Enterprise Apps Unpacked
Episodes
Deloitte experts: Internal controls key in ERP cloud migration
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While ERP cloud migration promises numerous benefits, including cost savings, leading-edge features, broad accessibility and ease of use, it also carr...
Living up to the hype: Lessons from IoT supply chain wins
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The affordable connected sensors made possible by the internet of things seem tailor-made for supply chain management. IoT sensors are ideal for colle...
Google union organizer on AI job impact, working conditions
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The evidence that AI can eliminate jobs is piling up. Amazon said recently it would lay off 14,000 corporate workers in an effort to become more nimbl...
AI could save manufacturing from the baby boomer exodus
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's little doubt that AI is starting to eliminate jobs. Recent headlines confirm it. The trend presents a special risk to the manufacturing sector...
How AI-driven digital ecosystems can improve sustainability
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ERP sustainability software mostly focuses on data collection and reporting requirements of environmental, safety and governance (ESG) policies and ty...
Is AI-powered search the new corporate learning powerhouse?
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The internet transformed corporate learning from a paper-based, in-person process to one that is largely delivered in digital form, on demand from nea...
Can industry process models fix the agentic AI data problem?
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Generative and agentic AI are rapidly infiltrating enterprise software. But both are prone to data management issues that can hobble their effectivene...
Can you really trust AI with procurement tasks?
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Procurement has become a strategic priority with significant impact on the bottom line. It's a data-intensive process that requires communicating with...
How EY is training employees to use AI
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI's growing ability to take over human tasks has many people worried about losing their jobs. Some companies are addressing these concerns by educati...
Is geospatial data the real game changer for digital twins?
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Digital twins – virtual representations of real-world things – are a hot topic, and they're becoming more capable with the addition of AI and geos...
Introducing our new podcast: Enterprise Apps Unpacked!
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What separates successful enterprise technology implementations from costly failures? Here on Enterprise Apps Unpacked, we’ll do a deep dive into st...
SAP makes case for integrated “flywheel” of AI, data and applications
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SAP has faced numerous challenges in recent years, but three big ones stand out: moving its on-premises products to the cloud; convincing customers to...
Developing products with spatial computing and virtual twins
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An emerging technology called spatial computing combines virtual reality and augmented reality to enable location-aware digital interaction with the r...
Agentic AI from Salesforce and Oracle: The new leading edge of ERP?
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For two glorious years, generative AI held sway as the AI darling among ERP vendors. But impressive as Gen AI might be, it's mostly limited to generat...
Blackline CIO on the Customer Zero approach to AI
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's been said that the main job of a chief information officer is "keeping the lights on" – making sure an organization's IT systems are up to date...
SAP in 2025: S/4HANA, cloud pressure builds
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A case can be made that for the past decade and a half, SAP has been almost entirely focused on two things: getting customers to adopt its next-genera...
Sentient documents, anticipatory interfaces and the next UI
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ERP vendors have been eager to ride the generative AI wave, and it has become commonplace for them to assert that machine learning and other types of ...
EY, SAP and the role of sustainability consulting
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ERP increasingly serves as the hub of organizations' environmental sustainability strategies. But so far, it has mostly been used to standardize and a...
How AI can improve ethical sourcing and sustainability
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Supply chain sustainability is an ambitious strategy for managing the environmental, social and corporate governance impacts of product sourcing, manu...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the ERP wars
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every major ERP vendor has strived to move its on-premises applications to the cloud and entice its customers to follow. Most still struggle to replic...
Using AI, robots and analytics to improve warehouse visibility
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Warehouses have long been the center of some of the most sophisticated information technology. RFID tags and readers, warehouse control systems, autom...
AI-enabled digital twins for smarter healthcare
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence and digital twins are probably the two most hyped information technologies of the 2020s. Yet both are already delivering pract...
Ubiquitous generative AI at SAP Sapphire 2024
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since generative AI's debut in late 2022, ERP vendors have raced to embed its human-like communication, research and analytical capabilities into...
Understanding S/4HANA's impact on SAP customers
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the largest ERP vendor, SAP makes the software that runs much of the world's business. And whenever SAP makes a major change in its product portfol...
Digital adoption platforms for enterprise applications
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
E-learning technologies, such as online courses, instructional videos and augmented reality apps, are in hot demand at corporations. Much of that dema...
Generative AI puts humans at the center of the customer service loop
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For years, artificial intelligence has helped to improve customer service by making automated chatbots more intelligent and enabling voice-controlled ...
Implementing responsible AI in the enterprise
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Organizations are quickly realizing that AI -- especially generative AI with its human-like creative and analytical capabilities -- raises legal, ethi...
The role of cloud ERP in digital transformation
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In most discussions about digital transformation, cloud ERP usually plays a critical role. ERP is the digital nervous system and data repository of a ...
Hybrid ERP: Understanding Its Uses, Benefits and Challenges
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hybrid ERP combines on-premises ERP for common business processes like accounting and HR, with cloud applications – typically software as a service ...
AI speech-to-text eavesdropping can serve the greater good
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Intelligent Voice CTO Nigel Cannings explains how AI-based speech-to-text technology can catch criminals, protect privacy and ensure regulatory compli...
Oracle, Salesforce, SAP go big into generative AI products
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TechTarget editors analyze recent major introductions of generative AI products from Oracle, Salesforce and SAP.
Third-party support a new option for SAP S/4HANA Cloud users
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rimini Street CTO Eric Helmer explains how the company provides tech support and maintenance for SAP and Oracle ERP systems and where on-premises ERP ...
How ChatGPT will transform artificial intelligence in ERP
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Hobbs, Microsoft practice leader at the consulting firm PwC, explains ways to embed AI in ERP and why generative AI could transform business proc...
Cloud CAD software helps usher in digital manufacturing era
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
SolidWorks and Onshape founder Jon Hirschtick, now chief evangelist at PTC, shares his cloud-centered vision of the future of product design technolog...
SAP AI initiatives expand on several fronts at Sapphire 2023
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TechTarget editors discuss SAP AI announcements and demos unveiled at Sapphire 2023 conferences in Orlando and Barcelona, including SAP's generative ...
Digital twins of buildings can help decarbonize environment
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Turner and Anil Sawhney of the Digital Twin Consortium explain how deploying a digital twin of a building could significantly reduce greenhouse g...
New SAP blockchain applications target B2B collaboration
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
SAP's Benjamin Stoeckhert reveals the most common types of blockchain applications, explains SAP product offerings and gives tips on how to get starte...
ServiceNow workflow can smooth ERP edges with partner help
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ServiceNow VPs Jeff Gore and Kirsten Loegering elaborate on the steps involved in deploying the platform to enhance the employee experience with ERP a...
Reimagining the factory floor as a metaverse workplace
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Plex CTO Jerry Foster explains how the metaverse could enable factory line workers to perform their duties remotely through a combination of virtual r...
What’s behind the low-code/no-code development trend in ERP?
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Holger Mueller of Constellation Research explains how ERP vendors' low-code/no-code development tools offer considerable advantages to both professio...
Evolution of postmodern ERP to composable ERP explained
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2013, Gartner introduced the idea of postmodern ERP, forecasting a shift from traditional, monolithic ERP systems to more flexible, primarily cloud...