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ERP Strategy and Planning
When Universities Merge, Legacy ERP Systems Don’t: The Higher Education Consolidation Conundrum
The article discusses the challenges faced by universities during mergers due to outdated ERP systems that lead to financial instability and operational inefficiencies, while advocating for composable ERP solutions like Unit4 ERPx that facilitate faster integration and preserve institutional identities.
Strategic AI
Analytics and AI
Accommodating AI Regulations with Kyriba
As AI adoption accelerates, businesses must navigate evolving regulations like the EU AI Act, ensuring compliance, data security, and enhanced decision-making, with platforms like Kyriba's Trusted AI offering robust solutions and support for developing necessary skills.
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.
Data and Data Management
The Greenfield Deception: Why Your ‘Clean Slate’ ERP Strategy Might Be Sabotaging Your Data Legacy
The article argues that while greenfield ERP migrations promise a fresh start by eliminating outdated systems, they risk discarding invaluable historical business intelligence that can provide competitive advantages, suggesting organizations should adopt intelligent data strategies like JiVS IMP to preserve legacy knowledge while benefiting from modern capabilities.
Landed costs with NetSuite and CloudPaths
Supply Chain Management
Taming Landed Costs with NetSuite & CloudPaths: Part 2
Effective management of landed costs in supply chain operations requires accurate calculations, technological solutions like ERP systems such as NetSuite, and strategic implementation, which can significantly enhance financial decision-making and improve profitability.
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.
Taming Landed Costs
Supply Chain Management
Taming Landed Costs with NetSuite & CloudPaths: Part 1
Accurately calculating total landed costs, which include shipping, customs, insurance, and handling fees, is crucial for businesses to ensure proper financial planning and competitive pricing, as inaccuracies can lead to misrepresented profit margins and operational challenges.
Data and Data Management
Bridging the Data Migration Dialogue: From SAP Sapphire 2025 to SNP’s Transformation World
The enterprise data management landscape is shifting towards composable architectures, where integrating data migration, operational agility, and business continuity into a cohesive strategy will define competitive advantage, as emphasized by recent SAP Sapphire events and upcoming SNP's Transformation World.
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.
Verisk and Oracle Fusion Cloud
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.
Financial Management
Overcoming Tariff Uncertainty with Oracle NetSuite
Tariff uncertainty poses significant challenges for global companies by increasing costs and disrupting supply chains, but leveraging tools and data-driven strategies, such as those offered by Oracle NetSuite, can help mitigate these impacts through cost tracking, supplier diversification, and scenario planning.
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.
AI-Powered Testing
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.
SAP S/4HANA
ERP Strategy and Planning
Is Your SAP S/4HANA System Hiding a Compliance Time Bomb?
As the deadline for SAP S/4HANA Compatibility Packs approaches, organizations are urged to prepare for a transformative shift to fully leverage new capabilities and avoid the pitfalls of maintaining legacy systems, emphasizing the need for strategic partnerships and proactive management of their ERP landscape.
Strategic AI
Analytics and AI
Future-Proof Your Workforce Using Strategic AI in ERP
Artificial intelligence is transforming enterprise work by promoting AI-augmented operations, and organizations like Codestone are providing structured approaches for effective AI integration through a three-phase deployment plan that emphasizes exploration, establishment, and growth.
data and integration | Tricentis
Application Development and Integration
How Advanced Data Integration Bridges ERP Systems with Modern Analytics
ERP systems protect vital financial data essential for FP&A teams, but integration into modern analytics platforms like Databricks and Snowflake faces challenges due to a lack of connectors, the need for a unified data view across various systems, and the necessity for real-time data access, prompting the emergence of solutions like CData to streamline this integration while enhancing operational efficiency, data utility, and security.
AI, IoT and Smart Factories: The Game-Changers for Complex Manufacturing
Analytics and AI
AI, IoT and Smart Factories: The Game-Changers for Complex Manufacturing
A recent Frost & Sullivan study indicates that complex manufacturing ERP systems are rapidly evolving with the integration of AI and IoT technologies, alongside innovations like real-time data analytics and cloud solutions, to enhance efficiency and tackle obstacles like high costs and resistance to change.
Transforming Public Sector Operations with Unit4
ERP Strategy and Planning
Transforming Public Sector Operations with Unit4
Facing rising public expectations and budget constraints, public sector organizations are increasingly adopting Unit4's modern, integrated platform to streamline operations, enhance citizen services, and support digital transformation, with IT spending expected to double by 2032.
Clean ERP | GH Power and Nextworld
Cloud Platform and Technology
GH Power’s 53-Day Sprint to Being Future-Ready with Nextworld
GH Power, a renewable energy leader, transformed its outdated financial management systems in just 53 days with Nextworld's no-code platform, enhancing operational efficiency, visibility, and audit processes, while preparing for future innovations to combat climate change.
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Security
The Hidden Security Gaps in Your Business Applications—and How to Fix Them
Hidden security vulnerabilities in ERP and financial systems, such as excessive user privileges and inadequate access controls, pose significant risks to business operations and compliance, necessitating a shift towards automated solutions for proactive governance and risk management.
Data and Data Management
The Digital Transformation Trap: Why Data Debt is Holding CIOs Back (and How to Break Free)
CIOs and CDOs face the urgent challenge of digital transformation amid mounting data debt, which complicates ERP migrations and decision-making; adopting solutions like JiVS IMP can help organizations manage legacy data effectively, leading to significant cost savings and more efficient modernization efforts.
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Quality and Testing
Why Testing Your Unique Environment Is Critical After Infor Updates
Infor's April 2025 release introduces significant enhancements for CloudSuite customers, including advanced AI features and improved integration, but also poses risks to custom configurations that require proactive testing strategies to mitigate operational disruptions as organizations adapt to the rapid update cadence.
Application Development and Integration
Accelerating Smart Manufacturing: QAD and Boomi’s Strategic Alliance Redefines ERP Integration
QAD Inc. and Boomi have formed a strategic alliance to revolutionize manufacturing ERP by offering pre-built integrations, AI-driven insights, and plug-and-play connectivity, aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and accelerating digital transformation for manufacturers.
Fortifying the Factory Floor: A Cybersecurity Blueprint for Manufacturers
Security
The Future of Application Security: Why Continuous Controls Matter
In an era where traditional perimeter security is obsolete due to hybrid and cloud environments, organizations must adopt continuous access controls and real-time risk monitoring to effectively manage security and compliance, replacing static IAM models with dynamic solutions that enhance both operational agility and security.
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