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Analytics and AI
AI Adoption Is Widespread, but Scaling It Is Not
Enterprise AI use is growing faster than the operating models needed to turn it into measurable value. Scaling requires workflow redesign, shared ownership, selective use-case investment, and outcome-based measurement.
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Analytics and AI
Sage Makes the Case for Three Kinds of AI in the Supply Chain, and One Data Foundation Beneath Them
Two September 2026 Sage Advice articles frame supply chain AI as predictive, generative, and agentic layers that only deliver value on connected ERP data with human oversight. ERP Today's 2026 coverage of Sage Copilot in X3, IDC trust research, and customer readiness shows why explainability is now a supply chain requirement.
Analytics and AI
When Enterprises Should Build, Buy, or Partner for AI
AI is lowering the cost of building custom software while vendors embed AI into packaged applications. Enterprises now need to decide workload by workload whether to build, buy, or partner, based on lifetime cost, data control, and risk.
ERP Strategy and Planning
What ERP Support Deadlines Actually Mean for Companies
SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft set very different ERP support timelines. SAP's 2027, 2030, and 2033 dates determine when customers must decide, but the right path still depends on migration effort, architecture, and a business value case.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Agentic ERP Roadmap Runs Through March 2027
Microsoft has set out its Dynamics 365 ERP roadmap through March 2027, making its core agent connectors generally available while finance, supply chain, field service, and HR agents move through preview and development.
Financial Management
Sage Intacct Gives the USO a Faster Close and a Clearer View of Spending
The USO has cut bank reconciliation from five or six days to about three and shortened its monthly close after moving core finance operations to Sage Intacct. SEO-rich bullets:
Financial Management
Why Growing Contractors Are Moving Construction Finance Off QuickBooks
Growing contractors can outgrow QuickBooks as job costing, WIP reporting, compliance, and multi-entity finance become more complex. Acumatica positions its construction ERP as a connected alternative for finance, project, and field operations.
Financial Management
SAP Releases Accounting Accruals Agent for Month-End Close
SAP has released its Accounting Accruals Agent under Restricted Availability, giving S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition customers an AI-powered way to calculate accruals, prepare proposals and automate parts of the month-end close while retaining human review.
Human Capital Management
Frontline Expectations Are Outrunning Workforce Systems
New Workday and DailyPay research finds hourly workers want clearer pay information, easier scheduling and mobile self-service. The gaps raise questions for employers planning frontline AI on top of their HCM and workforce-management systems.
Financial Management
Finance Transformation Stalls Where Data Assembly Begins
Finance teams still lose hours exporting ERP data and reconciling spreadsheets before analysis can begin. Two Unit4 blogs argue that connected FP&A changes both forecast responsiveness and how skilled finance staff spend their time.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Food Traceability Moves Beyond Compliance Into ERP Operations
Food manufacturers evaluating traceability systems face an architecture decision that extends beyond recall management. ERP integration allows lot, batch, supplier, expiry, production, and cost data to shape routine operational decisions.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Oracle Maps Its Security Programs to the EU Cyber Resilience Act
Oracle says its established vulnerability management and incident response capabilities support the EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting obligations that became applicable September 11, 2026, while it prepares for broader product lifecycle requirements arriving December 11, 2027.
Analytics and AI
Infor Makes ERP Architecture the Starting Point for Metal Fabrication AI
A four-part manufacturing series links Infor's Industry AI Agents to connected operational data, process mining, and an ERP model designed to reduce customization.
Analytics and AI
Epicor Brings Embedded AI Agents to ERP Users Across Latin America
Epicor Prism is now generally available across Latin America, embedding more than 18 vertical AI agents inside Epicor Kinetic and Prophet 21 as the company extends its Cognitive ERP strategy into the region.
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Analytics and AI
Lockheed Martin’s SAP SuccessFactors Go-Live Shows Why HR Data Comes Before HR AI
Lockheed Martin has consolidated core HR for 123,000 employees on SAP SuccessFactors, sequencing workforce data consolidation ahead of AI. SAPinsider 2026 research suggests most organizations should follow that order.
Financial Management
Sage Intacct Standardizes Hospitality Finance Without Replacing Every System
Cote Hospitality standardized its financial core on Sage Intacct while retaining specialist forecasting and accounts payable systems that already met its business requirements. The model gives properties a common GL and reporting structure without forcing every process onto one platform.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Electrical Contractor Moves to Acumatica After a Decade of Growth
Groupe SGM moved to Acumatica Construction Management after a decade of growth increased its ERP requirements. The electrical contractor has centralized construction, manufacturing, field service, project and finance data while reporting measurable gains in automation and invoicing.
Analytics and AI
Microsoft Publishes Draft ‘Humanist AI’ Code Barring Cyberattacks, Deception and Resistance to Human Control
Microsoft has published a draft AI Code of Conduct for its MAI models, setting fixed limits on cyberattacks, deception and resistance to human control while opening the framework to six weeks of public consultation.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Workday Names Sarah Kennedy Ellis Chief Marketing Officer
Workday has named former Google Cloud marketing leader Sarah Kennedy Ellis chief marketing officer, putting her in charge of global marketing and communications as the company expands its enterprise AI positioning.
Application Development and Integration
What Customers Need to Know About SAP’s API Policy
SAP has clarified how its API Policy applies to existing integrations, custom ABAP, third-party platforms, and AI agents. Most documented integrations remain intact, while autonomous AI access faces stronger governance requirements and several commercial and operational questions remain unresolved.
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Analytics and AI
When the Vendor Becomes the Customer: What KPMG and ServiceNow Are Testing in HR
KPMG will implement ServiceNow's own global HR rollout while expanding its internal use of the ServiceNow AI Platform, creating a two-way reference deployment. The alliance turns HR service delivery into a live test of governed agentic AI operating above the ERP.
Human Capital Management
SAP Autonomous HCM Explained: What It Is, How It Works, and Where AI Fits in HR
SAP Autonomous HCM connects SuccessFactors, People Intelligence, workforce planning and Joule Agents so AI can move beyond isolated HR tasks and help coordinate processes across payroll, recruiting and workforce decisions.
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Business Process Management and Automation
Bond Consulting Services Absorbs Mount Evans Consulting: What the Deal Means for Business Central Customers
Bond Consulting Services has brought Mount Evans Consulting into the firm, combining two Business Central partners as Microsoft's NAV end-of-sale date and AI roadmap push boutique Dynamics consultancies to consolidate. Here is what Dynamics customers can expect.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Unit4’s 2030 ERP Growth Strategy Takes Shape With New Leadership Appointments
Unit4 has added new leadership across marketing, public sector, customer success, and operations as its 2030 strategy targets business growth and faster migration to ERPx.
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Enterprise Architecture
Stable Core, Movable Edges: What SAP’s Vercel Partnership and Tirlán’s Nine-Month Carve-Out Have in Common
SAP's new Vercel partnership and Tirlán's nine-month SAP carve-out from Glanbia look unrelated, but both follow the same architectural pattern: keep the SAP core stable, isolate the layer that must move, and rehearse the change before it reaches production.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Workday Adds 100+ State and Local Government Customers as Agencies Replace Legacy ERP
Workday says more than 100 state and local governments selected its platform in two years, as agencies replace aging ERP systems and consolidate HR, finance, and payroll. Akron and Georgia show how that modernization can reduce manual work, standardize processes, and create a foundation for AI agents.
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Financial Management
Sage Intacct Adds AI Anomaly Detection and Lending Management in New Release
Sage Intacct’s August release adds AI-powered anomaly detection to accounts payable and launches Lending Management in the US, alongside new reporting, payments, construction and hospitality capabilities. Several headline features remain in Early Adopter programs.
Analytics and AI
SAP Is Pushing Industry AI Toward Autonomous Execution
SAP is pushing Industry AI beyond recommendations toward systems that can increasingly coordinate and execute work across complex business processes. Its approach combines industry-specific knowledge, enterprise data, AI agents and forward-deployed engineering.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
How SAP Defines Sovereign Cloud for ERP
SAP defines sovereign cloud across data, operational, technical, and legal control. The framework shows why ERP sovereignty depends on far more than where information is stored, particularly as organizations divide workloads across cloud environments and introduce AI into core business processes.
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Human Capital Management
NTT DATA Turns Its Own HR Systems Into an SAP Business AI Proving Ground
NTT DATA is leveraging SAP SuccessFactors, Business Data Cloud, and Joule to overhaul its global HR systems. This internal deployment showcases its SAP expertise and provides a real-world proving ground for AI-driven HR transformation solutions, following its 2025 move to SAP Cloud ERP Private.
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