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Fusion Claw: Oracle’s New Runtime for Autonomous, Governed Enterprise Work

Oracle has introduced Fusion Claw, a governed execution runtime that lets Fusion Agentic Applications take on larger, longer-running work. It pairs frontier-model reasoning with deterministic computation and records each run in an auditable receipt.

Analytics and AI

Microsoft Opens Work IQ Preview for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Data

Microsoft has opened a public preview of Work IQ, which grounds Copilot and agents in a shared model of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform data built largely from existing configuration. Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations coverage is scheduled for late October.

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.

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Analytics and AI

Why Industry Context Is Becoming Critical to Enterprise AI

As AI moves from generating suggestions to executing work, industry processes, rules and data increasingly determine what it can do. This explainer covers what industry AI is, why context matters more as AI takes action and what determines whether it can scale.

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Analytics and AI

AI and Cybersecurity: Faster Attacks, Smarter Defense, and Agent Identity Risk

AI is compressing the time attackers need to exploit known weaknesses while adding software agents that can act inside enterprise systems. This explainer examines how AI is changing threats, defense, identity and security governance in SAP environments.

Business Process Management and Automation

Infor Treats Post-Go-Live Adoption as an ERP Design Problem

Infor argues that manufacturers can finish an ERP rollout on schedule and still miss its value because employees keep working around the system. Its answer for CloudSuite Industrial is role-based workspaces, embedded AI and automation, and in-app learning.

Business Process Management and Automation

Epicor Adds Conveyance Solutions to Its ANZ Partner Program

Epicor has added Conveyance Solutions, a Prophet 21 specialist focused on mid-market industrial distributors, to its Channel Partner Program in Australia and New Zealand. The partner a customer chooses shapes much of how it experiences the system.

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Analytics and AI

How AI Is Changing Enterprise Process Automation

AI-driven automation extends rules-based workflows into processes that involve changing context, exceptions, and judgment. Enterprises must align agent autonomy with governed data, permissions, human oversight, and process-level performance measures.

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Analytics and AI

AI Adoption Is Widespread, but Scaling It Is Not

Enterprise AI use is growing faster than the operating models needed to turn it into measurable value. Scaling requires workflow redesign, shared ownership, selective use-case investment, and outcome-based measurement.

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Analytics and AI

Sage Makes the Case for Three Kinds of AI in the Supply Chain, and One Data Foundation Beneath Them

Two September 2026 Sage Advice articles frame supply chain AI as predictive, generative, and agentic layers that only deliver value on connected ERP data with human oversight. ERP Today's 2026 coverage of Sage Copilot in X3, IDC trust research, and customer readiness shows why explainability is now a supply chain requirement.

Analytics and AI

When Enterprises Should Build, Buy, or Partner for AI

AI is lowering the cost of building custom software while vendors embed AI into packaged applications. Enterprises now need to decide workload by workload whether to build, buy, or partner, based on lifetime cost, data control, and risk.

ERP Strategy and Planning

What ERP Support Deadlines Actually Mean for Companies

SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft set very different ERP support timelines. SAP's 2027, 2030, and 2033 dates determine when customers must decide, but the right path still depends on migration effort, architecture, and a business value case.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Agentic ERP Roadmap Runs Through March 2027

Microsoft has set out its Dynamics 365 ERP roadmap through March 2027, making its core agent connectors generally available while finance, supply chain, field service, and HR agents move through preview and development.

Financial Management

Sage Intacct Gives the USO a Faster Close and a Clearer View of Spending

The USO has cut bank reconciliation from five or six days to about three and shortened its monthly close after moving core finance operations to Sage Intacct. SEO-rich bullets:

Financial Management

Why Growing Contractors Are Moving Construction Finance Off QuickBooks

Growing contractors can outgrow QuickBooks as job costing, WIP reporting, compliance, and multi-entity finance become more complex. Acumatica positions its construction ERP as a connected alternative for finance, project, and field operations.

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.

Financial Management

SAP Releases Accounting Accruals Agent for Month-End Close

SAP has released its Accounting Accruals Agent under Restricted Availability, giving S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition customers an AI-powered way to calculate accruals, prepare proposals and automate parts of the month-end close while retaining human review.

Human Capital Management

Frontline Expectations Are Outrunning Workforce Systems

New Workday and DailyPay research finds hourly workers want clearer pay information, easier scheduling and mobile self-service. The gaps raise questions for employers planning frontline AI on top of their HCM and workforce-management systems.

Financial Management

Finance Transformation Stalls Where Data Assembly Begins

Finance teams still lose hours exporting ERP data and reconciling spreadsheets before analysis can begin. Two Unit4 blogs argue that connected FP&A changes both forecast responsiveness and how skilled finance staff spend their time.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Food Traceability Moves Beyond Compliance Into ERP Operations

Food manufacturers evaluating traceability systems face an architecture decision that extends beyond recall management. ERP integration allows lot, batch, supplier, expiry, production, and cost data to shape routine operational decisions.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Oracle Maps Its Security Programs to the EU Cyber Resilience Act

Oracle says its established vulnerability management and incident response capabilities support the EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting obligations that became applicable September 11, 2026, while it prepares for broader product lifecycle requirements arriving December 11, 2027.

Analytics and AI

Infor Makes ERP Architecture the Starting Point for Metal Fabrication AI

A four-part manufacturing series links Infor's Industry AI Agents to connected operational data, process mining, and an ERP model designed to reduce customization.

Analytics and AI

Epicor Brings Embedded AI Agents to ERP Users Across Latin America

Epicor Prism is now generally available across Latin America, embedding more than 18 vertical AI agents inside Epicor Kinetic and Prophet 21 as the company extends its Cognitive ERP strategy into the region.

Analytics and AI

SAP Brings AI Token Costs Into Finance Planning

SAP is moving AI token spending into regular finance planning after rising consumption exposed gaps in visibility and accountability. Its approach combines business-level cost ownership, token caps, model routing, and forecasting as employees and automated agents increase AI use.

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Analytics and AI

Lockheed Martin’s SAP SuccessFactors Go-Live Shows Why HR Data Comes Before HR AI

Lockheed Martin has consolidated core HR for 123,000 employees on SAP SuccessFactors, sequencing workforce data consolidation ahead of AI. SAPinsider 2026 research suggests most organizations should follow that order.

Financial Management

Sage Intacct Standardizes Hospitality Finance Without Replacing Every System

Cote Hospitality standardized its financial core on Sage Intacct while retaining specialist forecasting and accounts payable systems that already met its business requirements. The model gives properties a common GL and reporting structure without forcing every process onto one platform.

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ERP Strategy and Planning

Electrical Contractor Moves to Acumatica After a Decade of Growth

Groupe SGM moved to Acumatica Construction Management after a decade of growth increased its ERP requirements. The electrical contractor has centralized construction, manufacturing, field service, project and finance data while reporting measurable gains in automation and invoicing.

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Analytics and AI

Team Liquid Levels Up Coaching With SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP announced on September 15, 2026, that Team Liquid is using SAP Business Data Cloud and Joule to connect gameplay, wellness, biometric and operational data for World of Warcraft's Race to World First. SAPinsider research shows why the same connected-data challenge remains unsolved for most enterprises.

Analytics and AI

Microsoft Publishes Draft ‘Humanist AI’ Code Barring Cyberattacks, Deception and Resistance to Human Control

Microsoft has published a draft AI Code of Conduct for its MAI models, setting fixed limits on cyberattacks, deception and resistance to human control while opening the framework to six weeks of public consultation.

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ERP Strategy and Planning

Workday Names Sarah Kennedy Ellis Chief Marketing Officer

Workday has named former Google Cloud marketing leader Sarah Kennedy Ellis chief marketing officer, putting her in charge of global marketing and communications as the company expands its enterprise AI positioning.