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Analytics and AI
ERP Today Interview: Leanne Taylor, Syspro
Syspro CEO Leanne Taylor discusses how they're embedding AI into ERP systems to have it function as an activation layer to help make better and more informed decisions the user can trust.
Sign at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus, highlighting the agency behind CVE and NVD vulnerability standards.
Security
What NIST’s CVE Shift Means for ERP Security Teams
NIST is changing how CVEs are enriched in the National Vulnerability Database, reducing the consistency of risk signals used to prioritize vulnerabilities. For ERP security teams, the shift increases reliance on vendor guidance and system-specific context to assess exposure.
Finance professional working on a laptop reviewing data, representing AI in quote-to-cash workflows and finance processes.
Financial Management
AI in Finance Faces Its Real Test Inside Quote-to-Cash Workflows
Most finance teams are using AI, but measurable impact remains limited. A Zuora webinar shows how quote-to-cash workflows expose the real constraints: integration, auditability, and control.
invoice automation
Automation
Addovation and Snowfox Bring AI-Driven Invoice Automation into IFS Finance Workflows
Addovation's partnership with Snowfox enables IFS customers to automate over 90% of invoice processing within existing finance workflows using embedded AI, addressing rising invoice volumes and enhancing operational efficiency without requiring system redesigns.
ERP cost
Cloud Platform and Technology
ERP Overspending Is Being Driven by Governance Gaps, Not Just Software Pricing
ERP cost overruns stem more from post-purchase management and governance issues, like underutilized licenses and ongoing subscription growth, rather than the initial license pricing itself.
ERP transformation
ERP Strategy and Planning
Transformation Capability Management: Why ERP Programs Drift Even with Good Change Management
ERP programs falter not from inadequate change management but from early weak structural decisions, with the need for 'Transformation Capability Management' (TCM) to ensure organizations build durable abilities rather than depend on external partners, as traditional change management alone cannot address underlying capability, capacity, and governance challenges.
Analytics and AI
ERP Today 2025 Awards: AI in ERP Reaches a Turning Point
IFS.ai wins the ERP AI and Innovation of the Year Award for its deep integration of AI within core ERP systems, showcasing real-world applicability that enhances decision-making and operational performance, with Sovos recognized as runner-up for its sophisticated real-time tax compliance solution.
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Manufacturing Systems and Automation
Four AI Use Cases SAP Unveiled at Hannover Messe for Embedded Intelligence in Operations
At Hannover Messe 2026, SAP highlighted the integration of AI within core enterprise workflows, showcasing four use cases that illustrate how embedded intelligence can streamline supply chain orchestration, smart production, intelligent packaging, and humanoid robotics.
ERP Strategy and Planning
ERP Today 2025 Awards: Operational Innovation Expands Beyond Traditional Boundaries
Inetum won the Operational Innovation of the Year Award for its successful SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud implementation with Erri Berri, enhancing efficiency and agility, while Solvoz secured the runner-up position for its Mawared MENA platform, which digitizes procurement processes in humanitarian operations.
neocloud providers for ERP
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.
Large warehouse with organized rows of boxes representing structured procurement workflows and supply chain coordination.
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.
Thales site in Saint-Héand, France, 2022 Description Production of night vision goggles (NVGs) at the Thales Saint-Héand site, Group's centre of excellence for optics. A total of 350 employees work across the full spectrum of functions, from product design to final delivery and support. Credit-copyright Julien Lutt / CAPA Pictures_SAP France sovereign cloud S3NS Thales
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.
Glowing AI brain on a CPU chip surrounded by a digital circuit board, representing enterprise cloud and AI infrastructure
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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