What is ERP? Enterprise resource planning systems explained

ERP definition Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a system of integrated software applications that manages day-to-day business processes and operations across finance, human resources, procurement, distribution, supply chain, and other functions. ERP systems are critical applications for most organizations because they integrate all the processes necessary to run their business into a single system that…

Cloud tales: Lessons from a cyber incident response team

Many Australian enterprises are getting their cloud security strategies wrong. While they are lowering infrastructure costs and introducing efficiencies by moving to flexible multi-cloud platforms, building the right level of security throughout their agile software development lifecycles is becoming difficult. Almost two-thirds (61 per cent) of respondents to research questions posed by Cybersecurity Insiders, on…

Choosing the Right Cloud for Data Sovereignty

As recently spotlighted at VMware Explore US, Sovereign Cloud continues to gain momentum.​ Sovereign Cloud business estimated TAM is $60B by 2025, in no small part due to the rapid increase of data privacy laws (currently 145 countries have data privacy laws) and the complexity of compliance in highly regulated industries.​ As the need to monetize…

Flexing your flexible work muscle

The past two years have been stressful for many senior technology executives. When the pandemic first struck in early 2020, CIOs and their teams rushed to deploy technologies that would support people working remotely as governments locked down their citizens. Now, hybrid work is here to stay as people realise that more flexible working environments,…

How to Improve Your Organization’s Cyber Resiliency

Pandemic-era ransomware attacks have highlighted the need for robust cybersecurity safeguards. Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. Cyberresilience, as defined by the Ponemon Institute, is an enterprise’s capacity for maintaining its core business in…