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DLA’s ERP Modernization Race Shows How Audit Pressure Is Rewriting Federal Cloud Deals By Tarsilla Moura

DLA is years ahead of schedule on a major ERP modernization initiative aimed at reducing technical debt, improving auditability, and moving away from heavily customized systems. The effort highlights how cloud services, managed support, and process standardization are becoming foundational to federal ERP transformation.

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ERP Today Quality and Testing

KTern.AI’s AWS Agents Target the Consulting-Heavy Work Behind SAP Transformation

ERP Today Cloud Platform and Technology

Earnings Update: The ERP Work Behind Levi’s Q2 19% E-Commerce Surge

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ERP Today Systems Administration

Saudi Utility Consolidates SAP EAM Records, Putting Clean Asset Data Before Operational AI

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Workday Analytics and AI

Workday Research Shows Why AI Alone Is Not Fixing Busywork

ERP Today Cloud Platform and Technology

Higher Education’s Cloud ERP Shift Is Stuck on the Student System

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Automation

Why AP Workflow Automation Still Leaves Finance Teams Doing Manual Work

Accounts payable automation has come a long way—yet most finance teams are still doing significant manual work. This article examines why AP workflows break down even with automation tools in place, where the ERP gaps lie, and what CFOs and finance leaders need to do to build truly touchless invoice and payment processing.

By Tarsilla Moura

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Analytics and AI

MCP Is Becoming the Plumbing of Agentic ERP—ERP Leaders Need to Understand It

MCP is emerging as the protocol layer that lets AI agents discover and call enterprise tools, data sources, and workflows. For ERP leaders, the opportunity is lower integration friction. The risk is that access control, auditability, and cost discipline move closer to the agent boundary.

By Tarsilla Moura

Analytics and AI

GenAI in ERP Needs a Smaller Starting Point and a Harder Business Proposition

Enterprise leaders, while ambitious in their generative AI strategies, face a significant gap between their AI aspirations and actual production adoption, as illustrated by Mukesh Kumar's insights on targeted automation in ERP systems addressing specific, high-impact problems.

By Tarsilla Moura

Analytics and AI

SAP Says AI Could Replace Its Coders—Customers Should Watch What Comes Next

Christian Klein’s claim that SAP could have no human software developers within three to four years is not just a workforce prediction. It is a signal of how SAP believes enterprise software will be built, governed, supported, and sold in the AI era.

By Tarsilla Moura

Data and Data Management

‘AI Is a Business Challenge, Not an IT One; Data Is the IT Problem,’ Q&A with Armstrong World Industries

Armstrong World Industries is proactively developing a strong data foundation to effectively scale AI across the enterprise, driven by the complexity of their data environment due to mergers and acquisitions, emphasizing that AI is a business challenge requiring strategic integration rather than merely an IT fix.

By Tarsilla Moura

ERP Strategy and Planning

SAP NS2’s FedRAMP+ IL5 Authorization Opens a New Cloud ERP Path for Defense Programs

The recent FedRAMP+ IL5 authorization by SAP NS2 enables US Department of War organizations to deploy SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP BTP in a secure cloud environment, simplifying compliance for defense ERP modernization and addressing the complexities of operating within stringent regulatory frameworks.

By Radhika Ojha

ERP Strategy and Planning

Open-Source ERP Providers Get a Second Look as AI Changes the ERP Shortlist

Open-source ERP platforms like ERPNext and Odoo are gaining traction and visibility in the market, particularly among small- to mid-sized businesses, as they offer lower licensing costs and greater flexibility, though they require careful consideration of implementation and support challenges.

By Tarsilla Moura

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Data and Data Management

Why SAP S/4HANA Migration Alone Won’t Make You AI-Ready

ERP migration modernizes systems, not enterprise knowledge. Here's why a governed Enterprise Data Layer, not a clean S/4HANA core, is the real foundation for enterprise AI.

By Radhika Ojha

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Are Your AP Workflows Holding Your ERP Back? A Conversation with Priority Commerce

Priority Commerce EVP Steve Tackett joins ERP Today Live to explain why AP workflows keep escaping the ERP, what breaks down when they do, and how supplier enablement and AI-driven transparency are reshaping how mid-market organizations think about payment modernization.

ERP Today Analytics and AI

Interview: Nominal CMO on Why Finance AI Agents Need to Execute, Not Just Explain

At Sage Future, Nominal CMO Stephanie Montelius discussed why finance teams are moving beyond chatbots toward agentic AI that can execute ERP-adjacent accounting work with human oversight. The interview explores trust, deterministic agents, multi-entity complexity, intercompany transactions, manufacturing use cases, and the role of ERP-agnostic AI platforms in finance operations.

Sage Analytics and AI

Sage Future 2026: Julie Adams

Julie Adams, SVP of Construction at Sage, highlighting challenges and opportunities for ERP systems in the construction industry in a video interview at Sage Future 2026 in San Francisco.

Sage Analytics and AI

Sage Future 2026: Jon Fasoli

Jon Fasoli, SVP of Sage Intacct, discusses how the cloud financial technology is helping improve operations and management for their customers in many industry in a video interview at Sage Future.

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ERP Today Interview: Leanne Taylor, Syspro

Syspro CEO Leanne Taylor discusses how they're embedding AI into ERP systems to have it function as an activation layer to help make better and more informed decisions the user can trust.

ERP Today Cloud Platform and Technology

ERP Today Interview: Rick Rider

Rick Rider, SVP of product management at Infor, discusses the transformative impact of autonomous AI on ERP systems, viewing it as a beneficial evolution rather than a crisis, while emphasizing the importance of robust underlying systems and exploring the variations in U.S. and European approaches to AI.

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Acumatica Summit 2026: Cassandra Moore

Chris Vavra and Cassandra Moore explore key themes and trends from the 2026 Acumatica Summit in Seattle, focusing on innovations in ERP technology.

Acumatica Analytics and AI

Acumatica Summit 2026: Manish Chandak

At Acumatica Summit 2026, Tech Electronics CEO Manish Chandak discussed the evolving themes in ERP, focusing on the impact of digital replicas and AI on the future role of ERP systems.

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