Inventory management is not a squishy area where success can be described in vague language. Success here is a numbers game. There a number of key performance indicators (KPI’s) available to you, including Service Level, Fill Rate, Inventory Turns, Inventory Investment, and Inventory Operating Cost. Companies differ in the importance they assign to each metric such, but you can’t win without using some or all of these to keep score.
For cloud vendors, the battle for supremacy in industry-specific clouds will be the most intense due to the massive future revenue potential.
This blog describes how to gain the benefits of inventory optimization by outlining 4 approaches with varying degrees of automation.
Manufacturers can have a clear view of business operations and equipment performance by analyzing data. Data analysis allows these organizations to operate more efficiently, as AI software can use this information to improve decision making.
The day we thought would never arrive —the end of 2020!!— is here and I’d like to share my choices for the Top 10 Cloud Wars stories of 2020.
Even measured against the fun-house-mirror distortions that 2020 imposed on us all, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had a singular year.
Oracle and its fast-growing IaaS business face a very different challenge, as chairman Larry Ellison says demand is far outstripping supply.
AI technology is poised to significantly disrupt the industry of web scraping bots due to its ability to analyze vast information and recognize unique patterns.
Judson Althoff, Microsoft EVP of worldwide commercial business, laid out their 5-step plan for “how 50,000 people go to work every day”.
Microsoft executive VP Judson Althoff said recently that CRM without chat is “arcane” and that Teams is years ahead of Slack.
Alkermes, a global biopharmaceutical leader headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with a research and development center near Boston, Massachusetts is using SAP Concur to digitally transform processes around automation to drive multiple efficiencies. Understand the why and how behind their strategy to learn how this can inform your decision making process around automation!
Without a shred of proof, Larry Ellison claims yet again that Oracle is close to snatching some large SAP ERP customers.
Oracle claims that its Autonomous Data Warehouse has three significant advantages over category-king Amazon and shiny new object Snowflake.
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison underscored that the enemy of his enemy is his friend by claiming Snowflake “is killing” Amazon Redshift.
Workday has competed, won, and excelled against its larger rivals while also winning awards for being a fabulous company to work for.
Ready to turn its dreams of transcending traditional ERP into reality, SAP to bring the full promise of the Intelligent Enterprise in 2021.
On December 1, 2020, Salesforce acquired Slack for $27.7 Billion. Guest author Jiri Kram’s thoughts on what preceded and will happen next.
Betting $28 billion that Slack will help Salesforce stay ahead of hard-charging Oracle and SAP, Marc Benioff is redefining his company.
The three vendors whose cloud revenue is growing most rapidly are Google at 44.8%, Oracle 33% (estimated), and Microsoft 31%.
Surging growth and massive potential have spurred Alphabet to break out the financial results of Google Cloud in a separate reporting segment.
