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 […]

Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations are adopting cloud-based workloads at a significant pace. A 2017 HIMSS study found that 65% of Healthcare organizations were using cloud-based services, and nearly 88% of those organizations were utilizing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, which have become the preferred deployment method for many clinical application vendors.

As easy as it is to get swept up by the hype surrounding big data, it’s just as easy for organizations to become discouraged by the challenges they encounter while implementing a big data initiative. Concerns regarding big data skill sets (and the lack thereof), security, the unpredictability of data, unsustainable costs, and the need to make a business case […]