Heema Satapathy
Posted in Cloud, Cloud Benefits, Enterprise Resource Planning, Oracle, Transformation
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Embarking on an E-Business Suite (EBS) upgrade is no small feat, especially when dealing with a multinational client operating in diverse environments. At AST, we recently undertook a significant EBS upgrade project for a leading commercial client, spanning 7 countries …
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CFO 2020 mandates: agility, speed, efficiency Every CFO must contend with formidable forces at play today. Economic and geopolitical uncertainty. Fierce, unrelenting competition. Dynamic market conditions. Constant compliance and security concerns. There’s worry about a possible recession in 2020. And …
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Rick McGaughy
Posted in Human Capital Management, Knowledge Base, Oracle, State and Local Government
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Is the ‘Silver Tsunami’ real, and how will it impact government agencies? Quick answers to these questions are ‘yes,’ and ‘hugely’. Terse and alarming answers, to be sure. Lest there are those who feel dire warnings surrounding massive pending retirements …
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Raman Madhira
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Resource Planning, Knowledge Base, Machine Learning, Oracle
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Understanding ML & AI First defined in 1959 by Arthur Samuel as a “field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed,” Machine Learning is quickly gaining traction as speed, agility, responsiveness, automation, and personalization …
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Steve McKinney, Practice Director, Service Management, AST LLC
Posted in CX Cloud, Knowledge Base, Oracle, Retail
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Retail’s death greatly exaggerated The last few years have seen a bevy of high-profile retailers either go bankrupt or close stores across the country, raising concern that brick-and-mortar retailers are doomed. Just this year (January through August 10), roughly 4,379 …
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Ajit Sathaye, VP, Presales at AST LLC
Posted in Business Process, Knowledge Base, Oracle, Organizational Change
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Why a business process focus is vital to successful transformation As reported in Forbes, by 2018, 67% of the CEOs of Global 2000 enterprises will have digital transformation at the center of their corporate strategies. However, according to a recent …
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Tina Moore, EPM Practice Manager
Posted in Enterprise Performance Management, Knowledge Base, Oracle
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Waiting on finance CFOs and their finance organizations are under the gun. Growing regulatory controls, a rapidly changing, highly competitive business environment, increased responsibility for guiding business strategy, and the ever-present need to watch the bottom line place unprecedented, unrelenting …
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Rajarshi Purwar, Group Vice President, CX
Posted in CPQ, CX Cloud, Knowledge Base, Marketing Cloud, Oracle, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud
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B2B companies lag behind B2C companies when it comes to ecommerce, even though experts agree that the B2B ecommerce market dwarfs that of B2C in terms of potential revenue. Salient differences between the B2B and B2C worlds are largely responsible …
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Teresa Stanula, VP, Human Resources, AST
Posted in Human Capital Management, Knowledge Base, Oracle
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The best of times, the worst of times It has been about 10 years since the US economy fizzled and we suffered through the Financial Crisis. Today, the economy is performing quite well, with gross domestic product growing at an …
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