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ERP Strategy and Planning
Sage’s Human-First AI: Revolution or Just Common Sense in ERP?
At Sage Future in Atlanta, executives Dan Miller and Rob Sinfield outlined Sage's pragmatic AI strategy for ERP, emphasizing trust and practical value over hype, while focusing on mid-market needs, improving supply chain visibility, augmenting human capabilities with tools like Sage Copilot, and fostering user trust in AI insights.
Sage Bets on a Human-Centric Future for ERP, AI, and the Mid-Market
ERP Strategy and Planning
Sage Bets on a Human-Centric Future for ERP, AI, and the Mid-Market
Sage's human-centric AI strategy focuses on practical value and trust, aiming to empower mid-market businesses amidst the evolving ERP landscape by addressing specific pain points with incremental innovations and tailored solutions.
At Sage Future, Users get a Glimpse of Tomorrow’s ERP for Manufacturing, Distribution, and Finance
Cloud Platform and Technology
At Sage Future, Users get a Glimpse of Tomorrow’s ERP for Manufacturing, Distribution, and Finance
Sage is launching an AI-powered Copilot for Sage X3, designed to enhance operational intelligence and customer management in manufacturing and distribution, while also unveiling an AI-infused roadmap for Sage Intacct.
Analytics and AI
IFS Doubles Down on Industrial AI on Last Day in Nashville
At IFS Connect North America 2025, IFS demonstrated a practical AI implementation roadmap emphasizing embedded intelligence over competing solutions, showcasing measurable ROI and a case study from Cimcorp that highlights a gradual adoption approach, while addressing industry challenges related to data governance and ease of integration.
Analytics and AI
From Nashville with AI: Microsoft Shares Blueprint for ERP Transformation at IFS Connect
At the IFS Connect North America 2025 event in Nashville, Microsoft's Jennifer Martinez presented a strategic framework for enterprise AI transformation focusing on four pillars—enhancing employee experiences, reinventing customer engagement, reshaping business processes, and accelerating innovation—while emphasizing a three-stage implementation roadmap that includes embracing available AI tools, developing customized solutions, and prioritizing security and governance.
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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...
Sage Future High performance organization
ERP Strategy and Planning
The Evolving Playbook for a High-Performance, Tech-Driven Future
At the Sage Future event in Atlanta, leaders discussed that achieving high performance is a continuous journey focused on resilience, inspiring leadership, and effective use of technology, with a particular emphasis on AI's role in enhancing organizational effectiveness beyond mere outcomes.
Enterprise Asset Management
AI Era Ushers in Drones as Infrastructure Inspectors and Algorithms as Failure Predictors
At the IFS Connect North America 2025 conference, Deloitte unveiled an AI-powered remote sensing solution using drones to predict infrastructure failures before they occur, aiming to transform how cities manage aging infrastructure through enhanced data collection and analysis, ultimately improving safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
Analytics and AI
Beyond AI Theater: How Industrial Leaders Are Actually Making Money with AI
At IFS Connect 2025, executives learned that focusing on practical generative AI solutions integrated with organizational data, rather than consumer-grade productivity tools, is essential for achieving measurable ROI amid the growing demand for Industrial AI.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Industrial AI with Swagger: Keynote Insights from IFS Connect North America 2025
IFS Connect North America 2025 in Nashville showcased the transformative potential of embedded industrial AI in enhancing operational efficiency, demonstrated through real-world applications and tangible ROI, urging enterprises to move beyond theoretical pilots to actionable implementations for improved business outcomes.
Quality and Testing
Busting testing myths #2: “AI is about to transform software testing”
The article argues that while there is much hype around AI's potential in software testing, the technology still has limitations, particularly in creating complex test cases and generating meaningful test data, advocating for a practical approach that utilizes AI only where it can truly outperform human efforts.
Quality and Testing
How to up your testing game with a platform approach
The blog post discusses the fragmentation of software testing terminology and practices across organizations, highlighting the need for a standardized, platform-driven approach to improve efficiency and effectiveness in testing.
Quality and Testing
Are you ready for Infor’s April 2025 release? How to stay ahead of updates.
As Infor prepares for its April 2025 release, organizations must be proactive in testing their customized setups to mitigate risks associated with major updates that could disrupt business processes and require a structured testing strategy.
AI-Powered Testing
Quality and Testing
Original Software platform tour
Ready to see the future of testing? Let's go! In this 2-minute tour of our code-free testing platform, see for yourself how your business can be more resilient to software updates and change. Start your journey to better testing today
Enterprise Architecture
The U.S. Cash Exodus: Why Your Mission-Critical Systems Aren’t Ready for Tomorrow’s Digital Economy
As cash usage declines in the U.S., the digital payment market is set to grow significantly, highlighting that many companies remain ill-prepared for this transition due to outdated infrastructures and regulatory complexities, underscoring the urgent need for strategic modernization in order to remain competitive.
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.
Supply Chain Management
Navigating Global Trade: 3 Insights for Leaders
Almost all companies are grappling with the rapidly shifting dynamics of global trade, requiring them to rethink how they manage their supply chains, model different market scenarios, and even how they plan and develop their workforces. The following explores three main ways that operations, finance, and HR leaders, supported by the latest technologies, can help their companies navigate the increasing complexity and risks of global trade. Here is where to start.
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.
Business Process Management and Automation
Innovating From the Edges: Making Products for Underserved Audiences
In the video, Dave Lankford, former VP of Product of Advanced Innovation at Disney Streaming, discusses the process and challenges of innovating from the fringes of traditional practices.
Financial Management
Key metrics to monitor in order management
Effective order management, underpinned by key metrics such as order accuracy rate, order cycle time, inventory turnover rate, on-time delivery rate, and order fulfillment cost per order, is essential for optimizing operations, enhancing customer satisfaction, and driving long-term business success.
Financial Management
Revenue recognition is complex. We make it simple.
With pre-built connectors to leading ERPs, compatibility to Amazon Web Services & Microsoft Azure, and a one-click onboarding experience, Zuora Revenue easily fits into any ecosystem. You can expect to get started quick and see value fast.
Financial Management
Scale your revenue growth with AI payment optimization
As your customers change how they want to access your products and services, you have to evolve how you do business. Learn more about how our leading Subscription Economy® solutions have helped many of the world’s most innovative subscription businesses succeed.
Financial Management
ZUORA BILLING
With Zuora Billing, your business can easily evolve your products, services, pricing strategies—and the complex billing that goes with it—to stay competitive and deliver ongoing value that will retain and grow customers.
Analytics and AI
Georg Glantschnig Explains Microsoft’s “Power of One” Stack
Georg Glantschnig of Microsoft emphasizes that future ERP systems must not only support but also run business processes, highlighting a shift towards agentic AI and adaptability over traditional rigidity.
Analytics and AI
Salesforce To Acquire Informatica: Fueling the Next Generation of Enterprise AI
Salesforce has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Informatica for approximately $8 billion, aiming to enhance its AI capabilities by integrating Informatica's data management expertise to create a robust foundation for autonomous AI solutions in enterprise operations.
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.
Application Development and Integration
Is AI the Death of ERP? Not Quite. But It Might Just Kill the Front End.
As generative AI advances in 2025, the debate over its role in enterprise software, particularly ERP systems, intensifies, with implications for user interaction and system architecture, highlighting a shift towards AI-driven processes and the need for robust governance and integration capabilities.
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.
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