{"id":1532,"date":"2015-07-16T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T17:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2022-11-28T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:51:42","slug":"atkins-north-america-a-featured-thought-leader-in-sync-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/2015\/07\/16\/atkins-north-america-a-featured-thought-leader-in-sync-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Client, Atkins North America, is a Featured Thought Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The July 2015 issue of <a title=\"Atkins North America in Sync Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.projectp.com\/customers\/pdfs\/AtkinsArticleSyncMagazine.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sync Magazine<\/a> features Atkins North America, one of the largest design and engineering firms in the world, as a thought leader. Atkins is a Project Partners customer and a user of Oracle applications and technology.<\/p>\n<p>The article An Appetite for Disruption articulates,&nbsp;&#8220;It&#8217;s the role of IT leaders to evaluate and explain how emerging technology can provide a competitive advantage.&#8221; It includes an interview with Randy Martin, director of corporate systems at Atkins North America.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researching and implementing forward-facing technologies is an integral function of a modern IT department. \u201cIT needs to become a strategic partner with the business,\u201d Martin says. \u201cMy time is not best spent on implementing yet another ERP system with high costs and low value. Instead, I\u2019m exploring and validating a new technology, then returning to the company with a proposal for improved service to our clients. <strong>Atkins looks to trusted advisers like Project Partners, LLC, for input into project-centric systems.<\/strong>\u201d With the rise of cloud computing, SaaS, and even infrastructure-as-a-service, the traditional functions of IT are becoming commoditized. Staying current on the latest technology trends is one way IT can remain a relevant business partner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the article <a title=\"Atkins North America in Sync Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.projectp.com\/customers\/pdfs\/AtkinsArticleSyncMagazine.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also learn more about Atkins&#8217; use of Oracle Applications in an On-Demand Webinar <a title=\"Atkins North America Webinar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.projectp.com\/demos\/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The July 2015 issue of Sync Magazine features Atkins North America, one of the largest design and engineering firms in the world, as a thought leader. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":3368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-client-use-cases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}