Sapphire Reconnect

BY STEPHANIE BALL

With idyllic views of the Thames, the London Eye and Big Ben, attendees converged at the County Hall for Sapphire Reconnect.

Sapphire Systems CEO Vince DeLuca kicked off proceedings with the theme of connection and reconfiguring across customers, peers and partners in times of opportunity. An exciting touch was an envelope each, containing personalized AI-generated breakdowns of how each attendee’s company can benefit from the technology.

It’s been quite an 18 months, with

Sapphire expanding from core finance and ERP implementation specialisms to a wider market, with cloud at the forefront of technologies. The company has tripled its offering in the few years since DeLuca and chief strategy officer Chris Gabriel have joined the fold. Talks covered Sapphire’s enhanced solutions for supply chain, IT operations, HCM and CRM and the firm’s freshly nurtured partnerships with SAP, AWS, ServiceNow, Automation Anywhere and low-code data analytics firm Ubix Labs. Catching an aside with DeLuca, he told ERP Today: “We looked at our customer segments and asked what are the core platforms that mid-market and lower enterprise use to run their business? In five years, we’ll have a full suite of services that mid-market and lower enterprise customers can use, and we should top the $300m mark.”

Sapphire also shared the launch of Cloudflex4, offering a SaaS-like experience to traditional ERP to open the solutions landscape up to SMEs and enable continual platform modernization.

The evening saw the venue transformed into an English beer garden, complete with grass underfoot, a fully stocked bar and giant Jenga.