Editor’s Choice

IFS Loops Moves From AI Insight to Enterprise Execution

IFS Loops brings agentic AI closer to operational execution through Digital Workers that act within enterprise workflows. As manufacturers expand AI automation, trusted data, decision rights and measurable business outcomes will determine how much authority these systems earn.

Analytics and AI

Is the Autonomous Enterprise the Future SAP Customers Want?

In May 2026, SAP announced its Autonomous Enterprise vision, featuring new AI capabilities and agents designed to transform business operations, yet customer enthusiasm has shifted to concerns about governance, cost, and the uncertain timeline for AI integration, highlighting a disconnect between market expectations and the cautious approach adopted by organizations within the SAP ecosystem.

Security

AI Warnings Merit a Second Look at the Risks Businesses Are Willing To Carry

AI-enabled cyber threats are becoming faster, cheaper and easier to scale. As evidence accumulates, businesses may need to revisit security assumptions embedded in ERP migrations, AI deployments, and other technology investments.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Having It Both Ways: How Hybrid Cloud Control and Orchestration Achieve Reliable, Resilient Enterprise Ops

Hybrid cloud orchestration gives enterprises a way to coordinate legacy, SAP and cloud-native environments without sacrificing reliability or control. AI-powered automation is expanding that model by improving workload management, resilience and operational visibility.

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Analytics and AI

How Midmarket Manufacturers Are Moving AI From Experimentation Into Execution

Robert Kramer of KramerERP examines how QAD, Redzone and ChampionAI are helping midmarket manufacturers move AI from experimentation into execution, with customer results ranging from a 93% changeover reduction at Sauder to a 90% cut in RFQ creation time at KION.

Analytics and AI

Agentic AI in Finance: Why Autonomy Must Be a Risk Decision

Agentic AI promises to move finance beyond scripted automation, but greater autonomy does not automatically mean better outcomes. Finance leaders need to assess where agents can act independently, when humans should intervene, and how every decision can be governed and explained.

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Analytics and AI

Infor Uses Forward-Deployed Engineering To Move AI Into ERP Execution

Infor is pairing forward-deployed engineering with its AI Adoption Hub to move AI from feature availability into ERP execution. The four-week deployment claim gets attention, but reuse, governance and measurable operating improvement will decide whether the model scales.

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Analytics and AI

Chinese AI Models Are Changing the Economics of AI in ERP

Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi are giving European enterprises lower-cost, open-weight alternatives to US providers. Their rise could change the economics of embedding AI into ERP while increasing pressure on vendors to support more flexible, multi-model strategies.

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.

Financial Management

Why Finance’s AI Advantage Depends on Governance, Evaluation, and Control

AI adoption is accelerating across finance, but deploying more tools does not automatically improve financial control. Sustainable advantage depends on continuous evaluation, explainability, human oversight, and governance infrastructure that can detect failures, model drift, and emerging risks as AI scales.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

The Two-Year Materiality Cycle Is Quietly Becoming a Liability

Two-year materiality cycles can leave companies working from outdated assumptions. Novisto’s Nick Sanscartier explains how connected, technology-enabled materiality workflows can make ESG assessments more continuous, traceable and audit-ready without replacing human judgment.

Analytics and AI

Why Frontline Trust Will Determine the Success of UK Government AI

Civiteq Managing Director Edward Pearson argues that UK government AI will succeed only if public sector leaders make frontline trust, adoption and change management central to transformation.

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Financial Management

Why Isn’t Your ERP System Paying Off? The Answer May Be Hidden in AP

Priority Commerce finds that fragmented accounts payable workflows are preventing organizations from realizing the full value of their ERP systems, making deeper AP integration, embedded payments, and workflow adaptability increasingly important.

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Spend Management and Procurement

ERP Transformed Organizations. Can Procurement Technology Transform Markets?

ERP systems transformed procurement execution, but market visibility remains a challenge. Mawared MENA demonstrates how shared procurement infrastructure can help organizations discover suppliers, strengthen local sourcing, improve resilience, and create healthier supplier ecosystems before a purchase order is ever issued.

Supply Chain Management

Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP MCP Server Lets Agents Move from Supply Chain Insight to Action

Microsoft is positioning Dynamics 365 ERP MCP Server as the bridge between AI-generated recommendations and operational execution. The platform gives AI agents controlled access to real ERP workflows, allowing organizations to move from supply chain visibility toward governed action while maintaining human oversight.

AI is doing more than making enterprise systems smarter. It is exposing weak data, disconnected processes and unclear ownership that were already there.

Automation

AI Reveals Vulnerabilities in the Enterprise Operating Model

Enterprise AI is not held back only by technology. ERP, supply chain, data, security, and people need to work together in a connected operating model that turns trusted context into controlled action.

Analytics and AI

How SNP Is Addressing the Manual Work Behind SAP Modernization

SNP is collaborating with a leading AI company to bring AI into one of the most labor-intensive areas of SAP transformation: test-data selection. The collaboration highlights a broader shift toward software-led delivery models that promise faster, more predictable, and more auditable ERP modernization projects.

Analytics and AI

Report: AI Is Moving Faster Than the Enterprise Systems Built to Support It

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index reveals a growing disconnect between employee AI capabilities and the enterprise systems designed to support them. As workers move faster with AI, ERP leaders face growing pressure to connect intelligence, governance, and operational execution.

ERP Strategy and Planning

The Mid-Flight ERP Decision: What to Do When the Platform Changes Before Go-Live

Cloud ERP vendors continuously release new capabilities, creating a challenge many organizations never anticipated when they approved their business case. This article explores how ERP leaders should respond when a platform changes before go-live and offers a practical framework for balancing customization, standardization, governance, and long-term value.

Data and Data Management

SNP Advances AI for Unstructured Data in M&A with Kyano Oros

SNP is expanding its AI capabilities through Kyano Oros, helping organizations bring unstructured enterprise data into mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and SAP transformation projects. The move highlights a growing challenge for M&A teams: understanding the risks, obligations, and opportunities hidden beyond structured ERP data.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Decision Debt: The Hidden ERP Liability No Dashboard Tracks

Most ERP programs measure budgets, milestones, testing progress, and deployment readiness. Few measure the hidden liability created by unresolved business decisions. As AI compresses implementation timelines, decision debt may become one of the most expensive risks in enterprise transformation.

Security

The Hidden Governance Challenge Behind Enterprise Cloud Integrations

As organizations expand cloud ERP ecosystems and integrate more applications, identity governance is emerging as a critical operational challenge. Sustainable access management depends less on technology alone and more on clear ownership, governance frameworks, and business accountability.

Automation

Why AP Workflow Automation Still Leaves Finance Teams Doing Manual Work

Accounts payable automation has come a long way—yet most finance teams are still doing significant manual work. This article examines why AP workflows break down even with automation tools in place, where the ERP gaps lie, and what CFOs and finance leaders need to do to build truly touchless invoice and payment processing.

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Analytics and AI

MCP Is Becoming the Plumbing of Agentic ERP—ERP Leaders Need to Understand It

MCP is emerging as the protocol layer that lets AI agents discover and call enterprise tools, data sources, and workflows. For ERP leaders, the opportunity is lower integration friction. The risk is that access control, auditability, and cost discipline move closer to the agent boundary.

Analytics and AI

GenAI in ERP Needs a Smaller Starting Point and a Harder Business Proposition

Enterprise leaders, while ambitious in their generative AI strategies, face a significant gap between their AI aspirations and actual production adoption, as illustrated by Mukesh Kumar's insights on targeted automation in ERP systems addressing specific, high-impact problems.

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.

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.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Open-Source ERP Providers Get a Second Look as AI Changes the ERP Shortlist

Open-source ERP platforms like ERPNext and Odoo are gaining traction and visibility in the market, particularly among small- to mid-sized businesses, as they offer lower licensing costs and greater flexibility, though they require careful consideration of implementation and support challenges.

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Data and Data Management

Why SAP S/4HANA Migration Alone Won’t Make You AI-Ready

ERP migration modernizes systems, not enterprise knowledge. Here's why a governed Enterprise Data Layer, not a clean S/4HANA core, is the real foundation for enterprise AI.

Analytics and AI

The Next Enterprise AI Wave Will Reach Beyond Agents, Says SAP Labs US Managing Director

At SAP Sapphire, Global Head of Research & Innovation Yaad Oren discussed SAP's forward-looking exploration of emerging technologies like AI, data, user experience, robotics, quantum computing, and cloud architecture, urging customers to embrace current AI capabilities while also preparing for future innovations.