Editor’s Choice

The Zero-Failure Formula: How Sage X3 Partner Inixion Achieves 100% ERP Success

Inixion, a Sage X3 partner with an impeccable record of zero ERP project failures over nearly two decades, attributes its success to deep-rooted customer relationships and staff stability, focusing on flexible deployment options and a comprehensive understanding of complex ERP integrations to meet unique client needs.

Financial Management

Breaking the 3-5 Year ERP Migration Trap: Why 24 Hour Fitness Didn’t Wait for Cloud Transformation

24 Hour Fitness successfully transformed its billing process from a six-day cycle to daily billing by implementing Zuora's monetization platform alongside its existing ERP systems, demonstrating that simultaneous modernization can enhance cash flow, innovate product offerings, and maintain integration flexibility during enterprise technology migrations.

Data and Data Management

The Snowflake ERP Integration Challenge: Why Your Data Strategy Needs a Rethink

Integrating ERP data with Snowflake is challenging due to architectural misalignment and the absence of pre-built connectors, necessitating custom solutions that complicate maintenance and delay insights, but CData offers pre-built connectors to streamline this process and enhance operational efficiency.

Financial Management

Finance Forecasting in Turbulent Times: Why Traditional Planning is Failing

The shift from traditional annual budgeting to agile financial planning emphasizes continuous scenario modeling and real-time data integration, allowing companies to adapt swiftly to market fluctuations and enhance forecasting accuracy, thereby transforming finance teams into strategic partners for navigating uncertainty.

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.

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.

Sage Looks at the Future with Supply Chain Intelligence Solution and LPGA Collaboration

Supply Chain Management

Charting a New Course in Supply Chain Management for SMBs

Research reveals that only 21% of businesses feel confident in navigating supply chain disruptions, attributed to various global challenges, highlighting the importance of enhanced visibility and integration tools like Sage Supply Chain Intelligence for small and medium-sized enterprises to mitigate risks and improve operations.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Sage Bets on a Human-Centric Future for ERP, AI, and the Mid-Market

Sage's human-centric AI strategy focuses on practical value and trust, aiming to empower mid-market businesses amidst the evolving ERP landscape by addressing specific pain points with incremental innovations and tailored solutions.

Cloud Platform and Technology

At Sage Future, Users get a Glimpse of Tomorrow’s ERP for Manufacturing, Distribution, and Finance

Sage is launching an AI-powered Copilot for Sage X3, designed to enhance operational intelligence and customer management in manufacturing and distribution, while also unveiling an AI-infused roadmap for Sage Intacct.

ERP Strategy and Planning

When the Grid Gets Smart: TECO Energy’s All-In Transformation with IFS

Tampa Electric Company (TECO) is undertaking a bold retooling 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

Sage Unveils Vision for “Agentic AI Era” to Modernize SMB Operations for CFOs

At the Sage Future conference in Atlanta, the company unveiled its strategic direction towards Agentic AI, enhancing CFOs' capabilities and SMB productivity through autonomous AI solutions, while emphasizing trust, transparency, and partnerships to ensure accurate, context-aware, and secure AI deployment.

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.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Sage Unveils High-Performance Finance Software Misson at Sage Future

Modern CFOs are transforming from financial stewards to strategic leaders amidst a significant role expansion, as revealed by Sage's High-Performance Finance Software initiative aimed at equipping them with AI solutions, executive training, and collaborative networks.

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.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Verisk’s Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Transformation: A Journey to the Cloud IBM and Oracle

Verisk has successfully transformed its HR and finance operations by replacing its 26-year-old PeopleSoft system with Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM and Financials in just 18 months.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Sage Looks at the Future with Supply Chain Intelligence Solution and LPGA Collaboration

Sage has launched its Supply Chain Intelligence solution to enhance visibility and automation in supply chain management for SMBs, while also announcing a partnership with the LPGA to support women's sports and financial transformation.

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.

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

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

Beyond Go-Live: Why IFS Success is an ERP Co-Pilot for the Long Haul

IFS Success is a comprehensive service offering designed to help organizations maximize the long-term value of their IFS ERP solutions through expert guidance, operational excellence, proactive optimization, and strategic alignment with business goals.

Quality and Testing

Get in the Fast Lane for Oracle Apps with AI-Powered Testing

AI-powered test automation solutions by Tricentis help Oracle customers efficiently manage complex processes, reducing risks associated with updates and migrations by enabling faster, more resilient testing while allowing non-technical users to participate in test creation.

Analytics and AI

IFS Stays Focused on Industrial AI with Nexus Black, 25R1, and an SAP Play

At IFS Connect 2025, CEO Mark Moffat emphasized the urgent need for adaptation to AI in business, unveiling a major push for IFS in industrial AI through new capabilities in IFS Cloud 25R1, the launch of IFS Nexus Black for rapid AI innovation, and a Migration Accelerator Service aimed at SAP customers, all aiming for significant market presence by 2029.

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.