SAPinsider Magazine • 12th April 2024

Carrefour: Realizing retail revolution with AI

Carrefour is the eighth-largest retailer in the world by revenue, with almost 13,900 stores in over 30 countries and 335,000 collaborators globally. As Carrefour Belgium CTO Stijn Stabel says in one promotional video for the brand, the company can claim to “feed most of the world”

SAPinsider Magazine • 10th April 2024

Vitesco's Industry 4.0 Transformation

Transformation is everywhere, from the move to cloud, to AI augmentation, the changing nature of the hybrid workforce, and the development of Industry 4.0. Infused in all this change is a growing push towards better sustainability, on both the enterprise and customer-facing level. One major tenet behind

ERP Today • 23rd October 2023

Infor Innovations Day: It's RPA, Jim, but not as we know it

RPA – we all know about robotic process automation, the tech not being a unique offering along the lines of, say, GenAI. One SVP even copped to as much when discussing the latest updates to the vendor’s CloudSuite platform at this month’s Infor Innovations Day Nordics.

ERP Today • 8th October 2023

Gartner on why CFOs need inhuman accountants

Late September saw Gartner host its CFO & Finance Executive Conference in London, where in Westminster’s Park Plaza one could find floor stands and sessions from SAP and Workday with financial heads discussing all things tech, AI and financial related.

ERP Today • 3rd August 2023

"Smart" FSM: from SAP to Samsara, Apple to Android

Mobile applications have long been everywhere – but for field or off-site workers in physical operations, using connected devices such as smartphones or tablets is a relatively new concept.

ERP Today • 20th July 2023

Eviden: How Atos is living the EY dream

For those not in the know, French IT giant Atos is now two brands: Atos and Eviden. The latter, to be more exact, is referred to as Eviden, an Atos Company (with Eviden being the Latin for obvious). This new spin-off is no longer known as SpinCo, a placeholder name for the digital business during Atos’ splitting into two publicly listed businesses. It is also not known as Evidian.

ERP Tomorrow (Today) • 17th July 2023

Meet Maxi, Earth CEO - and AGI savior of humanity

Welcome to 2033. On the anniversary of its ascendancy, we interview the benevolent AGI which runs our planet and drove CXOs to extinction, MAX1-GPT.

ERP Today • 16th May 2023

Huawei exclusively talks "TikTok of ERP", MetaERP and its making

It’s not every day that a new software system comes with a grand unveiling, but MetaERP from Chinese tech giant Huawei isn’t your average entry in the business of enterprise resource planning, otherwise known as ERP. As Huawei tells ERP Today in its only international interview regarding the project, “without U.S. sanctions, Huawei had never considered developing its own ERP.”

ERP Today Magazine • 23rd March 2023

A Tale of Three Smart Hospitals

1247: world population feasibly between the 360-500 million mark. The first incarnation of the Bethlem Royal Hospital was established in this year, with later centuries seeing it move around various London locations. The same passage of time saw the hospital become an asylum for mental health patients, notoriously acquiring its other name of Bedlam.

ERP Today • 7th March 2023

Salesforce first to sell ChatGPT, promising IP safety

ChatGPT has been all the rage in tech circles recently. In response, Salesforce is launching Einstein GPT, billed as the world’s first generative AI CRM technology, and likely the first vendor to put a price tag on the sort of tech OpenAI has helped popularize online with free usage.

ERP Today • 7th February 2023

Bard for business? Google enters the chatbot game

After months of hype regarding OpenAI and ChatGPT, Google has thrown its hat into the AI chatbot ring with Bard, an artificial intelligence search tool which may have profound implications for enterprises.

ERP Today • 17th November 2022

The Carolean Era: crypto country change for the UK?

Charles III is King of the United Kingdom, ushering in a new Carolean era for the country. The short time since this landmark change has seen Rishi Sunak become UK prime minister, who, in his previous post as Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been viewed as a tech evangelist of sorts.

ERP Today • 11th November 2022

Adobe has already doomed the metaverse

There’s a great episode of Doctor Who where the stars start vanishing in the sky. Probably because of the Daleks or whatnot.

ERP Today • 11th November 2022

The Great Tech Redundancy is here again

There’s been a lot of talk about new themes in employment such as the Great Resignation and ‘quiet quitting’. Such trends probably gave the illusion that employees are in better control these days over their work situations and prospects.

WIRED • 3rd November 2022

Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You

In six words, write a story about living forever.

ERP Today • 28th October 2022

EY does the metaverse – can it save all things Meta?

Ernst & Young has updated EY wavespace™, a global network that provides clients experiences in the so-called metaverse space. The news comes one day after lacking financial results from Facebook owner Meta, the current figurehead of extended reality in enterprise.

ERP Today • 24th October 2022

IFS Cloud Cable Car brings B2B, TikTok to Royal Docks

Enterprise tech watchers and tourists take note: The London Cable Car is now known as the IFS Cloud Cable Car, with IFS’ biggest brand activation to date fully rolled out.

ERP Today • 13th October 2022

Crypto hedge bet? Google combines Coinbase into Cloud

Cryptocurrency platform Coinbase has selected Google Cloud as a strategic cloud provider, in a move touted as driving Web3 innovation and development. The news comes after Google’s recent partnership with the blockchain arm of embattled crypto service Binance.

ERP Today • 13th October 2022

APAC’s QR code solution solves a 21st century problem

The humble QR code represents a possible quantum leap in cross-border payment for Southeast Asia.

ERP Today Magazine • 27th September 2022

Money in Web3 needs neither crypto nor cyberspace

Accenture, Alibaba and more explain why the future of finance doesn’t necessarily involve cryptocurrency and extended reality.