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Service Organizations Need To Put Their XaaS Hats On
The rapid emergence of anything as a service (XaaS) is creating an entirely different economy where products and cloud-based services are delivered in a continuous relationship with the customer…
Unit4 2019 Predictions: The Year Ahead for the ERP Market
As we transition from one year to another, it is customary to look back on the past year and begin to consider what might unfold in the year ahead. We are in a period of massive technology-driven…
Enabling The Enterprise Shift To Microservices
The next time you’re about to binge a season of your favorite Netflix show, consider the complex interactions taking place behind the scenes to make this possible. From negotiating with production…
Technology Predictions: What Will 2019 Have in Store?
At the end of every year, I take a few minutes to think back on the most disruptive technologies of the previous year and consider what tomorrow might have in store. This past year will undoubtedly be…
How to avoid ERP lock-in and seize the service imperative
The future is XaaS – Everything-as-a-Service. While XaaS stems from cloud computing, it has quickly evolved to something that embraces anything that can be delivered via the Internet that used to be…
ERP Has Reinvented Itself Again, And This Time It's Going Designer
As early as the '90s, businesses and analysts alike have foretold the death of the ERP system. Over 20 years later, however, ERP is still alive and well. Globalization, digitalization, the internet…
Software will never be beautiful – it’s the experience that counts
For almost a decade, we’ve talked about wanting to modernize enterprise software user interfaces (UI) to match consumer software, but we’ve gone about it the wrong way. The modernization of UI was…
Building a Better ERP Architecture to Support Machine Learning
Users and developers agree on one thing in relation to enterprise resource planning (ERP) software: it's boring. For users, ERP means a lot of data entry added to their daily workload. While ERP is…
Bots at Work: No Longer Restricted to the World of Science Fiction
In the 1980s, the television program Knight Rider gave a glimpse into a world where artificial intelligence could learn, communicate, and make independent decisions. The star of the show, a…
How bots will shape the future of work in the financial industry
When the average person thinks of bots entering the workforce, scenes from X-Men: Days of Future Past leap to mind, but actually, bots are not the future, they are already adopted and deployed among…
How bots at work, no longer sci-fi, will help you do more in the workplace
In the 1980s, the television program Knight Rider gave a glimpse into a world where artificial intelligence could learn, communicate and make independent decisions. The star of the show, a self-aware…
What we know — and need to know — about chatbots
It has been a dream of science fiction authors since the advent of computers: hands-free interfaces that can respond to our every whim — without the need to strike a single key. That future is now…