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Magazine VIEW CURRENT ISSUE Experts Paul Esherwood Editor in Chief Adrian Bridgwater Technology Editor Holger Mueller Principal analyst at Constellation Research covering next gen apps Matthew Bell UK&I Climate Change and Sustainability Services Leader at EY Emma Sinclair MBE CoFounder, EnterpriseAlumni Andy Bird Inoapps founder, passionate about increasing value from Oracle solutions. Dr Zara Nanu CEO and co-founder at Gapsquare Steve Pullee Steve is a data migration expert and the CEO at Egress Paul Cooper Paul Cooper is chairman of the UK & Ireland SAP User Group Mark Sweeny CEO at De Novo Solutions and serial entrepreneur Wayne Lloyd Founder & CEO of Smarter Contracts, a FinTech company + EXPERTS Partners Embridge Consulting 5 vital steps to developing an agile, change ready organization Advanced Advanced buys Australian procurement technology firm Embridge Consulting Northern Ireland Assembly Commission selects Unit4 and Embridge Deloitte Health check for Bupa’s finances Microsoft Allica Bank does business banking with a personal touch on Microsoft Azure VISIT PARTNERPLATFORM Features Legacy tech lingers in healthcare after Covid. What’s the fix? By Giacomo Lee Being #2 set the stage for #1 in cloud ERP By Paul Esherwood What future for on premise? By Paul Esherwood + Features Top News IBM to transform its operations with RISE with SAP By Beckie Barrett IBM and SAP have extended their long-standing partnership as IBM undertakes ‘one of the world’s largest corporate transformation projects’ based on SAP ERP software, designed to fuel the company's growth and better support its clients. ERP TodayLive! ERP Today Live! with Jellyfish In this ERP Today Live! session we explore the benefits of an integrated platform and single data model for end-to-end transformation and analyse the impact it has on delivering customer and employee experience. + MORE Editors Choice Cloud healthcare and the data state of play By Giacomo Lee Big Tech is muscling in on health big time: look no further than recent acquisitions such as the Microsoft-Nuance and Oracle-Cerner mega-deals. AI in healthcare: What now after Watson? By Giacomo Lee IBM’s Watson health venture was so beleaguered, it can be forgiven if AI in healthcare seems like a poor business bet. Legacy tech lingers in healthcare after Covid. What’s the fix? By Giacomo Lee It's still too early to say the NHS has shed off enough of its legacy technology, even after the pandemic. Editor’s Words: capability and complexity By Paul Esherwood In a previous editorial, I quoted Tom Peters who famously said: “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention” - but that sentiment is already outdated. ERP Today Vendor Review 2022 By ERP Today ERP’s role has changed – and finally the vendors are listening. This year’s vendor review takes a close look at the 10 key ERP vendors that are suited to mid-market and enterprise customers. The art of enterprise intelligence By Dave Wright Amazon, Venmo and Uber Eats: none of these iconic brands allow us to do anything we couldn’t do before. After all, I bought stuff on the internet, paid the babysitter, and ordered food delivery for years before any of those companies came around. The great hybrid multi-cloud myth By Dan Scarfe Dan Scarfe with an alternative look at the trend for hybrid and multi-cloud architectures – does the world really need to be this complex? Industry clouds: a key ingredient for agility and business opportunity By Jan Gilg The astonishing pace of change in the world today driven by extraordinary levels of technology innovation has been pushing business towards the cloud for years. Latest Blog SAP delivers innovation to address customers’ most pressing needs By Melissa Evatt SAP has introduced a suite of products to help drive business transformation and agility for its customers as they embark on digital transformation journeys. + BLOGS Guest Contributors Why verticalisation is key to software development By Bonnie Duncan Tinder As cloud solutions evolve, there is a shift from horizontal to vertical industry-tailored applications. Bonnie Tinder, CEO at Raven Intel... What US wars can teach us about ERP strategy By Duncan Prior Thanks to Hollywood, US wars are etched in our collective understanding.  Not to mention politicians’ soundbites, the moving images captured... Can ERP degrees help solve the talent crisis? By Steve Leggetter The ERP industry is woefully short of resources and many global brands in this space are locked in a battle to find, recruit and retain new talent. Making a genuine difference in building a sustainable future By Oliver Pilgerstorfer At the end of 2021, IFS hosted its Change for Good awards at COP26 in Glasgow to celebrate the difference and impact our customers are having... ERP and HR systems: the lovechildren of Inflation By Tom Holmes When inflation and high interest rates last got together in the 1970s, they spawned the lovechild of ERP and drove a revolution in materials... Using data to stem the tide of employee resignations By Ian Cook Throughout the course of 2021, employees have been leaving their organisations in record numbers.  During the months of July, August and September... The data migration project minefield By John Smith Data is the foundation on which all modern businesses are built and the importance of accurate and timely data has never been more important... Culture sits at the top of the finance agenda By Michael Douroux It may be a new year but many challenges brought on by the pandemic are persisting - the ‘Great Resignation’ being one of the biggest issues affecting business... Breaking the Chain – Stress testing supply chains in 2021 By Andy Coussins Over the last year, UK consumers have become increasingly aware of the impact of COVID-19 on retail supply chains. While the panic over empty supermarket shelves at the start of the first lockdown has subsided. In places concerns... Expert Opinion Enterprises better strap in for a journey to the metaverse By Giacomo Lee Platforms matter in 2022 EAP is key for ERP success By Holger Mueller IT makes business dreams real By Chris Bedi ServiceNow’s critical role in today’s HR tech market By Josh Bersin Platforms that deliver value through employee engagement By Mark Sweeny The age of pay transparency the role of tech and data By Dr Zara Nanu Hot right now? Six key points to build ESG into your ERP By Matthew Bell The future of work won’t wait for you to evolve By Dr Zara Nanu + EXPERT OPINION Our Cover Stories Dream Big By Paul Esherwood Bill McDermott Dreams Big. His aspirations are not bound by convention nor are they constrained by tradition. They are driven by a conviction that anything is possible and we all have the ability to reimagine our future on whatever scale we conceive. McDermott talks in terms of exponential thinking - radically disrupting classical concepts by discovering new solutions to problems that have puzzled us for decades. There is no ceiling to his ambitions and he unashamedly sets astronomic targets which few would dare to consider.Winners Dream - the title of his book says it all. Social Work England creates new benchmark for ERP projects By Paul Esherwood Kindness, wellbeing and mindfulness embedded as a key tenet of the project - implemented on time, to budget and already delivering benefits. Zahra Bahrololoumi, CEO UK&I, Salesforce By Paul Esherwood A 22 year veteran of consulting giant Accenture, Zahra Bahrololoumi – or Z as she is known to her friends – has made the monumental leap from consultancy to vendor and now finds herself sitting at the top table within... The Moment of Service By Paul Esherwood There’s a fragile point in time during every business deal when the blood, sweat and tears are condensed into a single instance. The efforts made to secure the sale, the capital invested to deliver your product, and the time spent nurturing relationships are boiled down to a solitary moment when it all comes together or fails to meet expectations. This is the moment you either delight or disappoint. This is the moment of service... The time is NOW for Kevin Samuelson and INFOR By Paul Esherwood When we last wrote about Infor all the talk was around an IPO – and who doesn’t love a big IPO? I wrote bullishly about the expectation of Infor floating and becoming one of the biggest software IPOs of all time. It seemed certain that the prospect of raising a load of new cash coupled with the lure of being catapulted into the limelight would be too much for Infor (and their VC partners) to resist. Thank God it didn’t happen... 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