
5 Proven Ways Manufacturers Can Get Started With Analytics
46% of manufacturers agree that implementing and using data analytics is necessary to stay competitive and grow their businesses. 69% of manufacturing decision-makers believe analytics will be crucial for business success in 2020, with 15% considering it crucial today. 32% of manufacturers see the potential for analytics to improve supply chain performance and increase revenue. […]

CPQ Needs To Scale And Support Smarter, More Connected Products
For smart, connected product strategies to succeed they require a product lifecycle view of configurations, best attained by integrating PLM, CAD, CRM, and ERP systems. Capgemini estimates that the size of the connected products market will be $519B to $685B by 2020. In 2018, $985B will be spent on IoT-enabled smart consumer devices, soaring to […]

10 Ways To Improve Cloud ERP With AI And Machine Learning
Capitalizing on new digital business models and the growth opportunities they provide are forcing companies to re-evaluate ERP’s role. Made inflexible by years of customization, legacy ERP systems aren’t delivering what digital business models need today to scale and grow. Legacy ERP systems were purpose-built to excel at production consistency first at the expense of […]

Cloud Wars Heating Up: Oracle : Taleo, Dassault Systemes : Netvibes
This past week virtually no one in the software world was surprised by Oracle’s announcement of intent to acquire cloud talent management vendor Taleo. The acquisition that was something of a surprise, and maybe you even missed, was the much…

Research Summary: Introducing The 43 Use Cases For Social Business (Social Enterprise)
The Social Business (Social Enterprise) Moves Beyond The 18 Use Cases Of Social CRM As social media adoption continues to move from mainstream to pervasive ubiquity, enterprises will begin to benefit from these advancements in the consumerization of IT (CoIT). Just 18 months ago, early use cases identified 18 Use Cases for Social CRM (SCRM). […]