This Week in Tech (Jun 17 - Jun 23)

Welcome

Hej! Welcome to "This week in Tech" providing you with weekly tech messages, capturing the mood and the moment with storytelling and insights.

Each week our newsletter focusses on

—????Tech tip of the week,

—????Tech companies in the news this week,

—????Tech events this and next week,

—????Tech trainings this and next week, and

—????Tech tools in focus this week.

This week it deals with Commerce solutions.

No clickbait, just smart advice.

Microsoft

?? Defining time period for the search for activities in sales acceleration (new feature: > 30 days).

Salesforce

?? Easily replacing shopper and buyer items using enhanced exchanges, now accessible in the UI via flows (new feature).

?? Managing orders in bulk with large order support for cancellations, returns, and more (new feature).

SAP

?? Building business resilience with the most comprehensive and natively integrated governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions (Private cloud).

?? Benefitting from Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is developed for demand planning and forecasting for manufacturing processes (new feature Public cloud).

Read about the latest initiatives of tech companies, and other top tech company news.

Microsoft

?? How world-class athletes are turning to the power of AI and data

?? Why AI sometimes gets it wrong — and big strides to address it

?? Prompt Like a Pro: Transform your messages with Microsoft Copilot in Teams

Oracle

?? Oracle APEX AI Assistant Enables Natural Language-Based Development of Enterprise Applications

?? Oracle Autonomous Database Now Generally Available on Oracle Database@Azure

?? Oracle to Invest More Than $1 Billion in AI and Cloud Computing in Spain

Salesforce

?? Salesforce Announces the World's First LLM Benchmark for CRM

?? Surf's Up: Salesforce Named a Leader in Commerce Solutions for B2B in 2024 Forrester Wave?

?? Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute Honors Marc Benioff with Legend in Leadership Award

SAP

?? SAP Preferred Success for SAP Fieldglass Solutions

?? New EU Regulation to Mitigate Deforestation

?? AI Innovation in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Microsoft

?? Microsoft Inspire | July 2024

?? Microsoft Ignite | 18-22 November 2024 in Chicago and Online

Oracle

?? Oracle Applications Roadshow: Healthcare – München, 25. Juni 2024

?? Oracle Applications Roadshow: Healthcare – Frankfurt, 2. Juli 2024

?? Oracle CloudWorld 2024 | 9-12 September 2024 in Las Vegas

Salesforce

?? Inside Dreamforce: The EMEA Edition | 13 September 2023

?? Dreamforce 2024 | 17-19 September 2024 in San Francisco and on Salesforce+

?? Salesforce AI Day: Calling all TrAIlblazers

SAP

?? SAP Customer Experience LIVE in 2024 | Virtual Experience | 24 September 2024

There is currently an incredible hype among the big software companies to win the race for the best generative AI software.

They are therefore pushing into the market with great pressure, which is reflected in the fact that they offer free training courses, among other things.

That is why we have decided to include other products in addition to the familiar software products depending on the situation.

Microsoft

?? Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Migrate Enterprise Applications (24+25 June 2024) Learn more here: ? Microsoft Event (mktoevents.com)

?? Microsoft Security Virtual Training Day: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (26 + 27 June 2024) Learn more here: ? Microsoft Event (mktoevents.com)

?? Microsoft 365 Virtual Training Day: Transform Your Employee Experience with Microsoft ( 27 June 2024) Viva Learn more here: ? Microsoft Event (mktoevents.com)

?? Microsoft 365 Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals (27 + 28 June 2024) Learn more here: ? Microsoft Event (mktoevents.com)

NORDA Advisory

?? 4-week Microsoft Field Service challenge (Tuesdays)

?? Relax, TAX it easy with SAP S/4 HANA challenge (Wednesdays)

NVIDIA

?? Generative AI Explained | Learn more here: ? Course Detail | NVIDIA

Oracle

?? Oracle Live Webinar - Unlock AI capabilities embedded inside Fusion Cloud (27 June 2024)

?? Dive into the Future of Finance with Oracle (27 June 2024)

?? Evolving HR Conversations with Helen Underhill hosted by Oracle (4 July 2024)

Salesforce

?? Summer '24 Release Highlights

?? Unlock Your Data with Data Cloud Trailmix

?? A sustainable future | Eine nachhaltige Zukunft

SAP

There are still self-study courses available, but we do not recommend starting a course at the moment, although the courses are excellent, as the current openSAP platform will be discontinued in July 2024.

?? This is a friendly reminder downloading and saving your documents (records of achievement, confirmations of participation, and digital badges) from openSAP as the platform will be discontinued in July 2024.

Nevertheless, the training contents will be incorporated into the SAP Learning Site.

Each week our newsletter focusses on different technology tools.

This week it deals with Commerce solutions.

Based upon our 20+ years’ experience in Business and IT Transformation projects, we recommend the following tools.

COMMERCE

NORDA Advisory is a company based in the DACH region and Scandinavia. Our view of the software market is shaped by this perspective. Naturally, we value German security standards more highly.

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?? Salesforce if you use Salesforce as a platform. If possible, you should obtain everything from a single source.

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Ha en riktigt glad midsommar. (Swedish for "Have a lovely midsummer.")

//Antje