AI agents

Real-Time ERP Data Becomes the Next Test for Production AI Agents

Enterprise AI agents are only as useful as the business context they can see. Real-time ERP data movement—governed, low-latency, and pipeline-native—is now the defining test for whether production AI delivers on its promise for finance, order management, and supply chain teams.

Supply Chain Management

DeepFabric Takes Aim at the Manual Work Still Slowing Supply Chains

DeepFabric has launched its AI agent platform aimed at automating manual coordination tasks in supply chain operations, offering over 50 specialized agents that improve efficiency and reduce costs for enterprise clients, while emphasizing the importance of human oversight in the process.

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ERP Strategy and Planning

Workday Says AI Agents Belong Closer to the Systems They Could Break

Workday is drawing a clear line in the enterprise AI agent debate: for high-stakes workflows in HR, payroll, and finance, the safest place for AI inference and orchestration is inside the system of record, not on neutral third-party platforms. Through its controlled openness model—open APIs and MCP for developers, proprietary governance within Workday—the company argues that context, business logic, and security controls are a competitive moat that cannot be safely externalized.

Financial Management

Live Webinar: MCP and AI Agents in Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain

This webinar walks through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and shows how AI agents can securely read and act on data in Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain. Attendees see live demos of MCP-driven scenarios, learn practical design tips for safe automation, and get guidance on first steps to experiment with agentic AI in ERP without compromising data quality or auditability.

Financial Management

AI in Finance: Professional Services Take Their First Steps

This article looks at how finance teams in professional services firms are beginning to adopt AI, moving beyond simple automation toward more autonomous, insight-driven operations. It highlights early use cases such as forecasting, reporting, billing, and productivity gains, and outlines practical steps CFOs and finance leaders can take to pilot AI safely while reshaping how their organisations work.

Financial Management

From Automated Finance to AI-Driven Autonomy

This piece examines the journey from traditional finance automation to AI-powered autonomous operations, outlining how technologies such as machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent agents can take on more of the end-to-end workload. It explores what “autonomous finance” means in practice, the steps needed to modernise processes and data, and how the CFO’s role evolves as finance shifts from manual control to AI-driven decision support.

Analytics and AI

Honeywell Pushes Industrial AI into Control Rooms and OT Cybersecurity

Honeywell launched Experion Cognition, an AI-driven control system to enhance autonomous operations in industrial control rooms, while simultaneously expanding its OT Cybersecurity Suite to bolster defenses against advanced cyber threats, illustrating a strategic focus on integrating AI with operational resilience and security.

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Analytics and AI

MCP Is Becoming the Plumbing of Agentic ERP—ERP Leaders Need to Understand It

MCP is emerging as the protocol layer that lets AI agents discover and call enterprise tools, data sources, and workflows. For ERP leaders, the opportunity is lower integration friction. The risk is that access control, auditability, and cost discipline move closer to the agent boundary.

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Analytics and AI

Celonis Acquires Ikigai, Launches Context Model to Give AI Agents Operational Intelligence

Celonis’ Context Model and Ikigai Labs acquisition position process intelligence as a context layer for enterprise AI agents that need to understand real workflows before they recommend or act.

Top ERP Today stories and H1 2026 enterprise technology trends across AI, cloud, SAP, robotics, and infrastructure

ERP Strategy and Planning

10 Stories That Defined Enterprise Tech in H1 2026 and What They Say About the ERP Market

ERP Today’s most-read stories in the first half of 2026 reveal a market moving from AI enthusiasm into harder questions about pricing, governance, infrastructure, cloud costs, and operational execution.

Spend Management and Procurement

SAP Procurement Agents Are Reaching the Front Door of Spend Management

SAP's Joule AI capabilities, set for general availability across Ariba and Fieldglass in June 2026, aim to enhance procurement processes by automating intake, contract creation, and workforce operations while urging spend teams to ensure proper governance and integration before widespread adoption.

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Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Microsoft Power Platform Narrows the Access Gap for ERP Agents

Microsoft's June 2026 Power Platform updates introduce Advanced Connector Policies that govern AI agent access to SAP systems at the action and MCP server level. ERP leaders must understand what the new controls mean for low-code automation, connector visibility, and enterprise AI compliance.

Application Development and Integration

Can AI Break the ERP Change-Order Cycle? Tessera Labs Just Raised $60M to Try

Tessera Labs’ $60 million funding round puts a spotlight on AI-native ERP modernization, raising a new question for CIOs: how much of the migration, data, code, and documentation work that once required large consulting teams can now be automated without weakening governance?

Enterprise Architecture

Who Governs AI Agents When Workflows Cross Platforms?

As AI agents expand across ERP, cloud, and workflow platforms, enterprise leaders face a critical governance challenge: who owns accountability when data, models, and audit trails are fragmented across multiple systems. This analysis explores the control plane problem and what ERP teams must do to prevent agent sprawl.

Financial Management

Trintech AI Agents Are Targeting the Manual Work Behind the Financial Close

Trintech has launched two new AI agents designed to eliminate manual investigative work from the financial close process. The Flux Agent identifies material account fluctuations during the close, while the Variance Analysis Agent automates post-close budget-to-actual analysis. Both tools operate within governed financial workflows, keeping outputs connected to audit trails and human review controls.

Analytics and AI

Zuora Pushes AI Agents Deeper into Quote-to-Cash Finance Work

Zuora is pushing AI agents deeper into the heart of quote-to-cash — expanding Zuora AI across catalog management, CPQ, revenue operations, and workflow automation. This analysis covers what the new agents do, how customers are already using them to tackle high-friction finance tasks, and why governance must scale alongside AI adoption in subscription billing environments.

Product Lifecycle Management

NTT DATA Puts AI Agents at the Front End of Product Planning

NTT DATA is launching an AI agent service in July 2026 to streamline early-stage product planning for food, beverage, and consumer goods companies, enhancing the speed and structure of concept generation while ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and market analysis.

Human Capital Management

Workday Is Testing How Much Enterprise AI Should Be Allowed to Do

Workday’s Q1 results showed agent adoption momentum. The follow-up question is whether Sana, Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Agent System of Record, and federal HR automation can prove that enterprise agents can act inside governed workflows without eroding control.

Analytics and AI

AI That Executes: What the 2026 ERP Market Is Actually Building So Far

This month's enterprise software announcements reveal a significant focus on execution, as evidenced by notable acquisitions aimed at enhancing AI capabilities across various domains, emphasizing the need for domain-specific inputs for effective operational execution.

CRM and Customer Experience

SAP Is Pushing Autonomous CX Expansion with Parloa, Google Cloud, AWS Partnerships

SAP's June 15 partner brief urges its ecosystem to expedite the rollout of Autonomous CX, integrating various SAP platforms and enhanced through new partnerships with tech giants, aiming to streamline customer experience workflows and drive industry-specific solutions.

Service Management

Kantata’s Expertise Agent Targets the Professional Services Delivery Crunch

Kantata has launched Expertise Agent, an AI system designed to enhance professional services operations by interpreting complex queries and coordinating workflows across project management and resource planning, amid rising client expectations and resource constraints.

Analytics and AI

SAP Moves Agent Orchestration into Joule Studio with n8n Deal

SAP has acquired a minority stake in the Berlin-based automation platform n8n at a $5.2 billion valuation, integrating it into Joule Studio to enhance AI workflows in its Business AI Platform while targeting broader developer adoption and improved orchestration strategies for enterprise systems.

Analytics and AI

Anthropic’s Fable 5 Release Renewed Pressure on Enterprise Software Stocks, Valuations

On June 9, enterprise software stocks like Workday, Oracle, and Palantir Technologies saw declines of around 3% due to renewed investor concerns following Anthropic's launch of Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, which hinted at AI's potential to disrupt traditional software subscription models and raised questions about the sustainability of pricing in an increasingly AI-driven landscape.

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.

Analytics and AI

The Next Enterprise AI Wave Will Reach Beyond Agents, Says SAP Labs US Managing Director

At SAP Sapphire, Global Head of Research & Innovation Yaad Oren discussed SAP's forward-looking exploration of emerging technologies like AI, data, user experience, robotics, quantum computing, and cloud architecture, urging customers to embrace current AI capabilities while also preparing for future innovations.

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.

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.

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.

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Analytics and AI

Workday’s AI Agent Push Started Showing Up in its Q1 Earnings Numbers

Workday's Q1 fiscal 2027 results demonstrated strong revenue growth and increasing adoption of AI agents, reassuring investors that AI can enhance rather than undermine subscription software economics.

Analytics and AI

Boomi World 2026 Pushes Enterprise Platform Toward Agentic AI Governance

At Boomi World 2026, Boomi unveiled a comprehensive strategy to transition AI agents from pilot programs to enterprise workflows through enhanced orchestration, connectivity, context, and governance, supported by partnerships with Red Hat and Couchbase, ultimately positioning itself as an active data foundation for the emerging 'agentic enterprise'.