Essential Guides

TechTarget editors have curated a collection of “essential” articles on key IT topics. These articles have been packaged into guides which offer our readers comprehensive, problem solving content to help inform and guide their research.

Editorial

SAP Sapphire 2023 news, trends and analysis

The conference showed SAP is responding to the demand for generative AI and highlighted SAP cloud products, services and testimonials from companies that have moved to the cloud. Continue Reading
SAP Sapphire 2020 news, trends and analysis

This year's Sapphire conference was "reimagined" as an online event for SAP to re-pitch the intelligent enterprise as key to resiliency in challenging times. See coverage here. Continue Reading
SAP Leonardo technologies seek to empower the digital enterprise

Learn the fundamentals of Leonardo, how it has evolved over the years and key steps to using its advanced technologies to build a responsive, real-time digital enterprise. Continue Reading
SAP Sapphire 2019 news, trends and highlights

The annual user conference showcases emerging tech like AI, blockchain and IoT and advances the ball on HANA applications, with an eye to improving the customer experience. Continue Reading
A complete guide to SAP Cloud Platform integration

There's a lot to consider when contemplating a move to SAP Cloud Platform, and this Essential Guide provides a starting point, including practical advice, case studies and in-depth analysis. Continue Reading
Stay ahead of SuccessFactors integrations and implementations

Our editors and industry experts offer best practices and advice on implementing and integrating SAP SuccessFactors, including how to better use Employee Central. Continue Reading
Business Objects or HANA? A guide to SAP analytics environments

SAP analytics tools have a strong showing in BusinessObjects and HANA, but which is right for your company? Find out in this SAP analytics guide. Continue Reading

ERP

6 industrial metaverse use cases for manufacturing
Industrial metaverse use cases for manufacturing include facility design and employee training, though adoption of the technology...
AI a top trend for supply chain, but experts urge caution
AI is being adopted for company supply chains, but organizations should guard against hype and assess the business value and ...
4 AI use cases for quality control in manufacturing
Learn how the integration of AI and machine learning into manufacturing processes can help organizations meet quality control ...

Oracle sets lofty national EHR goal with Cerner acquisition
With its Cerner acquisition, Oracle sets its sights on creating a national, anonymized patient database -- a road filled with ...
With Cerner, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gets a boost
Oracle plans to acquire Cerner in a deal valued at about $30B. The second-largest EHR vendor in the U.S. could inject new life ...
Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle API copyright suit
The Supreme Court ruled 6-2 that Java APIs used in Android phones are not subject to American copyright law, ending a ...

Data Management

Coalesce raises $50M to expand data transformation platform
The startup's new funding is a vote of confidence from investors given how difficult it has been for technology vendors to secure...
Aerospike raises $114M to fuel database innovation for GenAI
The vendor will use the funding to develop added vector search and storage capabilities as well as graph technology, both of ...
Vector vs. graph vs. relational database: Which to choose?
Vector databases enhance the use of generative AI. Organizations should consider how vector capabilities stack up vs. graph and ...

AWS Control Tower aims to simplify multi-account management
Many organizations struggle to manage their vast collection of AWS accounts, but Control Tower can help. The service automates ...
Break down the Amazon EKS pricing model
There are several important variables within the Amazon EKS pricing model. Dig into the numbers to ensure you deploy the service ...
Compare EKS vs. self-managed Kubernetes on AWS
AWS users face a choice when deploying Kubernetes: run it themselves on EC2 or let Amazon do the heavy lifting with EKS. See ...

Business Analytics

AI assistant from Tableau targets efficiency, deep analysis
The analytics vendor's copilot can recommend questions that might lead to otherwise undiscovered insights as well as understand ...
New Databricks open source LLM targets custom development
The data platform vendor's new language model was designed to provide open source users with AI development capabilities similar ...
Domo to add prebuilt models, chat capabilities to AI suite
The BI vendor's latest innovations include conversational analytics capabilities and prebuilt models designed to help customers ...

Content Management

Adobe intros new GenAI tools and apps for marketers
The new applications and tools are for marketers looking to connect the different processes of the content supply chain in a safe...
8 top enterprise search engines
Whether an organization wants to improve its internal or external search strategies, an enterprise search engine can help users ...
The importance of ethics in information management
Advancements in data collection and processing may tempt information management professionals to use as much customer data as ...

As AI expands, big tech to upskill, reskill 100M people
Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft and others will work to train 100 million people in digital skills by 2032. Details are lacking, ...
AI reduces the need for humans in talent acquisition
AI is reducing staff at many companies, but it's also raising questions about how far automation can go in interacting with job ...
Frontline worker jobs at risk from AI surge
Experts warn that AI's ascent could disproportionately affect frontline jobs, worsening mental health and deepening the skills ...

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