Tarsilla Moura, Author at ERP Today

Tarsilla Moura

Chief Editor, SAPinsider & ERP Today

232 Articles Published

Can AI Break the ERP Change-Order Cycle? Tessera Labs Just Raised $60M to Try

Tessera Labs’ $60 million funding round puts a spotlight on AI-native ERP modernization, raising a new question for CIOs: how much of the migration, data, code, and documentation work that once required large consulting teams can now be automated without weakening governance?

Cloud Platform and Technology

Ontario Health Centre Shows Why Nonprofits Are Outgrowing Legacy ERP

An Ontario Community Health Centre migrated from Sage 300 to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with Dynamics Square Canada, automating vendor invoice capture and employee expense management to free a lean two-person finance team from manual workarounds and improve financial visibility across locations.

Human Capital Management

Oracle Takes On the Federal Government’s HR Patchwork

The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has awarded Oracle a $395.8 million Federal HRIT Modernization contract to deliver the federal government's first government-wide HR platform using Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, designed to replace more than 100 separate agency systems and consolidate workforce management for 2 million civilian employees.

Automation

New Relic Prepares Observability for AI Agents That Skip the Dashboard

New Relic has introduced Autopilot and Ground Truth to shift observability toward an AI-agent-first operating model. Autopilot automates SRE triage and remediation using runbooks and context, while Ground Truth exposes governed telemetry to external AI agents via open standards. Both products reflect a broader industry move toward headless, agentic operations where AI systems, not human engineers, handle first-response tasks.

Analytics and AI

SAP’s AI Partnership Sprint Shows What Its Autonomous Enterprise Still Has to Prove

SAP’s recent partnerships with Google Cloud, n8n, Anthropic, AWS, Cohere, Mistral, and Parloa show how the company is turning its Autonomous Enterprise strategy into a modular AI architecture built around data access, orchestration, model choice, and governed business context.

Financial Management

Trintech AI Agents Are Targeting the Manual Work Behind the Financial Close

Trintech has launched two new AI agents designed to eliminate manual investigative work from the financial close process. The Flux Agent identifies material account fluctuations during the close, while the Variance Analysis Agent automates post-close budget-to-actual analysis. Both tools operate within governed financial workflows, keeping outputs connected to audit trails and human review controls.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Sage X3 Hopes to Help Manufacturers See Trouble Before It Hits

Sage announced enhancements to Sage X3, aimed at helping manufacturers and distributors improve operational visibility, reduce manual tasks, and expedite decision-making through embedded AI and operational intelligence.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Why Manufacturing AI Succeeds or Fails at the ERP Layer

Manufacturers' ambitions for AI are hampered by the lack of a coherent operational context within their ERP systems, as successful AI implementation requires reliable data governance and structured decision-making that connects insights to actionable outcomes.

Security

NTT DATA and Pathlock Bring Always-On Cyber Defense to SAP Workflows

NTT DATA Business Solutions and Pathlock have joined forces to deliver always-on SAP cybersecurity — combining a managed SOC with AI-native application controls to protect finance, procurement, and supply chain workflows against unauthorized access, fraud, and misconfiguration at global scale.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

QAD Redzone’s Pune Hub Points to the Real AI Gap in Manufacturing

QAD Redzone’s Pune hub is more than an India engineering expansion. It reflects a larger shift toward AI-enabled manufacturing execution, where ERP, MES, connected worker tools, and frontline decision-making need to operate as one control loop.

Analytics and AI

SAP Says AI Could Replace Its Coders—Customers Should Watch What Comes Next

Christian Klein’s claim that SAP could have no human software developers within three to four years is not just a workforce prediction. It is a signal of how SAP believes enterprise software will be built, governed, supported, and sold in the AI era.

Product Lifecycle Management

NTT DATA Puts AI Agents at the Front End of Product Planning

NTT DATA is launching an AI agent service in July 2026 to streamline early-stage product planning for food, beverage, and consumer goods companies, enhancing the speed and structure of concept generation while ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and market analysis.

Security

IBM Brings OpenAI Cyber Models into Enterprise AppSec Workflows

IBM has launched a new application security service using OpenAI's capabilities to help enterprises quickly identify software vulnerabilities, as part of its broader initiative to integrate frontier AI into cyber defense while ensuring controlled access and governance.

Tax Compliance

Global E-Invoicing Mandates Are Becoming an ERP Architecture Test

Sovos Compliance Network launches into a mandate wave that is pushing tax compliance directly into ERP transaction flows. For finance, tax, and architecture teams, e-invoicing is becoming a permanent operating condition rather than a series of local deadline projects.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Acumatica’s Ratings Sweep: What Midmarket ERP Buyers Are Actually Rewarding

Acumatica has been recognized in seven industry reports for its exceptional usability, customer satisfaction, and product fit for small- and medium-sized businesses, notably achieving top rankings in Nucleus Research, G2, and TrustRadius, emphasizing the growing demand for ERP systems that combine modernity with user-friendliness.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Aluminium Industries Scales 250% with Syspro ERP

Aluminium Industries successfully utilized Syspro ERP to achieve 250% business growth without increasing administrative staff, effectively managing rising order volumes and production complexities across multiple divisions.

Human Capital Management

Workday Is Testing How Much Enterprise AI Should Be Allowed to Do

Workday’s Q1 results showed agent adoption momentum. The follow-up question is whether Sana, Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Agent System of Record, and federal HR automation can prove that enterprise agents can act inside governed workflows without eroding control.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Syspro’s Nucleus Leader Ranking Puts Manufacturing ERP Back in Focus

Syspro’s move into the Leader quadrant of the 2026 Nucleus Research SMB ERP Technology Value Matrix signals a broader shift in midmarket ERP buying, where manufacturing depth, usability, embedded automation, and deployment flexibility are becoming central to value.

Enterprise Architecture

Epic Turns Scheduling into the First Test of Its Healthcare ERP Ambition

Epic's healthcare-native ERP initiative takes a significant step forward with the launch of Teamwork, a staff scheduling application that integrates seamlessly with clinical workflows, aiming to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making in health systems.

Analytics and AI

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Brings Agentic ERP Workflows into Copilot Cowork

Microsoft introduces Copilot Cowork as an innovative interface for Dynamics 365 ERP, aiming to streamline workflow by integrating ERP data and processes into a collaborative environment, allowing employees to coordinate actions without the need for cumbersome manual processes.

Tax Compliance

KPMG Puts Global Tax Incentives Inside Its Claude-Powered Gateway

KPMG has expanded its Digital Gateway by integrating the Incentive Credit Opportunity Navigator (ICON) in partnership with Incentify, providing clients a streamlined platform to identify and act on global tax credits and incentives efficiently, alongside a minority equity investment in the AI-driven technology firm.

Service Management

Kantata’s Expertise Agent Targets the Professional Services Delivery Crunch

Kantata has launched Expertise Agent, an AI system designed to enhance professional services operations by interpreting complex queries and coordinating workflows across project management and resource planning, amid rising client expectations and resource constraints.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Aptean Doubles Down on Dealer Management Dominance with ROTOR Deal

Aptean has acquired ROTOR Software GmbH to enhance its dealer management systems offerings and expand its industry-specific ERP capabilities for machinery dealers in the DACH region, building on previous acquisitions and reinforcing its vertical ERP strategy.

Data and Data Management

‘AI Is a Business Challenge, Not an IT One; Data Is the IT Problem,’ Q&A with Armstrong World Industries

Armstrong World Industries is proactively developing a strong data foundation to effectively scale AI across the enterprise, driven by the complexity of their data environment due to mergers and acquisitions, emphasizing that AI is a business challenge requiring strategic integration rather than merely an IT fix.

ERP Strategy and Planning

SAP NS2’s FedRAMP+ IL5 Authorization Opens a New Cloud ERP Path for Defense Programs

The recent FedRAMP+ IL5 authorization by SAP NS2 enables US Department of War organizations to deploy SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP BTP in a secure cloud environment, simplifying compliance for defense ERP modernization and addressing the complexities of operating within stringent regulatory frameworks.

Enterprise Asset Management

Crafted ERP Is Rolling Barrel Management into the Mobile Era

Doozy Solutions launched Crafted ERP Mobile, an app extending its cloud-based ERP platform for distillery teams on June 16, enabling real-time barrel management, movement tracking, and data access in remote environments without requiring full user licenses, while also signaling a broader trend towards mobile ERP functionality in the beverage industry.

Analytics and AI

Oracle Brings AI to the Hotel Front Desk with OPERA Cloud Assistant

Oracle launched the OPERA Cloud Assistant on June 16, embedding AI capabilities into its hospitality management platform to automate routine tasks, enhance operations, and improve guest service for hotel teams globally at no extra cost.

Analytics and AI

IBM and Microsoft Move Identity Security from Alerts to Action

IBM Consulting has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft Security to enhance identity threat detection and remediation services, enabling enterprises to effectively manage and respond to identity-based attacks through unified security signals and governed workflows.

Analytics and AI

AI Investment Test? SpaceX IPO Turns Orbital Data Centers into a Wall Street Bet

SpaceX's recent IPO has transformed the concept of orbital data centers into a viable public market opportunity, aiming to harness their potential for AI infrastructure while facing scrutiny over the economic feasibility and technical challenges of such an innovative approach.

Analytics and AI

Acumatica Taps Roman Bukary to Strengthen Partner-Led ERP Growth

Acumatica has appointed Roman Bukary as SVP of Partner Strategy and Programs to enhance its partner ecosystem, leveraging his extensive SaaS and AI experience to better support partner growth and customer outcomes amidst competitive dynamics in the midmarket ERP sector.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Why Oracle Cloud ERP License Costs Can Creep Up After Go-Live

SafePaaS emphasizes that Oracle Cloud ERP customers must monitor license governance as part of access control to avoid unexpected costs from role sprawl and excessive privileges post-implementation.