Software provider Epicor unveils the results of 2019 Global Growth Index. Manufacturing business growth has continued to rise over the past year, but at a much slower rate than the previous 12 months. Despite challenging market conditions and the difficulty in recruiting and retaining skilled staff, there has been a marginal one percent rise in […]

Technologies like modern ERP and MES solutions are fast becoming the foundation for Digital Transformation in manufacturing. They do these by functioning as the fabric that connects people, processes, data and things in an intelligent manner, says Andy Coussins, senior vice president and head of international, Epicor Software. It has been suggested that over one […]

Machine-to-machine integration and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) are reinventing manufacturing as we know it, giving birth to the Smart Factory. Monzer Tohme, Regional Vice-President, Middle East & Africa, Epicor Software, says manufacturers can gain plenty from being more in tune with machines. While manufacturers have been collecting information from across the manufacturing floor […]

According to the latest Worldwide Semiannual Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics (BDA) will grow from $130.1 billion in 2016 to more than $203 billion in 2020. “The availability of data, a new generation of technology, and a cultural shift toward data-driven […]