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- Big Data London, the annual data and analytics event, this year hosted leading industry expert’s eager to impart their knowledge to help arm attendees with the tools and knowledge toRead More...
- What does Employee Engagement really mean? I see it all day, every day, across LinkedIn and social media channels and highlighted in various reports. I have been invited to numerousRead More...
- In my recent blog, I discussed the words of George Buckley, the former chairman, president and CEO of 3M, who famously declared: “Every company in the world is dying.” HeRead More...
- Bangalore is responsible for around 33% of India’s $21 billion IT exports and is known as the Silicon Valley of India making it a fitting location for SAP’s TechEd India.Read More...
- Watching the stories of doom and gloom being consistently broadcast on TV and written about in the media got me thinking. I thought back to a store managers’ conference atRead More...
- In my last blog, I shared my opinion on why customer experience is key to success on the high street detailing four tips that when combined, help to create thatRead More...
- Some retailers fail while others continue to drive growth, which begs the question: “What is the difference between a thriving retail business and those that are being left behind?” InRead More...
- I once read that first impressions count and the human brain takes only milliseconds to form that impression when we first meet someone, which I believe stems from deep backRead More...
- The saying goes “things come in threes” but when I started Googling about why this is the case, it would appear that it is largely a clever literary trick toRead More...
- The experience economy is here for good and will drive the economy as we know and interact with it but for retailers, intelligent data and analytics are the way forwardRead More...
- Earlier this month, the Keytree team travelled to SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando, Florida to share with SAP, and its customers, the finer details of how to drive mobile-led change withRead More...
- Keytree & SAP to host a webinar on an end-to-end Retail solution to modern retail challenges At the end of Q1 Keytree launched its first SAP Qualified Packaged Solution –Read More...
- A buyer’s journey can start in so many ways but with technology literally at the end of our fingertips, it is essential to track, analyse and influence buying behaviours bothRead More...
- This year’s Sapphire lacked the marque announcement of the Intelligent Enterprise, however, it was just as significant for highlighting SAP’s continued focus on Cloud, especially when it comes to dataRead More...
- Sapphire 2019 was the first of SAP’s flagship annual conference’s since their $8 billion acquisition of Qualtrics – the experience management platform, and naturally, it was given prominent billing. QualtricsRead More...
- Keytree’s Bridge for Retail Bridge for Retail by Keytree provides a comprehensive subscription-based cloud solution which reduces back office costs, increases efficiency, enhances revenue, increases profitability and provides a seamlessRead More...
- Keytree was remarkably well represented at SAP’s annual InnovationX event – as a sponsor and also as one of the winners of this year’s social challenge, run in conjunction withRead More...
- Innovation often seems like an overused buzzword with many of us party to the phrase: “You’ve got to innovate to survive”. Yes, this is arguably true, but innovation must alsoRead More...
- When linked together in one sentence Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) do not roll off the tongue easily, but I will explain the interconnection between themRead More...
- Introducing a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) strategy into your organisation will disrupt the way your business operates but probably not in the way you expect. RPA will not replace yourRead More...
- Recently, there has been a lot of talk around the Keytree office about New York Fashion Week, and the bizarre sight of people strutting catwalk style around the office –Read More...
- In late December, just before the Christmas holidays, Keytree COO James Woodhouse and CTO Mark Williment paid a visit to St James the Great Academy – a fantastic school inRead More...
- Experience – “something that you do or that happens to you, especially something important that affects you” (Collins Dictionary) – isn’t just another buzzword in the digital economy. Experience mattersRead More...
- As Benjamin Franklin famously said: “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” As both subjects are continually quoted as the only two certaintiesRead More...
- As the year draws to a close, I suddenly find myself in a nostalgic mood. My reminiscing, combined with trying to put together some approaches as to how we betterRead More...
- For the third year in succession, the Keytree In-store Technology (KIT) team are heading to New York City for NRF 2019: Retail’s Big Show and this year the team will be meeting with newRead More...
- As an international award-winning design and technology consultancy and product developer, innovation and SAP Cloud Platform are at the very heart of our business. We are established world leaders inRead More...
- SAP is on another expensive acquisition spree and is also setting up white label agreements with partners, resulting in SAP hosting a range of products and applications on SAP CloudRead More...
- There now appears to be so many different ways in which it is possible to deploy an SAP S/4HANA solution, that I thought it would be useful to set outRead More...
- When using or deploying any technology, we always face the decision about which tools we should use for the job of Deep Learning. Similar to the approach taken by bigRead More...
- Machine Learning is the latest and most prominent buzzword to have found its way into pretty much every technology presentation I have attended in the last six months. However, theRead More...
- Keytree is returning to the annual UKISUG Connect in Birmingham with a stand in the Innovation area where we will be showcasing, amongst many other innovations, the Head Impact projectRead More...
- The one tool every finance business user always needs is the ability to upload journal postings from Excel. The vast majority of the postings that an accountant needs to makeRead More...
- SAP’s continuing direction of travel with S/4HANA Cloud is towards increased automation and user experience improvements, moving forward with the organisation’s Intelligent Enterprise aspiration, and it would appear that theRead More...
- The upcoming 1811 release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud will announce the arrival of Warehouse Management (WM) functionality, pallet tracking, transport management and increased Machine Learning scenarios in Supply Chain. TheseRead More...
- Now that I’m back from CX LIVE 2018, I’ve taken the time to pause, gather my thoughts, and reflect on my time in Barcelona. Before the event, I shared myRead More...
- Sports & Wellbeing Analytics (SWA) and Keytree, together with Swansea University, have designed and built an instrumented mouthguard to better monitor, understand and tackle issues relating to concussion in professionalRead More...
- On the opening day of TechEd Barcelona 2018, I addressed an audience on radical innovation with the SAP Cloud Platform, and this blog aims to capture and expand on theRead More...
- SAP TechEd is a developer-focused conference so, therefore, it made sense that Bernd Leukert’s executive keynote was themed around building the intelligent enterprise – the services SAP provides to technicalRead More...
- SAP Customer Experience LIVE 2018 takes place in Barcelona, Spain next week and this has made me think and reflect about the SAP C/4HANA journey so far and how weRead More...
- One of the primary use cases for the SAP Cloud Platform is extending commercial applications – whether on-premise or cloud – providing a platform to create business process or organisationRead More...
- As gold sponsors of SAP’s premier CRM event, CX Live, Keytree will have a full complement of staff in attendance with a full range of activities planned to showcase Keytree’sRead More...
- In my first instalment of The Intelligent Enterprise, I discussed how Artificial Intelligence creates both intense fear and optimistic hype – and dispelled its portrayal in popular culture. In thisRead More...
- Walking the walk and practising what they preach – the Greater London Authority is giving access to users and organisations across the globe to the code used to develop theRead More...
- Like no other technology, Artificial Intelligence has the ability to incite both intense fear and optimistic hype – often in the same breath. There is no shortage of examples inRead More...
- SAP extensively covered all their key underlying technology offerings: SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform and the SAP Leonardo innovation system during Sapphire 2018. All three feature in the new IntelligentRead More...
- SAP C/4HANA is a new suite of applications from SAP to help businesses serve and retain customers – designed to modernise the sales-only focus of legacy Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Read More...
- Members of the Keytree SuccessFactors team will be joining delegates at SuccessConnect 2018 – recognised as one of the top HR events of the year. The three-day event will takeRead More...
- Jaguar Land Rover Experience Days provides new and existing customers access to a unique opportunity – where drivers can gain a greater knowledge of how to handle a Land RoverRead More...
- Sapphire 2018 is imminent – SAP users and partners from all over the world will be flying to Orlando Florida to find out the latest on SAP’s direction. So, whatRead More...
- For any SAP implementation, once the budget has been secured to buy and implement the software plus some precious time devoted to the implementation – no real thought is givenRead More...
- The Retail Retreat & Expo is Ireland’s largest retail event attended by more than 1,800 leading retailers – all of whom operate in the Irish market. The two-day event, heldRead More...
- Each year, businesses are reminded to share the great strides they are taking to give something back to their local communities, during Responsible Business Week. So many businesses are makingRead More...
- Disruption can be a positive and vital catalyst for business transformation. It can challenge old assumptions, ignite conversations, drive innovation and expose new possibilities. Disruption can shed a unique lightRead More...
- There is a level of trepidation that comes with a digital transformation project as some employees fear their role will become redundant and replaced by a new digital process. However,Read More...
- SAP Hybris Commerce are industry-leading omni-channel commerce platforms for B2C, B2B and B2B2C. The platforms are flexible enough for organisations of all shapes and sizes, from small growing companies toRead More...
- The digital workplace constantly evolves – driven by endless developments in technology and enhancements in both software and hardware. We’re used to having our office in a pocket, and evenRead More...
- Less than 18 months ago, research specialist Gartner predicted that the shift to cloud technology would affect more than $1 trillion in IT spending – making cloud computing one ofRead More...
- The Internet of Things (IoT) is a massive area of growth and investment in IT currently (as noted by Gartner), but what do businesses need to do to take advantage?Read More...
- Digital systems are now complex products with many different specialisms required to realise a product vision and delivery. As with any well-designed product, the desire is to make a digitalRead More...
- The Keytree In-store Technology (KIT) team is attending NRF 2018: Retail’s Big Show in New York City in January 2018 and for the second year running we will be showcasingRead More...
- As we start 2018 here are some thoughts on ongoing enterprise cloud technology trends, and how they will impact the choices solution architects need to make when designing systems. CloudRead More...
- Cloud technology and digital innovation have disrupted industries and are driving unprecedented change throughout the global economy, and according to SAP, it’s a simple choice. Speaking at Sapphire 2017, HassoRead More...
- It was all new. The ideas were flowing, the pressure was immense and we found a solution to a challenging problem. We found a solution! We believed that we couldRead More...
- Keytree is running its first graduate training programme, with six graduates working under the tutelage of Rebecca Bennett, Keytree’s Head of Human Resources and specialist training consultant, Jen Jones. TheRead More...
- Watching the live stream of Björn Goerke’s entertaining keynote at SAP TechEd Barcelona, I was struck by one theme underlying the announcements and demos – making scale cloud delivery simpler.Read More...
- Web Summit 2017 is the biggest tech conference in the world. Known as “Glastonbury for Geeks,” this year it brought the movers and shakers of the digital world to Lisbon,Read More...
- For the second year in succession, over 200 volunteer chefs gathered in London’s Borough Market for ‘Wok for 1,000’. Putting their wok skills to the ultimate test, the group, instructedRead More...
- Greggs’ Breakfast Club Programme provides a nutritious breakfast to close to 28,000 under privileged school children daily – with over five million breakfasts served each year. Currently, there are moreRead More...
- In my previous blog, I shared the importance of shifting the culture from task-based trust towards a relationship-based trust, as argued so well in The Culture Map by Erin Meyer.Read More...
- Using external managed services offerings in your IT operation, or employing a third party to handle some of your software services is an integral part of any modern technology strategy.Read More...
- What is a User Experience Designer? A question rarely asked today, but a quick search on Google demonstrates that there is still much discussion around the role of user experienceRead More...
- Keytree and Plan Zheroes was presented with the Lord Mayor’s Dragon Award for Innovation 2017 at a gala event hosted at Mansion House in London. The Award recognises the yearsRead More...
- Björn Goerke’s keynote at SAP TechEd 2017 in Las Vegas went full on for entertainment with the wall-to-wall Star Trek theme reminding us here at Keytree of the Star TrekRead More...
- The days of corresponding with your energy provider via long telephone calls are no longer a reality as the sector is quickly adopting new technology based processes and methodologies toRead More...
- Following my graduation from Nottingham University in the summer of 2015, having completed both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in physics, I decided to seek out a graduate programme –Read More...
- Greggs is now into the third year of its Sunrise Programme; a five-year, significant investment, focused on people, processes and technology. The ‘Food on the Go’ retailer recently visited theRead More...
- The International Financial Reporting Standard 15 – better known as IFRS 15 – is the new regulatory standard for revenue recognition and accounting that emerged as the result of ongoingRead More...
- During my journey of exploration, in trying to determine how trust is used and perceived in the world of social partnerships, it has become intriguing to see that we dependRead More...
- As iOS developers, CocoaPods are one of the favourite ways of leveraging dependencies within your projects. At Keytree we have leveraged both CocoaPods and Carthage to inject dependencies to iOSRead More...
- At Keytree we’ve been long recognised for innovation, so the launch of the SAP Leonardo Digital Innovation System at Sapphire 2017 was of keen interest, and we were glad toRead More...
- SAP continue to enhance the integration between SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) and SuccessFactors, making it easier to extend the Cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) software so to find out more,Read More...
- Sapphire 2017 saw some big announcements regarding SAP Cloud Platform but both Cloud Foundry (as discussed in this blog) and some element of multi-cloud deployment have long been expected. However,Read More...
- Young people have limited access to mentors from within their educational institution, but in recent years, the world of work has helped to fill this void. Students studying at KeyRead More...
- Somewhere, maybe around the corner from your office or near your home, there is a small group of genuine change makers hard at work. They are combining a breakthrough visionRead More...
- My first five months at Keytree have flown by, but I’m still learning something new every day. Being immersed from the beginning on a multi-project programme hasn’t prevented me fromRead More...
- Hands up if you spent the start of your morning squashed against a train window or squeezed into a carriage alongside other unhappy commuters? If you work in London, thisRead More...
- It’s not uncommon to walk into a store or bank and be confronted by a member of staff offering assistance while holding a mobile device – iPads being the deviceRead More...
- There have been many changes in SAP HR development over the past decade, from HR administration transactions PA30/PA40 (they will always be loved), to the beautiful Dynamic Actions and howRead More...
- I spent the last three months of 2016 on a journey of discovery, trying to determine what sustainable and transition lifestyles mean – mapping, meeting, learning and experiencing alternative modelsRead More...
- Anyone attending the SAP HANA Cloud Platform sessions at the recent TechEd Barcelona event could not fail to notice how important the speakers see Cloud Foundry being to the futureRead More...
- 2016 has been a great year for Keytree. We celebrated our tenth birthday, had great success at DemoJam in Las Vegas and Masters of Code in London and we deliveredRead More...
- SAP’s 20th TechEd event happened to be my first. It was a fantastically well-organised event with a broad range of SAP experts, partners and customers in attendance presenting many ofRead More...
- As consumers demand more impressive and higher quality user experiences, it’s important for the retail sector to look for distinguishing means to achieve these. The Internet of Things (IoT) asRead More...
- Which reporting tool should we use? This question is frequently asked during the early stages of a BI project but while the current portfolio of SAP BI tools deliver aRead More...
- I had the pleasure of joining some Keytree colleagues from our technical architecture, business intelligence and innovation communities at SAP TechEd Barcelona 2016. An event marking 20 years of TechEd,Read More...
- Plan Zheroes is a registered charity that wants to eradicate food poverty, and with the support of Keytree, the objective has been in full swing for the past couple ofRead More...
- At the end of 2015, the United Nations (UN) launched its Sustainable Development Goals and called for businesses to be more involved in tackling global and social challenges. The 17Read More...
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