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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Vodafone builds smart enterprise on SAP S/4 Hana

  Holger Grewe, group head of corporate transformation, and Ignacio Garcia, CIO corporate systems, at Vodafone, convey how SAP S/4 Hana has been purposely implemented as part of an ongoing smart enterprise transformation

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19

  Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  IFS CEO Darren Roos: Customer investment in cloud and digital has held up during Covid

  Business applications supplier’s chief executive tells Computer Weekly that business has been surprisingly good during the coronavirus crisis

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Google Cloud announces Grace Hopper subsea cable

  IT giant connects up first new undersea cable of its kind since 2003 to connect UK, US and Spain

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  HSBC chooses AWS for public cloud business operations

  HSBC will use a cloud platform from Amazon Web Services across its business operations to accelerate its public cloud use

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  Recon vulnerability puts thousands of SAP customers at risk

  Users of multiple SAP products including S4/HANA should apply the security update as soon as possible to protect their systems

• July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20

  How SingEx is bracing itself for disruption

  Singapore’s SingEx started its digital transformation journey a few years ago and has already pivoted its approach to cope with new challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Zoom Cloud Meetings grabs mobile market as mobile app usage soars in second quarter

  April 2020 sees a monthly all-time high of over 200 billion hours spent using mobile apps worldwide, with video-conferencing continuing its impressive run

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Oracle fleshes out Cloud@Customer with public cloud services for use in customer datacentres

  Oracle has enhanced its Cloud@Customer service with capabilities derived from its recent raft of public cloud datacentres

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  CBI: Government must take steps to drive SME business innovation

  The coronavirus pandemic has shown how much can be achieved in a short period with a strong partnership between government and industry – and this needs to continue

• June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20

  Why cross-business collaboration needs data bridges

  Successful businesses have cracked internal collaboration, according to Accenture. They also use applications that can share data

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  SAP sharpens vertical focus with Industry Cloud

  SAP partners will be able to design, build, test and validate their industry-specific offerings with a new business process and technology platform

• June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20

  NTT Data and LeapThought eye Singapore’s construction sector

  Japan’s NTT Data and New Zealand’s LeapThought have come together to support the digitalisation efforts of Singapore’s construction industry

• June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20

  Oracle full-year results: 1% revenue decline as Covid-19 bites

  Oracle sees 1% decline in full year-on-year 2019-20 revenue, and a 6% drop in its fourth quarter, but takes comfort from OCI Zoom win in pandemic crisis

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  Sapphire 2020: Christian Klein steps back from products to push ‘intelligent enterprise’ resilience

  Christian Klein used his first Sapphire keynote as CEO of SAP to underline the supplier’s support for supply chain resiliency and automation against Covid-19 pandemic and climate change backcloths

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Bankers say artificial intelligence will separate winners and losers

  The application of artificial intelligence at banks will be the difference between the ones that succeed and the ones that fail in the coming years

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Businesses develop apps quickly to manage disruption of Covid-19

  Healthcare companies, insurers, government agencies and big tech companies have used technology from Pegasystems to develop apps to manage the disruption caused by coronavirus

• May 15, 2020 15 May'20

  Sweden’s Preem puts automation to the test

  Preem is automating software testing as part of a wider plan that includes the introduction of robotic process automation software

• May 04, 2020 04 May'20

  SAP S/4 Hana projects seem set to repeat security missteps

  Management consultancy Turnkey’s managing director, Richard Hunt, cautions SAP customers not to repeat errors of the past by making security an expensive afterthought

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  Klein takes sole command of SAP as Q1 results show Covid impact

  As Christian Klein becomes sole chief executive officer, SAP announces total revenue of €6.521bn for the first quarter, up 7% on Q1 2019

• April 14, 2020 14 Apr'20

  SAP preliminary Q1 2020 results: Covid-19 takes a bite as in-person events cancelled

  The coronavirus public health crisis has hit SAP’s first quarter, according to its preliminary financial results statement

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  Employee computing emissions measured by only one-third of enterprises, Citrix research suggests

  Many large companies in the UK are not measuring the greenhouse gas emissions from employee computing, with just a quarter of managers viewing IT sustainability as a top priority for their organisation

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Post Office executives used ‘grotesque predatory capitalism’ throughout Horizon IT scandal

  Labour MP Karl Turner tells Computer Weekly that the Post Office Horizon scandal is the most grotesque version of predatory capitalism he has ever seen

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Inside Oracle’s cloud strategy

  Oracle may be late to the cloud infrastructure and platform game, but it believes it has what it takes to carve out a bigger slice of the Asia-Pacific’s cloud market

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India

  Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: UK business applications investment in AI gathers steam

  Artificial intelligence intensifies as an investment area for UK IT buyers, while cloud delivery is coming to ERP as well as other applications

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  IT Priorities 2020: ASEAN firms on the frontline of digital transformation

  Southeast Asian companies plan to spend more on infrastructure and cyber security, but the growth in IT budgets appears to be slowing down

• February 23, 2020 23 Feb'20

  Australian government inks sourcing deal with Rimini Street

  The whole-of-government agreement will provide Australian government agencies with easier and cheaper access to third-party software support

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Oracle execs bullish against SAP on cloud applications ground

  Senior Oracle executives express confidence in putative cloud-based competitive advantage against SAP and other rivals before and during London Open World conference

• February 09, 2020 09 Feb'20

  Australian government to roll out SAP S/4 Hana

  Australia’s finance department earmarks S/4 Hana as its ERP system to provide common financial and HR services across government

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  SAP gives ECC users a five-year reprieve

  Standard support is being extended to 2027, while SAP will continue to offer extended support until 2030, in a bid to get businesses to migrate to S/4 Hana

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  Microsoft earnings get a lift from Windows 7 extended security

  Azure powers Microsoft’s Q2 2020 earnings, but the company is not only seeing a boost from Windows 365, but also extended Windows 7 support

• January 16, 2020 16 Jan'20

  CIO interview: Merck Healthcare’s Alessandro da Luca on supply chain automation era

  The CIO of Merck Healthcare, Alessandro da Luca, talks about how his organisation has automated its supply chain using machine learning software from Aera

• December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2019

  The steady incursion of artificial intelligence into enterprise software was a major theme behind Computer Weekly’s in-depth stories in this area in 2019

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  London mayor Sadiq Khan opens Salesforce’s Ohana floor

  Opening coincides with Salesforce announcing $1.25m funding for education charity Ark and a Pathfinder training programme

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  UKISUG 2019: Qualtrics unknown to 43% of SAP customers

  On the opening day of its annual conference, the UK and Ireland SAP User Group unveils member research showing scant awareness of Qualtrics, and continuing slow adoption of S/4 Hana

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  QD Stores deploys SAP Fiori as pathway to possible S/4 Hana adoption

  East Anglia-based discount retailer uses design thinking to develop SAP Fiori Screen Personas to enhance ECC6 instance

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Obama at Dreamforce 2019: Leaders orchestrate the conversation

  Former US president Barack Obama spoke in a fireside chat with Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff at Dreamforce 2019. He cautioned on the dangers of the information age and offered some advice for business leaders

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Finland’s ministry of transport floats tech-enabled four-day week

  Government department says four-day working week is made possible by technologies such as artificial intelligence

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  TSB programme pulled apart in report on IT meltdown

  City law firm tears into TSB’s management of botched core banking platform migration

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Dreamforce 19: Salesforce promotes enhanced MuleSoft data integration

  SaaS CRM supplier dubs enhancements to its acquired MuleSoft integration software “Customer 360” on the eve of its annual Dreamforce event in San Francisco

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Businesses move key applications off public cloud to save costs

  A new study has shown that while many enterprises are able to keep public cloud costs under control, spending can quickly escalate

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Industry questions viability of Labour plan to offer free full-fibre broadband to all UK homes

  Uproar in tech sector as Labour proposes to part-nationalise BT and offer free full-fibre broadband to all individuals and businesses by 2030 if successful in General Election

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Machine learning will have bigger impact than cloud

  Workday’s vice-chairman explains how machine learning can help employees become more effective, and hints at the company’s moves beyond finance and HR software

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Businesses at risk as mainframe skills die out

  Most businesses that are heavily reliant on mainframes fear a shrinking skills pool

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  Unit4 CEO Mike Ettling: enterprise customers won’t pay extra for AI

  Mike Ettling, chief executive, Unit4, spoke to Computer Weekly at the Unleash HR conference in Paris about ERP trends, and how he is positioning the firm he started running this year

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  SAP cloud revenue boosted by Microsoft deal

  New contract with Microsoft will see Azure become the preferred hosting platform for ECC to SAP S/4 Hana cloud migrations

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Mark Hurd, co-CEO of Oracle, has died

  The software giant announced a leave of absence for Hurd only last month, while he underwent treatment for undisclosed health problems

• October 11, 2019 11 Oct'19

  SAP CEO Bill McDermott steps down

  McDermott will be replaced by SAP board members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  John Lewis Partnership sells its automation to business

  The John Lewis Partnership will expand its use of automation technology as its early projects bear fruit