year’s Sapphire event, including SAP Business AI, Green Ledger and an Accenture collaboration.

DAILY NEWS

Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE | HPE second quarter

HPE HPE Q2 driven by edge as traditional revenues slow

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Workday Workday reveals continued momentum in strong first quarter results

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Accenture Accenture wins $2.6bn IRS transformation deal to modernize tax return systems

UiPath UiPath reveals steady growth for Q1

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Snowflake Snowflake grows revenue and acquires Neeva – but forecasts cause shares slip

EDITORS CHOICE

Exclusive: Huawei talks making the “TikTok of ERP”, MetaERP – from inception and beyond

MetaERP from Chinese tech giant Huawei isn’t your average entry in ERP business. As Huawei tells ERP Today in its only international interview regarding the project, “without US sanctions, Huawei had never considered developing its own ERP.”

By Giacomo Lee

Outage outrage! Why public cloud is putting data and business at risk

Another outage begs the question: isn’t cloud supposed to be the savior of modern agile computing?

By Marc Ambasna-Jones

Editor’s Words – thoughts from the first issue of ERP Today North America

Welcome to the first edition of ERP Today North America. We thought it was time our journalism traveled to our friends across the Atlantic.

By Paul Esherwood

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Move over finance, it’s time for a new value metric

Paul Esherwood speaks with Jonathan Wright, IBM senior MD for sustainability, and Jon Chorley, Oracle chief sustainability officer.

By Paul Esherwood

How a skills-based workforce will reshape the future world of work

Sheri Rhodes muses on balancing the AI know-how of a CIO and a chief customer officer’s empathy when shifting to a skills-based workforce.

By Sheri Rhodes

“Purpose matters”: ServiceNow reveals its plan to avoid job cuts

There isn’t a day that goes by at the moment where there isn’t yet another round of Big Tech layoffs. Fuelled by a hiring storm during the COVID-19 pandemic, technology firms are now re-balancing the books in light of significant...

By Christine Horton

Deloitte’s chief futurist on tech trends

Following Deloitte Tech Trends 2023 report, ERP Today speaks to Deloitte’s Chief futurist, Mike Bechtel, on what’s next for enterprises.

By Stephanie Ball

Where’s AWS pointed in 2023?

With AWS re:Invent having closed out the end of 2022, it is time to assess where AWS stands in 2023, as the main thrust of its announcements at re:Invent allows for an analysis of its strategic direction. Also, as the...

By Holger Mueller

MOST READ

FEATURES

All paths lead to automation By Paul Esherwood

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Enterprise tech firms switch up their messaging By Christine Horton

Infor | Jim Hannan, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AT KOCH Industries, and Kevin Samuelson, CEO at Infor

What does a paper company know about ERP? Quite a bit as it turns out By Paul Esherwood

Jim Hannan, chief operating officer at Koch Industries, and Kevin Samuelson, CEO at Infor, explain why a partnership between an industrial giant and a differentiated software company will lead to better outcomes for ERP customers.

Darren Roos: Can IFS do for assets what Salesforce did for CRM?By Paul Esherwood

Global consulting firms adapt to life out of the box By Christine Horton

LONG READS

Carl Eschenbach and Aneel Bhusri, Workday

New Dawn, New Workday: Carl Eschenbach to lead next chapter By Paul Esherwood

Carl Eschenbach, the former VMWare executive and venture capitalist, is the new co-CEO at Workday and plans to assume full control next year. After more than 18 years at the helm, Aneel Bhusri, the co-founder of the company, will transition into a product-focused role leaving Eschenbach in sole charge.

Bill McDermott: Is NOW the time to create your digital future?By Paul Esherwood

50 years of SAP: Klein says, “We’re just getting started”.By Paul Esherwood

ERP TODAY LIVE!

Infor Infor and Koch feature preview

This 9-minute preview forms the basis for the exclusive story in the Q1 2023 issue of ERP Today.

Workday Workday cover story preview

Workday co-CEOs Carl Eschenbach and Aneel Bhusri talk to Paul Esherwood on the next chapter for the jewel in the ERP crown.

Oracle Cloud ERP Today Live! Oracle and IBM on sustainability metrics

Ever since the Greeks minted the first coins in 610 BC there has been a universal metric to measure the things we value. The price tag. The finance economy emerged roughly 2700 years ago when civilizations transitioned from a system of...

ServiceNow Bill McDermott interview preview

Bill McDermott is a titan of the industry and currently serves as the CEO at one of the hottest enterprise software companies in the world – ServiceNow. In an all-access interview, McDermott talks exclusively to Paul Esherwood about his life, career and the opportunity to build ServiceNow into the defining enterprise software company of the twenty-first century. This short extract previews some of the topics that we covered.

SAP Christian Klein interview preview

Christian Klein, talks exclusively to Paul Esherwood in this access all interview. As SAP turns 50, Klein opens up on his journey to the CEO role, the work SAP has done on its own transformation, and discusses S/4HANA, RISE and sustainability. This 8 minutes preview forms the basis for the cover story in the June issue of ERP Today. Subscribe for free to get the full story.

SAP ERP Today Live! S/4HANA with Jan Gilg

This session with Jan Gilg, president of S/4HANA, is focussed on SAP’s flagship ERP Product and looks at the adoption curve for S/4, how the product has developed and can be augmented by BTP through RISE with SAP.

Acumatica ERP Today Live! with Acumatica

John Case is the new CEO at Acumatica. 6 months into his role, we ask what has been achieved in the first half-year of his tenure and does the world really need another mid-market ERP vendor? Case discusses the traction Acumatica is getting with an increasingly focussed cohort of customers and how Acumatica’s points of differentiation help set the cloud-native ERP publisher apart from the competition.

SAP ERP Today Live! RISE with SAP

In this session of ERP Today Live! we speak to Brian Duffy, President of Cloud at SAP, to discuss RISE with SAP and how customers of all shapes and sizes can benefit from this revolutionary way to buy, consume and implement ERP software.

GUESTS

The midmarket moment has arrived By Scott Russell

If you’re reading ERP Today, you know that ERP was critical yesterday and it will remain so tomorrow.

Automation outlook for 2023 and beyond By Maureen Fleming

‘Glorified filing cabinet’: Cloud’s greatest failing By Alan Jacobson

BLOGS

EXPERT OPINION

Orbis non sufficit: The race for cloud supremacy

Are vendor boasts reminiscent of recent history, when getting rich and grabbing more played out pretty badly for most of us?

By Paul Esherwood

The state of the Workday EAP platform in 2023

Workday has made substantial progress on its EAP (Enterprise Application Platform) recently, so time to dig into the new capabilities and approach.

By Holger Mueller

Thriving in a changing world – how to seize the opportunity

Angelique De Vries, EMEA president at Workday, discusses how the company has adapted to the ever-changing tech environment.

By Angelique De Vries

Inside The Software Automation Revolution

The popularization of software application development tools designed to empower ‘citizen developers’ has burgeoned over the last half-decade.

By Adrian Bridgwater

HR tech will embrace employee experience and talent marketplace

HR analyst Josh Bersin sees much for the sector and HR tech market to be optimistic about this year.

By Josh Bersin

Sustainability: the next frontier of digital transformation

We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redefine the meaning of economics and accelerate progress towards a more sustainable world: one with zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality.

By Vivek Bapat

Daniel Dines, UiPath co-founder and co-chief executive officer, UiPath

Automation leading to greater innovation

We humans are in a race to progress. We are at the point where we are able to close the circle of history – a circle of manual forced work – that started with the invention of agriculture, followed by...

By Daniel Dines

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Unlimited opportunities for customers with intelligent automation

Today, the remit for automation goes far beyond narrow optimisation. It's providing radical alterations in the way data, processes and humans interact. Hear how the conversation is evolving from leading technologists.

By Paul Esherwood