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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Inside The Software Automation Revolution

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

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.

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.

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...

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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.

Composable by nature

Today the buzzword du jour is ‘composable, ’composable business, composable thinking, composable architecture and even composable ERP.

Are you ready to weather the economic storm with agile working capital management?

With soaring inflation and interest rate rises, SAP's Thomas Mehlkopf says its time to revisit liquidity forecasting and working capital management.

Hyperscaler no brainer, Nutanix puts Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure

Some things in cloud are complex. Okay, that’s too kind – most aspects of cloud computing are typified by their inherent complexity and the lengthy technical specifications, intertwined dependencies and intricate deployment (and ongoing management) process that they require in...

Building ‘smart’ ERP demands continuous software intelligence

Is it time to introduce ERPSI into the lexicon: the development of ERP suites with an inherent ability to exert software intelligence functions?

Citizen technologists, it takes more than a lion taming hat

A reminder why just because you’ve got the title, doesn’t mean you’re necessarily qualified to do the job

Premises and potentates for cloud in 2022

Quantum computing, AI, DAOs and the metaverse make for an interesting cloud race after COVID-19

The vision for automation in 2023 and beyond

Automation should empower both devs and business users to reach new capacity with their work, no matter background and experience. Our core automation platform continues to expand, combining UI automation and API integration, ML, and AI.

From IT delivery to business success: shifting the mid-market project mindset

In a cloud world, ensure the business objectives of your project are clear

Aligning ESG and digital strategies

In the quest to build sustainable, purpose-driven companies, technology cannot be an afterthought.

An effective metaverse strategy requires a web3 mindset

Businesses might face risks by underpinning their metaverse strategies with a web2 way of thinking.

The tipping point scenario for consumer product supply chains is now

Consumer product (CP) companies are sitting in hot water, right in the middle of a value chain that is transforming across almost every conceivable dimension. And it’s not a stretch too far to say that most are hot under the...

The state of the key HCM vendors for 2022 and beyond

The future of work is changing faster than ever, and people are the biggest asset of any enterprise.

A fair and inclusive future of work needs some planning

For a closer look at how much the Great Resignation is impacting the IT sector and its workforce plans for the future, just look at the data.

The Rise of Industry Vertical Solutions

Both the platform vendor and systems integrator landscapes are changing. Where to put your money?

Welcome to the New World: how Capgemini is solving supply chain challenges

Before the global pandemic, public awareness of supply chains and the dependency on these to move goods around the world was taken for granted.

The hidden gem in SAP RISE’s crown: the SAP Business Network

SAP’s RISE initiative has a lot of moving parts that together offer customers and prospects important incentives to move to the cloud.

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.

Platforms matter in 2022 EAP is key for ERP success

Back in 2019, I had the pleasure to author a piece for ERP today on why platforms matter. Since, the industry has not stood still, and platforms have become stronger, broader and more important for all ERP vendors.

IT makes business dreams real

Every company’s ambitions are now digital. As a result, IT permeates organizations and influences outcomes in every corner of the enterprise. Whether you sell cars or clothes, entertainment or detergent, your business architecture is likely indistinguishable from your technology architecture.

ServiceNow’s critical role in today’s HR tech market

The HR technology market is massive. More than $80bn per year is spent on tools to hire, pay, manage, develop and support employees around the world.

Platforms that deliver value through employee engagement

Over the last 18 months we have seen the constant rise in the industry narrative from the SaaS cloud platform providers regarding the importance of delivering ‘experiences that matter’.