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What Kind Of Enterprise Software Will Be Right For Your Business In The Future?
Think for a moment about how organizations are evolving. They all want to be lean, fast and specialized. They're trying to become more adaptable, intelligent and resilient. Wherever you look, it's a…
Why edge computing matters to enterprise software
Edge computing means processing data near where it's produced and consumed. It's another dimension to that age-old workload placement question, "Where's the best place to do this?" The trend this…
Innovation In The New Normal
Necessity is the mother of invention — and the pandemic has certainly triggered some surprising innovations. “First up in the next normal,” says a recent McKinsey briefing on Covid-19’s implications…
A New Sense Of Urgency: The Evolution Of Enterprise Application Strategy
The last nine months have imposed many changes on organizations. They’ve found that they can change dramatically overnight if they have to. The need to be agile in both financial planning and…
RPA is dead, long live RPA
Is there a revolution, a significant evolution or at least a new generation of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? This was the subject of a conversation with Claus Jepsen, CTO of Unit4. Unit4 recently…
There’s No Automatic Choice In Business Process Automation
Automating business processes saves time and money, but what’s right for one organization might not be right for another — what you automate, how much you automate it and the approach you take all…
Making ERP [e]xpert, [r]emote-friendly and [p]ersonal
The criticism commonly levelled against enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is that they are monolithic and generalist software slabs: suites of applications, dense with features and functions, designed to cover just about any need an enterprise might have, with a uniform user interface layered over for a common look and feel.
Automation's Critical Role in Driving Efficiency
Last year in this space, we predicted that "the humanity of the enterprise will be at center stage." The pandemic certainly brought people front and center in ways nobody could have foreseen. COVID-19…
Five Ways to Keep Innovation Alive in Your 2021 IT Strategy
This year, the pandemic taught us the truth of old proverb “necessity is the mother of invention.” When companies had to close offices on short notice to control the spread of the virus, IT teams…
Welcome to the world of pervasive ERP
For decades now, users of enterprise resource planning software have been trained to believe that all the action must take place within the core of the system.
Has business technology focused on the wrong thing?
Why do businesses buy new technology? Historically, it’s been an operational investment to reduce costs, simplify administration, speed up processes and measure results. These are admirable objectives…
Why Microservices Are Key to Business Success
An old dictum states that complex issues can be more easily solved by breaking them down into smaller tasks, writes Claus Jepsen, CTO, Unit4 . The same applies for software where we are observing a…