ERP

Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options

£5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support

PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2025 | 34

Interest in SAP cloud migration triples in its biz heartland

User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org

Databases25 Mar 2025 |

Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year

'Three-year' tech support deal still running

PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 18

City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster

Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillors

Databases13 Mar 2025 | 62

Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months

It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live

Databases11 Mar 2025 | 61

How mega city council's failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed its financial controls

Missing assessments, hidden caveats, and overoptimism all contributed to fateful decision, auditors find

PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2025 | 37

Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances

Databases25 Feb 2025 | 114

Users await the fine print on SAP Business Suite reboot

Cloud-based revival should come with 'a corresponding discount scale,' customers say

Applications14 Feb 2025 | 4

SAP snared in revenue trap unless it extends legacy ERP support

User can still push for perpetual licenses despite vendor's craving for subscription deals

Databases13 Feb 2025 | 7

Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays

Third-party software sticking plaster expected six months late

Databases03 Feb 2025 | 39

Oracle finance system at Europe's largest city council still falls short 2.5 years later

Auditors find solution design 'was not fully resolved' when it went live in 2022

Databases29 Jan 2025 | 22

Asda tech divorce from Walmart delays cut-over for 55 stores

Supermarket taking 'pragmatic approach' to 'Europe's largest IT transformation program'

On-Prem21 Jan 2025 | 24

Stumbling ERP project racks up sales losses greater than budget

South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements

Databases03 Jan 2025 | 7

Asda decided on a 'no go' for 'mass rollout' of store IT conversion

Exclusive Amid plans to convert smaller stores, retailer opted to stall December shift as Walmart tech divorce continues

On-Prem19 Dec 2024 | 52

London's Met Police seeks business services, ERP refresh in £370M deal

Contract could be worth a cool £1 billion if associated organizations join

Databases17 Dec 2024 | 9

Europe's largest local authority settles on ERP budget 5x original estimate

Schools taken out of scope, but £108M plan still dwarfs initial £20M

Public Sector06 Dec 2024 | 46

Asda hits the brakes on tech tweaks to avoid festive fiasco

Stability essential ahead of Christmas trading amid ongoing Walmart divorce

On-Prem03 Dec 2024 | 33

Asda security chief replaced, retailer sheds jobs during Walmart tech divorce

British grocer's workers called back to office as clock ticks for contractors

On-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 18

Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever

Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation

Databases08 Nov 2024 | 73

Users struggle with recipe when moving enterprise apps to the cloud

From meatballs and spaghetti to lasagna – same ingredients, different structure, says analyst

Databases05 Nov 2024 | 8

UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project

Gloucestershire continues with legacy system as SaaS replacement delayed by more than a year

Databases21 Oct 2024 | 13

Someone's finally taking on £10M Hull City Council ERP deal to replace Oracle

Step forward Workday after mega long procurement to support system that went live 22 years ago

Databases18 Oct 2024 | 23

Inexorable march of progress at SAP threatens to leave users behind

AI hardly a hot topic with some customers calling for more innovation on-prem

Databases16 Oct 2024 | 4

Workday beats Oracle and Microsoft in UK 'Matrix' ERP deal

The SaaS-only provider and Cognizant snag £144.3M in gov software shake-up

Databases08 Oct 2024 | 8

Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration

Exclusive Britain's Asda admits tech divorce from ex-owner Walmart is still overrunning

Databases03 Oct 2024 | 109

SAP support auto-renewal gotcha: Do nothing now, pay for another year

Updated Single digit price hikes suspected for UK and Europe and double digit mooted for everywhere else

Databases26 Sep 2024 | 13

Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year

Workers forced to manually correct setup that struggles to produce auditable accounts after customizations

Databases20 Sep 2024 | 51

ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it

Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts

Databases19 Sep 2024 | 6

UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B

Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes

Public Sector18 Sep 2024 | 12

Sainsbury's bags a ticket to RISE with SAP, hoping not to trip like Asda

UK's second largest retailer set to move ERP to the cloud with AWS, Accenture, and the German software gaint

Databases17 Sep 2024 | 5

Enterprise SAP users split between on-prem and cloud as migration challenges loom

This is despite the German vendor's preferred upgrade path

Databases28 Aug 2024 | 8

India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more

Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 3

Two senior board execs leave SAP as restructuring hits the fan

German vendor maintains departures follow increase in job cuts

PaaS + IaaS31 Jul 2024 | 2

Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructure

Revenue and underlying profit please markets in Q2 as German software giant retains focus on costs

Databases23 Jul 2024 | 9

Europe's largest council could face £12M manual audit bill after Oracle project disaster

Thank goodness for pen and paper. Re-implemented system might not arrive until March 2026, four years after initial roll-out

Public Sector18 Jul 2024 | 39

Cold comfort to teachers who got paid late, but ERP software rollout had 'unrealistic' timeline

18 months late, overbudget... report finds council's SAP ERP rip 'n' replace with Unit4 had hidden complexity

Databases16 Jul 2024 | 49

Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout

Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose

Public Sector08 Jul 2024 | 56

Labour wins race to lead UK, but few would envy the load in its tech in-tray

Analysis Looming train wrecks face winning party after it promises investment and innovation

Public Sector05 Jul 2024 | 426

Baddies hijack Korean ERP vendor's update systems to spew malware

Notorious 'Andariel' crew takes a bite of HotCroissant backdoor for fresh attack

Malware Month02 Jul 2024 |

Asda kisses Walmart goodbye with half a billion dollar tech breakup bill

Project including SAP upgrade beset by cost increases and delays

Systems01 Jul 2024 | 31

SAP customers warned on hidden risks in the unofficial route to the cloud

But RISE with SAP can also be too rigid for some customers, Gartner says

Databases25 Jun 2024 | 1

GenAI dominates the narrative in ERP, but what is it good for?

Low-code and report production vie for early use cases, but risks remain

AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 7

SAP customers may struggle to escape ECC before support shutters if they don't start now

User group warns of systems integrator and consultant shortage to make herculean shift to S4/HANA

SaaS12 Jun 2024 | 10

Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council's estimates in SAP rip-'n-replace

Updated No it's not Birmingham this time. West Sussex County Council ERP replacement price to hit £40M

Databases30 Apr 2024 | 85

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout

Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place

Public Sector25 Apr 2024 | 92

Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout

Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial'

Databases17 Apr 2024 | 47

North American S/4HANA migrations ramping among SAP users

Skills access still an issue for organizations hoping to beat the 2027 ECC support deadline

Databases15 Apr 2024 | 1

Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more

First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason

SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15

UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch

Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga

PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2024 | 15

SAP transformation program a 'euphemism' for job cuts, claims European Works Council

8,000 roles affected worldwide, but Germany will bear heaviest losses

SaaS10 Apr 2024 | 7

Licensing labyrinth for Power Apps and Dynamics 365 must be clarified, warns expert

Rules still unclear for Microsoft users making potentially costly decisions on enterprise applications

Databases21 Mar 2024 | 4

SAP users aren't keen on upping spending right now

Cloud and upgrade conversions remain steady if sluggish, according to ERP spending bellwether DSAG

Databases21 Mar 2024 | 5

Microsoft license shuffle means Power Apps users could break the bank

Updated New restrictions seem to usher users toward expensive Dynamics 365 subscriptions

Applications15 Mar 2024 | 21

City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do

Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save 'bankrupt' council money

Public Sector28 Feb 2024 | 71

City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment

Updated Four years after first approaching market for new system, public body hopes to start working with SI

Databases19 Feb 2024 | 43

Unit4 software's budget bungle leaves schools counting the cost

MP calls on council to ensure education teams can plan their financial futures

Databases13 Feb 2024 | 21