The ERP Advisor

This week, financial results were released from Workday and UKG. Workday announced results for the fiscal 2024 first quarter ended April 30, 2023. UKG provided a business update for the second quarter of fiscal 2023, ending March 31, 2023. In other news, Sage Intacct and IFS announced major product releases. Sage Intacct received updates to help businesses across the world simplify financial consolidations, streamline operations, and improve financial planning. IFS announced the general avail...

31 Mai 20233min

ERP Advisors Group had the pleasure of attending the 2023 Epicor Insights Conference in Las Vegas, which focused on “turning insight into action.” Epicor’s CEO, Steve Murphy, summarized the event, stating, “To be successful in today’s marketplace, Makers, Movers, and Sellers must make data-driven decisions faster and with greater accuracy. It’s all about the right insights, in the right place, at the right time.” Related, SAP also hosted their conference in Orlando last week, SAP Sapphire in ...

23 Mai 20233min

After a successful ERP go-live, most business leaders want to take a hiatus from the intensity, expense, and disruption of managing implementation and the furthest thing from their mind is optimizing their new software. However, before a new system can truly revolutionize business operations, executives must freshly consider the organization’s strategy with the new possibilities available to them with more modern software. In this episode of The ERP Advisor, resident ERP expert Shawn Windle w...

16 Mai 202357min

Most busy, productive finance and accounting professionals wish they and their staff had more time in the day to do the value-add tasks that require time and space to analyze their financial data and make recommendations to better the business. However, many find themselves mired down in manual processes including spreadsheet manipulation, repetitively clicking through multiple systems, and performing time-consuming data entry to complete basic tasks. Automating tedious, manual financia...

16 Mai 202357min

SAP and IBM announced that IBM Watson technology will be embedded into SAP solutions to provide new AI-driven insights and automation to create more efficient and effective user experiences across the SAP application portfolio. Google Cloud and UKG announced an expanded partnership to bring Google Cloud’s generative AI (GenAI) capabilities into the UKG HCM suites. FinancialForce announced that it had changed its name to Certinia to align with the company’s evolution and delivery of a comprehe...

10 Mai 20232min

Microsoft Corp. announced its results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2023, compared to the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. IFS announced its financial results for the quarter ending March 31st, 2023, with recurring revenues up a significant 48% year-over-year. Additionally, Annual Recurring Revenue was also up 57% year-over-year. Unit4 announced the General Availability of App Studio, a new feature within the Unit4 Extension Kit to assist customers in streamlining their ...

3 Mai 20232min

Oracle released AI-driven solutions, adding new capabilities to the Oracle Fusion Cloud Application Suite. Salesforce announced new Einstein GPT and Data Cloud capabilities for Flow, its portfolio of automation tools. Epicor has made significant strides to expand globally with hosted services for Kinetic in China and a new data center in India. SAP announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023. Register to join ERP Advisors Group on May 11th for our event, “How F...

26 Apr 20233min

The dreaded ERP contract renewal is one of the most daunting tasks a business can face post-ERP implementation. If vital steps are taken upfront during initial contract negotiations, it can ease the weight on executives' shoulders come renewal, but what should businesses ask for? What do these terms mean? And what if great terms were not originally negotiated? These problems plague many businesses unfamiliar with the complex nature of ERP contracts. On this episode of The ERP Advisor, Shawn W...

25 Apr 202345min