The report stressed that there was a need to improve HR and workforce planning as well as internal business plans.

BBC: Audit committee

If given the choice of only being able to move one application to the cloud, most respondents would choose storage (25%), followed by enterprise resource planning applications to manage HR, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and project management systems (20%).

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The company was in the middle of implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX as its new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform, and HR was not part of that initiative.

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