2016 Automotive Industry Predictions
ERP News ERP News – worldwide – erpnews.com – Asia will be the biggest car manufacturer worldwide within the next few years, but Europe will continue to lead in research and development Over the last ten years there has been significant growth in European and American automotive manufacturers running operations in China. Consequently, it has […]
What Drives Customers Demand for Upgrades, And Why Partners Can’t Afford to Miss the Signs
Agnė Balkevičiūtė Lajienė, Commercial Operations Manager, 1ClickFactory As a Microsoft partner, communicating the value of a Dynamics ERP upgrade can feel like a harder sell than the sale of the original of the system. There are many events and conditions that can drive the need for an upgrade by a Dynamics ERP customer. As a […]
Why SAP is uniting IoT
It’s all about being connected and the digital economy being a reality not just hype, that’s the message from the SAP Innovation Forum being held in London at the QEII Conference Centre. By 2020 it is forecast that the size of the digital economy will be $90 trillion and that will be fuelled by hyper-connectivity. […]
Munger Says Jury Is Out on Whether IBM Reinvention Will Work
Noah Buhayar NBuhayar Sonali Basak sonalibasak Charles Munger, the vice chairman at Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said it’s too early to say how successful IBM will be in reshaping its business. “I am neither a believer or a disbeliever,” Munger, 92, said Wednesday of International Business Machines Corp., which is one of Berkshire’s top […]
Thanks to Power BI, Microsoft Is One of Three Leaders in Gartner Magic Quadrant
by Dann Anthony Maurno, Assistant Editor Microsoft Power BI is one of just three market leaders, according to Gartner’s just-released Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytic Platforms 2016. This puts Microsoft alongside Tableau and Qlik, both of which scored slightly higher in ability to execute, but Microsoft outpaced them in Completeness of Vision, […]
On trend: ERP software gets modern data, mobile and social user interface
By Mitch Betts The report, titled “The Makings of a Great ERP User Experience,” says the user interface is one area where ERP software vendors are differentiating themselves. “Disappearing from system user interfaces are the long, nested menus of transaction codes for getting a user to the information they need. We now see data grids […]
HCL and Microsoft launch IoT incubation centre
Written by Business Cloud News India based global services company HCL Technologies has launched an Internet of Things (IoT) incubation centre in Redmond, the home of Microsoft. The two vendors will use the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite to create apps for industry and manufacturing and the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector. According to HCL these […]