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Cloud Platform and Technology
Neoclouds: What They Are and How They Cut ERP Cloud Costs
Neoclouds lower ERP cloud costs by running AI workloads on specialized GPU infrastructure, improving efficiency and reducing the need for expensive general-purpose cloud resources.
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Analytics and AI
AI Is Expanding, but ERP Systems May Not Be Ready — Stanford AI Index 2026
AI adoption is expanding across enterprises, but ERP systems may not be ready. The Stanford AI Index 2026 highlights gaps in governance, trust, infrastructure, and talent that affect how AI supports business decisions.
Analytics and AI
Dynamic Finance Emerges as a Competitive Differentiator in the AI Era
Research from the IBM Institute for Business Value reveals finance functions are evolving from retrospective roles to proactive decision-makers in enterprise performance, highlighting a stark performance gap where only 12% of organizations exhibit advanced maturity in strategic influence and digital agility.
Manufacturing Systems and Automation
Infor Index Shows AI Ambition Outpacing ERP Readiness
Infor's Enterprise AI Adoption Impact Index reveals a significant gap between organizations' AI ambitions and their actual ability to scale AI beyond initial deployments, with over half of surveyed leaders acknowledging operational challenges despite confidence in their internal capabilities.
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Spend Management and Procurement
Why Procurement Platforms Are Now Judged on Adoption and Workflow Execution
Procurement platforms are no longer judged on features alone. This analysis shows how adoption, workflows, and governance now define platform value, with Scanmarket by Unit4 as a leading example.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Thales First to Deploy SAP Cloud ERP on S3NS Sovereign Cloud in France
SAP is enabling SAP Cloud ERP Private to run on S3NS’s trusted cloud platform in France, allowing regulated industries to adopt cloud ERP and AI while meeting strict sovereignty requirements.
CRM and Customer Experience
ERP Today 2025 Awards: Customer Experience Moves to the Core of ERP Strategy
SugarAI won the Customer Experience Solution of the Year award for its successful transformation of Country Fare by leveraging sales data to enhance customer engagement and proactive relationship management, while Inetum was recognized as a runner-up for optimizing service delivery using AI.
Office environment representing France’s tech dependency plan and shift from Windows to Linux across public sector IT systems.
ERP Strategy and Planning
How France’s Tech Dependency Plan Could Influence ERP Decisions
France’s tech dependency plan requires ministries to map reliance across infrastructure, AI, and core systems, introducing new scrutiny that may influence ERP evaluation and system design.
Cloud Platform and Technology
A Smarter Way to Run a City: How San Luis Obispo gets time back with Opkey
The City of San Luis Obispo enhances ERP operations and saves IT time by leveraging Opkey for automated testing and lifecycle management, which stabilizes processes, minimizes manual work, and adapts to continuous changes.
Cloud Platform and Technology
How Ameren Supercharged their Oracle Cloud Migration with Opkey
Ameren successfully accelerated its Oracle Cloud migration by leveraging Opkey's agentic AI platform, which facilitated automated testing, change impact analysis, and end-to-end lifecycle management, ultimately reducing risk and effort for a quicker and more efficient go-live.
Cloud Platform and Technology
TekSpark Cuts Redwood Migration Effort by 50% with Opkey
TekSpark successfully utilized Opkey's agentic AI to halve Oracle Redwood migration efforts by implementing automated testing and intelligent change impact analysis, resulting in quicker delivery, reduced risks, and enabling consultants to focus on more valuable tasks.
Cloud Platform and Technology
The SaaS Mess: How Enterprises Lost Control Of Their Software
The Forbes article discusses how ERP Lifecycle Optimization, encompassing change detection, impact analysis, automated testing, and AI-driven training, is essential for enterprises to regain control and efficiency amid the chaos created by disconnected composable ERP applications.
Cloud Platform and Technology
HCM Industry Trend Review & 2026 Forecast
The 2026 report explores AI's impact on HR, highlighting key success metrics and a human-in-the-loop framework that empowers executives to drive transformation while ensuring workflow stability across teams.
Cloud Platform and Technology
The Responsible Path to Agentic AI for Enterprise Apps
The whitepaper offers CIOs and leaders a practical roadmap for deploying domain-specific agentic AI in HCM, SCM, and Finance, including governance guardrails, an adoption timeline, and measurable outcomes.
Cloud Platform and Technology
The Future of ERP Is Agentic Opkey
The article discusses the sustainability of manual enterprise management and highlights how agentic AI is transforming the enterprise lifecycle by autonomously managing key processes while emphasizing the importance of balancing automation with human oversight for successful implementation.
Cloud Platform and Technology
2026 State of Enterprise Testing & App Lifecycle
A majority of IT leaders are struggling with the challenges of managing cloud updates, high costs from manual testing, and operational demands, while showing a strong interest in adopting agentic AI to improve testing and app lifecycle management.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Solution Brief: Design Studio for Sls
Opkey's agentic AI streamlines the discovery and design phases of Oracle and Workday implementations, enabling SIs to reduce timelines by 50%, cut design efforts by 20-50%, and allow consultants to concentrate on high-value advisory tasks.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Platform Brief: Opkey for Workday
Opkey enhances Workday ecosystems with pre-built tests and custom agents, facilitating migrations, post-implementation support, and ongoing updates through tools like Training Agent and Testing Agent.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Platform Brief: Opkey for Oracle
Opkey provides a comprehensive suite of tools, including thousands of pre-built tests, to assist Oracle app users with migrations, updates, and ongoing management.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Your AI Roadmap Has a Cloud Problem: New NTT DATA Research Reveals Why Enterprise Cloud Maturity Is the Gating Factor for AI Success
Despite extensive investments in cloud migration, only 14% of enterprises have achieved the advanced cloud maturity necessary to support AI-driven innovations, posing significant strategic challenges as organizations grapple with legacy systems and the urgent need for integrated cloud and AI strategies.
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Spend Management and Procurement
SAP Embeds AI and Joule Into SAP Ariba To Transform Enterprise Procurement
SAP’s next-generation Ariba platform integrates AI and Joule on SAP BTP to help enterprises automate sourcing, improve decision-making and modernize procurement operations.
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Analytics and AI
Companies Are Acting on AI Value They Haven’t Realized Yet
Most organizations say AI delivers value, but few can measure it consistently. New research shows that measurement maturity and operating models determine whether AI produces repeatable enterprise ROI.
Shipping containers stacked at a logistics facility, representing supply chain operations in a SAP S/4HANA transformation context.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Clorox Shows What SAP S/4HANA Transformations Require Before 2027
Clorox’s $580M SAP S/4HANA transformation highlights how design, benchmarking, and execution decisions shape outcomes beyond go-live.
Application Development and Integration
IFS Starts 2026 Strong As Industrial AI Embeds In Ops
IFS reported 25% YoY growth in annual recurring revenue to start 2026 and a shift in industrial AI usage from single-task support to integration into planning and execution processes, highlighting the company's deepening role in asset-intensive sectors.
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Manufacturing Systems and Automation
SAP EWM Meets Humanoid Robotics in New Accenture and Vodafone Warehouse Pilot
SAP, Accenture, and Vodafone Procure & Connect have launched a warehouse pilot that integrates humanoid robots with SAP Extended Warehouse Management, showcasing how SAP EWM could become a control layer for physical AI, governed automation, and real-time warehouse execution.
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Financial Management
Zuora Adds AI Agents for Quote-to-Cash Workflows and Auditability
Zuora introduces AI agents for quote-to-cash workflows, focusing on how outputs are integrated, explained, and executed within financial controls, audit frameworks, and operational processes.
Project Prometheus AI
Analytics and AI
Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus Nears $38 Billion Valuation, Targets Industrial AI and ERP-Linked Execution
Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus is nearing a $38 billion valuation, signaling a shift toward physical AI that connects ERP systems with real-world operations across manufacturing, logistics, and supply chains.
Application Development and Integration
Infor’s April Update Sharpens CloudSuite WFM for Frontline Reality
Infor's April 2026 Cumulative Update enhances CloudSuite Workforce Management with user-friendly improvements in scheduling and time and attendance functions, aiming to boost productivity and operational efficiency for supervisors and frontline managers.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
AirTrunk’s Lumina Deal Raises Stakes For APAC Cloud ERP
AirTrunk's acquisition of Lumina CloudInfra accelerates its entry into India's hyperscale data center market, granting access to a 600MW development pipeline and enhancing infrastructure options for ERP and SaaS deployments amidst India's rapid digital growth.
AI is reshaping enterprise partnerships across ERP, supply chain, governance, and ecosystem collaboration
Analytics and AI
AI Is Changing the Rules of Enterprise Partnerships: Q&A with Blue Yonder’s VP Kelley Lear
In this ERP Today Q&A, Blue Yonder’s Kelley Lear explains how AI is changing the rules of enterprise partnerships. The discussion covers agentic AI, hyperscaler and ERP alliances, supply chain disruption, data readiness, governance, and what separates outcome-focused partnerships from those that stall.
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