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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software

• September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17

  Oracle 2017-18 Q1 results: Cloud revenue jumps by 51%

  Oracle’s first quarter 2017-18 results show jump in cloud revenue of 51%, boosted by NetSuite acquisition. Executives continue to be bullish on cloud growth, and the AI makeover of core database is flagged

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Home Office agrees back-office transformation deal

  The Home Office is moving more of its back-office processes into the cloud

• August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17

  McDonald’s selects Capgemini to help it drive digital customer services

  Fast-food chain decides to outsource its digital developments globally to French IT services giant

• August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17

  Danske Bank taps into the cognitive capabilities of IBM Watson

  Danish bank is using IBM Watson as part of a major IT outsourcing deal

• August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17

  SAP Ariba gaining ground in APAC

  Companies like Woolworths and DuluxGroup in Australia are using the cloud-based service to reduce procurement costs and risks

• August 07, 2017 07 Aug'17

  TSG 1899 Hoffenheim gets 'faster in the head' with SAP analytics

  TSG 1899 Hoffenheim has been using SAP’s Hana database and applications to speed up players mentally, as well as using SAP Hybris to sell shirts

• August 02, 2017 02 Aug'17

  Fruit firm W B Chambers uses IFS suite to grow business

  W B Chambers, a Kentish fruit farm, has chosen IFS to support its business growth and to guard against the labour pool uncertainties of Brexit

• June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  Oracle 2016-17 results: cloud revenue up 60%, overall growth 2%

  Oracle’s full-year and fourth quarter results for fiscal year 2016-17 indicate 2% growth in overall revenue, with cloud representing 12% of total. Executives are once again bullish on cloud ERP growth prospects

• June 21, 2017 21 Jun'17

  The human apprentices behind robotic automation

  IT apprentices are helping large businesses transform their back-office processes through software robots

• June 20, 2017 20 Jun'17

  NTT Docomo turns to SAP Hana to boost customer experience

  Japanese telco NTT Docomo rolls out in-memory database in eight months to analyse data from retail outlets and customer call centres in a bid to improve service levels

• June 16, 2017 16 Jun'17

  Greggs bakes in business change programme with SAP

  UK baker and food-to-go retailer says it has significantly advanced its business change programme with a full panoply of SAP software

• May 24, 2017 24 May'17

  SAP aligns with Saudi Arabia’s IT transformation agenda

  Global software giant SAP sees an opportunity for its wide portfolio in Saudi Arabia as the Middle Eastern country transforms

• May 17, 2017 17 May'17

  SAP wants to be cloud leader in APAC by 2020

  The business software supplier expects its cloud portfolio to contribute at least a third of its revenues in a region that includes key markets such as Australia, Japan and Southeast Asia

• May 17, 2017 17 May'17

  Sapphire 2017: McDermott declares SAP indirect licensing policy change

  At SAP’s annual Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida, CEO Bill McDermott ruled out charging for static read access from third-party systems, after recent controversy

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  Tech packages to help Singapore SMEs go digital

  Small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore can now take advantage of a slew of pre-approved IT products to stay competitive

• May 05, 2017 05 May'17

  SAP goes after world’s largest brewing company in $600m licence dispute

  Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev says it intends to defend “vigorously” against software licensing claims by SAP

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  How Dutch university quickly connected thousands of students to new learning management system

  Dutch university TU Delft is replacing its legacy learning management system after 17 years

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  How Oracle tackles licensing discrepancies

  The recent publication of court filings from a licence dispute case shows a catalogue of 'damaging' techniques the supplier used following an audit

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Serco uses HR technology to cut recruitment bill

  International outsourced services supplier Serco is investing in HR recruitment technology to help it hire 15,000 to 20,000 people a year

• March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17

  Centrica eliminates more than 20 IT systems after replacing SAP with cloud HR technology

  Energy and services company claims major savings in IT costs after moving its HR services to the cloud

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Santander bank to work with IBM developing mobile apps for staff

  Santander bank wants to make its staff more productive through mobile apps, which it will create alongside IBM

• February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17

  High Court rules for SAP, against Diageo in indirect licensing case

  Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database

• February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17

  Oracle executives claim more comprehensive reach for cloud business

  At a recent customer conference in London, US-based Oracle executives gave accounts of the supplier’s cloud business as becoming at once more enterprise and more mid-market

• February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

  SAP connects S/4 Hana in the cloud with ‘intelligent’ ERP

  SAP has announced an intensification of S/4 Hana cloud delivery, together with an infusion of its enterprise resource planning with artificial intelligence

• February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17

  McDonald’s in Saudi Arabia to support growth with SAP

  Fast food chain is using SAP software to help it better understand its customers and operations

• January 31, 2017 31 Jan'17

  SAP aims to clarify S/4 Hana, cloud apps roadmaps for customers

  The SAP board has launched an initiative to publish and clarify roadmaps, especially in respect of S/4 Hana and its cloud applications, and one product of this is a new technology choice tool

• January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

  Singapore and Indonesia stand out for IT spend in Apac banking sector

  Singapore is the top spender on IT for banking of all developed economies in the Apac region, while Indonesia has the fastest growth rate in IT spending

• January 04, 2017 04 Jan'17

  Pernod Ricard toasts better demand forecasting with Infor

  Drinks company Pernod Ricard, known for its Absolut, Malibu and Jameson tipples, has improved demand forecast accuracy with Infor software

• December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16

  Swedish Cider company upgrades to cloud ERP to keep up with growth

  Apple-based product manufacturer moves to an industry-specific ERP system in the cloud

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

  Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016

• November 25, 2016 25 Nov'16

  Boots SAP centre of expertise helps take back control

  Walgreens Boots Alliance has built an SAP centre of expertise to take back control of the strategic direction of its IT organisation from its previously outsourced structure

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  UK almost bottom of OECD pile for ICT investment

  The UK ranks low in terms of how much it invests in the ICT infrastructure as a proportion of GDP

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  Oracle consummates acquisition of NetSuite, eyes $1bn cloud revenue

  $9.3bn acquisition is in line with Oracle’s avowed move to cloud as a delivery mode for its business applications

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  Bangkok Airways takes customer service to the cloud

  Airline is the latest Southeast Asian organisation to harness cloud-based software to improve customer services, deploying the Oracle Service Cloud

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Bank IT spending to hit $241bn across four major global regions

  IT spending across four major economic regions will increase by around 4% in 2016, but Europe is the least certain

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  MoD becomes first tenant in Microsoft's UK Azure datacentre

  Microsoft’s UK Azure cloud is now fully operational, offering Azure cloud services and Office 365

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Tel Aviv Stock Exchange centralises functions with ERP

  The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has installed first ever ERP system. CIO Eldad Hershtig explains his strategic choices and implementation path

• May 26, 2016 26 May'16

  Healthtech brand Qardio adopts NetSuite OneWorld

  Qardio, a brand offering health technology devices, wanted an ERP system to deal with billing, accounting and taxes in different regions of the world

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  SuiteWorld 2016: The way retailers use ERP is shifting, taking on an external focus

  NetSuite manager for commerce products looks at how consumers are forcing the retail world towards an experience-led business models

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  Singapore online grocer RedMart uses cloud ERP to drive growth

  Online retailer RedMart turned to cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) when its existing system struggled to keep up with business growth

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Rolls-Royce cloud HR project will pay for itself in two years

  HR IT director Mark Judd explains how engineering and aerospace firm swapped ageing ERP and spreadsheets for a company-wide core HR system

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Oracle Q3 2016: cloud revenue grows, US currency strength takes toll

  SaaS and PaaS combined contributed $583m in third quarter, up 57% in US dollar terms, while IaaS was down 2% in dollars to $152m

• February 16, 2016 16 Feb'16

  Mobile apps could put an end to ‘hated’ staff appraisals

  Josh Bersin, founder of Bersin by Deloitte, reveals the top HR technology trends for 2016

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Workday ringfences support in Europe after Safe Harbour ruled unsafe

  US cloud HR and financial services provider reponds to Safe Harbour failure by ringfencing European data

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  How to offset Oracle costs when preparing a move to the cloud

  Savvy IT departments can mix and match support contracts as they negotiate with Oracle on a Fusion upgrade

• November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15

  SAP UK&I User Group Conference 2015: Newcastle University puts ERP on Hana

  Newcastle University has put enterprise resource planning and data warehouse data on SAP’s Hana platform in a proof of concept project

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Tech will turn HR into a ‘productivity department’

  HR technologies are moving away from managing staff in favour of helping them become more productive

• October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15

  Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Larry Ellison vaunts Oracle’s cloud services over rivals

  Larry Ellison promoted his company’s cloud services and berated rivals in his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  ServiceNow powers Royal Mail multi-sourcing

  As part of its £500m IT transformation, Royal Mail has deployed ServiceNow to manage new suppliers

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Financial services watchdog wastes money on Oracle licences

  The Financial Conduct Authority admits it has fallen victim to the complex nature of software licensing that dogs companies in the sector it serves