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SAP’s CX Keynote Puts B2B Selling in Focus

SAP Connect 2026 put ERP integration at the center of SAP's Customer Experience AI strategy. New B2B commerce capabilities, quoting assistants and marketing agents aim to connect customer-facing work with operational data, while Ericsson's quoting project shows how companies are beginning to put that approach into practice.

Analytics and AI

SAP Says Supply Chain AI Should Start With the Decision

At SAP Connect 2026, SAP's new supply chain product chief urged teams to define the business decision and its metric before choosing an AI use case. Bosch, Döhler, and Microsoft described how they apply that approach to supply chain agents.

Analytics and AI

IFS Loops Moves From AI Insight to Enterprise Execution

IFS Loops brings agentic AI closer to operational execution through Digital Workers that act within enterprise workflows. As manufacturers expand AI automation, trusted data, decision rights and measurable business outcomes will determine how much authority these systems earn.

Business Process Management and Automation

Infor Treats Post-Go-Live Adoption as an ERP Design Problem

Infor argues that manufacturers can finish an ERP rollout on schedule and still miss its value because employees keep working around the system. Its answer for CloudSuite Industrial is role-based workspaces, embedded AI and automation, and in-app learning.

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.

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

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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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.

Analytics and AI

Microsoft Publishes Draft ‘Humanist AI’ Code Barring Cyberattacks, Deception and Resistance to Human Control

Microsoft has published a draft AI Code of Conduct for its MAI models, setting fixed limits on cyberattacks, deception and resistance to human control while opening the framework to six weeks of public consultation.

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ERP Strategy and Planning

Workday Names Sarah Kennedy Ellis Chief Marketing Officer

Workday has named former Google Cloud marketing leader Sarah Kennedy Ellis chief marketing officer, putting her in charge of global marketing and communications as the company expands its enterprise AI positioning.

Application Development and Integration

What Customers Need to Know About SAP’s API Policy

SAP has clarified how its API Policy applies to existing integrations, custom ABAP, third-party platforms, and AI agents. Most documented integrations remain intact, while autonomous AI access faces stronger governance requirements and several commercial and operational questions remain unresolved.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Oracle’s $664 Billion Backlog Comes With a New Financing Model

Oracle's Q1 FY27 delivered 30% revenue growth, 121% cloud infrastructure growth, and a $664 billion backlog, but the disclosure that moved the market was how the newest AI contracts are financed. ERP Today breaks down the highs, the cash strain, and what to watch in Q2.

Security

CISA Warns AI Could Overwhelm Defenders Already Buried in Technical Debt

CISA Acting Director Nick Andersen warns that AI and accumulated technical debt could overwhelm infrastructure operators with vulnerabilities, increasing pressure to prioritize the risks with the greatest operational consequences as the agency rebuilds its cyber workforce.

Security

SAP September Patch Day Shows Why Architecture Visibility Matters

SAP September Patch Day 2026 delivered four Critical vulnerabilities across infrastructure, cloud applications, and client environments. The release shows why architecture and dependency visibility increasingly determine how quickly ERP security teams can locate exposure and complete remediation.

Human Capital Management

SAP Autonomous HCM Explained: What It Is, How It Works, and Where AI Fits in HR

SAP Autonomous HCM connects SuccessFactors, People Intelligence, workforce planning and Joule Agents so AI can move beyond isolated HR tasks and help coordinate processes across payroll, recruiting and workforce decisions.

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Analytics and AI

Chinese AI Models Are Changing the Economics of AI in ERP

Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi are giving European enterprises lower-cost, open-weight alternatives to US providers. Their rise could change the economics of embedding AI into ERP while increasing pressure on vendors to support more flexible, multi-model strategies.

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Financial Management

Sage Intacct Adds AI Anomaly Detection and Lending Management in New Release

Sage Intacct’s August release adds AI-powered anomaly detection to accounts payable and launches Lending Management in the US, alongside new reporting, payments, construction and hospitality capabilities. Several headline features remain in Early Adopter programs.

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Security

‘The Cyber Defense Window Is Closing’: What the Warning Means for ERP Security

AI is lowering the time, expertise, and cost required to exploit weaknesses in complex ERP environments. Security experts warn that excessive permissions, AI agent identities, and slow manual defenses are becoming more consequential as AI-enabled attacks accelerate.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

How SAP Defines Sovereign Cloud for ERP

SAP defines sovereign cloud across data, operational, technical, and legal control. The framework shows why ERP sovereignty depends on far more than where information is stored, particularly as organizations divide workloads across cloud environments and introduce AI into core business processes.

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Data and Data Management

Oracle Is Teaching Enterprise Manager to Explain Itself, and Database Operations May Never Look the Same

Oracle is evolving Enterprise Manager into an AI-powered operational intelligence platform, pairing deterministic AWR and SQL analysis with conversational AI so broader teams can diagnose the database problems behind ERP slowdowns.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Unit4 Expands Canadian Public Sector Reach Through Canoe Procurement Agreement

Unit4 has joined the Canoe Procurement Group of Canada as an Approved Supplier, giving public sector organizations a pre-tendered path to ERPx as the vendor expands government and higher education deployments.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Microsoft Ends Dynamics 365 Release Waves as Roadmap Planning Goes Continuous

Microsoft is ending the twice-yearly Dynamics 365 release-wave model in September 2026 and moving upcoming capabilities to its continuously updated AI at Work Roadmap. Customers will need to establish their own recurring planning cadence as Release Planner also retires.

Analytics and AI

Rootstock Pilots Manufacturing AI Agents, Adds Native ERP Security and Finance Updates

Rootstock is piloting AI agents for manufacturing sales and purchasing while expanding its ERP platform with native security, bank reconciliation, and international financial capabilities.