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What the EU AI Act Delay Means for ERP Governance

The EU AI Act delay eases some near-term compliance pressure, but ERP teams still need to build governance evidence around how AI is used across business processes.

Analytics and AI

How SAP Is Using Anthropic, NVIDIA and Palantir to Shape Its Autonomous Enterprise Stack

At Sapphire 2026, SAP expanded its partner ecosystem by collaborating with Anthropic, NVIDIA, and Palantir to enhance its Autonomous Enterprise strategy, integrating AI capabilities for workflow optimization, secured agent execution, and streamlined data migration to SAP Cloud ERP.

Security

SAP Security Patch Day May 2026 Shows Risk Beyond Core Applications

SAP’s May 2026 Security Patch Day shows why SAP teams need to look beyond severity scores. Critical vulnerabilities affected S/4HANA and Commerce Cloud, while Mini Shai-Hulud brought developer tooling, credentials, and supply-chain exposure into the SAP security conversation.

Analytics and AI

Sapphire’s Post-Keynote Q&A Unpacks The Hard Part of the Autonomous Enterprise: Delivery, Governance, Trust

The post-keynote Q&A at SAP Sapphire 2026 put SAP's Autonomous Enterprise strategy under the closest scrutiny yet, with executives pressed on what's actually ready for production, how hybrid and on-premise customers participate, and why enterprises should trust AI agents inside live business processes. This ERP Today analysis unpacks SAP's answers on AI governance, the Knowledge Graph differentiator, cloud migration strategy, and API compliance controls.

Analytics and AI

SAP Sapphire 2026: SAP Business AI Platform Consolidates SAP BTP Stack to Solve Enterprise AI Fragmentation

At SAP Sapphire 2026, SAP introduced the Business AI Platform, unifying its AI, data, and application ecosystems into a three-layer architecture focused on governance and business context, aiming to position itself as the control plane for enterprise AI amidst growing interest in compliance and auditability from enterprise buyers.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

SAP and Cyberwave Deploy Fully Autonomous Warehouse Robots

SAP and Cyberwave have successfully implemented fully autonomous AI-powered robots at SAP's logistics warehouse, emphasizing the integration of Physical AI into supply chain processes.

Analytics and AI

‘Will SAP Be a Software Company in the Future?’ Sapphire 2026 Keynote Maps SAP’s New ERP Stack

At SAP Sapphire 2026, CEO Christian Klein declared that SAP is becoming a business AI company, introducing the Autonomous Suite, Joule Studio 2.0, a company memory layer, and centralized agent governance as the pillars of SAP's reimagined ERP stack.

ERP Strategy and Planning

OpenAI Launches Deployment Company to Bring AI Into Enterprise Operations

OpenAI has launched the OpenAI Deployment Company, a new enterprise-focused initiative backed by major investors and consulting alliances. The company will use Forward Deployed Engineers, or FDEs, to help organizations integrate AI systems into operational workflows at scale.

Analytics and AI

Without Data Foundations, Enterprise Generative AI Hits a Value Ceiling: Q&A with Fern Halper

In Q&A with ERP Today, TDWI VP of Research Fern Halper explains why AI pilots stall, what breaks when enterprise data foundations are weak, and how organizations can operationalize AI for long-term ROI.

Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, where SAP Sapphire may clarify SAP AI access for ECC and cloud ERP customers.

Analytics and AI

Will SAP Open AI Access to Customers That Haven’t Moved to the Cloud?

SAP is reportedly preparing to open more AI access to some customers that have not moved fully to the cloud, including some SAP ECC users. The details could determine whether the move becomes a narrow transition offer or a broader shift in SAP’s cloud-first AI strategy.

Analytics and AI

SAP’s Q1 2026 Release: Four New SAP Joule Features ERP Leaders Need to Know

SAP’s Q1 2026 Joule release signals a shift from AI experiments to AI‑driven operating models in ERP.

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Analytics and AI

Workday’s Moat Is Real—But AI Is Testing Its Limits

Two analysts offer diverging views on Workday's long-term viability, with Joe Schmidt suggesting that AI may erode the structural switching costs that currently protect it, while Josh Bersin argues that Workday's established frameworks position it favorably as AI evolves, highlighting a critical market shift towards architectural effectiveness in ERP and HCM systems.

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.

Analytics and AI

Event-Driven Agentic AI: What Happens When ERP Becomes the Operator

The ERP landscape is undergoing a transformative shift towards event-driven architecture and agentic AI, moving from static systems reliant on manual input to autonomous, adaptive platforms that can proactively respond to business events, enhancing operational agility and decision-making while necessitating careful governance and data quality management.

Analytics and AI

SAP Targets Data and Model Gaps with Dremio and Prior Labs Acquisitions to Advance Enterprise AI Architecture

SAP aims to enhance enterprise AI by acquiring data platform Dremio and AI research firm Prior Labs, addressing fragmented data environments and improving model performance on structured business data, thereby integrating data infrastructure and AI model development into a unified architecture.

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Application Development and Integration

SAP API Policy Raises New Questions About ERP Integration and AI Access

SAP’s updated API policy is raising questions about ERP integration, AI access, and partner products. The policy puts new scrutiny on undocumented APIs, large-scale extraction, and the supported pathways customers and partners use to access SAP data.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

Empty enterprise office environment with desks and workstations, representing business operations, workflows, and organizational structure tied to unrealized AI value.

Analytics and AI

Companies Are Acting on AI Value They Haven’t Realized Yet

Most organizations say AI delivers value, but few can measure it consistently. New research shows that measurement maturity and operating models determine whether AI produces repeatable enterprise ROI.

Shipping containers stacked at a logistics facility, representing supply chain operations in a SAP S/4HANA transformation context.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Clorox Shows What SAP S/4HANA Transformations Require Before 2027

Clorox’s $580M SAP S/4HANA transformation highlights how design, benchmarking, and execution decisions shape outcomes beyond go-live.

Analytics and AI

Drivestream Opens AiPEX University to Show Higher Education What Agentic AI Can Actually Change

Drivestream has launched AiPEX University, a new immersive experience center built with Oracle to help higher education leaders see how agentic AI could operate across enrollment, financial aid, academic planning, student engagement, HR, and finance.