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Generative AI comes to spend professionals as SAP unveils a slew of new tools at its Spend Connect conference.

Generative AI comes to spend professionals as SAP unveils a slew of new tools at its Spend Connect conference.
A year and half after leaving Workday, the co-founders of Scout RFP already have 15 customers and $44.5 million in funding for their new venture Levelpath, which aims to simplify the enterprise buying process.
The global NGO’s foreign exchange operations were simplified and became more efficient following collaboration with treasury management software provider Coupa
SAP Sapphire Orlando brought some major global projects into the spotlight. Hitachi's global S/4HANA and SAP Business Network for Logistics project is one example. But how does a multi-year initiative keep momentum? Here's what I learned.
As Oracle CloudWorld Tour hits London, I go behind Oracle's AI supply chain news with Steve Miranda. I also get his take on generative AI for the enterprise - and how it's changing the AI conversation with customers.
At this year's Inspire conference, spend management vendor Coupa is talking up end-to-end visibility and control for the CFO.
This week - Silicon Valley Bank implodes. Once the crisis is averted, what will the innovation fallout be? Generative AI's hype machine is put into enterprise context - will the guardrails and ROI be enough? Your whiffs include a very Meta move, and the revenge of the floppy disk.
Supplier-driven transformations sound like a worthwhile concept - but is this a viable framework, when so many customers are still operating in spreadsheet-laden data silos? Two SAP Business Network customers, Mabe and KUKA AG, share instructive use cases.
JAGGAER is bringing AI and automation to processes such as sourcing, contracts and supplier onboarding to help global businesses manage direct spend more efficiently.
It's time to stop responding to situations by quoting clichés. Peter Coffee of Salesforce cuts to the real meaning of decision making in times of recession.
Across 2022, diginomica's partner ecosystem has added yet more commentary and analysis. Here's a selection of the best.
2022 was a mixed bag for ERP vendors. Massive projects? No thanks. But some ERP-based applications, notably payroll and planning/forecasting, continued to make a difference for customers. Process automation and "intelligent analytics" add upgrade incentives, but is that enough? Or is the world changing faster than ERP can keep up?
After my last SAP S/4HANA Cloud opus, SAP had some surprises in store for me. So grab your beverage of choice, and check my review of how the public cloud ERP debate has changed.