News

Azentio Builds UAE E-Invoicing Compliance into ERP Workflows

Azentio Software has launched a pre-approved UAE e-invoicing solution integrated within Azentio ERP to help businesses comply with the Federal Tax Authority’s upcoming e-invoicing mandate starting January 2027, featuring AI capabilities for enhanced data accuracy and streamlined tax compliance.

Systems Administration

Westbank First Nation Picks Unit4 ERPx to Modernize Administrative Systems

Westbank First Nation has chosen Unit4 ERPx to modernize its fragmented administrative systems across finance, procurement, projects, and planning, aiming to enhance data visibility and operational efficiency within its unique governance framework.

Financial Management

BlackLine: Agentic Finance Needs a Close Readiness Test

AI will not fix a financial close process still built on manual journals, spreadsheet reconciliations, and after-the-fact audit documentation. BlackLine's new benchmark guide defines the seven close readiness metrics finance teams need to measure before agentic automation can scale safely and makes the case that governance and observability must come before AI deployment.

Enterprise Asset Management

IFS and Chelsea FC Move Industrial AI from Sponsorship into Club Operations

IFS and Chelsea FC are enhancing their partnership to integrate IFS technology across the club's operations, initially focusing on finance and procurement and later expanding into asset management and facility operations, aiming to leverage Industrial AI for operational efficiency.

Human Capital Management

Workday Turns to HR Path to Reach More SMBs in Ireland and Scotland

Workday has appointed HR Path as an authorized value-added reseller for the UK and Ireland, enhancing its partner-driven market approach for small and medium-sized businesses while providing customers with a streamlined relationship for their HR and finance system needs.

Financial Management

Oracle Cloud ERP 26C Puts Finance Release Readiness Under Pressure

Oracle's Cloud Financials 26C readiness documentation highlights a new quarterly release cycle that requires finance and IT teams to prepare for significant changes, including compliance updates, AI-enabled capabilities, and 137 changes across multiple modules, necessitating ongoing release management as a core operational discipline.

Automation

Agility’s $2.5B Wall Street Pitch Tests Whether Warehouse Humanoids Are Ready for Real Work

Agility Robotics is going public through a $2.5B SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI—a move that would make it the first US-listed pure-play humanoid robotics company. With 65,000 hours of real-world warehouse operations and $300 million in Digit v5 orders, Agility is testing whether physical AI can survive Wall Street's scrutiny of ROI, uptime, and supply chain integration.

Analytics and AI

SAP and IBM Say AI-Ready ERP Still Starts with Trusted Infrastructure

SAP and IBM are positioning ERP infrastructure as the foundation of AI readiness. New customer wins—including JYSK, GBM, DIFARE Group, and Plastilene Group—show how SAP Cloud ERP Private on IBM Power Virtual Server gives enterprises a secure, scalable path to modernization without abandoning the resilience of IBM Power.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Why Agribusiness ERP Has to Treat Contracts as Risk Signals

Agribusiness contracts carry commodity, FX, and interest-rate exposure long before settlement. This article explains how SAP Agricultural Contract Management turns contracts into a live risk engine inside ERP, with msg global's implementation approach.

Clinical Applications

ERP Today Awards: AI, Operational Execution, Real-World Impact Defined ERP Leadership in 2025

The ERP Today Awards 2025 make one thing clear: ERP leadership is no longer defined by deployment success, but by real-world impact. Across five award categories—spanning AI innovation, operational execution, customer experience, SMB transformation, and large enterprise projects—the 2025 winners set a new standard for what it means to lead with enterprise technology.

Application Development and Integration

meshIQ and Dataeko Target the Middleware Blind Spot Blocking Modernization

meshIQ and Dataeko have partnered to give enterprises unified visibility and control over middleware environments that connect ERP, supply chain, and banking systems across hybrid and multi-cloud estates. Powered by meshIQ's Version 12.1 agentic AI, the partnership targets the middleware blind spots blocking cloud modernization.

Service Management

TSG’s Creative Computing Acquisition Puts Media ERP Expertise in Play

TSG has acquired Creative Computing Solutions, bringing specialist Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central expertise for the media, film, and TV production sectors into its UK mid-market managed IT services business — and signaling a broader trend of ERP partner consolidation around vertical depth.

ERP Strategy and Planning

What Does It Take to Win the Next Energy ERP Cycle? SAP, Oracle, IFS, Infor Offer Different Answers

Excerpt: SAP, Oracle, IFS, and Infor are offering different answers to the next energy ERP cycle as oil, gas, utilities, renewables, and energy services companies modernize around assets, field execution, AI, and changing operating models.

Enterprise AI sprawl and invisible AI governance concept

Analytics and AI

The AI Bill Is Bad, But Not Knowing What Is Running May Be Worse

Enterprises are learning the biggest AI bill is not tokens but invisible AI they cannot see, govern, or measure. This article explains how ERP and IT leaders can bring AI agents, tools, and workflows under real governance before sprawl, risk, and cost spiral out of control.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Federal ERP Modernization Gets Another Procurement Path as 2027 Deadline Nears

Federal agencies require effective procurement strategies for ERP modernization, as highlighted by M&S Consulting's participation in NASA's SEWP VI contract, which provides a framework for essential IT services and emphasizes the importance of leveraging small-business certifications in the contracting process.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Epicor Takes Its ERP AI Bet to Europe’s Factory Floor

Epicor has launched Epicor Prism in the UK and parts of Europe, introducing embedded AI agents within its ERP system to facilitate easier data interpretation and decision-making for manufacturers, while also addressing ERP customization challenges.

Analytics and AI

Microsoft’s Layoffs Has Put Its AI Sales Machine Under Scrutiny

Microsoft's recent layoff of 4,800 employees, mainly from its sales and Xbox divisions, reflects a broader shift in the enterprise software model due to AI investments, highlighting challenges in selling complex AI solutions while adapting workforce structures to meet changing customer needs.

Financial Management

Sage Finds Finance AI Can Be 99% Accurate and Still Fail the Trust Test

A recent Sage study revealed that 71% of finance leaders would dismiss a highly accurate AI tool if it lacked explainability, emphasizing that transparency and the ability to validate AI-generated outputs are crucial for trust and compliance in financial decision-making.

Analytics and AI

AI’s Token Binge Is Over—Now Enterprise Budgets Want Proof

Enterprises that once rewarded employees for maximizing AI usage are now discovering how quickly token costs can spiral. As finance leaders tighten budgets, AI pilots are being judged on workflow‑level outcomes, model routing discipline, and whether they actually improve delivery, code quality, and ERP operations—not just how many tokens they consume.

Global tax management architecture connecting ERP data, e-invoicing, tax engines, analytics, and compliance governance.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

SAPinsider’s New Global Tax Report Shows Why ERP Data Is at the Center of Compliance

SAPinsider’s 2026 Global Tax Management benchmark shows that tax compliance is becoming an ERP data problem, with AI, e-invoicing, regulatory change, and fragmented systems forcing tax, finance, and IT leaders to rebuild the foundation.

SAP AI budget discipline for hiring and travel

ERP Strategy and Planning

After SAP’s Leadership Reorg, AI Overhaul Places New Scrutiny on Hiring and Travel

SAP is reallocating its operating budget by tightening hiring, limiting travel, and reviewing supplier spending to prioritize investments in AI capabilities and technologies, signaling a strategic shift towards enhancing its AI-driven products and services while managing operational costs.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Winding Down Support: The Other 2027 Deadline ERP Teams Can’t Afford to Miss

SAP ECC is not the only 2027 deadline ERP teams need to manage. SAP Solution Manager—the tool most SAP organizations rely on for change control, ITSM, monitoring, and audit trails—is also winding down its support in 2027. With SAP Cloud ALM not offering a direct like-for-like replacement for SolMan's ChaRM functionality in on-premise scenarios, ERP teams face a hidden compliance and governance gap that requires urgent planning.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Workday Says AI Agents Belong Closer to the Systems They Could Break

Workday is drawing a clear line in the enterprise AI agent debate: for high-stakes workflows in HR, payroll, and finance, the safest place for AI inference and orchestration is inside the system of record, not on neutral third-party platforms. Through its controlled openness model—open APIs and MCP for developers, proprietary governance within Workday—the company argues that context, business logic, and security controls are a competitive moat that cannot be safely externalized.

Financial Management

BlackLine Is Giving CFOs a Control Room for Finance AI

BlackLine’s Finance Control Console preview turns its Agentic Financial Operations Platform into a control room for AI agents, giving CFOs visibility, policy enforcement, and audit‑ready evidence across record‑to‑report, invoice‑to‑cash, and other finance workflows.

Automation

NTT DATA Bets Cursor Can Speed the Messy Work of Legacy Modernization

NTT DATA’s partnership with Cursor brings AI coding agents directly into its global software engineering model, aiming to speed legacy modernization while strengthening governance and aligning modernization with enterprise‑wide AI strategy.

ERP AI readiness gap after S/4HANA migration - digital brain with question mark on enterprise data dashboard

Analytics and AI

ERP AI Readiness FAQ: Why SAP S/4HANA Migration Alone Will Not Get You There

Most ERP teams treat S/4HANA go-live as the finish line for transformation—but it is only the starting line for AI readiness. This FAQ explores why migration alone is not enough, what data and cloud foundations are missing, and how ERP leaders can build the architecture required to move AI from pilot to production.

INPEX energy transformation SAP Cloud ERP Private modernization for energy transition

Cloud Platform and Technology

INPEX Rebuilds Its SAP Core for a More Volatile Energy Market

Japanese energy company INPEX has gone live on SAP Cloud ERP Private, replacing its 2008-era IBOS system as part of INPEX Vision 2035—a strategy to build a more agile, data-driven management foundation capable of supporting energy transition into hydrogen, ammonia, carbon capture, and renewables. Partnering with ABeam Consulting and using a fit-to-standard SAP approach, INPEX is laying the groundwork for AI-driven operational efficiency across its global operations.

Applied Materials finance transformation using SAP Taulia Dynamic Discounting for supplier payments

Business Process Management and Automation

Applied Materials Is Finding Finance Transformation in Faster Supplier Payments

Applied Materials is using SAP Taulia Dynamic Discounting as part of its Agile Finance program to accelerate supplier payments, improve supplier liquidity, and build a scalable, AI-first finance operating model. The initiative shows how enterprise working capital programs can evolve from transactional efficiency tools into strategic platforms that deliver both supplier value and measurable financial returns for large manufacturers.

Application Development and Integration

Cognizant and Domyn Take Sovereign AI From Policy Debate to Enterprise Build

Cognizant and Domyn have formed a strategic partnership to offer sovereign AI solutions tailored for regulated enterprises in EMEA, enabling secure AI deployment while ensuring data control and compliance with European regulations.

Analytics and AI

Honeywell Pushes Industrial AI into Control Rooms and OT Cybersecurity

Honeywell launched Experion Cognition, an AI-driven control system to enhance autonomous operations in industrial control rooms, while simultaneously expanding its OT Cybersecurity Suite to bolster defenses against advanced cyber threats, illustrating a strategic focus on integrating AI with operational resilience and security.