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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software

• December 16, 2022 16 Dec'22

  CIO interview: Steve Capper, CIO, SNC-Lavalin

  Engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin has consolidated its global datacentre estate and implemented private cloud to support the unique demands of its business

• December 07, 2022 07 Dec'22

  Vingroup to run SAP systems on Google Cloud

  The Vietnam conglomerate and EV maker is planning to migrate all its SAP systems to Google Cloud in a move that is expected to reap cost savings and improve product quality

• December 02, 2022 02 Dec'22

  Post Office boosted its ‘coffers’ as Horizon system threw up unexplained shortfalls, inquiry told

  The Post Office was ‘keen’ to make subpostmasters cover unexplained accounting shortfall as its business struggled, public inquiry hears

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  Financial benefits of government’s shared services strategy remain unclear, says NAO

  Cabinet Office needs to do more to avoid previous failings, as several barriers remain to a successful implementation of the strategy to deliver shared back-office services for government, according to National Audit Office report

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Oracle’s Steve Miranda on the value of turning inside out

  In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed the supplier’s opening out and its intensification of an industry cloud approach, signally with healthcare

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Microsoft CEO outlines ‘digital imperatives’

  Organisations that want to do more with less will have to think deeply about digital imperatives such as the shift to cloud and artificial intelligence, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  SAP Build launched at TechEd to appeal to business user developers

  SAP is launching a low-code platform, SAP Build, aimed squarely at line of business users, at its TechEd conference in Las Vegas. Build is part of the supplier’s Business Technology Platform

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Russia risks shortage of PCs and software

  Russian consumers and businesses could face a shortage of IT equipment including PCs and software

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  SAP Q3 2022: revenue up 15%, Ukraine war impact €250m

  SAP has announced third-quarter 2022 revenue of more than €7.8bn, up 15% year on year, with cloud revenue at 42%

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  HSBC chooses Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer service to underpin digital

  Bank selects Oracle’s Cloud@Customer service to upgrade and migrate some of its database systems as part of its digital transformation

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Dr Martens goes feetfirst into cloud-to-cloud backup

  Iconic bootmaker laces up for a strategy to move all applications to the cloud, beginning with cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 apps plus on-site VMware operations

• September 06, 2022 06 Sep'22

  How the Australian Red Cross coped with a donation surge

  The Australian Red Cross adopted Boomi’s integration platform to manage the surge in donations in response to the floods in New South Wales and Queensland earlier this year

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Crown Commercial Service opens door to Salesforce

  The Crown Commercial Service has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with Salesforce to facilitate public sector access to the supplier’s products and services, including Tableau, Slack and Mulesoft

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Waterstones’ supply chain disrupted in Blue Yonder implementation

  Bookseller Waterstones is recovering from the effects of a Blue Yonder implementation that has seen authors and readers up in arms

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Lambeth maps future with cloud applications

  With its funding dramatically cut, Lambeth Council has turned to cloud delivery of its business applications to have a simpler technology stack and be nimbler in delivering services to its 330,000 population

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  APAC organisations renew focus on ERP

  Organisations in Asia-Pacific are looking to renew their enterprise resource planning systems as they emerge from the throes of the pandemic

• July 05, 2022 05 Jul'22

  Legacy UK customs system stops accepting registration requests

  HMRC closes new applications to legacy customs system as its shutdown nears

• June 27, 2022 27 Jun'22

  Manchester Airports Group taps Rise with SAP service to speed recovery

  Manchester Airports Group, which includes London Stansted and East Midlands as well as Manchester, has chosen SAP’s Rise package, on AWS, as it seeks to ‘build back smarter’ post-pandemic

• June 17, 2022 17 Jun'22

  MoD sets out strategy to develop military AI with private sector

  The UK Ministry of Defence has outlined its intention to work closely with the private sector to develop and deploy a range of artificial intelligence-powered technologies, committing to ‘lawful and ethical AI use’

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  CIO interview: Yiannis Levantis aims at total quality for Unipart IT

  Unipart has a heritage in quality manufacturing and services that CIO Yiannis Levantis is building on, in part by harnessing SAP’s cloud-based business transformation service Rise

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Software house Mega achieves holistic SaaS security with Synopsys

  Mega International, a supplier of IT management software, turned to Synopsys’s Coverity and Black Duck products to reassure both itself and its customers that its software-as-a-service offerings were built to the best possible security standards

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  Heineken puts employees in charge of their own careers with new HR system

  According to Sanne Noordam, head of SAP SuccessFactors in the Netherlands, companies need to look and listen more closely to the needs of employees in order to attract and retain them

• May 27, 2022 27 May'22

  NatWest replacing multiple customer service systems

  NatWest Bank puts customer service tools on a single platform using Microsoft Dynamics 365

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Sapphire 2022: Klein majors on sustainability and supply chain resilience

  At SAP’s first in-person Sapphire customer conference in three years, CEO Christian Klein and his top team revisited the themes of sustainability and supply chain resilience, which were prominent in 2020 and 2021

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  SAP ‘optimistic’ about S/4 Hana in APAC

  A top SAP executive is confident that more of its customers in Asia-Pacific will adopt S/4 Hana this year, as the company shores up integration of its ERP software with other business applications

• May 06, 2022 06 May'22

  How Rimini Street is growing its footprint in ASEAN

  Rimini Street is expanding its reach in ASEAN as more companies, such as Malaysian carmaker Proton, look for cheaper software maintenance options

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  Intellectual property theft operation attributed to Winnti group

  Winnti conducted a prolonged cyber espionage campaign that went undetected for years, allowing it to exfiltrate massive amounts of corporate data and intellectual property

• April 22, 2022 22 Apr'22

  SAP Q1 2022: Revenue up 11%, Ukraine war impact projected to be €300m

  SAP has announced first-quarter revenue of more than €7.1bn, and the Ukraine war is projected to have a €300m impact for 2022

• April 22, 2022 22 Apr'22

  Asda adopts Workday as part of digital transformation

  As Asda undergoes a digital transformation as part of its separation from Walmart, the supermarket has adopted Workday to manage its 140,000 employees

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Multi-ERP systems are on the menu for SAP implementations

  Organisations using SAP may build future ERP systems from composable building blocks from multiple software providers

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Oracle vaunts ME as employee experience platform geared to post-crisis workforce realities

  Oracle has launched an employee experience platform, dubbed ME, said to be designed for post-Covid, individualistic pandemic workforce trends

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  UKISUG: Big majority of SAP users beset by data problems in migrating to S/4 Hana

  In a survey prior to its Analytics Symposium, the UK & Ireland SAP User Group finds 61% of SAP customers say data management issues are slowing down process automation and impeding moves to S/4 Hana

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Why integration and automation are two sides of the same coin

  Workato’s regional leader explains why integration and automation are intertwined and how the company is addressing the Asia-Pacific market

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  Unipart maps way ahead with Rise with SAP service

  Unipart has chosen the Rise with SAP S/4 Hana-based service as it seeks to develop further the systems integration side of its business

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  Recognising APAC’s trailblazers in digital transformation

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2022

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Driving new revenue with data insights

  GLS Group beefed up its enterprise resource planning system to deliver data insights that support real-time decision making and drive new revenue

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  SAP to invest S$250m in Singapore innovation lab

  New lab will double SAP’s engineering workforce in Singapore by 2025 and help to shape the company’s product development roadmap

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  TCS doubles down on innovation and talent in Australia

  Indian IT service provider TCS has opened an innovation centre in Sydney and is investing in local talent to meet the digital transformation needs of Australian organisations

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  India’s Mahindra Group makes cloud move

  The Indian conglomerate will migrate SAP S/4 Hana and its data warehouse to Google Cloud and build up its DevOps capabilities

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Dutch software engineers join campaign for research funding

  Software researchers from all over Europe are sounding the alarm: to maintain a strong international competitive position, more financial resources must be committed to software research

• January 27, 2022 27 Jan'22

  SAP full-year 2021: Revenue nudges up 1%, cloud growth up 17%

  SAP has announced a 2% rise in full-year 2021 revenue, to just under €28bn, while S/4 Hana customer base increased by 18% to 18,800

• January 24, 2022 24 Jan'22

  Heathrow Airport takes to the cloud with Oracle Fusion Applications

  Airport has implemented a full spread of Oracle Cloud Applications, including ERP and HCM, as it looks to recover from the pandemic

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  Twinings selects Rise with SAP to simplify its business brew

  Tea company Twinings Ovaltine has chosen SAP’s Rise subscription service to simplify its relationship with the supplier and focus on future growth

• December 31, 2021 31 Dec'21

  Top 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2021

  The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team began the year discussing the online fallout from the storming of the White House and finished it discussing IT and climate change, touching on bees and datacentres along the way

• December 29, 2021 29 Dec'21

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2021

  2021 saw enterprise software suppliers and users envisaging a nimbler future, beyond the Covid pandemic, with more loosely coupled ERP systems, more flexible business processes, and a renewed digital-first focus on customers

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Asda follows EG Group sibling in selection of Rise with SAP

  Retailer is looking to improve the agility of its operations in the cloud with a move to Rise with SAP on Microsoft Azure, and to streamline its procurement with SAP Ariba

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  IT Priorities 2022: ERP gets back on the horse

  Automation and going cloud-first have gained significant interest for enterprise software and data management investment in the UK, according to the annual TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT Priorities 2022 survey

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  IT Priorities 2022: IT a focus for business recovery

  The pandemic has accelerated IT initiatives – we look at what impact this will have on the CIO agenda for 2022

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  UKISUG 2021: S/4 Hana skills deficit and legacy custom code hamper migration

  On the opening day of its 2021 conference, the UK and Ireland SAP User Group unveils member research showing concerns that an S/4 Hana skills deficit and a surfeit of legacy customisation is retarding migration to the Hana-based ERP

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  NetSuite CEO Goldberg: Growth companies nimble for post-Covid normality

  Evan Goldberg, executive vice president of Oracle NetSuite, reflects on the post-Covid-19 pandemic economy through the prism of the Oracle-owned SaaS company