The buzz: “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory” (W. Edwards Deming). How do we build the next generation of ERP applications? Your business needs applications and solutions that satisfy your demanding modern consumer, meet the challenges of a tech-rich supply chain, and transform your processes so you can become a true innovator. Great! Snap your fingers and it all magically appears? Not! The experts speak. Darwin Deano, Deloitte: “You must be the change you wish to see...

The buzz: “An examination of hundreds of businesses over 20 years of operations has shown us that rather than digging in their heels, successful companies…have a culture of continuous agility. In essence, they have “agility routines”" (Christopher Worley, www.entrepreneur.com/article/240705). The world has changed. Neither the old monolithic applications customized to meet yesterday’s business models nor generic, one-size-fits-all business solutions can power today’s digital organizations....

The buzz: “Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. (Peter Diamandis, Chairman/CEO, X-Prize Foundation). In the Digital Business era, analytics has become as ubiquitous as content. We review multiple levels of information to help us make meaningful, insightful business decisions in real-time and at the point of need. But when we peel the covers off this mass of data, is it trusted and in a digestible form we can easily apply...

The buzz: “Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, machine learning?—?whatever you’re doing if you don’t understand it?—?learn it. Because otherwise you’re going to be a dinosaur within 3 years” (Mark Cuban). Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Intelligent Things are no longer just “cool” technologies for early adopters. Beyond shaping our everyday lives, they are moving into the core of business ERP systems, with the potential to shape the new economy. If we get to the...

The buzz: “A data swamp is a deteriorated data lake that is either inaccessible to its intended users or is providing little value” (en.wikipedia.org). Back in the day, businesses created a simple information lake to acquire, manage and access data in native, raw format. Then one lake became many. Welcome to the age of the information swamp, an unmanageable architecture of costly, complex lakes. Are you sinking or swimming in yours? It’s time to turn your data into the “new oil”. The experts...

The buzz: “Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, machine learning — whatever you’re doing if you don’t understand it — learn it. Because otherwise you’re going to be a dinosaur within 3 years” (Mark Cuban). Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Intelligent Things are no longer just “cool” technologies for early adopters. Beyond shaping our everyday lives, they are moving into the core of business ERP systems, with the potential to shape the new economy. If we get to the...