Food manufacturer migrates to Microsoft Dynamics 365 through Sable37
By: James Anderson The move to Dynamics 365 comes as the company seeks to utilise a single cloud-based platform TNA Solutions is replacing legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems with Microsoft Dynamics 365, deployed through specialist provider Sable37. In operating as a global food processing and packaging equipment manufacturer, the migration aligns with wider digital […]
Will The Complexity Of Customization Destroy Supply Chains?
Digitization is making it easier to respond to increasing consumer demand for personalized products. According to a report by SCM World, 90% of customers value individual goods and the majority of supply chains have already been rebuilt to support this demand. Plus, 3D printing has the potential to further customize products and reduce required inventory. Also, consumers are more empowered […]
10 dirty secrets of CRM
By: David Taber CRM vendors cash in on your hopes for revenue, profitability and collaboration. And it’s all true … except for the parts that they leave out. Here are some truths that they won’t share but you should understand. 1. The CRM system is less important than the data it holds. Even with all the […]
Zuora Central Upgrade Further Attacks the ERP Market
Zuora, the leading cloud-based subscription management platform provider, today announced at Subscribed™ a major upgrade to the Zuora Central Platform with the addition of Zuora Orders. This new upgrade leapfrogs all existing capabilities, giving subscription companies unlimited order flexibility, a new set of metrics, and complete order-to-revenue automation. The upgraded platform will function as the […]
How Much Do You Think It Will Cost?
“How much do you think it will cost?” This is often a common question a manufacturer will ask themselves when developing new products and something that we as a manufacturing solutions provider we can help answer. When I go and see companies that aren’t using IFS solutions, one of the issues that they raise is the fact […]
Why Cloud Customer Success Is New Top Priority For Salesforce, Microsoft, Workday, SAP And Oracle
By: Bob Evans CLOUD WARS — As competition among top cloud vendors intensifies, customer success is rapidly emerging as a strategic differentiator far more important than snazzy technology. It seems dazzlingly obvious: we all want our customers to be successful, right? But the enterprise-tech industry hasn’t always earned a sterling reputation for delivering that type […]
4 Key Takeaways from IoT World 2018
By: Katharine Levarevich IoT World 2018 in Santa Clara united thousands of organizations and attendees, hundreds of speakers and exhibitors and dozens of IoT startups. It’s one of those yearly events where you can meet all cross-industry giants at one place – Microsoft, SAP, Avnet, Boeing, UPS, MasterCard, Bank of America, T Mobile, Google, […]
IBM Exec: We Have Ways to Stand Out in the Cloud Wars
By: Eric Jhonsa Though Amazon.com (AMZN – Get Report) , Microsoft (MSFT – Get Report) and Alphabet/Google’s (GOOGL – Get Report) public cloud platforms have been collectively taking a lot of share from smaller rivals, IBM (IBM – Get Report) insists it can hold its own. The 2018 version of research firm’s Gartner’s cloud infrastructure […]
IBM’s head of Watson likes Elon Musk but ‘hates’ A.I. scaremongering
By: Ryan Browne David Kenny, IBM’s senior vice president of Watson and Cloud, said artificial intelligence is already proving to be beneficial. He suggested that doomsday warnings from the likes of Tesla CEO Elon Musk were overblown. Warnings of artificial intelligence (AI) posing a threat to humanity are “not helpful,” a top executive at IBM […]
FinancialForce Announces Global Sales and Implementation Partnership with Appirio
FinancialForce, a leading customer-centric ERP cloud vendor built on the Salesforce Platform, announced a global sales and implementation partnership with Appirio, a Wipro company. This will help enable companies competing in the new services economy to leverage FinancialForce cloud technology to respond more rapidly to customer demands. The burgeoning new services economy demands a shift […]