With AI dominating the business agenda, CFOs and finance leaders are being called on to do more than crunch numbers—they're expected to steer enterprise-wide innovation. But as breakthrough technologies reshape the finance landscape, one truth becomes clear: success hinges on your team’s ability to keep up. Facing a persistent talent shortage and an evolving skills gap, there’s never been a better moment to reassess your finance talent strategy. From finding valuable AI use cases to upskilling your current team, finance leaders must take action now to ensure their departments are ready for what’s next. Join this session for practical steps to build an AI-ready finance organization—starting with the talent behind the tech. In this session, you’ll learn how to: Understand the impact of AI on the finance industry and its potential to transform daily tasks and operations. Explore talent acquisition strategies focused on the skills needed in an AI-driven environment. Discover how AI-powered tools can automate routine finance tasks, improve efficiency, and enhance overall productivity. Recognize the role of AI in enabling finance teams to focus on strategic work—including AI-generated narratives, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling. This ERP Today live session will cover how DuPont were able to substantially reduce IT costs by decommissioning legacy infrastructure, eliminate compliance and cybersecurity risks with audit-proof access to historical data, streamline global system architecture, reduce complexity, and eliminate technical debt. Despite the goals, the entire project was completed in just 12 months, an industry-record timeline for a project of this scale. In addition, the project delivered significant gains in energy efficiency in support of ESG targets. By attending this session, you will be able to: Identify the financial, compliance, and cybersecurity risks associated with continuing to run outdated SAP ECC systems. Explain how legacy system retirement can reduce IT operating costs by up to 80% while maintaining audit-proof data access. Describe the key steps and best practices in executing a large-scale SAP system decommissioning project without disrupting business operations. Assess how a platform-based approach like JiVS IMP can simplify IT landscapes and support long-term data governance and ESG goals.

DuPont, a global Fortune 500 leader in science and innovation, faced a complex and fragmented IT landscape after years of mergers, divestitures, and organizational change. The challenges of maintaining 17 separate legacy SAP systems, primarily for compliance purposes, were becoming unsustainable. The operational costs involved in supporting these obsolete systems were escalating, systems faced increased cybersecurity exposure, outdated hardware was causing energy inefficiencies, new global compliance requirements needed to be met, and the amount of technical debt had resulted in an overall lack of IT agility. To address these challenges, DuPont launched a bold initiative: retire all 17 legacy SAP systems and archive more than 50 terabytes of historical data, including hundreds of ADK and archival files, without compromising compliance, auditability, or business continuity. Together with Accenture and powered by JiVS Information Management Platform (IMP) from Data Migration International, the company achieved results few believed possible. This ERP Today live session will cover how DuPont were able to substantially reduce IT costs by decommissioning legacy infrastructure, eliminate compliance and cybersecurity risks with audit-proof access to historical data, streamline global system architecture, reduce complexity, and eliminate technical debt. Despite the goals, the entire project was completed in just 12 months, an industry-record timeline for a project of this scale. In addition, the project delivered significant gains in energy efficiency in support of ESG targets. By attending this session, you will be able to: Identify the financial, compliance, and cybersecurity risks associated with continuing to run outdated SAP ECC systems. Explain how legacy system retirement can reduce IT operating costs by up to 80% while maintaining audit-proof data access. Describe the key steps and best practices in executing a large-scale SAP system decommissioning project without disrupting business operations. Assess how a platform-based approach like JiVS IMP can simplify IT landscapes and support long-term data governance and ESG goals.

Wednesday, May 07, 2025 at 3:00 PM GMT Embarking on an ERP implementation can be daunting, but with the right guidance and experience, it can transform your business operations. In this webinar, we’ll explore the critical evaluation phase of an...

EY and Eversource Energy have successfully implemented an agile customer information system that enables adaptability to market changes, fosters a leadership-driven agile culture, and emphasizes continuous improvement, allowing the utility company to enhance customer service while managing payments effectively.

This session will start by exploring what analyst reports can and cannot tell you about ERP selection. It will then explore why a CIO of a global automotive supplier selected QAD despite knowing where it stood in the rankings. This will include how leaders should evaluate ERP solutions factoring in topics like industry expertise, implementation realities, and long-term business impact. The session will also include a moderated discussion that provides a raw, insightful look at how manufacturing leaders navigate ERP decisions based on business realities. Attend the session to: Differentiate between ERP market reports and real-world decision criteria. Identify key factors beyond rankings that impact manufacturing ERP success. Understand why industry-specific expertise matters more than broad evaluations. Apply insights from an experienced ERP leader’s journey to their own selection process.

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM ET In today’s AI-driven landscape, businesses struggle with data readiness—poor quality, limited volume, and ethical constraints threaten the success of generative AI initiatives. In addition, questions are frequently asked about improving data quality,...

This session will start by exploring what analyst reports can and cannot tell you about ERP selection. It will then explore why a CIO of a global automotive supplier selected QAD despite knowing where it stood in the rankings. This will include how leaders should evaluate ERP solutions factoring in topics like industry expertise, implementation realities, and long-term business impact. The session will also include a moderated discussion that provides a raw, insightful look at how manufacturing leaders navigate ERP decisions based on business realities. Attend the session to: Differentiate between ERP market reports and real-world decision criteria. Identify key factors beyond rankings that impact manufacturing ERP success. Understand why industry-specific expertise matters more than broad evaluations. Apply insights from an experienced ERP leader’s journey to their own selection process.

The webinar hosted by IFS and ERP Today will explore how Industrial AI can enhance operational efficiency and sustainability by optimizing processes, minimizing waste, and improving resource utilization, while providing best practices for integration and discussing the impact on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives.