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Integration Isn’t Enough: The Business Case for Integration-as-a-Service

Integration Isn’t Enough: The Business Case for Integration-as-a-Service

Organizations use a variety of applications to handle business tasks, and at the center of many point solutions is the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In an ideal state, data from various…

What the on-demand economy means for the future of work

What the on-demand economy means for the future of work

I’ve been the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Unit4 for around three years, but I joined as Chief Architect in our innovation labs closer to eight years ago. When I arrived, many of the questions my…

How The Chief Technology Officer Became One Of The Most Important People In Business

The chief technology officer (CTO) is a recent addition to the C-suite and has quickly become a cornerstone of digital natives and hyperscalers. But every organization that develops its own software…

Forget the hype: think about ERP integration before AI

Forget the hype: think about ERP integration before AI

The technology sector has always been prone to hype and promises of silver bullets. Marketers get ahead of engineers and evangelize over the promise of the Next Big Thing. Conferences dedicated to the…

Making ERP [e]xpert, [r]emote-friendly and [p]ersonal

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.

Welcome to the world of pervasive ERP

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.

Keeping Pace with the New Normal

We woke up one morning and everything has changed. Although we do our best to understand and adapt to the changing environment, there seems to be no other way to survive this crisis without having the…

More than a feeling: why sentiment’s the missing link in professional services success

More than a feeling: why sentiment’s the missing link in professional services success

Accountability is critical in business. Professional services companies are held to high standards, and client expectations need to be met. But are the goals being measured for each project telling…

Do you have what it takes to be a successful self-disruptor?

Do you have what it takes to be a successful self-disruptor?

Entrepreneurs have disrupted nearly every industry, developing start-ups that transform the way business is done. Airbnb for example has changed the world of travel forever. Today, this company enjoys…

Essence of being a successful Development Manager?

Essence of being a successful Development Manager?

The above question was sent to me the other day from a former colleague and friend. He was preparing a presentation for heads of product management and product development, and not being an…