ERP Articles

Covid check-ins give QR shot in arm… QR codes have become familiar at the doors to retailers and other premises – now they’re about to hit eftpos payments both instore and online. Eftpos is hoping to capitalise on Australians increased familiarity with QR codes, courtesy of Covid-19

A cloud for every sector… Microsoft has launched industry clouds for the financial services, manufacturing and nonprofit markets, as demand for industry specific cloud heats up – and vendors go vertical in a new sales battle. The three new offerings, which bring together existing products and services

Experimenting still name of the game for cloud… Enterprises overwhelmingly see significant technical and business benefits to public cloud, but few have been able to scale to business-wide cloud usage, with security, compliance and vendor lock-in holding them back. That’s the verdict of The State of Public Cloud

Five tips that can change fortunes… Buying the wrong software is an expensive and painful decision. Splashing out on a new application to run your business is a major strategic decision, but it can easily start off down the wrong track creating problems that will be with

Covid-19 has created a clash of market drivers. Which will out?… Market predictions in any vertical are tricky at the best of times, and the ERP market is no exception. This year, Covid-19 brings an overdose of risk and uncertainty as the pandemic’s tumultuous impacts roll out

As the economy buckles under Covid-19, Gartner advises cutting all non-critical tech… What a difference a global pandemic makes: With Covid-19 quarantine measures undermining industries, economies and IT departments everywhere, Gartner is advising CIOs to put a match to all unnecessary costs – including IT. The research

Shoptech hits local market with full SaaS offering… Shoptech, which specialises in providing comprehensive ERP systems for small to mid-sized manufacturing companies, has set its sights on the New Zealand and Australian markets, and aiding local companies with their move to Industry 4.0. The 36-year-old North American

Report highlights notable performance variations between public cloud providers… When it comes to choosing your public cloud provider, there’s a lot to consider, from the services offered and pricing tiers to global data centre presence. But one metric that has been hard to gauge, has been the

Smarter diagnostics needed to unravel root causes across multiple platforms… If you trust the literature, there’s not much the enterprise cloud can’t offer. Greater collaboration? Check. Faster innovation? Check. Happier customers? Double check. But while the advantages of that cloud-first strategy are crystal clear, its application into

‘Systemically important’ cloud providers lack oversight in financial markets… The big guns of the cloud world are facing increased scrutiny in the United States with two congresswoman gunning for more Federal oversight into AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in the wake of the Capital One data