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Five Considerations For Reducing Your Carbon Footprint When Moving To The Cloud
Cloud computing can offer businesses fast deployment, scalability and reduced costs, but it can also be a surprising tool for reducing your carbon footprint. Today’s customers, stakeholders and…
Integration Isn’t Enough: The Business Case for Integration-as-a-Service
Organizations use a variety of applications to handle business tasks, and at the center of many point solutions is the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In an ideal state, data from various…
How Integration-As-A-Service Could Be The Missing Link For People-Centric Organizations
Modern people-centric organizations invest in critical integrations so they can use their ERP systems as a data hub but often lack the time or resources to work their way down the to-do list.…
How To Put Innovation At The Heart Of Your Business
As a technology organization, our company has been innovating for a long time—and we’ve learned from both our mistakes and our successes. Over eight years ago, we established a designated innovation…
How Microservices Can Impact Software Sustainability
Sustainability is a hot topic for modern businesses. But when you think about what you can change to reduce your environmental impact, your ERP software probably isn’t the first thing that comes to…
What the on-demand economy means for the future of work
I’ve been the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Unit4 for around three years, but I joined as Chief Architect in our innovation labs closer to eight years ago. When I arrived, many of the questions my…
How The Chief Technology Officer Became One Of The Most Important People In Business
The chief technology officer (CTO) is a recent addition to the C-suite and has quickly become a cornerstone of digital natives and hyperscalers. But every organization that develops its own software…
Vendors and customers alike are facing some frank discussions about their relationships
Gartner has suggested that by 2025, 75% of companies “will break up with poor-fit customers.” In reality, this will prove to be a two-way process. It's worth exploring the important reasons why this…
Forget the hype: think about ERP integration before AI
The technology sector has always been prone to hype and promises of silver bullets. Marketers get ahead of engineers and evangelize over the promise of the Next Big Thing. Conferences dedicated to the…
How Ready Are Enterprises For Open Banking, Blockchain And Digital Currencies?
While dealing with regulations and ever-present concerns over security, the global financial services ecosystem is in the mood for innovation. Traditional banks, fintech firms and investment platforms…
What You’re Getting Wrong About DevOps (and How To Make it Right)
DevOps is now the top software deployment strategy by a mile — 77% of organizations say they use the approach to roll out new software. This is good news because a DevOps approach is an important…
Why You Should Think Beyond The Features Of Your Next Tech Purchase
What’s migrating core business systems to the cloud got to do with in-car Bluetooth technology? Enterprise leaders should consider an important analogy if they want to achieve their digital…