Ville Parkkinen

Ville Parkkinen is a Director of Product Marketing for Business Network at OpenText. Working closely with OpenText’s Product Management, Engineering, Solution Consulting and Sales teams, Ville enjoys taking complex technical concepts and translating them into tangible business value in customer context. Solution areas that Ville focuses on include digitization and automation of supply chain processes including order-to-cash and procure-to-pay; electronic invoicing solutions; B2B/EDI integration; data visibility and analytics; and managed integration services.

Supply Chain

Ville ParkkinenNovember 22, 2023

The top 5 insights into post-pandemic digital supply chains

As vital engines of the world economy, supply chains profoundly impact our daily lives as consumers. They are also an…
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Supply Chain

Ville ParkkinenOctober 30, 2023

Manufacturers turning to cloud based B2B integration but there are challenges ahead

Recent disruptions have exposed the fragility of the global supply chain, and manufacturers have suffered more than most. Manufacturing organizations…
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Product Updates

Ville ParkkinenOctober 10, 2023

How AI unlocks the untapped potential of supply chain ecosystems

Supply chains have endured plenty of disruptions in recent years. Artificial intelligence (AI) could provide the actionable insights companies need…
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OpenText World

Ville ParkkinenAugust 30, 2023

Build smarter supply chains at OpenText World 2023

Connecting people, systems, and things across business ecosystems is more important than ever. If data silos, untapped potential and information…
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Product Updates

Ville ParkkinenApril 24, 2023

Improve supply chain and ESG risk management with consolidated insights

Sustainability and ethical business practices are increasingly important in supply chain risk management. As regulatory developments around due diligence and…
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Supply Chain

Ville ParkkinenMarch 16, 2023

B2B integration expertise helps manage ERP migration risks

For many organizations, modernizing and consolidating their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is a key priority and often the central…
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Supply Chain

Ville ParkkinenMarch 1, 2023

Cloud is changing the way supply chains operate

Cloud computing has gone mainstream in today’s organizations, and many are adopting a cloud-first IT strategy. While enterprises still direct…
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Integration

Ville ParkkinenOctober 18, 2022

5 integration questions to answer before migrating to SAP S/4HANA

Migrating from older generation ERP systems to SAP S/4HANA offers great potential to improve operational performance and transform business processes.…
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News & Events

Ville ParkkinenJuly 14, 2022

Four steps for future-proofing your supply chain by driving better ecosystem integration

Global supply chains have been going through tumultuous times over the past couple of years and most organizations have had…
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News & Events

Ville ParkkinenMay 31, 2022

Future of supply chain collaboration – How is your organization tackling these 3 challenges?

Supply chains remain a hot topic among organizations due to the continued disruption across industries. Boosted by increased attention from top management…
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Cloud

Ville ParkkinenAugust 17, 2021

Cloud ERP evolution shifts the focus onto integration

Back in 2014, SAP declared that monolithic enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems were dead and would be replaced by “post-modern”…
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Business Network

Ville ParkkinenJuly 13, 2021

Why 91% of enterprises are looking for new integration solutions

Earlier this year, OpenText and IDG surveyed enterprises with more than 1,000 employees on ERP integration, including insights on their…
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Information Management

Ville ParkkinenMay 18, 2021

ERP systems are still plagued by bad data

The enterprise resource planning (ERP) software market is set for rapid growth. Worth approximately $39 billion in 2019, it is…
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Business Network

Ville ParkkinenJanuary 21, 2021

How to turn SAP migration pains into a high-yield investment

Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA is one of the biggest IT projects that many organizations will undertake in the coming years. While the original deadline of discontinuing…
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Technologies

Ville ParkkinenSeptember 18, 2020

Three reasons why managed services increase business resilience

As organizations around the world continue to deal with COVID-19 and prepare themselves for potential future waves, a clear pattern…
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Business Network

Ville ParkkinenJune 10, 2020

Building a resilient supply chain

The massive disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak has highlighted significant challenges in global supply chains. As highlighted in Fortune…
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Security

Ville ParkkinenDecember 16, 2019

Reducing the footprint of sensitive data in your enterprise

Research suggests that over one-fifth of all files are unprotected. Accenture estimates that information loss is the most expensive component…
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Technologies

Ville ParkkinenDecember 4, 2019

Striking a balance between security and usability of sensitive data

Last year, the number of personal records exposed by cyber attacks on the financial services industry was an incredible 446,575,334…
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