We’re bringing you ERP Today’s weekly hotlist, featuring our top news picks from the previous week. Salesforce and AWS to expand partnership with new integrations Announced at the AWS re:Invent event, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Salesforce have decided to expand their long-standing partnership to broaden product integrations across data and AI and offer select Salesforce products on the AWS marketplace. The expanded agreement promises to make it easier for customers to securely manage their data across both platforms as well as responsibly infuse the latest GenAI technologies into their appl ..read more

Atos, the official IT partner of UEFA National Team Football until 2030, has announced it will deliver on-site and remote IT services for the UEFA EURO 2024, taking place June 14 to July 24, 2024, in Germany. Since first announcing its partnership at the end of 2022, Atos has helped UEFA manage and improve its systems and applications and has supported major tournaments such as the UEFA Nations League Finals held in Rotterdam in June, 2023. At UEFA EURO 2024, Atos aims to improve the experience for all stakeholders and will be responsible for managing core IT planning and operations systems su ..read more

Vendor conferences are over for the year, with AWS re:Invent 2023 seeing out the season of big tech brands setting out their stalls with trademark glitz and glamor. As with any other year, the pattern was the same; if we set out an Excel spreadsheet of each conference and columns for check marks, we’d see the usual ticks for partnerships, product launches and AI (ad infinitum). Not so much on the checklist? Skills. 2023 continued the decreasing of workforces for most vendors as budgets tightened. 2024 could see that continue if vendors use the same AI internally which they’re selling as an aut ..read more

Just over a month ago, in October, SAP and EY expanded their alliance to help organizations accelerate value-led sustainability action. This alliance saw teams of EY professionals advising SAP and customers on the core design and blueprint for the next generation of software solutions to create more influential climate, nature and social impact strategies. ERP Today spoke with Sheri Hinish, global consulting sustainability technology and ecosystems leader at EY to explore this alliance further. Melissa Evatt (ME): What constitutes value-led sustainability action? Sheri Hinish (SH): Value-led s ..read more

Configurable Management’s WINGMAN is a configurable implementation management, test and defect management application that automates data entry tools to provide real-time visibility into project management. SharePoint lists, Excel sheets and other management applications often suffer from data entry errors and human error that lead to costly and timely remedial processes. The WINGMAN app is tackling this issue by automating these tedious tasks, lowering risk of error and saving time. With a robust permissions management layer to limit who can update project requirements, business process maste ..read more

SAP RISE is a cloud-based service offering from SAP that includes the private edition of SAP S/4HANA Cloud at the core. As part of the offering, SAP maintains privately-managed, single-tenanted accounts for each customer with hyperscale providers including AWS, Azure and GCP. The accounts are fully managed by SAP. Therefore, SAP acts as a cloud service provider and the customer is essentially a consumer of an SAP cloud service. SAP customers are responsible for most aspects of security for on-premise deployments or cloud deployments managed directly with hyperscale providers. However, SAP RISE ..read more

Samsara has reported its financial results for Q3 fiscal year 2024, ending October 28, 2023. The company saw revenue growth of 40 percent year-on-year (YoY) rising to $237.5m, compared to $169.8m in Q3 FY23. Samsara ended Q3 with $1bn in ARR, representing 39 percent growth YoY, driving momentum with its 1,663 customers with ARR over $100,000, an increase of 49 percent YoY. Sanjit Biswas, CEO and co-founder of Samsara, said: “We achieved an important milestone this quarter as we surpassed $1bn in ARR in just our eighth year of selling. “As a strategic partner to the world’s leading and most com ..read more

UiPath has announced its third quarter financial results for fiscal 2024, demonstrating significant growth in both revenue and ARR, driven by customer growth and the team’s execution. For the quarter that ended October 31, 2023, the RPA firm’s revenue grew 24 percent to $326m, while ARR was also up 24 percent to $1.378bn, spurred by third-quarter net new ARR of $70m. Rob Enslin, UiPath’s co-CEO said that the third quarter results were another proof point of its commitment to delivering strong top-line growth with expanding profitability and non-GAAP adjusted free cash flow. “I am pleased with ..read more

SAP plays a crucial role in the digital supply chain, at times requiring a mobile component for non-technical end users to operate with maximum efficiency at point-of-work. Despite this need, some SAP users find SAP’s native mobility platforms, ITS Mobile and Fiorin, do not offer an optimal user interface and experience (UI/UX). When it comes to SAP barcode applications, this can impact on user adoption, productivity and time-to-value, according to recent RFgen Software research. The study explores the impact of modern mobile UI/UX on SAP-run organizations, including simpli ..read more

IBM has announced new efforts that apply its geospatial AI technologies – including IBM’s geospatial foundation model created in collaboration with NASA – to climate efforts, such as the analysis of urban heat islands in the UAE, reforestation across Kenya and climate resilience in the UK. Through fine-tuning, training and open-sourcing of foundation models, IBM continues to advance its AI model strategy. These models present an opportunity to address climate change and create knowledge representations from petabytes and exabytes of climate-relevant data that can facilitate accelerated and str ..read more