Slow growth ahead for IT outsourcing
By: Stephanie Overby While the IT and business process services industry continued to grow through 2016, that growth slowed over the course of the year and could fall to less than 2 percent by 2019, according to a recent report from IT and business sourcing consultancy and research firm Everest Group. The pace of […]
Salesforce to Deliver the Salesforce Intelligent Customer Success Platform to Customers in Australia Using Amazon Web Services Cloud Infrastructure
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the world’s #1 CRM company and the Intelligent Customer Success Platform, today announced it is continuing its international infrastructure expansion on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to the AWS Sydney Region in order to support its growing customer base in Australia. The company will leverage AWS to deliver the Salesforce Intelligent […]
ERP Software Market Confident That Adoption Of Cloud Technology Will Enable Superior Real-Time Optimization
The report “2017-2022 Global Top Countries ERP Software Market Report”, available on MarketIntelReports, estimates that Asia-Pacific could end up dominating market demand by the end of the forecast period. Browse numerous Market Tables as well as Figures which are spread through 135 Pages and an in-depth TOC on the “ERP Software Market 2017 – 2022” […]
Salesforce and IBM Infuse CRM with Artificial Intelligence
By: Shirley Siluk In what could be called a meeting of artificially intelligent minds, a new partnership will combine IBM’s cognitive computing platform Watson with Salesforce‘s Einstein artificial intelligence (AI) for customer relationship management (CRM). Announced yesterday, the partnership will integrate Watson’s application program interfaces (APIs) into Salesforce’s cloud-based CRM software to work in concert […]
Two Important Ways Cloud ERP Enables IIoT in Manufacturing
Your manufacturing processes are producing more than just marketable items that generate revenue. They’re also producing vast amounts of data. Until recently, manufacturers could only perform the most basic data analysis. Today, however, analytics capabilities combined with more opportunities to capture machine and production data present huge opportunities to drive efficiency. The growth of inexpensive, […]
What Do Manufacturers Look for in an ERP Solution?
By: Nick Castellina Finding a needle in a haystack is hard. You know what’s even harder? Finding a specific needle in a pile of needles. Selecting the ideal Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution from among the numerous options on the market can feel like just as daunting a challenge. ERP is a serious investment for […]
Review: Microsoft Teams almost as bad as its beta
By Galen Gruman For months now, we’ve been hearing about Microsoft Teams, Microsoft’s much-heralded Slack killer for corporate chat. It’s now in official release (what Microsoft calls “general availability”) as part of Microsoft’s Office 365 enterprise plans. Sadly, Teams is underwhelming in its formal debut and definitely not a match for the hype Microsoft has […]
Flexibility, Scalability, Speed: SAP and Google Announce Strategic Partnership
Today’s digital transformation is driving rapid change across all industries, and its effects are profound. We are witnessing a paradigm shift with the commoditization of cloud computing and how its openness, flexibility, and scalability is driving digitalization globally. With billions of connected devices and the copious amount of data they generate, we see an ever-increasing […]
How Big Data, IoT and ERP can leverage Real-Time Actionable Intelligence
By Himanshu Palsule Mobile, social, analytics, cloud, the Internet of Things, nanotechnology, 3D printing and more manufacturers are facing a barrage of information about how new disruptive technologies will change the face of their industry. But for manufacturers to embrace these technologies, they must have a clear understanding of the technology value-add within the […]
FinancialForce Appoints Former NetSuite CMO to Drive Next Stage of Growth
FinancialForce, the leading Cloud ERP vendor on the Salesforce Platform, today announced the appointment of Fred Studer as Chief Marketing Officer. Studer, former NetSuite CMO, will lead all aspects of FinancialForce’s global marketing efforts. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/f579999f-f593-4454-bbfe-93dc85565585 Studer’s appointment comes on the heels of another strong year for […]