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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. Sun replaces Feiyu Xu as SAP’s global head of AI. For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group.

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Micro transformation: Driving big business benefit through quick IT wins

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And when performed strategically in succession as Mahon has done at Werner, such quick wins can lead to much larger business transformation over time — with less big-bang disruption and change management thanks to measurable proof of enhancement along the way. It gets contagious — you do one and it leads to others.”

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Rackspace technology—Award-winning, multi-cloud modernization powered by VMware

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says Adrianna Bustamante, vice president of global channel and alliances for Rackspace Technology. At the same time, the client was overhauling their commerce presence and nearly all its existing IT systems.

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Unpacking Leroy Merlin’s marketplace strategy

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Leroy Merlin CIO and head of e-commerce and marketplace strategy Dmitriy Anderson admits that profitability keeps him up at night, particularly when it comes to new business endeavors like the Leroy Merlin product marketplace. So much so that our ecommerce numbers increased 20 times between 2019 and 2020.”

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Melissa & Doug buys oversized ERP to grow into

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Getting to more flexible pricing was also proving difficult, as was offering real-time visibility into inventory for e-commerce operations. If that’s so, then it may yet win Macrie over. “We “We had challenges making all the international paperwork and transactions work across borders as we grew in volume,” he says.

Commerce 369
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Sysco’s recipe for growth centers on IT

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Like most companies, Sysco traditionally ran its B2B e-commerce business in a bulk reordering fashion. The base engine for the e-commerce and data warehouse is all custom code. We’re seeing bigger carts because we’re upselling and cross-selling products and making recommendations.

IT 352
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Dawn of a new day for Africa: building a modern digital economy

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African developers are creating more open-source repositories on the Github software engineering marketplace than any other continent globally, and investment in African start-ups is growing twice as fast as other global markets. Huawei stands ready to provide our technology and resources to support this transition.

Startups 369