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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…
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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
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…
This Crisis Will Put A Human Face On Business Technology
COVID-19 has changed the way we work forever. We’re all suddenly working from home, reliant on technology and aware of its limitations. Enterprise software is helping us get through the crisis, but it…
How Big Businesses Can Avoid Being Fired By Their Customers
Almost all sectors are talking about the importance of moving at the speed of the customer and customer-centricity, but hardly anyone achieves either. Often this is because they can only move as fast…
Our Expectations Of Software Have Changed -- It's Time UX Caught Up
Last year, I argued that many enterprise software vendors are missing the point when it comes to user experience. They aim to embrace user expectations by providing a user interface that looks good on…
Software will never be beautiful – it’s the experience that counts
For almost a decade, we’ve talked about wanting to modernize enterprise software user interfaces (UI) to match consumer software, but we’ve gone about it the wrong way. The modernization of UI was…
How bots will shape the future of work in the financial industry
When the average person thinks of bots entering the workforce, scenes from X-Men: Days of Future Past leap to mind, but actually, bots are not the future, they are already adopted and deployed among…
How bots at work, no longer sci-fi, will help you do more in the workplace
In the 1980s, the television program Knight Rider gave a glimpse into a world where artificial intelligence could learn, communicate and make independent decisions. The star of the show, a self-aware…
AI in 2017 – learn to love your digital assistant
We are now in an era where people want to achieve more for less. As technology rapidly transforms our daily lives, we’re seeing demand from users wanting to simplify interaction with their enterprise…
Four megatrends that will reshape what software can do for us
Four major enterprise management trends are maturing simultaneously, and their imminent fusion has only begun to transform the way we conduct business. They are big data, mobile access, user…