EMEA

IBM and ServiceNow Target Legacy Systems and Data Readiness for AI at Scale

IBM and ServiceNow announced a multi-year collaboration to modernize legacy applications, enhance AI-ready data governance, and integrate autonomous operations into IT workflows, aiming to overcome barriers to enterprise AI by evolving existing systems and improving data management and operational integration.

Analytics and AI

Harbour Energy’s SAP Tool Chain: The Architecture Behind Acquisition-Speed Integration

Harbour Energy is leveraging a connected SAP tool chain to manage its acquisition-led growth across multiple ERP systems, prioritizing visibility, process alignment, and integration speed to maintain agility while expanding globally.

Analytics and AI

German Court Raises Legal Stakes for Google’s AI-Generated Search Answers

A German court has held Google directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, differentiating them from traditional search results due to their generation of new statements, thereby establishing heightened accountability for AI outputs.

Analytics and AI

Before AI Agents Can Touch the ERP: An Infrastructure FAQ Checklist for Enterprise Leaders

The gap between organizations' aspirations for enterprise AI agents and the necessary infrastructure to implement them safely is widening, emphasized by key developments in data platform competition, API readiness challenges, increasing data center demands, and heightened security risks, urging ERP and IT leaders to investigate and address these critical infrastructure needs promptly.

Analytics and AI

Priority Payables vs. Leading ERP Payables Automation Solutions

This guide highlights the advantages of Priority Payables over other providers, demonstrating why it is the ideal solution for ERP integration.

Security

SAP June Security Patch Day Puts ERP Trust Controls Under Pressure

SAP's June 2026 Security Patch Day highlighted significant ERP security risks, delivering 15 new Security Notes with a focus on foundational trust layers like SAML authentication and RFC communication, emphasizing the need for organizations to prioritize the remediation of vulnerabilities that affect authentication, access control, and supply chain risks in their SAP environments.

Analytics and AI

Epicor Names Rachel Barger Chief Revenue Officer

Epicor has appointed Rachel Barger as Chief Revenue Officer to enhance global sales and recurring revenue strategies, focusing on customer relationships and partner ecosystem expansion, as the company continues its shift towards industry-specific ERP solutions.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

SAP June Patch Day Brings Four Critical Fixes Across NetWeaver, ABAP, Commerce Cloud

SAP's June 2026 Security Patch Day issued four critical fixes for vulnerabilities affecting SAP NetWeaver, ABAP, Java, Commerce Cloud, and Data Hub, prompting priority patch application to safeguard systems, as outlined in 15 new security notes highlighting risks in authentication and memory management.

Analytics and AI

Oracle’s Q4 2026 Earnings Call: $638B Backlog Turns AI Cloud Growth into Funding Test

Oracle surpassed fiscal Q4 revenue and earnings expectations with a focus on its AI infrastructure, reporting significant growth in cloud revenue and large-scale AI contracts, but faced investor concerns over capital spending and negative free cash flow as it aims to convert its $638 billion in remaining performance obligations into revenue.

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.

Analytics and AI

Google Cloud Adds NTT DATA to Gemini Enterprise Delivery Push

Google Cloud is enhancing its Gemini Enterprise partner strategy through an expanded collaboration with NTT DATA to facilitate the deployment of enterprise AI solutions, aiming to create a dedicated practice that supports 5,000 certified experts and the development of 500 AI agents to effectively transform business operations.

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.

ERP Strategy and Planning

CERN Launches HCM and ERP Overhaul Affecting 35,000 People

CERN has initiated HCM and ERP transformation projects to streamline and modernize its administrative systems for approximately 35,000 staff, aiming for completion by 2028 and 2029 respectively, in order to enhance efficiency and facilitate innovation.

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Financial Management

Zuora Suite Helps Companies Connect AI Pricing, Billing, and Revenue Recognition

Zuora’s AI Monetization Suite connects AI pricing, billing, usage data, and revenue recognition as companies commercialize AI products through usage, credits, commitments, and hybrid models.

ERP Strategy and Planning

SAP Sapphire Interview: AI Agents Will Force HR to Rethink Workforce Management, Says SAP SuccessFactors CRO

SAP SuccessFactors is addressing the pivotal question of how to manage AI agents within the workforce, emphasizing the need for strategic workforce planning and skill development, as companies navigate the complexities of integrating AI into HR functions and organizational structures post-COVID.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Your ERP Has a Strategy Problem, Not a Payments Problem.

The evolution of ERP and accounting software has shifted embedded payments from a peripheral feature to a core expectation, with platforms needing to prioritize efficiency and native payment capabilities to enhance customer retention and revenue opportunities.

Analytics and AI

IBM Closes Out 2026 Oracle AI World Tour with a Clear Message: AI Is Now an Operational Imperative

IBM's 2026 Oracle AI World Tour highlighted the transition of enterprises from questioning AI adoption to leveraging it for tangible business value, showcasing success stories and practical guidance across major cities while emphasizing the importance of intentional design, robust governance, and integrated systems for effective AI implementation.

European Union flag in front of modern glass office buildings symbolizing cloud sovereignty and digital regulation in Europe.

Analytics and AI

Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package Puts Cloud, AI, Chips and Open Source Under One Policy Roof

The EU's new European Technological Sovereignty Package aims to reduce reliance on non-EU digital infrastructure by promoting domestic capabilities in semiconductors, cloud, and AI through the Chips Act 2.0, Cloud and AI Development Act, and an emphasis on open source strategies, while also addressing energy constraints and competitiveness in the technology sector.

Financial Management

Microsoft Connects Field Service Execution to Project Financials in Dynamics 365

Microsoft has made interoperability between Dynamics 365 Field Service and Project Operations generally available, enabling service organizations to link work orders with project financials for improved visibility and management of costs and revenue during service execution.

Analytics and AI

AI’s Data Center Crunch Sends Compute Ambitions into Orbit

As demand for infrastructure grows due to AI, cloud and space companies are investigating orbital data centers as a solution to terrestrial constraints like land and energy shortages, with initiatives from companies like SpaceX and Google, although challenges remain regarding optimal workloads and economic viability.

Analytics and AI

Google Cloud Partnerships: Gemini Enterprise Pushed Deeper into Workday and IBM Delivery

Google Cloud is advancing Gemini Enterprise into enterprise AI through expanded partnerships with Workday and IBM, focusing on integrating HR and finance agents into workflows and enhancing delivery capacities with industry-specific solutions.

Analytics and AI

AI Infrastructure Company Jentic Wants to Score the APIs AI Agents Will Depend On

Jentic has launched a free API Scoring tool that evaluates the readiness of enterprise APIs for AI integration across six dimensions, emphasizing the distinction between API validity and usability for AI agents, thereby addressing potential operational risks in enterprise systems.

Analytics and AI

When AI Spend Outpaces Value: A Reality Check for SMBs

As small and midsize businesses increasingly integrate AI into operations, they are facing a shift towards viewing AI as a recurring operational expense rather than a simple software enhancement, prompting the need for clear governance and targeted use cases to ensure measurable value while controlling costs.

ERP Strategy and Planning

General Business Edition

Modern ERP systems aren’t too powerful or too complex for the needs of small and midsize organizations. In fact, with the right cloud ERP, you can simplify and automate many of your processes for greater profitability. Acumatica General Business Edition...

Data and Data Management

Customer Success: Chery Republic

By implementing Acumatica, Cherry Republic achieved significant, measurable results that powered its expansion. The company sustained fifteen percent year-over-year growth, reduced reporting time by forty percent, and cut manual errors by fifty percent. This efficiency and data accuracy also enhanced...

Analytics and AI

AI Readiness Evaluation Checklist

AI is more than just a tool, and when combined with the power of a comprehensive modern, cloud-based ERP system, it can serve as your strategic advantage to transform your operations and succeed in this competitive environment.

Security

Build Your Business on a Foundation of Trust Acumatica’s Multi-Layered Security Strategy

Security is not just an IT function. Its impact stretches across leadership, finance, and everyday operations. When cracks appear in your defenses, the consequences echo through the business.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Signs That You Need to Modernize Your Business Software Solution

ERP connects every aspect of your business: finance, sales, field operations, warehouse, projects, service, and leadership. Everyone pulls from the same real-time information, transforming your business into a truly connected community.

Data and Data Management

AI-Ready Enterprise Data: The Missing Layer Between ERP Transformation and AI

JiVS IMP creates a governed enterprise data layer that unifies operational data, historical records, archived information, and business documents across SAP and non-SAP systems. Organisations can retire legacy applications, maintain compliance, preserve enterprise knowledge, and make trusted enterprise data available...

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ERP Strategy and Planning

The Support Insight That Moved Beacon.li’s CEO Toward Enterprise Implementation

Beacon.li CEO Rakesh Vaddadi built a support tool. His customers pushed him upstream. Now he is making the case that implementation failure is a knowledge transfer problem — and that the fix is capturing expert judgment before it walks out the door.

Security

Anthropic Expands Project Glasswing into Critical Infrastructure

Anthropic has expanded Project Glasswing to 150 additional organizations across more than 15 countries, bringing its AI-powered cyberdefense program into power, water, healthcare, communications, and other critical infrastructure sectors.