Skills gaps, funding innovation and asking digital transformation questions - Salesforce UK head Paul Smith tours key topics
A chat with Paul Smith, Salesforce UK General Manager, as the firm's World Tour hits London.
Archive: The new professional and IT as a service
Citrix Synergy – Citrix tries to bury its tech beneath what do you want to do and why you want to do it
At face value this is another company offering users a 'platform' option, but Citrix looks closer to appreciating what the really involves than others. But it does have history to make this work.
Don’t like your future? Make up a new one yourself - CIO careers advice from the frontline
At 55, strategy consultant Jukka Virkkunen found himself getting a little too expensive for his clients. His solution? Go back to study - then become a CIO of ambitious Finnish Robotic Process Automation player
SAP S/4HANA - conversions, greenfield and variability
Making the business case for SAP S/4HANA conversion is a fraction of what's needed to achieve success. Scoping and roadmaps come into play along with the variability of landscapes. In short - we need more stories.
Rhonda Vetere, Santander's infrastructure CIO - it's how you tackle challenges that makes the difference
Rhonda Vetere, former CTO of Estee Lauder and now CIO at an international bank, shares her secrets to success in the competitive world of IT management.
Enterprise hits and misses - Amazon and Walmart face off on deliveries, while big SIs are held to account
This week - Retailers make omni-progress, but face challenges from competitors - and tariffs. Plus: big SIs get scrutinized. Event season rolls on, with cloud ERP on deck. And: I blow gaskets in the whiffs section.
You think an SAP S/4HANA conversion is a nightmare? Check out IESA's five month journey
IESA embarked on an ambitious, some might think suicidal project to move from SAP ECC to S/4HANA - in five months. It came in on time and under budget. Here's how.
US, UK among countries that need to do better on digital up-skilling, warns OECD
The OECD warns that there's a widespread global crisis when it comes to getting the skills in place to thrive in a digital economy.
Six big observations from FinancialForce Accelerate
No marching bands, no flimflam, no sexy “futures” but lots of real progress that delighted customers. That was the FinancialForce show this week and it was a quietly solid show at that. Here are the six main takeaways to ponder.
Nutanix .NEXT - the platform expands, but is the channel ready to fill the Bucket?
The future for many businesses will be a hybrid mix with a range of different cloud services and service providers that will need to work together. This is a role custom-made for channel partners to exploit, but they need to be ready, and maybe they ain’t...
CommLive19 - FinancialForce makes ready to walk the customer-centric talk
At its annual Community Live event this week, cloud ERP and PSA vendor FinancialForce introduced a new customer-centric initiative to speed time-to-value
Workfront - a growing firm in an important space that could get crowded
Focusing on the problems between functional silos (and across the value chain and its non-employee constituents) is key to delivering new levels of customer satisfaction, productivity, etc. This is the space Workfront is targeting.
Knowledge19 - DeloitteAssist answers patient calls for improved care and connection
The management consultancy firm has developed a healthcare product based on Amazon Alexa and ServiceNow that reimagines the hospital bedside call button for the digital age