Nike
Nike vows better data use as digital sales slump
Firm is hunting for a "special" distinguished engineer to help run strategy and architecture from cloud to edge.
ERP
HMG puts massive £500m ERP contract out to tender
An early Christmas present for Systems Integrators and their SaaS partners as a ten-year ERP centralisation contract lands
ERP
Water company eyes clouds for ERP as well as rain, gears up for overhaul
Cloud-based ERP and HR systems upgrade worth over £4 million is the plan for utility company.
Local government
Europe’s largest council is bankrupt: An Oracle saw it coming (but that £100m ERP black hole is not to blame)
"Without a fundamental change either in our statutory obligations, all of upper tier local government will soon go over the cliff edge"
HMG
One SaaS to rule them: HMG takes £215m ERP contract for 29 agencies to market. Winner takes all.
A "combined single instance SaaS Solution along with a Systems Integrator" please -- but you can propose some different contracting models and bid teams...
public sector
Government's Big Beasts join forces in £1 billion ERP "Synergy Programme"
The four departments employ 250,000 end users, over half the entire civil service, and the programme, which aims to separate technology from service centres, is one of HMG’s most ambitious...
ERP
Botched ERP migration costs CEO his job, company €25m
Drinks spilled at Bulmers cider owner...
Enterprise IT
Ministry of Defence’s ERP headache is Deloitte’s uncontested millions
Payroll software needs to be migrated to Oracle cloud before data centre is bulldozed...
Enterprise IT
Why ERP firm IFS’s passage to Sri Lanka deserves attention
IT companies scour the world these days for destinations that will help them locate skilled workers and drive cost efficiencies. India has of course become a global nexus for software factories, consulting services and offshoring. Central and eastern Europe have become happy hunting grounds, even for countries that have had
ERP
Why composable ERP strategies change everything
Composable ERP means interacting with more vendors as you adopt best-of-breed applications. Support needs to change
Enterprise IT
SAP to hike prices as inflation bites: Cloud surges, profits tumble
SAP CEO Christian Klein has confirmed to investors that the company will put up prices within the coming months, possibly sooner, as it reacts to broader inflationary pressures. He made the comments in the Q&A on a Q2 earnings call, as SAP confirmed that cloud had become its
Enterprise IT
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Operational Data Pipelines
"The vast majority of these pipelines are tangled messes."