Media Awareness Program

How Zuora’s New AI-Ready Catalog Targets the Hard-Coding Bottleneck

Zuora's new Monetization Catalog aims to alleviate the tension between product innovation and rigid financial infrastructure by enabling business users to create and launch dynamic, usage-based pricing models without code.

Analytics and AI

Why 92% of Companies Lack AI-Ready Data

The Cisco AI Readiness Report reveals that while 97% of organizations prioritize urgent AI deployment, 92% are unprepared due to fragmented and siloed data across disparate systems, indicating a critical need for unified and clean foundational data to enable effective AI implementation.

Data and Data Management

Decommissioning SAP Legacy Systems: Turning Technical Debt into Strategic Value

To mitigate the significant costs and risks associated with maintaining legacy ERP systems, organizations should adopt a structured decommissioning strategy that focuses on total cost of ownership reduction and compliance risk mitigation through a phased approach involving data analysis, extraction, and secure archiving.

Analytics and AI

Zuora Unveils New Tools to Tackle the AI Pricing Puzzle

The AI boom is prompting organizations to revamp their pricing strategies, with Zuora's new monetization platform offering tools to manage dynamic service value, enhance customer visibility, and support scalability amidst unpredictable consumption patterns.

Analytics and AI

BlackLine Launches Verity™ AI: Trusted AI Purpose-Built for the Office of the CFO

BlackLine's annual conference unveiled Verity AI, a comprehensive suite of AI tools for the Office of the CFO, built on its Studio360 platform, emphasizing data integrity, enhanced visibility, and agentic collaboration, led by an AI team lead named Vera, to provide trusted, auditable financial operations.

Financial Management

Driving the Future of Financial Operations: BlackLine

At BlackLine’s annual conference BeyondTheBlack, the 2025 Modern Accounting Awards recognized leaders like American Express Global Business Travel, Cavco Industries, and Wendy's for their exceptional financial transformation journeys using BlackLine's platform.

Digital Commerce

How Workday and Zuora Are Fueling Finance’s Future

Businesses are transitioning to recurring and usage-based revenue models to foster growth, but this poses significant operational challenges for finance departments using legacy ERP systems; to address these issues, Workday and Zuora have partnered to create a dual-platform strategy that combines a stable ERP with an agile monetization engine, streamlining complex transaction management and enhancing operational efficiency.

Analytics and AI

Oracle CloudWorld Shifts Focus, Becomes Oracle AI World

Oracle has rebranded its annual event from Oracle CloudWorld to Oracle AI World to reflect a new focus on artificial intelligence, featuring 963 sessions including 314 dedicated to AI, while still covering its traditional cloud offerings and the importance of data in digital transformation.

ERP Strategy and Planning

It’s Time for Manufacturers to Unify CRM and ERP Data

Unifying CRM and ERP systems is essential for manufacturers to enhance visibility, streamline processes, and meet rising customer expectations. Yet, many still struggle with minimal integration, manual data handling, and inefficiencies that hinder responsiveness and customer satisfaction.

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Data and Data Management

The SAP S/4HANA Data Dilemma: Why Data Strategy Can’t Be an Afterthought

The journey to SAP S/4HANA necessitates a fundamental rethinking of data management, emphasizing a selective migration of relevant data, prioritizing data quality especially in an AI-driven landscape, and effectively managing legacy data, all of which are crucial for transforming organizations' data from a liability to a strategic asset.

Cloud Platform and Technology

IT Transformation Trends in 2025: Key Insights for Digital Transformation

The 2025 Transformation Study by NTT DATA Business Solutions and Natuvion reveals that AI is now the primary driver for enterprise transformations, emphasizing the necessity of data quality and effective communication while highlighting the increasing adoption of cloud platforms and agile methodologies as crucial for success.

Analytics and AI

Why 70% of UK Businesses Are Stuck in Digital Limbo Despite Record SAP AI Investment

UK businesses face a significant AI skills gap that undermines their investment in technology, as many struggle with the challenge of effectively adopting and utilizing advanced AI systems like SAP, highlighting the need for dual expertise in both technical proficiency and organizational change management to achieve successful AI implementations.

Data and Data Management

How One Steel Manufacturer Transformed Data Access Through an Independent Semantic Layer

We explore how a steel manufacturer wrangled disparate data with the help of an independent semantic layer from CData.

Supply Chain Management

Signal Chains Bring Resiliency and Predictability for Manufacturers and Distributors

We examine the concept of Signal Chains and how they provide resiliency and predictability for manufacturers.

Security

Why Microsoft’s D365 License Enforcement Is Exposing a Deeper ERP Crisis

Microsoft Dynamics 365 users in Finance, Supply Chain, and Commerce must urgently address access governance before stricter licensing rules take effect on November 1, 2025, as many organizations have uncovered significant security vulnerabilities and excessive user permissions amidst new compliance pressures.

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ERP Strategy and Planning

Why Lift-and-Shift ERP Strategies Are Inadequate for Modern Revenue Models

Lift-and-shift migration of legacy ERP systems to the cloud often fails to accommodate the demands of modern, subscription-based business models, necessitating a decoupled approach with specialized platforms like Zuora to effectively manage complex billing and revenue recognition processes.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Navigating the FSMA 204 Traceability Extension for Food Manufacturers

The FDA's extension of FSMA 204 compliance to July 2028 offers food manufacturers a strategic chance to enhance traceability systems, fostering competitive advantages and operational excellence, as highlighted by the collaboration of key industry organizations to standardize practices and address challenges in the food supply chain.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Combating Vendor Lock-Ins with JiVS During SAP S/4HANA Migrations

As pressure mounts from boardrooms and regulators, SAP leaders must navigate the complexities of data sovereignty and vendor lock-in while utilizing DMI’s Data Replication Service to enable real-time, application-independent data access, ensuring compliance and agility during SAP S/4HANA migrations.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Manufacturing’s AI-First ERP Evolution: Rootstock’s Strategic Bet on Salesforce

Rootstock Software, leveraging its all-in strategy on the Salesforce platform, is transforming mid-market manufacturing ERP expectations by embedding AI solutions that enhance efficiency and user interaction, while positioning itself uniquely to serve a lucrative market amid a significant shift towards technological adoption in the industry.

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.

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.

Financial Management

Finding the Right Solution for Global Tax Compliance

The global marketplace is growing more complex and volatile. Companies must use every resource at their disposal to keep pace, protect profit margins, and remain compliant with all applicable regulations. As companies grow and expand operations, these challenges only get...

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.