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Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Acclaimed Sequel to its 2004 ERP Implementation

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Their enormous volume of data was split between two separate SAP ERP systems, causing delays in data access and loading, creating gaps in historical reporting, and preventing them from using the latest accounting principles to manage their lead ledger. Sony Pictures Entertainment needed to up their game. Doubling down on risky business.

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Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Acclaimed Sequel to its 2004 ERP Implementation

CIO

Their enormous volume of data was split between two separate SAP ERP systems, causing delays in data access and loading, creating gaps in historical reporting, and preventing them from using the latest accounting principles to manage their lead ledger. Sony Pictures Entertainment needed to up their game. Doubling down on risky business.

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Data center design in the age of AI: Integrating AI with legacy Infrastructure

CIO

Many of the world’s IT systems do not run on the latest and greatest hardware. This will continue due to the typical budget, spending, and equipment update cycles of everyone from the hyperscale cloud to small enterprise. From the perspective of IT equipment, we could assume that anything that is not at the bleeding edge is legacy.

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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

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Now, as it conceptualized a new platform to effectively manage services spend, it was forced to change its deployment system. Yet, Accenture had a dependable, long-term partner in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software pioneer SAP, first adopting the company’s solutions in 2004.

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Climate Innovators in the Information Age

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According to a recent McKinsey report , global sustainable investment is more than $30 trillion, a tenfold increase from 2004. A Rockerfeller Asset Management / Stern NYU study found that “Improved financial performance due to ESG becomes more marked over longer time horizons.” Intelligence builds on these connected systems.

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Resilience, an introduction.

Xebia

An organization or an IT system is in difficulties when an event results in a decrease of its value output. The decline in the value is the period of time a system absorbs the stress, and recovery is when the value output is on the rise. Taleb stated that there are “systems” that break when exposed to a stressor. See figure 1.

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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

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Founded in 2004, NCWIT’s mission has always been to “increase the meaningful and influential participation of women in tech” while respecting intersecting identities, with an overall emphasis on avoiding “treating women as a monolithic group,” says Catherine Ashcraft, a senior research scientist at NCWIT. “We