Enterprise Applications

How Shoprite used mobile, cloud, and ERP to survive COVID in Africa

David Cohn, CIO at the Shoprite Group, highlights how Africa's largest food retailer is transforming itself from a traditional bricks-and-mortar retailer into a digital powerhouse.

Oracle to customers: Spend more on cloud, save on support

With Oracle Support Rewards, the company hopes to tempt existing on-premises customers to move workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

How to choose RPA software: 10 key factors to consider

Menial tasks rob workers of time they could spend on more productive activities. Done right, RPA can banish bucketfuls of mindless chores. Here's how to select the right RPA solution for the job.

SAP finally joins the process mining fray

SAP has unveiled Process Insights, a new tool that leverages SAPu2019s wealth of enterprise data and recent acquisitions to help customers improve key business processes.

SAP brings new tools and modularity to Rise

SAP brings new tools and modularity to Rise

SAP has added HR and vertical industry support to its hosted S/4HANA offering, while furthering its forays into process intelligence and AI for expense auditing.

SAP steps back from S/4HANA-on-Azure preference

Microsoftu2019s Azure will no longer be SAPu2019s preferred cloud platform u2014 although SAP executives say the companiesu2019 Embrace partnership remains strong.

6 ‘crackpot’ technologies that might transform IT

Next-horizon technologies have piqued some IT leadersu2019 interest in terms of the business value they may ultimately drive. Others remain skeptical of the high-risk payoff.

The quest for end-to-end intelligent automation

AI-powered process automation remains piecemeal, but new innovations are arising to fill the gaps, bringing the promise of fully intelligent automation that much closer.

Here is the technology fueling Africa’s agricultural revolution

Agriculture in Africa is making use of emerging technology to innovate solutions to improve food security in Africa. rn

Pandemic accelerates supply-chain innovation in Africa

As a way to reduce infections, many governments imposed movement restrictions that adversely affected businesses for the greater part of 2020, but innovation around the supply chain has been a silver lining for retailers as well as producers and dist