Coupa Inspire - new leadership and AI tools, same community buzz
Big changes in leadership and the impact of generative AI have brought change to Coupa - but the data shared by its customer community remains a distinctive strength.
Spend management and SCM
Enterprise hits and misses - ChatGPT-4o gets an early enterprise grade, Meta bails on Workplace, and AI forces a skills rethink
This week - Meta bails on Workplace, but was this a serious enterprise play? OpenAI releases ChatGPT-4o - should the enterprise care? AI is forcing a skills rethink, but will it usurp developers? As always, your whiffs.
Behind the Oracle Cloud SCM news - how do cloud applications help customers address logistics visibility?
Oracle just released a host of new Cloud SCM logistics features, including new modeling and automation functions. But how do cloud applications change logistics? How are we addressing the visibility issues that have plagued customers in search of real-time tracking? Here's what Oracle's Srini Rajagopal had to say.
Building sustainable governance – why the CFO and the CPO have key roles to play
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ESG is a cross-functional priority - Sophie Graham of IFS explores how sustainable governance links to different roles across the C-suite and needs to translate words into action.
Enterprise hits and misses - retailers face the innovation crunch, CIOs bear down on data, and the AI hype cycle gets called out
This week - as the AI hype cycle rolls on, enterprises contend with project realities. Retails face the innovation crossroads, and supply chain resiliency remains an oxymoron. AWS re:Invent gets another look, and cringy new tech buzz words are born.
Spend Connect - SAP brings generative AI to enterprise spend
Generative AI comes to spend professionals as SAP unveils a slew of new tools at its Spend Connect conference.
Why do enterprises make it so hard for employees to buy stuff? Levelpath looks for a simpler way
A year and half after leaving Workday, the co-founders of Scout RFP already have 15 customers and $44.5 million in funding for their new venture Levelpath, which aims to simplify the enterprise buying process.
Save the Children International boosts its aid programs with treasury automation
The global NGO’s foreign exchange operations were simplified and became more efficient following collaboration with treasury management software provider Coupa
Sapphire Orlando '23 - Hitachi Energy's logistics lessons from its global SAP Business Network project
SAP Sapphire Orlando brought some major global projects into the spotlight. Hitachi's global S/4HANA and SAP Business Network for Logistics project is one example. But how does a multi-year initiative keep momentum? Here's what I learned.
Can AI make supply chains smarter? Oracle's Steve Miranda on filling logistics black holes, and how customers' supply chain needs have changed
As Oracle CloudWorld Tour hits London, I go behind Oracle's AI supply chain news with Steve Miranda. I also get his take on generative AI for the enterprise - and how it's changing the AI conversation with customers.
Coupa Inspire - giving CFOs more visibility and control over spend
At this year's Inspire conference, spend management vendor Coupa is talking up end-to-end visibility and control for the CFO.
Enterprise hits and misses - Generative AI is put to the enterprise test, while the Silicon Valley Bank implosion leaves innovation fallout in its wake
This week - Silicon Valley Bank implodes. Once the crisis is averted, what will the innovation fallout be? Generative AI's hype machine is put into enterprise context - will the guardrails and ROI be enough? Your whiffs include a very Meta move, and the revenge of the floppy disk.
Are supplier-driven transformations a realistic goal? Putting SAP Business Network's talking points to the use case test
Supplier-driven transformations sound like a worthwhile concept - but is this a viable framework, when so many customers are still operating in spreadsheet-laden data silos? Two SAP Business Network customers, Mabe and KUKA AG, share instructive use cases.
