Tag: ERP

January 11, 2024

The announcement comes on the heels of the company raising software support fees by roughly 5% this month, and scaling back updates for on-prem deployments. “Our new innovations will not be available for on-premises or hosted on-premise ERP customers on […]

November 28, 2023

Look, it’s not you, it’s me. And right now, you need to give me some space. No, not the space in your data center, I’m not quite ready to commit on a deeper level. I need my own space, on […]

February 13, 2023

SAP recently marked its two-year anniversary of RISE with SAP, SAP’s comprehensive solution of products and services to help customers successfully move to the cloud. So far, more than 2,500 customers have put their trust in SAP and its partners […]

April 21, 2022

Food manufacturing giant Kraft Heinz has announced it is looking to improve supply chain visibility and day-to-day operations through the adoption of cloud, AI, and digital twins under a new digital transformation partnership it has signed with Microsoft. Under a […]

April 27, 2021

Migrating legacy ERP systems to a modern cloud-based platform has become a business imperative for most enterprises. It might also be the most challenging, complex, high-stakes project that a CIO undertakes in their entire career. If you get it right, […]

March 1, 2021

Public cloud adoption is gaining momentum. And while many companies had already begun to embark on their digital transformations ahead of the pandemic, COVID-19 certainly accelerated this transition in 2020. In fact, in a recent study, more than eight in […]

December 14, 2020

History counts for a lot at Rémy Cointreau, a liquor company that prides itself on aging its finest spirits for 100 years, and traces its own origins back almost three centuries. But Group CTO Sébastien Huet recognizes that in the […]

August 25, 2020

Your software is an asset. Software vendors such as Oracle and SAP are pressing customers to replace existing enterprise applications in order to move to the vendor’s new platform. Yet, most companies have invested millions in their current ERP systems […]

July 7, 2020

There’s no doubt on-premises deployments of mission-critical business applications provide more control over data as it resides within the four walls of an organization’s network infrastructure. However, businesses can no longer ignore the benefits of moving these applications to the […]

January 28, 2020

During the past two decades, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems became the big dog in many corporate data centers. By providing integrated suites encompassing everything from financial operations to sales and marketing to manufacturing—with all the elements sharing a common […]

January 21, 2020

Cloud has been an important part of our strategy at QAD for well over a decade. In fact, among the established global manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain software providers, QAD was one of the first to offer […]

December 23, 2019

Over the last 10 years, I have repeatedly asked large company CIOs about what systems were not likely to go SaaS or be put into the public cloud. If there was consistency, it was that their company crown jewels, ERP, […]

September 10, 2019

At the center of most complex organizations is an equally complex IT infrastructure that poses a significant problem when it comes to modernizing operations. For Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, a nonprofit corporation with 12 different operating companies that […]

June 7, 2019

ERP systems are the last strongholds of processes and data that enterprise IT refuses to move to the cloud. ERP holds most of the relevant business data, and without that data the business would not exist. Thus, many companies are […]

February 21, 2019

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 data, security and regulatory compliance. That’s according to the […]

January 25, 2019

According to Cisco’s Global Cloud Index, 59 percent of all cloud workflows were delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) by 2019. But infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) dropped to 28 percent from 44 percent in 2013, and that platform-as-a-service (PaaS) was only 13 percent for […]

January 22, 2019

Most companies today are familiar with the cloud; using software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps and customer relationship management (CRM) for years. However, many businesses are now running the whole show from the cloud using the opportunity to drive inroads to new markets […]

January 15, 2019

Nearly 70 percent of enterprise organizations are currently migrating data for enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications to the cloud, according to a report from the Cloud Security Alliance. Almost 90 percent of those surveyed said these business-critical ERP apps (SAP, […]

December 28, 2018

If there’s one lesson that software companies have learned over the past few years, it’s that creating a cloud version of your solutions isn’t as straightforward as it might seem. On the one hand, there are the technical challenges of […]

October 23, 2018

A year after launching is Blockchain Cloud Service, Oracle is taking the next step and launching a Blockchain Applications Cloud — a suite of out-of-the-box ready blockchain applications tailored for specific use cases. The initial batch of applications are focused […]