6 ERP trends for 2018
ERP systems are essential to enterprise operations. Yet this core organizational workhorse may not get as much attention as your other systems. That’s a mistake, as significant opportunities to...
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Walmart, Sam’s Club tell suppliers to get on blockchain network
Walmart and Sam's Club are calling on suppliers of leafy green vegetables to upload their produce data to a corporate blockchain ledger within a year to enable end-to-end traceability of vegetables...
View ArticleSAP on Azure vies with Salesforce on AWS to break data out of silos
The good news: Six of the biggest companies in IT are setting out to eliminate the silos in which enterprises store customer data.The bad news? They're doing it in two different ways, and both ways...
View ArticleWhat is inventory management? A system for streamlining operations
What is an inventory management system? An inventory management system tracks purchases, keeps count of goods and supplies in stock, and reorders supplies when levels get low. More sophisticated...
View ArticleIntuit adds AI, enterprise features to QuickBooks online
Intuit is aiming for the mid-market with an extension of its QuickBooks Online financial management tool that it hopes will let it take business away from the likes of Microsoft, Sage and Oracle.It's...
View ArticleBlockchain to generate more than $10.6B in revenue by 2023
Driven mainly by financial technology (fintech) investments, blockchain has seen a fast uptick in adoption for application development and pilot tests in a number of industries and will generate more...
View ArticleMoving ERP to the cloud? Expect delays
Almost two-thirds of businesses are planning to migrate an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to the cloud or are already doing so, despite many of them having concerns about moving sensitive...
View ArticleNetSuite refines focus on SMBs facing growth challenges
Cloud technology and the increasing pace of globalization allow small and mid-size businesses to scale faster than ever, but also puts them in a bind. How do they take advantage of opportunities to...
View ArticleGartner: Cloud, enterprise software to drive global IT spending increase
Spending on enterprise software, particularly cloud services and applications, is expected to grow faster than any other category of IT this year, fueling an overall increase in global spending on...
View ArticleIBM, Chainyard unveil blockchain-based 'Trust Your Supplier' network
IBM and blockchain consultancy Chainyard today announced a new permissioned blockchain-based network designed to improve supplier validation, onboarding and life cycle information management.Along...
View ArticleOracle goes all in on cloud automation
Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco this week will spotlight the company going big on conversational user interfaces and digital assistants as part of a broader push to incorporate AI technologies,...
View ArticleHow pharma will soon use blockchain to track your drugs
The pharmaceutical industry in the U.S. is under the regulatory gun to bolster its ability to accurately track and trace the drugs it manufactures and ships to store shelves and healthcare...
View Article9 key takeaways from SAP TechEd Las Vegas
CTO Juergen Mueller outlined a series of improvements to the company’s software platform at SAP TechEd Las Vegas, the first of three big customer conferences the company will hold in as many months.At...
View ArticleSAP promises to support S/4HANA through 2040
SAP is taking a carrot-and-stick approach to moving customers from its legacy ERP software, Business Suite 7, to its newer S/4HANA platform.The carrot is a bold promise to support S/4HANA at least...
View ArticleIBM puts Power Systems in SAP’s cloud
SAP is now hosting IBM’s latest Power Systems servers in its own data centers, as part of its HANA Enterprise Cloud managed offering. The move introduces a new hosting option for enterprises running...
View ArticleSAP drops co-CEO, lowers revenue forecast in face of COVID-19 pandemic
SAP remained profitable in the first quarter, with the COVID-19 pandemic only beginning to hit cloud bookings and software license sales in the last two weeks of March, executives said in a call to...
View ArticleInstall latest SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise patches, experts urge
In May, SAP announced several security fixes for its Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database product, which thousands of enterprises worldwide use. The researchers who discovered and reported the...
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