The average lifespan of a company has reduced from 61 years in 1958 to 18 years today, and is forecast to decline to 10 years by 2018. For smaller companies, more than half of today’s businesses will not be around in five years. Read this Frost & Sullivan survey report of 1,500 senior executives across a range of industries in […]

While growth opportunities abound, it never comes without a certain element of risk and challenges. Business leaders need to maintain an acceptable level of governance and control throughout the growth process. The cloud technology can be a tremendous facilitator of growth. It provides stability across business processes and allows real-time visibility into the business needed to continually assess progress. Cloud […]

Today, the physics of business are being rewritten. A new breed of bold CEOs, CIOs and CFOs have to rethink everything constantly. Yet, the harsh reality for most businesses is that the software systems that sit at the core of their organisations are not accelerating at the same pace. Maintaining a startup state of mind and acting at the pace […]

Wholesale distributors have become more, not less important in today’s omnichannel world. Their ability to manage those multiple channels, keeping inventory in check and deliveries on time, will determine how quickly they grow. The secret to success lies in enterprise software. The right technology platforms can orchestrate the growing complexities of wholesale distribution at far greater speeds than manual methods […]

Many midmarket businesses are turning to cloud ERP to accelerate growth and drive innovation. The scalability and flexibility of a cloud-based ERP platform gives midmarket businesses an advantage over their larger counterparts, and allows for significant savings versus a legacy on-premise system. Download an excerpt of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Midmarket ERP Applications 2017 Vendor Assessment report […]

At Amazon, we’ve been investing deeply in AI for more than 20 years. Machine learning (ML) algorithms drive many of our internal systems, and have formed the core of our customers’ experience—from the path optimization in our fulfillment centers, and Amazon.com’s recommendations engine, to Echo powered by Alexa, and our new retail experience, Amazon Go.

Today’s organizations are tasked with managing multiple data types, coming from a wide variety of sources. Faced with massive volumes and heterogeneous types of data, organizations are finding that in order to deliver insights in a timely manner, they need a data storage and analytics solution that offers more agility and flexibility than traditional data management systems. A data lake […]

IDC’s research has shown the movement of most IT workloads to the cloud in the coming years. Yet, with all the talk about enterprises moving to the cloud, some of them still wonder if such a move is really cost effective and what business benefits may result. While the answers to such questions vary from workload to workload, one area […]