Financial Services

KPMG Puts Global Tax Incentives Inside Its Claude-Powered Gateway

KPMG has expanded its Digital Gateway by integrating the Incentive Credit Opportunity Navigator (ICON) in partnership with Incentify, providing clients a streamlined platform to identify and act on global tax credits and incentives efficiently, alongside a minority equity investment in the AI-driven technology firm.

Finance automation and treasury management

Financial Management

Embat Brings Treasury Management to Sage Intacct Customers Following Series B Funding

Embat has partnered with Sage to offer its treasury management technology to Sage Intacct customers in the UK, enabling finance teams to connect ERP and banking data for enhanced cash visibility and financial operations without replacing their core systems.

ERP Strategy and Planning

LEAP Consulting Group Links ERP Modernization with Audit-Ready GRC Demand

LEAP Consulting Group reports growing demand for its Enterprise ERP and GRC services as regulated industries seek a unified partner for modernizing finance systems while ensuring compliance and audit readiness.

Analytics and AI

DATEV Moves Sales Teams to Microsoft Dynamics 365 with Capgemini

DATEV is implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 as part of a CRM transformation with Capgemini to enhance customer engagement and internal collaboration, starting with a pilot in July 2025 and a full rollout planned for February 2026, aiming for improved sales processes and data visibility for over 1,300 employees.

ERP Strategy and Planning

How manufacturers solve accounts payable challenges with CPX

Manufacturers face unique operational and financial pressures that can expose inefficiencies in accounts payable. Explore the challenges driving demand for more modern payment workflows.

Future ERP systems will likely undergo a significant transformation, from static and reactive to dynamic, event-driven platforms powered by agentic AI, enabling them to execute workflows and interact autonomously across business processes. Image from Adobe.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Priority Software Bets Midmarket ERP Users Are Ready for AI That Executes

Priority Software enhances its cloud ERP with the release of V26.0, integrating embedded AI features, including an aiERP Companion and specialized agents for finance, sales, and supply chain workflows, aimed at minimizing manual tasks and improving decision-making efficiency.

Financial Management

SAP’s Autonomous Finance Push Turns CFO Attention to Governance

SAP’s autonomous finance push is moving CFO priorities toward governance, controls, and AI-ready financial processes. For SAP customers, the opportunity depends on how well automation, GRC, and finance transformation connect inside ERP operations.

Analytics and AI

Private Equity’s ERP Upgrade Push Has a Controls Problem

Private equity firms are increasingly willing to fund cloud ERP modernization for portfolio companies, recognizing that outdated systems can significantly reduce valuation, thus emphasizing the importance of incorporating internal controls early in the transformation process to mitigate risks and enhance operational efficiency.

Financial Management

Priority Payables

As organizations replace paper checks and manual processes with digital payments, traditional approaches to accounts payable are becoming harder to sustain. Discover how Priority Payables helps ERP providers deliver a modern, integrated payment experience.

Financial Management

CPX: A Commercial Payment System

Priority Payables helps ERP platforms transform accounts payable from a manual process into a strategic capability. Customers gain greater efficiency, automation, and financial flexibility. You deliver more value through the ERP experience. Learn more.

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Financial Management

Add Payments to Your Platform, Without Building It

Priority Payables enables ERP and accounting software platforms to embed payables directly into existing workflows, consolidating outgoing payments into a single process for fulfillment and reconciliation. Your customers get a more connected payment experience. You get a stronger, stickier platform. No payments infrastructure required on your...

Financial Management

How One Manufacturer Automated Its Accounts Payable and Reaped the Rewards

Discover how SYSPRO customer Pierce Pacific modernized accounts payable with Priority Payables, reducing payment processing time, improving supplier satisfaction, and driving greater operational efficiency.

Financial Management

How a Misconfigured PeopleSoft Earnings Code can Create FLSA Overtime Risk

A single earnings code setting in PeopleSoft HCM can affect overtime calculations across thousands of employees. This article explains how the issue appears, why it is often missed in UAT, and what payroll, HR, and compliance teams should change to reduce FLSA risk.

Financial Management

Syspro, Nuvei Embed Integrated Payments Directly Into Manufacturing ERP

Syspro and Nuvei have partnered to integrate payment processing within Syspro's ERP platform, streamlining cash flow management and accounts receivable updates directly in the ERP environment, enhancing operational efficiency for manufacturers and distributors.

Financial Management

Sage Future 2026 Recap: AI Transparency and Smarter ERP Decisions

At Sage Future 2026, the focus on AI in ERP shifted from capability to the necessity of trust and transparency, with a strong emphasis on glass box AI that is traceable and auditable, reflecting the need for accountability in financial workflows to enhance operational efficiency across various industries.

Analytics and AI

Sage Future 2026: Jon Fasoli

Jon Fasoli, SVP of Sage Intacct, discusses how the cloud financial technology is helping improve operations and management for their customers in many industry in a video interview at Sage Future.

Analytics and AI

EY and Rillet Partner to Embed Risk and Controls Into AI-Native Finance Transformation

EY US and Rillet are partnering to embed risk and controls directly into AI-native finance workflows, signaling a shift in how enterprise finance transformation programs are designed and delivered.

CRM and Customer Experience

Sage Agentic ERP Shifting From Passive Recording to Active Prevention

The evolution of ERP systems from passive record-keeping to proactive, AI-powered agents capable of real-time monitoring and decision-making is outlined by Sage, emphasizing the necessity for companies to integrate such capabilities to remain competitive.

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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.

Sage CTO Aaron Harris outlining how the role of AI is changing and how transparency is critical for acceptance during Sage Future 2026.

Analytics and AI

Finance AI Trust Gap Critical as Explainability Becomes Non-Negotiable

The focus of the AI debate in finance has shifted from capability to trust and explainability, as finance leaders now demand transparent AI systems that can be trusted and understood, marking a crucial evolution in ERP platform requirements.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Sage Targets Agentic Future With Expanded Developer Platform

Sage is enhancing its developer platform with new AI tools and flexible commercial models to streamline partner-led innovation, aiming to accelerate solution delivery for its customers and strengthen ecosystem collaboration.

Sage CEO Steve Hare talking about the future of AI and ERP systems.

Financial Management

Sage Future Keynote Highlights Discipline, Transparency for AI Finance

Sage Future 2026 in San Francisco highlighted the integration of AI in finance that enhances decision-making while maintaining human accountability as experts demonstrated the shift towards empowered, data-driven finance operations leveraging modern ERP systems.

Financial Management

Sage AI Agents Target Everyday Finance And HR Friction

Sage is advancing from AI copilots to integrated task-focused agents within finance, HR, and operations workflows, launching AI agents that automate processes in Sage Intacct, Sage HCM and Sage X3 with a focus on accuracy, auditability, and human oversight to enhance decision-making while reducing manual tasks.

Financial Management

Sage Acquires Doyen AI to Improve SMB AI Migration

Sage's acquisition of Doyen AI aims to enhance ERP and financial system implementations by embedding AI in migration workflows, promising faster, more efficient deployments for SMBs while ensuring transparency and governance in data handling.

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.

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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.

Analytics and AI

Sage Intacct Tightens Grip On Connected Finance Workflows

Sage enhances its Sage Intacct platform by integrating planning, spend management, cash flow, and industry-specific workflows to provide finance leaders with a comprehensive mid-market solution, ensuring quicker insights while maintaining control over core processes.

SAP earnings results showing cloud revenue growth, current cloud backlog, and Business AI strategy

Analytics and AI

SAP Q1 Earnings Shows Cloud Strength, but Can the AI and Backlog Momentum Hold?

SAP delivered a Q1 earnings beat, but the more important story was beneath the headline numbers. The company showed strong cloud growth and expanding backlog, while also signaling likely deceleration ahead and a gradual shift toward Business AI as a consumption-based revenue model.

Analytics and AI

Workday Advances ‘Lights-Out Finance’ Vision with Autonomous Financial Testing Tool

Workday is advancing its “lights-out finance” vision with an AI-driven Financial Test Suite that continuously detects fraud and anomalies before transactions are completed.

Analytics and AI

Sage HCM Aims To Close HR Finance Data Gaps

Sage has launched Sage HCM, a new cloud solution for mid-market organizations that integrates HR, payroll and financial data, featuring AI-powered workflows and construction-specific capabilities to enhance labor cost visibility and payroll accuracy.

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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.