Is Your Business ERP Ready For Industry 4.0?
In a business environment of increasing competition, growing markets and rising customer expectation, it’s not going to be enough for manufacturers to simply maintain the status quo. To survive and thrive, manufacturers must focus on growth, meaning they must embrace Industry 4.0 technologies. Industry 4.0 encompasses the current trend of automation and data exchange in […]
Apple Partners With IBM For Mobile Machine Learning
By: Jim McGregor In conjunction with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) theme at IBM Think, Apple and IBM announced that the two companies are working together to deliver a mobile AI solution based on IBM Watson Services for Core ML. The partnership will leverage Apple’s Core ML framework and Watson Studio (also announced) development tools allowing […]
Microsoft Acquires Avere To Bolster Cloud Storage Strategy
By: Aaron Aupperlee Avere Systems, a Pittsburgh-based cloud storage company, was acquired by Microsoft, the two companies announced Wednesday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Avere’s team will continue to work in Pittsburgh, according to reporting by GeekWire. “By bringing together Avere’s storage expertise with the power of Microsoft’s cloud, customers will benefit from […]
Digital Transformation vs. ERP Implementation: Which is Right For You?
When organizations embark on any enterprise software initiative, they need to ask one question: is this a relatively simple ERP implementation, or is it a broader digital transformation? It may sound like an unimportant, subtle difference in nomenclature, but the answer to this question has significant implications. The way the initiative is planned, the way decisions […]
Artificial Intelligence Myths
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a very polarizing subject in that it’s one of the most overhyped subjects. Yet at the same time, AI has the potential to enact many profound developments in so many areas of business, and our lives. Some people see AI taking over the world within a couple of years, while others […]
CRM Giant Salesforce Is Buying Data Integration Firm MuleSoft
Salesforce announced an agreement on Tuesday to buy MuleSoft in an enterprise technology merger that would value MuleSoft at $6.5 billion.Salesforce will pay $44.89 per share for MuleSoft, a 36% premium — each MuleSoft share will equal $36 in cash and 0.0711 shares of Salesforce common stock, the companies said. The deal is expected to […]
Google Pledges $300M To Aid News Organizations, Combat Fake News
By: Shirley Siluk The relationship between traditional news organizations and tech companies, such as Google, has long been complicated. But the search giant that takes the lion’s share of online ad revenues says it recognizes the need for “a healthy ecosystem of publishers producing great digital content.” That’s why it has unveiled a $300 million […]
You know ERP, CRM, HCM? Here comes BSM – Business Spend Management
By: Rob Bernshteyn The business world seems to love acronyms, maybe nowhere more than in the technology industry, and maybe none so much as the TLA (three letter acronym). Acronyms certainly enhance recall, and they save time, space and effort in communication. Of course, they are shorthand for the name of something and as such, […]
Improving Cybersecurity Response in Healthcare Organizations
By: Elizabeth Snell Organizations must have the right staff members in place who are properly trained, and also have appropriate technical tools to ensure that a proper cybersecurity response can occur following a data security incident. Healthcare entities in particular must work to create a comprehensive cybersecurity response plan, but recent studies show that there […]
The Future of ERP Starts with Industry 4.0
The common impression that many have of enterprise resource planning (ERP) is based on the early functions of the systems. For example, an early function included manufacturing resource planning, which was designed to tackle a specific business process such as managing the mass production of standardized goods on assembly lines. ERP was initially based on […]