The scope of this blog post is to describe the high-level architecture and the configuration steps required to integrate SAP S/4HANA Cloud Essentials into banks using SAP Multi-Bank Connector (MBC)...
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During summer 2019, I was lucky enough to be selected for a Research Masters investigating head impacts in women’s rugby, funded partly by the Welsh Government’s European Social Fund (ESF)...
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One of the non-founding Board Directors, Andrew Miller, gives his impressions of Keytree as they receive their 20th SAP Award, ten years after their first, and why in his thirty-year...
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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 to...
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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 data...
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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. Qualtrics...
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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 seamless...
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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 with...
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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 also...
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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 them...
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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 -...
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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 matters...
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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 certainties...
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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 better...
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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 big...
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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, the...
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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 project...
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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 make...
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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 the...
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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. These...
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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 my...
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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 professional...
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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 the...
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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 technical...
Read MoreSAP 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 we...
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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 organisation...
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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’s...
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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 the...
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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 Intelligent...
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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)...
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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, what...
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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 given...
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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, held...
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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 to...
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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 of...
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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 digital...
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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. Cloud...
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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, Hasso...
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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 could...
Read MoreWatching 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 MoreWeb 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 MoreGreggs’ 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 more...
Read MoreUsing 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 MoreWhat 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 experience...
Read MoreKeytree 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 years...
Read MoreBjörn 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 Trek...
Read MoreThe 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 to...
Read MoreFollowing 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 MoreGreggs 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 the...
Read MoreThe 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 ongoing...
Read MoreDuring 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 depend...
Read MoreAs 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 iOS...
Read MoreAt 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 to...
Read MoreSAP 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 MoreSapphire 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 MoreYoung 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 Key...
Read MoreSomewhere, 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 vision...
Read MoreMy 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 from...
Read MoreHands 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, this...
Read MoreIt’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 device...
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