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Winding Down Support: The Other 2027 Deadline ERP Teams Can’t Afford to Miss

SAP ECC is not the only 2027 deadline ERP teams need to manage. SAP Solution Manager—the tool most SAP organizations rely on for change control, ITSM, monitoring, and audit trails—is also winding down its support in 2027. With SAP Cloud ALM not offering a direct like-for-like replacement for SolMan's ChaRM functionality in on-premise scenarios, ERP teams face a hidden compliance and governance gap that requires urgent planning.

Enterprise AI sprawl and invisible AI governance concept

ERP Strategy and Planning

Workday Says AI Agents Belong Closer to the Systems They Could Break

Workday is drawing a clear line in the enterprise AI agent debate: for high-stakes workflows in HR, payroll, and finance, the safest place for AI inference and orchestration is inside the system of record, not on neutral third-party platforms. Through its controlled openness model—open APIs and MCP for developers, proprietary governance within Workday—the company argues that context, business logic, and security controls are a competitive moat that cannot be safely externalized.

Financial Management

BlackLine Is Giving CFOs a Control Room for Finance AI

BlackLine’s Finance Control Console preview turns its Agentic Financial Operations Platform into a control room for AI agents, giving CFOs visibility, policy enforcement, and audit‑ready evidence across record‑to‑report, invoice‑to‑cash, and other finance workflows.

Automation

NTT DATA Bets Cursor Can Speed the Messy Work of Legacy Modernization

NTT DATA’s partnership with Cursor brings AI coding agents directly into its global software engineering model, aiming to speed legacy modernization while strengthening governance and aligning modernization with enterprise‑wide AI strategy.

ERP AI readiness gap after S/4HANA migration - digital brain with question mark on enterprise data dashboard

Analytics and AI

ERP AI Readiness FAQ: Why SAP S/4HANA Migration Alone Will Not Get You There

Most ERP teams treat S/4HANA go-live as the finish line for transformation—but it is only the starting line for AI readiness. This FAQ explores why migration alone is not enough, what data and cloud foundations are missing, and how ERP leaders can build the architecture required to move AI from pilot to production.

INPEX energy transformation SAP Cloud ERP Private modernization for energy transition

Cloud Platform and Technology

INPEX Rebuilds Its SAP Core for a More Volatile Energy Market

Japanese energy company INPEX has gone live on SAP Cloud ERP Private, replacing its 2008-era IBOS system as part of INPEX Vision 2035—a strategy to build a more agile, data-driven management foundation capable of supporting energy transition into hydrogen, ammonia, carbon capture, and renewables. Partnering with ABeam Consulting and using a fit-to-standard SAP approach, INPEX is laying the groundwork for AI-driven operational efficiency across its global operations.

Applied Materials finance transformation using SAP Taulia Dynamic Discounting for supplier payments

Business Process Management and Automation

Applied Materials Is Finding Finance Transformation in Faster Supplier Payments

Applied Materials is using SAP Taulia Dynamic Discounting as part of its Agile Finance program to accelerate supplier payments, improve supplier liquidity, and build a scalable, AI-first finance operating model. The initiative shows how enterprise working capital programs can evolve from transactional efficiency tools into strategic platforms that deliver both supplier value and measurable financial returns for large manufacturers.

Application Development and Integration

Cognizant and Domyn Take Sovereign AI From Policy Debate to Enterprise Build

Cognizant and Domyn have formed a strategic partnership to offer sovereign AI solutions tailored for regulated enterprises in EMEA, enabling secure AI deployment while ensuring data control and compliance with European regulations.

Analytics and AI

Honeywell Pushes Industrial AI into Control Rooms and OT Cybersecurity

Honeywell launched Experion Cognition, an AI-driven control system to enhance autonomous operations in industrial control rooms, while simultaneously expanding its OT Cybersecurity Suite to bolster defenses against advanced cyber threats, illustrating a strategic focus on integrating AI with operational resilience and security.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Why Unit4 Keeps Showing Up on the ERP Shortlist

Unit4’s latest ERPx moves show why the vendor keeps appearing in shortlists for service-centric organizations. Success4U, DataHub, and FIX sharpen its pitch around deployment predictability, governed analytics, and ERP built for people- and project-driven operations.

Analytics and AI

ERP’s AI Skills Gap Is Becoming the Real Transformation Bottleneck

ERP vendors like SAP are shipping AI features faster than teams can absorb them. The SAP AI skills gap—with 91% of organizations using AI but only 17% embedding it in core workflows—is now the defining bottleneck to real ERP transformation.

Supply Chain Management

IFS Is Building the Operations Layer Around Industrial AI

IFS’s Softeon acquisition is only one part of a broader push to connect warehouse execution, logistics optimization, MRO, asset management, and ERP around Industrial AI.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Why Food ERP Still Needs More Than Generic Dynamics 365

Aptean’s food and beverage ERP footprint on Microsoft Dynamics 365 shows why food, beverage, fresh, and agribusiness companies still need vertical ERP logic for traceability, quality, production, pricing, and compliance.

Financial Management

Why Finance AI Needs Guardrails: Sage Intacct’s Next Test Is Data Control

Sage Intacct 2026 R2 moves the connected finance story into data-control territory, with AI Gateway, intelligent 3-way matching, and construction workflows showing why finance AI needs guardrails before automation can scale.

Top ERP Today stories and H1 2026 enterprise technology trends across AI, cloud, SAP, robotics, and infrastructure

ERP Strategy and Planning

10 Stories That Defined Enterprise Tech in H1 2026 and What They Say About the ERP Market

ERP Today’s most-read stories in the first half of 2026 reveal a market moving from AI enthusiasm into harder questions about pricing, governance, infrastructure, cloud costs, and operational execution.

Spend Management and Procurement

SAP Procurement Agents Are Reaching the Front Door of Spend Management

SAP's Joule AI capabilities, set for general availability across Ariba and Fieldglass in June 2026, aim to enhance procurement processes by automating intake, contract creation, and workforce operations while urging spend teams to ensure proper governance and integration before widespread adoption.

Secure enterprise corridor representing Microsoft Power Platform governance and AI agent access

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Microsoft Power Platform Narrows the Access Gap for ERP Agents

Microsoft's June 2026 Power Platform updates introduce Advanced Connector Policies that govern AI agent access to SAP systems at the action and MCP server level. ERP leaders must understand what the new controls mean for low-code automation, connector visibility, and enterprise AI compliance.

Financial Management

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.

Analytics and AI

Why AI Ambitions Still Depend on IT Modernization: METRO’s Migration Program

International food wholesaler METRO AG has completed a multi-year data center migration program with Wipro, moving legacy IT operations into a modern multi-cloud ecosystem to enable enterprise-scale AI adoption, automation, and cloud-first digital transformation.

ERP Strategy and Planning

IHH Healthcare System Standardization Shows the Hard Part of a Multi-Country ERP Transformation

IHH Healthcare has selected Infosys for a multi-year, enterprise-wide ERP transformation using the Infosys Topaz AI-first platform to standardize business processes across Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, covering finance, procurement, supply chain, HCM, and enterprise performance management.

Enterprise Architecture

Who Governs AI Agents When Workflows Cross Platforms?

As AI agents expand across ERP, cloud, and workflow platforms, enterprise leaders face a critical governance challenge: who owns accountability when data, models, and audit trails are fragmented across multiple systems. This analysis explores the control plane problem and what ERP teams must do to prevent agent sprawl.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Can Headless ERP Change the Migration Math?

Headless ERP is emerging as a third option for organizations facing SAP ECC end-of-life deadlines: rather than migrating the core or abandoning it, enterprises can layer an AI-driven agentic interface over APIs while keeping the legacy system running. This analysis examines the architecture, risks, and real-world implications for CIOs weighing the headless ERP migration equation.

Service Management

Intapp Says Professional Firms Solved the Wrong AI Problem

Intapp’s Firm AI blueprint reframes the professional-services AI debate around the business of the firm, arguing that individual productivity tools will not change firm economics unless AI reaches intake, conflicts, staffing, pricing, relationships, compliance, and institutional judgment.

Real-time ERP data pipeline for enterprise AI agents - data lakehouse architecture

Data and Data Management

Why ERP Leaders Need to Understand Data Lakehouses Before Scaling AI Agents

Data lakehouses are emerging as the essential infrastructure layer for enterprise AI — providing ERP leaders with a governed, cross-system data foundation where AI agents can operate safely, semantically, and at scale. This analysis explains what a data lakehouse is, why it matters for agentic AI, and what ERP leaders must address before scaling autonomous AI across critical business workflows.

Analytics and AI

EY’s Own ERP Migration Raises the Bar for Transformation Partners

EY's transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition on Microsoft Azure positions the firm as a credible transformation partner — one that has lived the operational, data, and change-management challenges it now advises on. This analysis explores what EY's internal migration means for ERP buyers evaluating systems integrators for their own RISE with SAP journeys.

Analytics and AI

Zuora Pushes AI Agents Deeper into Quote-to-Cash Finance Work

Zuora is pushing AI agents deeper into the heart of quote-to-cash — expanding Zuora AI across catalog management, CPQ, revenue operations, and workflow automation. This analysis covers what the new agents do, how customers are already using them to tackle high-friction finance tasks, and why governance must scale alongside AI adoption in subscription billing environments.

Finance automation and treasury management

Financial Management

Perplexity Tests the Real Finance AI Question: Can the Agent Show Its Work?

Perplexity has introduced a finance-specific AI agent designed to provide trusted data integration, robust audit trails, and prebuilt workflows for corporate finance teams, emphasizing the importance of traceability for meeting audit and reporting requirements.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Airbus Shows Why Aerospace ERP Innovation Starts with Data Integration

Aerospace ERP innovation hinges not only on advanced aircraft concepts but significantly on the integration and efficiency of enterprise systems like SAP, as demonstrated by Airbus, highlighting the crucial role of real-time data across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain operations.

Tax Compliance

Does Your ERP Know What Tax Regime You’re In? A Compliance Readiness FAQ for Enterprise Finance Leaders

Tax compliance has evolved into a critical board-level consideration for ERP systems, emphasizing the need for real-time reporting, continuous transaction controls, and adaptable architectures while leveraging AI to address compliance challenges across jurisdictions.

Quality and Testing

Tricentis California Deal Puts AI Testing Governance in the Spotlight

Tricentis has expanded its software licensing contract with California to offer its AI-driven quality engineering platform to state agencies, while emphasizing that AI-generated testing must be governed by evidence and compliance, essential for SAP teams in regulated environments.