Category Archives: News

UNIT4 experts and guests comment on current news trends.

Welcome to the Cloud!

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We’re running a short series on cloud, looking at topics such as how best it can benefit industry sectors, addressing the worries people have, illustrating the benefits and giving impartial tips for choosing a cloud vendor.

Dependent on the content the posts will be in different categories so make sure you follow the cloud tag to catch them all.

Why we must stop .cloud becoming private!

shutterstock_113993539You are probably aware that ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is announced over a year ago that it was expanding the top-level domain (TLD) name space by adding over a thousand new ones, in addition to the familiar .com, .nl, .co.uk, .org, etc.  The idea was that the new TLDs were either for:

  • brand names, like .kellogs or .dell
  • generic terms, like .food or .travel, which would be open so multiple organizations could register for them (so you could have ‘virgin.travel’ or ‘thomascook.travel’, for example).

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Top 10 Technology Trends 2013

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Will there be any tech surprises this year?

In 2013, predictions state that the world will spend a massive $2.1 trillion on technology. Be it new smartphones for consumers, or costly software upgrades for businesses, technology is grabbing a real share of market spend.

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ERP with no expiry date….

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Yesterday saw our team in Sweden celebrate an ERP contract with their government that has spanned two decades. And ahead of the pack, for the nineties, the team ran and has continued to run, the several hundred government organisations in the cloud, on a single Agresso instance.

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