The future of public sector ERP: Agile Cloud-Enabled Services (ACES)

May 15, 2016

The landscape for public sector enterprise resource planning (ERP) system deployments is changing dramatically. Governments are moving away aggressively from highly customized, on-premises solutions toward shared platforms and cloud-enabled managed services. In response, ERP solution providers must offer unprecedented flexibility to meet varying government needs for customization, control and cost containment. Solution providers must also ensure that ERP software, implementation and ongoing operations are tightly integrated to maximize efficiency and accountability.

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Artificial Intelligence Policy and the European Union

whitePaper | August 30, 2022

In late 2019, then newly elected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced her intent to make regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) a top priority for Europe. She promised to “put forward legislation for a coordinated European approach on the human and ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence” within her first 100 days in office.

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HFS Enterprise AI Services Top 10

whitePaper | January 12, 2020

“The services market for artificial intelligence technologies is rapidly maturing on the back of several years of learning and a realization—delivering AI is unlike delivering any other technology thus far. Delivering on the promise of AI calls for far more collaboration between service providers, tech vendors, and enterprise clients.” The biggest differentiator in enterprise AI services, as described by most of the customer leaders, is the quality of people—not just the quantity available for a specific skill. Domain understanding and data engineering capabilities are top priorities. A culture of innovation, experimentation, collaboration, and co creation with customers is the key winning formula here.”

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Code Red: The business impact of low code quality

whitePaper | March 30, 2022

This paper presents data from a large-scale study on how code quality impacts software companies in terms of time-to-market and product experience. We conclude with an analysis of the impact and specific recommendations towards successful software development.

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THE INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE FOR CARGO COMPANIES

whitePaper | November 15, 2019

The demands of running global supply chains can be unrelenting – perfection of operations, innovation in support of lastmile delivery, and assurances of sustainability in the pursuit of delivering the “perfect order” as promised. Now, transportation companies face the additional challenge of sharpening their core competencies while increasing the pace of innovation, adapting emerging technologies, and sharing data with their customers to improve transparency and efficiency. Long characterized by capital-intensive assets, forward-looking cargo companies are turning their attention to the data that comes from their own assets and infrastructure as well as from their customers. It is a complex transition, one that requires knowledge-based labor, automation, and predictive planning to turn transportation companies into digital platforms.

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Maximising theAI opportunity

whitePaper | November 1, 2019

Artificial Intelligence is becoming an ever more important part of our lives. Many of us are already familiar with its everyday applications, such as decluttering our inboxes with spam filters or receiving personalised shopping recommendations. Yet, whether it is powering a new generation of self-driving cars, guarding us against fraud or helping doctors better diagnose health conditions, AI’s transformational abilities are being felt in increasingly ubiquitous and innovative ways.

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Osterman Research - Improve Performance of Microsoft Office 365

whitePaper | July 31, 2020

Microsoft 365 provides organizations with a range of efficient, new-style productivity and collaboration tools that are widely embraced across the world. However, Microsoft 365 comes with some shortcomings in certain key areas, such as security, auditing, archiving, backup and recovery, data protection, and more. Relying solely on the native capabilities in Microsoft 365 can lead to challenges, such as missed security threats and the inability to recover accidentally deleted data – all of which can be costly.

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Quixey is the pioneer of deep mobile search. The company connects you to instant actions within apps, like booking a hotel or ordering a ride, so you can do what you want to do quickly. Now that the search industry is fragmented with queries coming from various platforms and not just the web, Quixey is the execution layer that sits behind these platforms and solves the problem of how to best fulfill the query.

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