At Workday’s Rising conference in Barcelona, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier fleshed out what looks like a strategic shift towards being an agentic AI platform that could disrupt traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP). In his opening keynote, CEO Carl Eschenbech positioned Workday as the “enterprise AI platform for managing people, money and…
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Human resources (HR) platform provider Workday has become the latest large organisation to fall victim to a cyber attack originating through a third-party supplier, as the impact of a wave of cyber attacks – likely orchestrated through Salesforce products and linked to the ShinyHunters cyber crime collective – continues to reverberate. In a notice published…
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Dan Pell is the general manager of Workday in the UK and Ireland, with a background at Salesforce and Microsoft, and a law degree in his hinterland. At the recent London edition of the HR software-as-a-service supplier’s Elevate customer conference, he gave the interview that follows, and which majors on how digital labour – agentic…
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Organisations holding data on US citizens must do more to address gaps in their cyber security posture and respond to incidents in a timelier fashion if they are to avoid falling victim to rising legal costs. An analysis of the past six months of data breach filings Stateside, conducted by continuous controls monitoring (CCM) specialist…
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…
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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It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…
The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases. The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…
How many times have you said to yourself, “I must clear out that shed/loft/garage”? We’ve all said it and our intentions are always good, but the clutter seems to build up, as does the sense of dread knowing that the tidy up will take even longer. Well, that is how most engineering vice presidents feel…
