ABC News Technographics
ABC News Technographics, Software Purchases, AI and Digital Transformation Initiatives
Discover the latest software purchases and digital transformation initiatives being undertaken by ABC News and its business and technology executives. Each quarter our research team identifies on-prem and cloud applications that are being used by the 4800 ABC News employees from the public (Press Releases, Customer References, Testimonials, Case Studies and Success Stories) and proprietary sources.
During our research, we have identified that ABC News has purchased the following applications: SAP Travel and Expense Management for Expense Management in 2014, Movie Magic Budgeting for Studio Management in 2022, New Relic APM for Application Performance Management in 2021 and the related IT decision-makers and key stakeholders.
Our database provides customer insight and contextual information on which enterprise applications and software systems ABC News is running and its propensity to invest more and deepen its relationship with SAP , Entertainment Partners , New Relic or identify new suppliers as part of their overall Digital and IT transformation projects to stay competitive, fend off threats from disruptive forces, or comply with internal mandates to improve overall enterprise efficiency.
We have been analyzing ABC News revenues, which have grown to $1.00 billion in 2024, plus its IT budget and roadmap, cloud software purchases, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions for ABC News intention to invest in emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Blockchain, Autonomous Database or in cloud-based ERP, HCM, CRM, EPM, Procurement or Treasury applications.
ABC News Tech Stack and Enterprise Applications
ABC News ERP
Vendor |
Previous System |
Application |
Category |
Market |
VAR/SI |
When |
Live |
Insight |
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| SAP | Legacy | SAP Travel and Expense Management | Expense Management | ERP | n/a | 2014 | 2014 |
In 2014, ABC News implemented SAP Travel and Expense Management to centralize executive travel booking and expense workflows. The deployment emphasized support for executive assistants and corporate finance, enabling arranging travel, processing expense reports through SAP Travel and Expense Management, scheduling meetings and coordinating office logistics for senior leaders including the Senior Vice President, and aligning those activities with Expense Management controls.
Configuration focused on core expense management workflows typical of the Expense Management category, including travel booking orchestration, receipt capture and expense report submission, multi-step approval routing, expense itemization and policy enforcement, and per-diem and expense type controls. The implementation standardized the submission and approval sequences used by administrative staff and executive support teams, and applied configurable approval hierarchies and audit-ready transaction trails within the SAP Travel and Expense Management application.
Operational coverage targeted the executive office, corporate finance and administrative functions across ABC News, with assistants responsible for initiating bookings and filing expense reports and finance responsible for approvals and ledger coding. Governance changes included defined approval thresholds, documented submission workflows for scheduling and office coordination tasks, and centralized policy configuration to ensure consistent expense handling across executive travel and meeting scheduling processes.
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ABC News ERP Services and Operations
Vendor |
Previous System |
Application |
Category |
Market |
VAR/SI |
When |
Live |
Insight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entertainment Partners | Legacy | Movie Magic Budgeting | Studio Management | ERP Services and Operations | n/a | 2022 | 2022 |
In 2022 ABC News deployed Movie Magic Budgeting as its Studio Management application for production accounting and finance. The implementation supports preparation of cost reports, management of cash flows, and construction of studio budgets for longform and Hulu streaming projects across the United States, aligning the tool with the companys production finance requirements.
A mid 2022 production-accounting job posting explicitly lists Movie Magic Budgeting as a required skill, showing active use by ABC News news and longform production finance teams. Movie Magic Budgeting is used to deliver core production accounting capabilities including cost reporting, cash flow scheduling, and studio budget build workflows, and its deployment is embedded in production accounting and finance departmental processes and hiring governance.
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ABC News ITSM
Vendor |
Previous System |
Application |
Category |
Market |
VAR/SI |
When |
Live |
Insight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Relic | Legacy | New Relic APM | Application Performance Management | ITSM | n/a | 2021 | 2021 |
In 2021, ABC News deployed New Relic APM to instrument the applications powering its public website. The deployment emphasized Application Performance Management capabilities, using New Relic APM for application instrumentation, transaction tracing, error analytics, performance dashboards, and alerting across the site application stack. The implementation provided continuous visibility into server side transactions and response time metrics for the website.
Operational ownership sits with site reliability and engineering teams who consume New Relic APM dashboards and configure alert policies as part of incident response and performance triage. The monitoring footprint was applied to the website layer and related application services, establishing observability workflows and performance governance tied to release cycles. Teams use New Relic APM as the central Application Performance Management tool for engineering and operations.
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IT Decision Makers and Key Stakeholders at ABC News
Apps Being Evaluated by ABC News Executives
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