In the week after Easter, Enterprise Times covered a few stories from ERP vendors. SAP revealed strong results, with S/4HANA the standout performer. Precisely revealed that SAP customers can now take advantage of a cloud deployment of its Automate solutions.
Pick of the week
Oracle NetSuite has completed another Hackathon 4Good. This was the largest event to date, with 168 NetSuite employees in 11 countries making up 27 teams. The event supported CalFoods Logistics, a logistics intermediary serving food banks across the state of California, and Hope Rehabilitation Center, a modern rehabilitation centre in Pakistan that provides high-quality artificial limbs and prosthetics as well as therapy to Pakistanis at a reasonable cost.
The teams spent 48 hours developing solutions for the non-profit organisations. As in previous years, the solutions provided impressed the judges. The winning teams were LAMBS for CalFoods Logistics and Funk Masters for Hope Rehab. CalFoods Logistics will be able to deliver more essential food items to food banks with the LAMBS prototype. Hope Rehab will have a powerful external-facing webpage that will allow patients and their caregivers to browse inventory.
Charisse Ross, CalFoods chief operations officer, commented: “We are amazed at how much work each team did in such a short time to come up with a solution. The winning team’s solution is going to help streamline our process and eliminate having to manually reconcile and create reports. The amount of time saved can be used to help feed more people in California.”
Acquisitions
Visma has acquired a majority stake in Declarando, the fastest-growing accountancy and tax software company for Spanish freelancers. The deal strengthens Visma’s growing presence in Spain.
Business
Computer Guidance Corporation (CGC) and Corpay announced a partnership to bring streamlined payment services to construction companies.
SYSPRO announced that ASG Tek has joined its PartnerUP channel partner program as an Elite Solutions Partner. The Texas-based firm provides marketing, lead generation, sales, implementation, customization, support, and training to SYSPRO prospects and customers.
Visma is establishing a new technology centre in Porto, Portugal. The launch reinforces the company’s leadership in innovation and commitment to creating technology for a resilient society. The tech centre will employ around 50 people during its first year and reach 200 employees by 2025.
Customer
San Manuel Band of Mission Indians in California has decided to implement the newest iteration of Infor CloudSuite™ Financials & Supply Management and Infor d/EPM to transform its back-office strategy for growth. AKVA Group ASA, a worldwide supplier of advanced solutions and services to the aquaculture industry, has chosen Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise to help improve collaboration and workflow internally while helping to strengthen the delivery capability of solutions and services for customers in both land-based and sea-based fish farming.
Crowdpolicy has selected Soft1 Cloud ERP and has implemented the solution with the help of NewSoftware, a SoftOne partner.
In 2021, an estimated $67.8 million in Pell Grants were left unclaimed by eligible Alabama students. Alabama State is now using Oracle Student Financial Planning (SFP) to manage the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) process. Alabama has seen a 21.9% increase in FASFA completions in April 2022 versus the same time last year—the second-highest increase of any US state.
Asda, one of the largest supermarket chains in the UK, selected Workday to support its global workforce and deliver an enhanced employee experience with Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), Workday Absence Management, Workday Benefits, Workday Compensation, Workday Learning, Workday Prism Analytics and Workday Recruiting.
Funding
Esker made a strategic investment in its partner LSQ, a leading technology-driven working capital finance and payments solutions provider. As a first step, the investment is made through a USD 5 million convertible promissory note to strengthen LSQ and Esker’s partnership and accelerate the development and commercial expansion of their common supply chain finance solutions.
Product
MYOB customers have direct access to receive funds in as little as three hours via a new cash flow and lending hub through integration with partners Butn and Valiant.
ToolsGroup announced its Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+) digital supply chain planning software is now fully integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365.
