Mark Vigoroso
Mark Vigoroso, CEO, ERP Today
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ERP Strategy and Planning
The OG Group’s Strategic Appointment Signals Market Maturation in UK’s Booming ERP Landscape
The OG Group's strategic appointment of Oracle veteran Rob Gibney as Non-Executive Chief Innovation Officer highlights their focus on evolving the ERP landscape towards outcome-driven partnerships, amidst a rapidly growing UK ERP software market projected to expand significantly by 2035, underscoring the importance of cloud-based solutions and specialized advisory services to navigate complexity and drive business transformation.
Quality and Testing
The Quarterly Update Death Spiral: Why 73% of ERP Teams Can’t Keep Up with Continuous Testing Demands
The shift to quarterly updates in cloud ERP systems is overwhelming IT teams, as traditional testing cycles are insufficient to handle increased release frequencies, leading to significant risks and challenges; however, adopting codeless test automation and cross-application capabilities can help organizations thrive amidst these changes.
Self-Driving Finance: Why Autonomous ERP isn’t a Buzzword Anymore
The shift towards autonomous ERP systems, driven by generative AI and automation, is transforming finance operations from transactional to strategic, urging CFOs to invest in intelligent platforms for enhanced agility, resilience, and proactive decision-making.
Analytics and AI
How SAP and NVIDIA Are Rewriting the Enterprise AI Playbook
SAP's partnership with NVIDIA introduces 'Local AI from SAP,' allowing enterprises to harness over 100,000 AI models while ensuring data security and compliance, fundamentally transforming the deployment of AI in regulated industries.
Data and Data Management
Bridging the Data Migration Dialogue: From SAP Sapphire 2025 to SNP’s Transformation World
The enterprise data management landscape is shifting towards composable architectures, where integrating data migration, operational agility, and business continuity into a cohesive strategy will define competitive advantage, as emphasized by recent SAP Sapphire events and upcoming SNP's Transformation World.
Financial Management
The Great Finance Time Drain: Professional Services Firms Are Burning 44 Hours a Week on Financial Fire-Fighting
Unit4's research reveals that finance teams in professional services are inefficiently spending significant time resolving financial discrepancies and consolidating year-end reports due to a lack of automated processes and unified data sources, leading to burnout and strategic disadvantages for organizations.
Analytics and AI
IFS Doubles Down on Industrial AI on Last Day in Nashville
At IFS Connect North America 2025, IFS demonstrated a practical AI implementation roadmap emphasizing embedded intelligence over competing solutions, showcasing measurable ROI and a case study from Cimcorp that highlights a gradual adoption approach, while addressing industry challenges related to data governance and ease of integration.
ERP Strategy and Planning
When the Grid Gets Smart: TECO Energy’s All-In ERP Transformation with IFS
Tampa Electric Company (TECO) is undertaking a bold, simultaneous overhaul of its back-office systems and cultural mindset to transform its operations and set new standards in the energy sector, as highlighted by David Lukcic at IFS Connect North America 2025, aiming to integrate advanced technology and strategic partnerships to enhance reliability, security, and performance while navigating modern challenges.
Analytics and AI
From Nashville with AI: Microsoft Shares Blueprint for ERP Transformation at IFS Connect
At the IFS Connect North America 2025 event in Nashville, Microsoft's Jennifer Martinez presented a strategic framework for enterprise AI transformation focusing on four pillars—enhancing employee experiences, reinventing customer engagement, reshaping business processes, and accelerating innovation—while emphasizing a three-stage implementation roadmap that includes embracing available AI tools, developing customized solutions, and prioritizing security and governance.
Enterprise Asset Management
AI Era Ushers in Drones as Infrastructure Inspectors and Algorithms as Failure Predictors
At the IFS Connect North America 2025 conference, Deloitte unveiled an AI-powered remote sensing solution using drones to predict infrastructure failures before they occur, aiming to transform how cities manage aging infrastructure through enhanced data collection and analysis, ultimately improving safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
Enterprise Content Management
GAF’s Lean Journey: How North America’s Largest Roofing Manufacturer Digitized Tribal Knowledge with IFS Poka
At IFS Connect North America 2025, Lauren Fourt shared GAF's innovative strategy to preserve the knowledge of retiring workers through a digital transformation initiative that combines lean manufacturing principles with real-time content creation via Poka, aiming to enhance workforce competency and streamline knowledge transfer in the roofing industry.
Analytics and AI
Beyond AI Theater: How Industrial Leaders Are Actually Making Money with AI
At IFS Connect 2025, executives learned that focusing on practical generative AI solutions integrated with organizational data, rather than consumer-grade productivity tools, is essential for achieving measurable ROI amid the growing demand for Industrial AI.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Industrial AI with Swagger: Keynote Insights from IFS Connect North America 2025
IFS Connect North America 2025 in Nashville showcased the transformative potential of embedded industrial AI in enhancing operational efficiency, demonstrated through real-world applications and tangible ROI, urging enterprises to move beyond theoretical pilots to actionable implementations for improved business outcomes.
Quality and Testing
Fónua Maintains Testing Agility in Move to Infor CloudSuite with Assist from Original Software
As businesses rapidly migrate to cloud ERP, traditional testing methods struggle to keep pace with frequent updates, prompting a shift towards no-code testing platforms that enable faster, more agile quality assurance and position companies like Fónua for competitive advantage amidst growing digital transformation demands.
Cloud Platform and Technology
How Inetum’s BOS2 Win Signals a New Era for UK Public Sector Tech
The UK's civil service faces a digital skills gap with only 4.5% of its workforce in tech roles, presenting a significant opportunity for private sector innovation, exemplified by Inetum's strategic entry into the BOS2 procurement framework, which allows access to robust SaaS solutions that could transform public sector services amid rising demand for digital transformation.
Enterprise Architecture
The U.S. Cash Exodus: Why Your Mission-Critical Systems Aren’t Ready for Tomorrow’s Digital Economy
As cash usage declines in the U.S., the digital payment market is set to grow significantly, highlighting that many companies remain ill-prepared for this transition due to outdated infrastructures and regulatory complexities, underscoring the urgent need for strategic modernization in order to remain competitive.
ERP Strategy and Planning
The $2 Billion Cloud ERP Shake-Up: Why Vista’s Acumatica Bet Changes Everything
Vista Equity Partners' $2 billion acquisition of Acumatica signals a transformative shift in the mid-market ERP landscape toward innovative, cloud-native solutions and AI integration, challenging legacy giants while enhancing Acumatica's potential to dominate the underserved market of mid-sized businesses.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Build Smarter, Not Slower: How Rossera and Oracle Are Reinventing Custom ERP
In an era of hyper automation, enterprise leaders are shifting from 'build or buy' to 'how to build smarter' by utilizing Rossera's modular, AI-powered accelerators on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which streamline bespoke processes and enhance user experiences while maintaining operational efficiency and data governance within the existing Oracle ecosystem.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Harvesting Resilience: How Aptean Is Helping Food and Beverage Companies Thrive in the Age of AI
Aptean is providing food and beverage manufacturers with industry-specific ERP and AI solutions to enhance operational efficiency, compliance, and adaptability in an increasingly complex and regulated market.
Analytics and AI
Salesforce To Acquire Informatica: Fueling the Next Generation of Enterprise AI
Salesforce has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Informatica for approximately $8 billion, aiming to enhance its AI capabilities by integrating Informatica's data management expertise to create a robust foundation for autonomous AI solutions in enterprise operations.
Application Development and Integration
Is AI the Death of ERP? Not Quite. But It Might Just Kill the Front End.
As generative AI advances in 2025, the debate over its role in enterprise software, particularly ERP systems, intensifies, with implications for user interaction and system architecture, highlighting a shift towards AI-driven processes and the need for robust governance and integration capabilities.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From Mainframe to Microsoft: Semler’s Epic ERP Overhaul to Drive a Data-Powered, AI-Enabled Automotive Empire
Semler IT is undergoing a significant digital transformation by completely overhauling its legacy ERP system to a cloud-based solution with Microsoft Dynamics 365, integrating AI and enhancing user experiences, all aimed at future-proofing the company against industry changes while ensuring effective data management and user adoption.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Red Hat and Oracle Expand Collaboration to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Transformation
Red Hat and Oracle have expanded their collaboration to enhance hybrid cloud adoption by offering certified support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift across various Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environments, enabling enterprises to leverage AI capabilities and modernize applications effectively.
ERP Strategy and Planning
SAP Sapphire 2025 Customer Keynote: “Bring Out Your Best” and Reinvent the Future of Enterprise ERP
At SAP Sapphire 2025, leaders emphasized that agility is essential for survival in a rapidly changing business landscape, showcasing innovative transformations from major companies like Mercedes-Benz and Mars Inc. and announcing a focus on embedded, agentic AI to overcome data barriers and complexity in enterprise applications.
Analytics and AI
From SAP Sapphire 2025: Sean Kask, Chief AI Strategy Officer, Opens SAP’s AI Playbook, Covers Agentic Intelligence, Strategic Differentiation, and the Race to Real Adoption
At SAP Sapphire 2025, Sean Kask, SAP’s Chief AI Strategy Officer, emphasized a customer-focused AI strategy that integrates various models and maintains ethical standards, showcasing the potential of tools like Joule to autonomously execute complex processes while leveraging proprietary knowledge graphs for contextual accuracy, positioning SAP as a leader in AI-powered enterprise solutions.
Transforming Public Sector Operations with Unit4
ERP Strategy and Planning
Transforming Public Sector Operations with Unit4
Facing rising public expectations and budget constraints, public sector organizations are increasingly adopting Unit4's modern, integrated platform to streamline operations, enhance citizen services, and support digital transformation, with IT spending expected to double by 2032.
Analytics and AI
Digital Labor, Real Trust: Salesforce Launches Agentforce to Reinvent Front-Office Financial Services
Salesforce's upcoming Agentforce for Financial Services introduces AI agents designed to alleviate the administrative tasks of financial professionals, enhancing client engagement and compliance amid workforce shortages and rising customer expectations.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SAP Sapphire 2025: Fluence Commits to ‘Speed Over Perfection’ on Hypergrowth Trajectory with SAP
Fluence rapidly grew from $900 million to nearly $4 billion in two years under Dean Crounse's leadership by implementing a 99.7% clean core SAP deployment for digital transformation and supply chain orchestration, enabling them to manage large-scale energy storage projects while focusing on sustainability and AI integration.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SAP Sapphire 2025: How SAP Helps Jabil Achieve Resilience at the Speed of Industry
Chase Christensen, Jabil's Vice President and CIO, emphasizes resilience as a business imperative, showcasing how the company's strategic partnership with SAP enables operational efficiency and adaptability through a consolidated ERP framework, real-time analytics, and a focus on AI-driven augmentation of workforce capabilities.
Analytics and AI
From SAP Sapphire 2025: How SAP and Google Cloud Are Accelerating Real-World Impact from AI
The collaboration between SAP and Google Cloud focuses on developing practical, AI-powered enterprise systems that enhance innovation and reduce project risk, leveraging tools like SAP Joule and Google’s Gemini models for real-time access to actionable data and robust infrastructure, exemplified by successful implementations at companies like AMD and Suzano.
Analytics and AI
From SAP Sapphire 2025: Joule Everywhere – How SAP Is Making Business AI Omnipresent and Proactive
SAP's upcoming Joule Everywhere update in 2025 integrates generative AI agents across its entire ecosystem, enabling intelligent co-piloting and seamless decision-making within workflows while enhancing security and governance.
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