ERP

Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout

Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose

Public Sector08 Jul 2024 | 56

Labour wins race to lead UK, but few would envy the load in its tech in-tray

Analysis Looming train wrecks face winning party after it promises investment and innovation

Public Sector05 Jul 2024 | 426

Baddies hijack Korean ERP vendor's update systems to spew malware

Notorious 'Andariel' crew takes a bite of HotCroissant backdoor for fresh attack

Malware Month02 Jul 2024 |

Asda kisses Walmart goodbye with half a billion dollar tech breakup bill

Project including SAP upgrade beset by cost increases and delays

Systems01 Jul 2024 | 31

SAP customers warned on hidden risks in the unofficial route to the cloud

But RISE with SAP can also be too rigid for some customers, Gartner says

Databases25 Jun 2024 | 1

GenAI dominates the narrative in ERP, but what is it good for?

Low-code and report production vie for early use cases, but risks remain

AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 7

SAP customers may struggle to escape ECC before support shutters if they don't start now

User group warns of systems integrator and consultant shortage to make herculean shift to S4/HANA

SaaS12 Jun 2024 | 10

Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council's estimates in SAP rip-'n-replace

Updated No it's not Birmingham this time. West Sussex County Council ERP replacement price to hit £40M

Databases30 Apr 2024 | 85

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout

Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place

Public Sector25 Apr 2024 | 92

Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout

Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial'

Databases17 Apr 2024 | 47

North American S/4HANA migrations ramping among SAP users

Skills access still an issue for organizations hoping to beat the 2027 ECC support deadline

Databases15 Apr 2024 | 1

Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more

First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason

SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15

UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch

Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga

PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2024 | 15

SAP transformation program a 'euphemism' for job cuts, claims European Works Council

8,000 roles affected worldwide, but Germany will bear heaviest losses

SaaS10 Apr 2024 | 7

Licensing labyrinth for Power Apps and Dynamics 365 must be clarified, warns expert

Rules still unclear for Microsoft users making potentially costly decisions on enterprise applications

Databases21 Mar 2024 | 4

SAP users aren't keen on upping spending right now

Cloud and upgrade conversions remain steady if sluggish, according to ERP spending bellwether DSAG

Databases21 Mar 2024 | 5

Microsoft license shuffle means Power Apps users could break the bank

Updated New restrictions seem to usher users toward expensive Dynamics 365 subscriptions

Applications15 Mar 2024 | 21

City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do

Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save 'bankrupt' council money

Public Sector28 Feb 2024 | 71

City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment

Updated Four years after first approaching market for new system, public body hopes to start working with SI

Databases19 Feb 2024 | 43

Unit4 software's budget bungle leaves schools counting the cost

MP calls on council to ensure education teams can plan their financial futures

Databases13 Feb 2024 | 21

When red flags are just office decoration: Edinburgh Uni's Oracle IT disaster

Management either weren't told about risks or ignored them, report finds

Systems08 Feb 2024 | 91

SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal

Despite EV commitment, German giant tells Musk marque to buzz off

Personal Tech06 Feb 2024 | 89

Whether to move off Oracle is the $100M+ question for Europe's largest public body

After car-crash implementation, Birmingham City Council must weigh up options after current problems are fixed

Databases05 Feb 2024 | 68

SAP dangles juicy carrot to pull users on board with cloud-first vision

Limited-time offer may reduce cost of migration by up to 50%

Databases30 Jan 2024 | 2

Leaked email: Unit4 ERP system leaves some school staff with 'nil pay'

Exclusive 'Primary focus' is 'welfare of our staff as we resolve any errors,' says UK council after rollout of £30M SAP replacement

Public Sector30 Jan 2024 | 44

€2B SAP restructure program will affect 8,000 roles

Plans announced as profits fall and revenues rise

Databases24 Jan 2024 | 1

Asda's delayed SAP migration forces extension to Walmart's backend support contract

Three years after leveraged buyout, $240M ERP plan yet to bear fruit

Databases23 Jan 2024 | 19

SAP reshuffles leadership as cloud crusade continues

New moves follow year where customers complained it broke their trust

Databases10 Jan 2024 | 3

Apache OFBiz zero-day pummeled by exploit attempts after disclosure

Issue has been patched so be sure to check your implementations

Cyber-crime08 Jan 2024 |

India builds massive tech infrastructure to support finance sector

ERP for 63,000 small rural lenders, software for 1,800 banks, and better-than-hyperscale cloud for the rest

On-Prem20 Dec 2023 | 1

Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue

Building material supplier left without functional ERP can amend claim

Databases08 Nov 2023 | 13

Unit4 ditching on-prem in favor of SaaS come 2025

Exclusive Clients have a little over a year to get their affairs in order

Databases31 Oct 2023 | 13

SAP barely moving needle to migrate users off ECC before support ends

Gartner finds only a third are somewhat prepared for S/4HANA transition

Databases11 Oct 2023 | 7

SAP customers on brink of ERPocalypse as 2025 support cliff looms for ECC

When German vendor promised service until 2027, not everyone qualified

Databases10 Oct 2023 | 10

Techies at Europe's biggest council have 8 weeks to pull finance reports from Oracle system

Auditors issue new deadline following ill-fated migration

Public Sector02 Oct 2023 | 72

NTT will take those SAP licenses off your hands if it helps ease cloud migration

Bid to break impasse where boards only see costs

Databases28 Sep 2023 | 5

Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy

Auditors unable to sign off accounts partly due to lack of IT controls amid challenging ERP deployment

Databases18 Sep 2023 | 60

Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software?

Opinion Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed

Databases11 Sep 2023 | 101

SAP user group calls for support deadline reprieve amid hospital billing worries

Schedule is unrealistic... it takes 2 years just to tender, protests board member

Databases06 Sep 2023 | 13

Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster

Authority effectively bankrupt as ERP car crash adds to equal pay liability

Databases05 Sep 2023 | 238

S/4HANA was once the future for SAP – but now it's in the clouds

Midway through upgrade projects, users are struggling to understand the change of heart

PaaS + IaaS08 Aug 2023 | 35

£214m effort to modernize SAP ERP in UK govt systems marked Code Red

Experts warn agreement needed and skills lacking in HMRC-led project

Databases27 Jul 2023 | 28

SAP checks cloud forecast to find it's not raining as much revenue as hoped

Yet mission vital to ERP giant's financial future remains on track

Databases21 Jul 2023 |

UK government's newest department to lead mega ERP procurement

Tender designed to bring together 48k users running Oracle, Microsoft and more into 1 SaaS system

Databases07 Jul 2023 | 19

Not even Dynamics 365 ERP is safe from Microsoft's Copilot splurge

The AI tentacles grab supply chain management, projects, and finance

AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 19

UK.gov reboots ERP refresh with £934 million procurement

Second time lucky? But departments still lack funding to complete strategy, watchdog says

Databases01 Jun 2023 | 8

SAP's cloud drive hits speed bumps with American users

ERP giant losing points on execution and flexibility

Databases23 May 2023 | 3

SAP gets cloudy with a chance of AI in bid to woo on-prem brigade

HR chatbots and more as maintenance deadline looms

AI + ML17 May 2023 | 2

SAP signs IBM Watson deal, ChatGPT showstopper waits in the wings

50-year-old ERP vendor reaches for 15-year-old AI to be down with the kids

AI + ML03 May 2023 | 4

SAP users not happy about German giant's price rises

Issues remain in the costs for development and quality assurance in the cloud

Databases02 May 2023 | 14

Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late

It also required £20 million in extra funds – and Larry wants to brag about this?

Databases26 Apr 2023 | 44

It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors

That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable

CxO21 Apr 2023 | 12

Huawei replaces ERP with homebrew effort, claims it’s perfect and shows company will thrive despite sanctions

Compares three-year development push to a famous battle that saw Communist forces triumph

Applications21 Apr 2023 | 20

Fujitsu sets out on 5-year mission to standardize ERP on SAP S/4HANA

To that we say good luck

PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2023 | 9

Users slam SAP's public cloud and S/4HANA migration strategy

German-speaking heartlands fear they'll be paying again for features they've already built

Databases05 Apr 2023 | 9

Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live

Staff and suppliers paid late last year, new requirements lead to contract price hike

Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 | 6