Opinion

Opinion

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software

• Succession in the world of ERP

  Succession planning is not a simple business, especially in the age of the Great Resignation  Continue Reading

• Why it makes sense to use best-of-breed SaaS to power a business strategy

  A hybrid multicloud model is playing an ever greater role as the IT platform of choice in driving a business-first strategy  Continue Reading

• ERP: Join the dots faster with ready-made ecosystems

  Pre-integrated IT has a long and honourable history, and it has a role to play in the mesh that makes up cloud-native enterprise systems  Continue Reading

• ERP and the cloud

  Work to your agenda – not someone else’s  Continue Reading

• Cloud enterprise applications need great developer tools too

  Developer and quality assurance tools play an important role in safeguarding cloud enterprise applications from disruption  Continue Reading

• A trial relying on computer evidence should start with a trial of the computer evidence

  Learning from the Post Office Horizon scandal - the most widespread miscarriage of justice in recent British legal history  Continue Reading

• Ready for Oracle E-Business Release 12.2 by new year 2022?

  Date for the end of Premier Support for Release 12.1 of Oracle E-Business Suite is 31 December 2021  Continue Reading

• Watching me, watching you – challenging the rise of digital surveillance at work

  Unprecedented levels of digital monitoring at work is embedding a culture of surveillance, despite workers’ opposition to the practices, says Prospect Union  Continue Reading

• Why automation isn’t always an improvement

  Automation can help organisations run more efficiently, but only if the most inefficient steps in a business process are fixed first  Continue Reading

• Using AI to automate business processes and create revenue streams

  We look at how a utility company in Australia is using artificial intelligence to automate at scale, improve the planet and reshape the Australian energy market  Continue Reading

• Three steps to harden supply chains

  The coronavirus has shone a spotlight on the fragility of modern supply chains and the risk of having a single point of failure  Continue Reading

• The new age of supply chains post-Covid

  Supply chain managers have been predicting the future for years. Now manufacturers are relying on insights to inform their decision-making  Continue Reading

• Gartner: Are the real cloud wars about to begin?

  In 2017, the big cloud providers were focused on competing on infrastructure as a service, but the shift to platforms is shaking up the market  Continue Reading

• Audit services – the next frontier for tech giants?

  As data analytics, AI and automation technology advance, could we be about to see technology firms take on some of the responsibilities of the big financial audit firms?  Continue Reading

• Driving digitisation: open standards in process automation

  Organisations often can’t take advantage of advances in digital technology due to the lack of interoperability in their IT systems in different facilities, but open standards promise a way forward  Continue Reading

• How to make the most of your SAP licences

  There is no point in paying for something you never use – or worse, using the wrong licence. Doing the bare minimum for SAP licence management is not enough  Continue Reading

• How AI is disrupting the role of call centres and call centre staff

  Artificial intelligence could eliminate many white-collar jobs in coming decades. Its effects are already being felt in the call centre industry, but there is still no substitute for the human touch  Continue Reading

• Define a software delivery strategy for business innovation – four key steps

  As software takes a central role in modern business models, application delivery capability has become the key enabler of disruption  Continue Reading