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Who takes responsibility? Birmingham’s ERP extraordinary meeting

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Earlier this month, councillors had an opportunity to discuss the past and current issues faced by Birmingham City Council in its implementation of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from Oracle. The council’s extraordinary meeting, held on 11 March, gave council members a chance to voice their concerns following publication of a Grant Thornton report…

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Auditor: 2026 till Birmingham recovers from botched Oracle project

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Grant Thornton has issued a forensic 66-page report relating to a failed Oracle Fusion enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation at Birmingham City Council, which has left it without a functioning finance system until at least 2026. Among the impacts of the failed Oracle implementation, the auditors note its overall cost, plus the investment necessary to…

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As Java turns 30, developers switch to OpenJDK

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The latest State of Java report from Azul Systems shows that the 30-year-old programming language has moved with the times and is being used for advanced applications like adding artificial intelligence (AI). More than 2,000 Java users were surveyed for this year’s report. Half (50%) of them were found to be building AI-enabled functionality that…

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Perplexity AI may save TikTok with a merger that’s half owned by the US government

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President Trump delayed the US TikTok ban a few days ago, but the reprieve is still temporary. ByteDance, the giant Chinese corporation that owns the social network, still has to sell the US version of TikTok or risk a complete ban in the country once the 75-day deadline expires. The law that forced the situation…

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Users protest, flee TikTok as clock ticks on US ban

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With the 19 January 2025 ban on TikTok just days away, American social media users and businesses are facing up to the fact that the video-sharing platform may go dark across the US at the weekend, with some now considering other alternatives at the last minute. On Friday 10 January, a last-ditch attempt by TikTok…

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Server manufacturers ramp-up edge AI efforts

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, Azure, Cloud, cloud computing, Dell, edge computing, Google, HP, internet of things, Kubernetes, Lenovo, machine learning, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Tech / By

Server manufacturers have long recognised the niche in public cloud computing that physical servers neatly fill. This has evolved over time to IT leaders and the industry recognising that some workloads will always be run on-premise; some may run both on the public cloud and on-premise; and some may be wholly cloud-based. Artificial intelligence (AI)…

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Data classification: What, why and who provides it

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When it comes to managing data, we need to know where it is – but we also need to know what it is. With the rise in regulatory controls, enterprises now pay more attention to data sovereignty, especially when it comes to data in the cloud, but to know exactly what information they hold is…

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NetApp maintains push to data management for AI

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NetApp will maintain its big push towards data management for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and took the opportunity to explain that move at its Insight 2024 event in Las Vegas this week. Core to that is data management via a global metadata namespace in its Ontap storage operating system that aims to make corporate data…

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ERP firms target carbon reporting role

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The major enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers have all embarked on a strategy to provide functionality in their product suites to help their customers monitor and manage the environmental impact of their operations. This is being driven by new regulations on climate change and organisations acknowledging that reducing their carbon footprint has business benefits. At…

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How to optimise SAM budget in today’s heterogeneous environments

8 minutes of reading / AI, Broadcom, compliance, Computer, Flex, IT service management, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Tech, Workday / By

Overspending awaits the unwary when managing heterogeneous IT environments incorporating on-premise software, cloud apps and software as a service (SaaS), even as software asset management (SAM) continues to adapt, evolving beyond mere inventory audits. According to Kumaravel Ramakrishnan, IT service management (ITSM) marketing director at ManageEngine, which develops various IT management offerings, SAM remains a…

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