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How AI Is Changing Enterprise Process Automation

AI-driven automation extends rules-based workflows into processes that involve changing context, exceptions, and judgment. Enterprises must align agent autonomy with governed data, permissions, human oversight, and process-level performance measures.

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Analytics and AI

AI Adoption Is Widespread, but Scaling It Is Not

Enterprise AI use is growing faster than the operating models needed to turn it into measurable value. Scaling requires workflow redesign, shared ownership, selective use-case investment, and outcome-based measurement.

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Analytics and AI

Sage Makes the Case for Three Kinds of AI in the Supply Chain, and One Data Foundation Beneath Them

Two September 2026 Sage Advice articles frame supply chain AI as predictive, generative, and agentic layers that only deliver value on connected ERP data with human oversight. ERP Today's 2026 coverage of Sage Copilot in X3, IDC trust research, and customer readiness shows why explainability is now a supply chain requirement.

Analytics and AI

When Enterprises Should Build, Buy, or Partner for AI

AI is lowering the cost of building custom software while vendors embed AI into packaged applications. Enterprises now need to decide workload by workload whether to build, buy, or partner, based on lifetime cost, data control, and risk.

ERP Strategy and Planning

What ERP Support Deadlines Actually Mean for Companies

SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft set very different ERP support timelines. SAP's 2027, 2030, and 2033 dates determine when customers must decide, but the right path still depends on migration effort, architecture, and a business value case.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Agentic ERP Roadmap Runs Through March 2027

Microsoft has set out its Dynamics 365 ERP roadmap through March 2027, making its core agent connectors generally available while finance, supply chain, field service, and HR agents move through preview and development.

Financial Management

Sage Intacct Gives the USO a Faster Close and a Clearer View of Spending

The USO has cut bank reconciliation from five or six days to about three and shortened its monthly close after moving core finance operations to Sage Intacct. SEO-rich bullets:

Security

AI Warnings Merit a Second Look at the Risks Businesses Are Willing To Carry

AI-enabled cyber threats are becoming faster, cheaper and easier to scale. As evidence accumulates, businesses may need to revisit security assumptions embedded in ERP migrations, AI deployments, and other technology investments.

Financial Management

SAP Releases Accounting Accruals Agent for Month-End Close

SAP has released its Accounting Accruals Agent under Restricted Availability, giving S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition customers an AI-powered way to calculate accruals, prepare proposals and automate parts of the month-end close while retaining human review.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Silicon Labs builds a future-ready SAP strategy

Radhika Chennakeshavula, CIO and Vice President of Silicon Labs, explains the decision to select Rimini Street as its strategic partner to maximize the value of its SAP ECC 6.0 investment. This collaboration provides the US-based semiconductor manufacturer with long-term SAP...

Human Capital Management

Frontline Expectations Are Outrunning Workforce Systems

New Workday and DailyPay research finds hourly workers want clearer pay information, easier scheduling and mobile self-service. The gaps raise questions for employers planning frontline AI on top of their HCM and workforce-management systems.

Financial Management

Finance Transformation Stalls Where Data Assembly Begins

Finance teams still lose hours exporting ERP data and reconciling spreadsheets before analysis can begin. Two Unit4 blogs argue that connected FP&A changes both forecast responsiveness and how skilled finance staff spend their time.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Having It Both Ways: How Hybrid Cloud Control and Orchestration Achieve Reliable, Resilient Enterprise Ops

Hybrid cloud orchestration gives enterprises a way to coordinate legacy, SAP and cloud-native environments without sacrificing reliability or control. AI-powered automation is expanding that model by improving workload management, resilience and operational visibility.

Analytics and AI

Rethinking ERP: A Conversation with Two Software Industry Futurists

Organizations are transitioning from monolithic ERP systems to flexible, best-fit solutions that extend the life of existing infrastructures while reducing migration risks and enhancing agility through multi-vendor strategies.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Decoding SAP Strategy: How CIOs are Taking Back Control

As SAP's cloud-first strategy compels enterprise leaders to make significant long-term decisions amid financial constraints and pressure for immediate results, CIOs are finding ways to extend existing systems, regain independence through streamlined solutions, and adopt AI and automation strategically, while prioritizing flexibility and optionality over irreversible commitments.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Sept 30th: The Date SAP Wants You To Forget

Despite SAP's push for customers to migrate to S/4HANA and cloud ERP by 2027, many organizations are hesitant to move from their stable and paid-for ECC environments, prompting speculation that nearly half may still be using ECC by 2027, making decisions about support contracts and considering third-party support crucial for future flexibility and cost savings.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Skip navigation Sign in The Reality of Third-Party Support for Enterprise Software – Fact vs Fiction

Organizations can explore alternatives to vendor-mandated support for their systems, which may lead to cost savings, increased flexibility, and better alignment with long-term strategies.

ERP Strategy and Planning

The Rimini Smart Path™: How SAP Customers Are Modernizing without Migrating

SAP customers can modernize effectively without full ERP migration by leveraging existing systems and adopting the Rimini Smart Path™ for enhanced performance, AI-driven automation, and improved budget efficiency.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Oracle Maps Its Security Programs to the EU Cyber Resilience Act

Oracle says its established vulnerability management and incident response capabilities support the EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting obligations that became applicable September 11, 2026, while it prepares for broader product lifecycle requirements arriving December 11, 2027.

ERP Strategy and Planning

SAP roadmap decisions have become business decisions

Organizations are now approaching IT roadmap discussions as critical business strategies, addressing vendor deadlines, cost control, AI access, and operational risks by enhancing cost discipline and managing their SAP roadmaps effectively.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Rimini Cloud™ for SAP Cloud Operations and Support for SAP ERP Systems

Organizations running SAP ERP systems are under pressure to reduce infrastructure and data center costs while keeping mission-critical environments stable. Many still depend on dedicated data center teams to manage infrastructure, availability, security and ongoing operations — increasing cost and...

ERP Strategy and Planning

A Complete Guide to Taking Control of Your SAP Roadmap

This whitepaper outlines the challenges SAP customers face amid evolving technologies and budget constraints, highlighting strategies for CIOs to make informed decisions about system prolongation and modernization, while leveraging Rimini Street's support for confident ERP transformation.

Analytics and AI

Agentic AI Services

Traditional ERP Software is reaching its limits. Discover how to leverage Agentic AI to achieve ERP transformation for enhanced productivity, greater agility and reduced cost. AI is changing everything. While existing ERP Software can continue providing great value for many...

ERP Strategy and Planning

The Comprehensive Guide to Independent, Third-Party Support and Services for Enterprise Software

Enterprise software support was originally designed to ensure stability and access to expertise for mission-critical systems. And for years, organizations accepted vendor support as a necessary cost — even when the experience was less than optimal. But the traditional support model...

Analytics and AI

Epicor Brings Embedded AI Agents to ERP Users Across Latin America

Epicor Prism is now generally available across Latin America, embedding more than 18 vertical AI agents inside Epicor Kinetic and Prophet 21 as the company extends its Cognitive ERP strategy into the region.

Analytics and AI

SAP Brings AI Token Costs Into Finance Planning

SAP is moving AI token spending into regular finance planning after rising consumption exposed gaps in visibility and accountability. Its approach combines business-level cost ownership, token caps, model routing, and forecasting as employees and automated agents increase AI use.

Analytics and AI

Agentic AI in Finance: Why Autonomy Must Be a Risk Decision

Agentic AI promises to move finance beyond scripted automation, but greater autonomy does not automatically mean better outcomes. Finance leaders need to assess where agents can act independently, when humans should intervene, and how every decision can be governed and explained.

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Analytics and AI

Infor Uses Forward-Deployed Engineering To Move AI Into ERP Execution

Infor is pairing forward-deployed engineering with its AI Adoption Hub to move AI from feature availability into ERP execution. The four-week deployment claim gets attention, but reuse, governance and measurable operating improvement will decide whether the model scales.

Financial Management

Sage Intacct Standardizes Hospitality Finance Without Replacing Every System

Cote Hospitality standardized its financial core on Sage Intacct while retaining specialist forecasting and accounts payable systems that already met its business requirements. The model gives properties a common GL and reporting structure without forcing every process onto one platform.

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ERP Strategy and Planning

Electrical Contractor Moves to Acumatica After a Decade of Growth

Groupe SGM moved to Acumatica Construction Management after a decade of growth increased its ERP requirements. The electrical contractor has centralized construction, manufacturing, field service, project and finance data while reporting measurable gains in automation and invoicing.