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Unit4 Outlines ERPx Path From Recording to Acting

Unit4 used its North American Customer Day in Montréal to describe ERPx moving from recording what happened to helping organizations decide and act. Outside speakers, a first Innovation Lab pilot, and July's AI trial and governance terms filled out the picture.

Cloud Platform and Technology

SAP Extends ERP Private Edition Transition Option to 2035

Subscriptions for eligible customers may now run until December 31, 2035, up from the 2033 end date originally announced, with further prerequisites.

Analytics and AI

SAP Is Swapping In Cheaper AI Models as Customers Ask Where They Come From, CFO Says

SAP's finance chief told Reuters the company is replacing costly AI models with cheaper ones where performance holds, while government and regulated customers increasingly exclude models by origin.

Analytics and AI

Sage Details Partner-Built Intacct Finance Agents

Sage used Sage Future for Partners to show partner-built finance agents for Sage Intacct, including Wipfli's Job Insights Agent and the Sovos Nexus Agent. It also set out plans for AI Workspaces, a planned hub for working with Sage-built and partner-built agents.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Microsoft Brings Sustainability Manager Into Dynamics 365 ERP Portfolio

Microsoft is bringing Microsoft Sustainability Manager into the Dynamics 365 ERP portfolio, where it refers to the product as Dynamics 365 Sustainability. The move ties emissions data to financial and operational processes, with a green ledger view designed to bring financial and sustainability insights together.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Lumber Dealers Report Margin, Inventory, and Growth Gains on Epicor BisTrack

Arnold Lumber Company, Sears Trostel Lumber and Millwork, and Dodson Wholesale Lumber report gains in dispatch, inventory, margin, and growth from Epicor BisTrack, ERP software Epicor built for building suppliers. Their results span live dispatch data, margin dashboards, and hosted ERP with warehouse scanning.

Financial Management

Adyen Automates More Than 10 Finance Use Cases With Workday

Adyen automates finance and HR processes using Workday to standardize data flows and enhance employee services, aiming for efficiency and the potential integration of AI to further streamline operations.

Japanese utility advances national energy management initiative, strengthens grid resilience, and enhances customer experiences with Oracle AMI

Data and Data Management

Chubu Electric Power Grid Hits 10 Million Smart Meters With Oracle

Chubu Electric Power Grid has successfully deployed its 10 millionth smart meter in collaboration with Oracle, upgrading to a new meter data management system that accommodates second-generation meters and enhances billing and consumption monitoring while ensuring operational continuity and supporting Japan's evolving energy initiatives.

How Storm Smart connected finance, manufacturing and field service through Acumatica ERP

Financial Management

Storm Smart Cuts Monthly Close to Three Business Days With Acumatica

Storm Smart replaced QuickBooks with Acumatica Construction Edition and connected finance, manufacturing and field service. Acumatica reports a monthly close reduced from 10 business days to three, inventory accuracy above 98% and software consolidation from up to 15 systems to four or five.

inventory, pricing and invoice processing

Analytics and AI

State Electric Supply Expands Infor AI and Automation Into Accounts Payable

State Electric Supply, an electrical distributor in West Virginia, has successfully integrated Infor CloudSuite Distribution and the Infor Velocity Suite over the past three years, utilizing AI and automation to revolutionize their inventory management, order entry, and accounts payable processes, achieving significant labor savings and operational efficiencies.

Syspro ERP release helps manufacturers and distributors support FSMA 204 and EU Digital Product Passport Compliance

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Syspro Adds Unified Product Traceability for Audits and Recalls

Syspro has released a new ERP version built around Unified Product Traceability, with support for FSMA 204 key data elements and EU Digital Product Passport requirements. The release also changes catch weight costing and order checks, and leaves several questions buyers should put to Syspro before relying on it for compliance.

Analytics and AI

Workday Rebuilds Data Cloud for AI Agents

Workday announced a four-layer Data Cloud at Workday Rising that gives AI agents direct access to live System of Record data under existing permissions. Agent Lake and Live Data Query are generally available, while the Context Layer's semantic models and Agent-Ready Tools for Data are in early access.

Financial Management

Unit4 Ties Procurement Value to Connected Finance Data

Unit4 published two procurement blogs on October 30 tying Source-to-Contract by Scanmarket to its ERP and financial planning products. They argue procurement earns credibility with finance through connected spend, supplier, and contract data.

Analytics and AI

Sage Acquires French Partners Moovin’Cloud and WholeHelp for Cloud and AI

Sage acquired the cloud migration and hosting business of Moovin’Cloud and the AI Studio maker WholeHelp in October, adding two platforms already in use with customers and partners in France.

ERP Strategy and Planning

QAD to Standardize ERP Across Truvant’s Seven Packaging Sites

Truvant has selected QAD | Redzone to standardize ERP and manufacturing operations across seven packaging sites in North America and Europe. The planned implementation combines QAD Adaptive ERP, Redzone Connected Workforce and ChampionAI to establish common workflows, connect production data and support future acquisitions.

Industrial manufacturing equipment pumps

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

DAB Pumps Standardizes Cloud ERP to Support Global Manufacturing Growth

DAB Pumps has eliminated more than 2 million internal transactions after standardizing logistics and moving five manufacturing plants to Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise. The migration also centralized production planning, reduced manual work and established a common ERP environment for further international expansion.

Analytics and AI

Microsoft Extends Work IQ Business Context to Cowork, Copilot Studio

Microsoft announced public preview capabilities for Dataverse and Work IQ on October 23 that bring Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business context to Copilot Studio and Cowork. The release came ahead of the Power Platform Community Conference in Las Vegas.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Tutto Pelle Cuts Two-Week Reporting to Minutes With Acumatica

Tutto Pelle, a Mexico City-based custom furniture maker, transitioned from the fragmented Microsip ERP system to Acumatica Retail Management Edition, drastically reducing reporting cycles and improving access to customer information and operational data, which facilitated better sales analysis and decision-making while addressing localization and industry-specific needs.

Analytics and AI

SAP TechEd 2026: What’s Rolling Out and What’s Planned Through 2027

SAP announced new tools for building, grounding, and governing AI agents at SAP TechEd 2026. Some are rolling out now, and others are scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026 and the first quarter of 2027.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Epicor’s On-Premises Support Runways Differ by Platform

Epicor has scheduled the final on-premises feature releases for Kinetic, Prophet 21, and BisTrack, and the Active Support period after each release differs by platform.

Analytics and AI

Oracle Expands Enterprise AI Push With ChatGPT, Fusion, and Snowflake

Oracle is expanding its enterprise AI portfolio through new OpenAI integrations, Fusion Companion and plans to bring Snowflake to OCI. The announcements outline how ChatGPT could access ERP workflows, how AI agents would operate within enterprise controls and how Oracle customers could use business data for analytics and AI.

automated bottling line at a manufacturing facility.

Human Capital Management

Inside Lion’s ServiceNow Overhaul: From Fragmented Services to AI Readiness

Lion, a beverage manufacturer, improved employee service efficiency and satisfaction by redesigning its HR, IT, and finance workflows with EY and ServiceNow, consolidating over 56 legacy channels into a unified system that increased self-service usage by 200% and reduced operating costs by about 30%, while laying the groundwork for future AI integration.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Groundwork Gives Project Managers Live Budget Access With Sage Intacct

Groundwork South and North Tyneside has moved from Sage 50 and Sage 200 to Sage Intacct, giving project managers self-service access to budgets and funding streams. Sage's customer story reports no measured results such as time saved or cost changes.

Analytics and AI

Oracle Brings Claw-Powered Agentic Applications to HR and Payroll

Oracle has introduced Fusion Claw-powered agentic applications for HR, covering workforce planning, recruiting, compensation, and payroll. Oracle says the applications carry out human-approved actions and that customers retain responsibility for employment decisions.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Microsoft Adds Dynamic Permissions and Risk Controls for AI Agents

Microsoft has extended Project Perception to cover AI agents it describes as insiders, with permissions that start at zero and tighten as risk changes. Guardian Agents handle continuous security work while people set policy and approve major decisions.

Analytics and AI

Infor Survey Finds AI Deployment Outpacing Reported Efficiency Gains

Infor's second Enterprise AI Adoption Impact Index finds deployment outpacing reported efficiency gains in the US, UK, and France between April and August 2026. The report also shows weak industry fit for off-the-shelf AI and no clear owner for AI governance.

Financial Management

Epicor Propello 2026.3 Extends Financials and EDI Links

Epicor's third Propello release of 2026 deepens the retail system's ties to Epicor Financials and EDI, adds an open AR import for migrations, and introduces configurable cash rounding as US states and Congress set rules for a post-penny economy.

Analytics and AI

What Acumatica 2026 R2 Changes for Manufacturers

Acumatica's 2026 R2 manufacturing edition links an expanded Shop Floor Kiosk, per-work-center APS scheduling, and the AI Assistant into one data chain, where each step depends on the accuracy of the one before it.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Unit4 Acquires Napta to Connect Skills Data With Professional Services ERP

Unit4 is acquiring Paris-based Napta, a resource management and skills intelligence platform, to connect staffing decisions with the project and financial data in its ERP. Napta keeps its brand, leadership, and integrations with other ERP and PSA platforms.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Fairline Yachts Selects Syspro ERP and Torque to Connect Design Through Aftersales

Fairline Yachts has selected Syspro cloud ERP and the Syspro Torque industrial AI platform to connect operations from design through aftersales, with HIT Technology leading the implementation.

Application Development and Integration

Budgeting Platform Martus Reaches 1,000 Sage Customers

Martus Solutions now has 1,000 customers using Sage accounting products, more than triple its 2021 total. The budgeting and reporting platform adds planning on top of Sage data, with integration details that vary by Sage product.