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ERP Today Awards
Analytics and AI
ERP Today Awards 2025: AI, Operational Execution, Real-World Impact Are Defining ERP Leadership
The ERP Today Awards 2025 make one thing clear: ERP leadership is no longer defined by deployment success, but by real-world impact. Across five award categories — spanning AI innovation, operational execution, customer experience, SMB transformation, and large enterprise projects — this year's winners set a new standard for what it means to lead with enterprise technology.
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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.
ERP Today Transformation Award
Human Capital Management
ERP Today 2025 Awards: Large Enterprise Transformation Sets New Benchmarks
Zalaris won the Large Enterprise Transformation Award for its successful payroll modernization project with Ryanair, while Onapsis was recognized as runner-up for its ERP security transformation that integrated risk management into enterprise processes.
Analytics and AI
ERP Today Interview: Leanne Taylor, Syspro
Syspro CEO Leanne Taylor discusses how they're embedding AI into ERP systems to have it function as an activation layer to help make better and more informed decisions the user can trust.
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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.
ERP cost
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.
ERP transformation
ERP Strategy and Planning
Transformation Capability Management: Why ERP Programs Drift Even with Good Change Management
ERP programs falter not from inadequate change management but from early weak structural decisions, with the need for 'Transformation Capability Management' (TCM) to ensure organizations build durable abilities rather than depend on external partners, as traditional change management alone cannot address underlying capability, capacity, and governance challenges.
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Analytics and AI
How SAP Is Testing New AI Capabilities in Football With TSG Hoffenheim
SAP is using a football use case with TSG Hoffenheim to test how AI can be embedded directly into operational systems, offering insights into enterprise AI adoption strategies.
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.
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.
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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.
neocloud providers for ERP
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Your AI Roadmap Has a Cloud Problem: New NTT DATA Research Reveals Why Enterprise Cloud Maturity Is the Gating Factor for AI Success
Despite extensive investments in cloud migration, only 14% of enterprises have achieved the advanced cloud maturity necessary to support AI-driven innovations, posing significant strategic challenges as organizations grapple with legacy systems and the urgent need for integrated cloud and AI strategies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
Application Development and Integration
IFS Starts 2026 Strong As Industrial AI Embeds In Ops
IFS reported 25% YoY growth in annual recurring revenue to start 2026 and a shift in industrial AI usage from single-task support to integration into planning and execution processes, highlighting the company's deepening role in asset-intensive sectors.
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Manufacturing Systems and Automation
SAP EWM Meets Humanoid Robotics in New Accenture and Vodafone Warehouse Pilot
SAP, Accenture, and Vodafone Procure & Connect have launched a warehouse pilot that integrates humanoid robots with SAP Extended Warehouse Management, showcasing how SAP EWM could become a control layer for physical AI, governed automation, and real-time warehouse execution.
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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.
Project Prometheus AI
Analytics and AI
Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus Nears $38 Billion Valuation, Targets Industrial AI and ERP-Linked Execution
Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus is nearing a $38 billion valuation, signaling a shift toward physical AI that connects ERP systems with real-world operations across manufacturing, logistics, and supply chains.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
AirTrunk’s Lumina Deal Raises Stakes For APAC Cloud ERP
AirTrunk's acquisition of Lumina CloudInfra accelerates its entry into India's hyperscale data center market, granting access to a 600MW development pipeline and enhancing infrastructure options for ERP and SaaS deployments amidst India's rapid digital growth.
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