Salesforce to invest $2.2 billion in its French business in the next 5 years
Salesforce.com Inc. CRM, -0.54% said Tuesday it is planning to invest $2.2 billion in its French business in the next five years, moving to take advantage of a market where it is enjoying rapid growth. The customer-relationship management software provider said it is planning to significantly increase headcount in France, expand its real estate footprint […]
How to prepare for your first cloud ERP implementation
By: Rick Carlton Preparation for a cloud ERP implementation, also known as ‘system planning round’, represents a first-principle when if comes to any successful technical implementation. While there are some digital platforms that require little or no effort during a system spin-up, unfortunately the setup of an ERP system doesn’t happen to be one of […]
IFS WORLD CONFERENCE 2018: DARREN ROOS AND IFS APPLICATIONS 10
IFS World Conference 2018 is underway, and the opening session is a big one. Not only do we have the public debut of the new CEO, but we have details on IFS Applications 10, a major new release. Amy McWhirter, our moderator, kicks off by expanding on the conference theme — the idea of connecting to […]
Oracle Extends All-In Commitment To AI And Machine Learning To NetSuite SaaS Apps
By: Bob Evans (Note: After an award-winning career in the media business covering the tech industry, Bob Evans was VP of Strategic Communications at SAP in 2011, and Chief Communications Officer at Oracle from 2012 to 2016. He now runs his own firm, Evans Strategic Communications LLC.) CLOUD WARS — A few months after upgrading […]
NetSuite under Oracle: a progress report
By: Vinnie Virchandani I have seen way too many large vendors under-leverage their acquisitions. They mostly benefit from the incremental revenues but lose talent and value of the acquired IP. The week prior, I was impressed by how Rob Enslin has started to coalesce SAP’s cloud acquisitions like Ariba and SuccessFactors, and how that group […]
NetSuite’s SuiteCommerce Helps Open Online Stores in 30 Days
By: Pedro Hernandez NetSuite wants to make the ecommerce ambitions of its customers a reality in as little as 30 days with the latest SuiteCommerce release. During the recent SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas, the cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) provider, now an Oracle subsidiary, showed off an updated version of the commerce as a […]
Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Adobe Experience Cloud selected by 24 Hour Fitness to transform customer engagement
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) on Wednesday announced an agreement with 24 Hour Fitness, one of the nation’s largest privately owned and operated fitness chains, to deploy Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Adobe Experience Cloud across its network of more than 420 clubs nationwide. This will enable 24 Hour Fitness to dramatically enhance its ability to offer more personalized and unified digital experiences […]
For IT, Microsoft 365 shows what still matters about Windows
By: Mary Branscombe For most businesses, Microsoft 365 is just the simplest and cheapest way to buy Windows and Office (along with some mobile security services), especially if they want to make first-line workers (as Microsoft calls your customer-facing employees) part of their digital business workflows. But Microsoft 365 is more than just an updated […]
Meet the winners of Microsoft Ventures’ first global AI startup competition
By: Taylor Soper Microsoft’s venture arm on Tuesday announced new startup investments as part of its inaugural Innovate.AI competition. Announced this past October by Microsoft and three venture capital firms, Innovate.AI invited companies building AI-related technology to compete for venture funding and Microsoft Azure credits. Three regional winners from North America, Europe, and Israel — and […]
CRM Is Now The Largest Software Market In The World
Customer relationship management (CRM) software revenue overtook that of database management systems (DBMSs) at the end of 2017, making CRM the largest of all software markets in the world. According to Gartner findings, global CRM revenue amounted to US$39.5 billion during the past 12 months, overtaking DBMS which reached US$36.8 billion in the same year. […]