The ERP Advisor

This week at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s user conference, Salesforce introduced Genie, a hyper-scale real-time data platform that powers the entire Salesforce Customer 360. Genie unifies all of a company’s customer data across channels and interactions into a single, real-time customer profile, so every experience across the Customer 360 is more automated, intelligent, and real-time. Microsoft made a few announcements this week, beginning with its board of directors declaring a quarterly dividen...

28 Syys 20223min

Several exciting announcements were made regarding the application enhancements of Workday products, with new innovations to help power a new era for the office of the CFO through new machine learning capabilities, increased performance and scalability in planning, and deeper insights into the supply chain, enhancements to Workday’s HR solutions allowing customers to gain deeper insight into workforce skills and deliver more personalized employee experiences, and new customer support solution...

21 Syys 20224min

Deltek, a global provider of software and solutions for project-based businesses, quickly rose to notoriety, by providing solutions for advanced project intelligence, management, and collaboration. Deltek puts an emphasis on the people who make an organization, specifically developing products for government, field services, and professional services industries. In this episode of The ERP Advisor, we dissect Deltek’s professional services solutions to educate listeners on its position in the ...

15 Syys 202220min

Workday held its annual customer conference, Workday Rising, where it made a couple of major business announcements. First, Workday launched Industry Accelerators, the initial set of which will be targeted at helping banking, healthcare, insurance, and technology companies speed up their enterprise cloud transformation efforts. These initiatives will assist Workday customers in delivering even more innovation and purpose-built solutions through their finance, HR, planning, and supply chain op...

13 Syys 20222min

The process leading to a company's Initial Public Offering (IPO) is extremely tedious, as leaders must ensure the company meets financial reporting compliance requirements while also using extensive financial analysis to demonstrate the appeal of the enterprise to potential investors. Many private companies upgrade to a new ERP prior to going public to instill the highest amount of investor confidence in their financial statements; but how can users decipher between their needs and the requir...

9 Syys 202237min

SAP announced significant leadership changes with the appointment of Lloyd Adams as President of SAP North America, effective as of September 1st, and the announcement that Dominik Asam from Airbus will take over as SAP CFO and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE on March 7, 2023. This comes as no surprise with the related big news in the enterprise software space this week being that cloud-native Salesforce dislodged legacy provider SAP as the world’s biggest producer of enterprise appli...

8 Syys 20223min

Founded in 1977 as Software Development Laboratories, Oracle quickly rose to prominence in the ERP market, ranking as the world’s largest database management company with over $100 million in sales only ten years after its establishment. With offerings across software solutions and services alike, it is clear to see how Oracle rapidly grew its market share in the ERP space. In this installment of the vendor overview series, The ERP Advisor will provide an outright synopsis of Oracle. h...

6 Syys 202223min

Founded in the western Netherlands, Unit4 developed next-generation enterprise software to meet the ever-expanding needs of people-centric businesses. Unit4’s offerings put significant focus on the person behind the production with its People Experience Suite, which includes financial management, accounting, ERP, FP&A, HCM, and talent management modules. In this episode of The ERP Advisor, we will take an unrestricted dive into Unit4 to display its features and functionalities within the ...

1 Syys 202220min