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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software

• 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

• November 25, 2021 25 Nov'21

  Post Office supported 1999 law change that eased prosecutions using computer evidence

  The Post Office made clear its support for a change in UK law regarding computer evidence that was making prosecution 'onerous' - a change which later helped to wrongfully convict subpostmasters

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  Six more former subpostmasters have convictions overturned

  A total number of 65 subpostmasters have now had criminal convictions overturned in Post Office Horizon scandal

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  What’s up with Wotsits, Quavers and Monster Munch?

  IT failure leads to shortages of popular UK crisps on supermarket shelves resulting in extraordinary price hikes on eBay

• November 05, 2021 05 Nov'21

  Petrol station retailer EG Group opts for Rise with SAP to fuel growth

  EG Group, a petrol station and food retailer, is looking to improve its operations with a move to Rise with SAP on an SAP private cloud alongside an implementation of the SuccessFactors HR system

• November 04, 2021 04 Nov'21

  Rise with SAP attracts 11% interest from SAP customers

  Research from the UK & Ireland SAP User Group has found only 11% of members plan to use SAP’s Rise with SAP business transformation as a service offering

• October 20, 2021 20 Oct'21

  Oracle NetSuite embeds HSBC corporate banking services into ERP

  Oracle Netsuite integrates HSBC corporate banking services into its latest software

• October 13, 2021 13 Oct'21

  Modern SaaS shifts core ERP architectures

  There are numerous ways to achieve the same result. Salesforce, Microsoft and Microsoft offer a different way to consider enterprise systems

• August 29, 2021 29 Aug'21

  Mainland Chinese businesses lead tech adoption in APAC

  Chinese firms are more likely than others in Asia-Pacific to tap on artificial intelligence and business intelligence among other technologies to drive innovation

• August 24, 2021 24 Aug'21

  Inchcape picks Rise with SAP on Google Cloud to motor on digital

  Auto sector company Inchcape has chosen SAP’s Rise service on Google Cloud to drive forward its digital transformation programme

• August 18, 2021 18 Aug'21

  Thames Valley Police drops ERP system after spending £14m

  Thames Valley Police exits tri-force programme to develop new enterprise resource planning software for the police

• August 12, 2021 12 Aug'21

  Same-day delivery firm CitySprint fields Salesforce for customers

  Same-day delivery specialist CitySprint uses Salesforce across its contact management, sales and marketing teams

• August 05, 2021 05 Aug'21

  SAP customers more alert to internal than external threats

  SAP customers are more concerned by insider threats than by external attacks, according to a report. And yet the average SAP customer has around 2,500 vulnerabilities within their customised SAP code

• August 05, 2021 05 Aug'21

  Unit4 doubles down on APAC business

  Supplier of mid-market ERP systems Unit4 is investing in a research and development centre in Jakarta as part of efforts to win market share from established players

• August 02, 2021 02 Aug'21

  Building supply chain resilience with cloud ERP

  Vallen Asia’s cloud enterprise resource planning system has enabled it to scale its operations across the region and made its supply chain operations more resilient amid the pandemic

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  SAP Q2 2021: revenue down 1%, 600 new S/4 Hana signups

  SAP has reported second-quarter 2021 revenue of €6.669bn, down 1% on the same year-ago quarter. Cloud revenue has increased by 11% to €2.276bn, just over one-third of the total, and 250 customers claimed for new Rise with SAP package in the quarter

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  Government shares vision for digitised energy system as it pursues net-zero emissions target

  Strategy is geared towards readying the UK energy system for the transition from fossil fuels to renewable power through digital transformation

• July 19, 2021 19 Jul'21

  SAP invests €250m in UK economy

  Investment includes a new, UK-based cloud service, two new offices, and a beefing up of SAP’s apprenticeship and internship programmes

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Oracle’s Miranda advances customer wins against SAP for cloud applications suite

  Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of applications development for Oracle globally, is showcasing three US customer wins against SAP at the supplier’s quarterly Oracle Live event

• July 08, 2021 08 Jul'21

  IT and business services spending bounces to new heights

  Second-quarter results reveal IT and business services spending at a new high, in stark contrast to the Covid-19-hit quarter a year ago

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  SAP claims ‘huge momentum’ for Rise in APAC

  A top SAP executive claims the region is leading the way in the ‘Rise with SAP’ cloud transformation programme which has been bolstered with modular cloud enterprise resource planning offerings

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  Triggered dormant bug sees Fastly CDN cut to the quick

  Cloud provider acts quickly to restore content delivery network after software bug disrupts service for major firms spanning media, e-commerce and government websites, including Amazon, The Guardian and Gov.uk

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  Cisco reveals new Webex to power ‘inclusive’ future of work

  Collaboration suite has new look and feel, and supports hybrid work collaboration at what is claimed to be 40% lower cost than à-la-carte systems

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Sapphire 2021: Klein vaunts rebooted Ariba business network as sustainability driver

  At the virtual Sapphire 2021 conference, SAP CEO Christian Klein trumpeted the supplier’s procurement network, Ariba, as the core of a revamped global engine for promoting sustainable economic growth

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  BCS demands reform to rules on computer evidence following Post Office Horizon scandal revelations

  Professional IT body wants changes to how computer evidence is used in court in the wake of the Post Office case

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Engineering firm Briggs of Burton maps global expansion with SAP’s Rise service

  Briggs of Burton, an engineering firm that makes hygienic equipment for drinks, food and pharmaceutical companies, has chosen SAP’s Rise service to guide its global expansion, initially in China

• May 07, 2021 07 May'21

  Monmouthshire County Council digitises HR with Zellis cloud

  Monmouthshire County Council is using a cloud HR system from Zellis as part of its digital transformation programme, aimed at being lean and agile

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Post Office CEO either knew what was going on in Horizon scandal, or was ‘asleep at the wheel’

  Post Office IT scandal CEO has no excuse for her inaction in preventing the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history, says Criminal Cases Review Commission chairperson

• April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

  Microsoft results get a pandemic jab

  Covid-19 has stimulated businesses to digitise more, and this is reflected in Microsoft’s latest results

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Flexible CIOs gain friends in finance

  The pandemic has shown the value of IT to business leaders. Chief financial officers are looking for quick IT investment returns

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  SAP Q1 2021: Revenue nudges up 2% year-on-year, S/4 adoption up 2.5% on prior quarter

  SAP has reported first quarter 2021 revenue of €6.35bn, up 2% on the same year-ago quarter. Cloud revenue has increased by 1% year-on-year, and S/4 adoption is up 2.5% on the previous quarter

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  Post-Covid digital transformation requires ERP innovation

  As businesses begin on the road to recovery, they will face a choice: modernise their core ERP or build new services around a legacy core

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  Winemaker racks Pure all-NVMe all-flash for rapid SAP response

  Concha Y Toro also pocketed a 35% saving in storage costs following a move from as-a-service storage provision to Pure Storage FlashArray//X all-flash hardware

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Drax partners with Solace to manage biomass supply chain

  Event-based IT architecture helps energy provider optimise its biomass supply chain and drive greater efficiencies, but questions remain about the fundamental sustainability of biomass as an alternative to coal

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Microsoft enters the Dragon’s den with Nuance acquisition

  The $19bn acquisition of Nuance firmly plants Microsoft at the forefront of voice recognition. The stage is set to combine voice with artificial intelligence

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Unpatched SAP applications are target-rich ground for hackers

  Report from SAP and cyber threat research company Onapsis warns that hackers are attacking mission-critical SAP business applications that contain unpatched vulnerabilities

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  How far has open banking come in Europe?

  Open banking is a relatively new concept, having come into effect in Europe only in the last couple of years. So what is the state of play?

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Sime Darby ups ante in service management

  Sime Darby Industrial’s inService Suite has returned more than 100,000 hours to the company in a digitisation initiative that has improved efficiency and customer engagement

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Covid-torn supply chains speed cloud adoption, says Oracle’s Miranda

  Second wave of pandemic has seen some Oracle customers speed up adoption and others attend to some enterprise software housekeeping

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Prime minister says people should be held to account for Post Office IT scandal

  Boris Johnson agrees with MP that those responsible for the Post Office Horizon scandal should be brought to book

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Why collaboration is the next driver in enterprise software

  Use of enterprise collaboration tools has exploded during the pandemic. Now they are expanding their remit into the realm of enterprise systems

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Home Office completes transfer of all business apps to Oracle Cloud

  Home Office has completed its deployment of Oracle’s Cloud Applications suite to all its functions across 35,000 staff, ahead of other government departments

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  Oracle Q3, 2020-21: Revenue growth of 3% backdrop to Ellison attack on SAP

  Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison launches competitive attack on SAP as Oracle’s third-quarter results show revenue growth of 3%

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  IFS ramps up single-platform cloud delivery as it bids ERP adieu

  Business applications supplier shifts fundamentally to cloud infrastructure while sloughing off enterprise resource planning as it rebrands

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  How SAP is riding the rising tide of cloud

  SAP’s newly minted president for Asia-Pacific and Japan talks up the company’s cloud traction and what is being done to ease the transition to S/4 Hana