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This week, John and Kylie reflected on some predictions John made at the beginning of 2024 regarding how Generative AI would impact ERP implementations. John provides critical insights into data privacy, recent litigation, and SI delivery models and shares how your top IT suppliers may be using AI to win your business.

Resources Mentioned:

PODCAST –⁠9 Predictions for Generative AI in ERP Implementations
SAPPHIRE CONTENT - Sapphire 2024: What We Learned from SAP's Annual Conference

Other Resources:

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR - Vendor AI-Enabled Delivery Models: Extracting Value from Your IT Suppliers⁠⁠
BLOG - Generative AI: Reshaping SI Engagements and the Client Advantage

For a more tailored conversation around your organization’s AI challenges and goals, ⁠reach out today⁠ to chat with our expert advisors.

For more innovative IT sourcing and risk mitigation insights, ⁠subscribe⁠ to the UpperEdge newsletter and follow UpperEdge on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Twitter⁠.

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Predictions for Generative AI's Impact on ERP Implementations - A Mid-Year Update

Insights for IT Negotiations

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Resources Mentioned:

PODCAST –⁠9 Predictions for Generative AI in ERP Implementations
SAPPHIRE CONTENT - Sapphire 2024: What We Learned from SAP's Annual Conference

Other Resources:

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR - Vendor AI-Enabled Delivery Models: Extracting Value from Your IT Suppliers⁠⁠
BLOG - Generative AI: Reshaping SI Engagements and the Client Advantage

For a more tailored conversation around your organization’s AI challenges and goals, ⁠reach out today⁠ to chat with our expert advisors.

For more innovative IT sourcing and risk mitigation insights, ⁠subscribe⁠ to the UpperEdge newsletter and follow UpperEdge on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Twitter⁠.

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Microsoft announced their FY25 Q1 earnings last evening. Total revenue was reported as $65.6B, better than the $64.5B that analysts were expecting. The critically important Microsoft Cloud revenue, which includes Azure, O365 Commercial, LinkedIn, Dynamics 365, and other cloud products, came in at $38.B, representing a 22% increase year-over-year. Microsoft’s go-forward success and revenue growth (including ARPU growth) will continue to be directly tied to Microsoft’s ability to expand their Cloud revenue and AI Business revenue, which is tracking towards becoming a $10B business. Their success will also be tied to getting more customers to adopt and use their AI solutions, like Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio and the agents built in Copilot, as well as get more customers to migrate to the costly all-in Microsoft 365 E5 suite. In this podcast, our Microsoft Practice Leader, Adam Mansfield, discusses how Microsoft customers can take advantage of Microsoft’s needs, clear goals and focus areas to ensure the right deal is struck at the negotiation table. He also covers what Microsoft customers should expect from the vendor as they prepare for their renewal negotiations. For more innovative IT sourcing and risk mitigation insights, subscribe to the UpperEdge newsletter and follow UpperEdge on LinkedIn and Twitter .…

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ServiceNow FY24 Q3 Earnings: Reliance on AI Adoption Creates Leverage for Customers 16:13

cách đây 26 weeks trước16:13

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ServiceNow’s FY24 Q3 subscription revenue came in at $2.72B, representing 23% growth year-over-year while, once again, beating guidance and analyst expectations. ServiceNow also raised their full year FY24 subscription revenue guidance, now expecting somewhere between $10.65B and $10.66B, about a 23% growth. In this podcast, ServiceNow Practice Leader, Adam Mansfield, discusses what customers should expect from ServiceNow over the course of the upcoming year as the vendor does everything it can to enhance their position as a leader in the highly competitive GenAI and “AI Agents” space. More specifically, ServiceNow will continue to be focused on ramping upgrades and adoption of “Pro Plus” while also continuing to upsell and cross sell their current customers and adding net new logos. Adam also shares how customers can leverage ServiceNow’s clear goals tied to particular industries and product adoptions during their upcoming ServiceNow negotiations and renewals. For more innovative IT sourcing and risk mitigation insights, subscribe to the UpperEdge newsletter and follow UpperEdge on LinkedIn and Twitter .…

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