Cloud ERP

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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.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

What a Dubai Fastener Maker Teaches ERP Leaders About Cloud Migration Value

TripleFast Middle East cut quoting times by up to 80% after moving to Epicor Kinetic in the cloud, but the real lesson lies in process discipline, phased delivery and the data foundation now required for embedded AI.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Beyond SAP ECC: Building an AI-Ready Business Platform

The end of SAP ECC support is a platform decision, not a replacement project. Hitachi Solutions and Microsoft examine what an AI-ready business platform actually requires — trusted data, sound process foundations, and an architecture AI agents can act on — plus how AI-enabled delivery, templates and accelerators reduce transformation risk.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Beyond SAP ECC: Building an AI-Ready Business Platform

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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.

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

Therabody Cuts Technology Costs 45% With Oracle NetSuite ERP

Therabody cut technology costs 45% after consolidating global operations on Oracle NetSuite, while using OneWorld, Advanced Order Management and AI Connector Service to support international growth and AI-connected workflows.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Deloitte Australia Shows How SAP Partners Are Rebuilding Around Cloud and AI

Deloitte Australia’s SAP service catalog shows how major systems integrators are reshaping ERP delivery around SAP’s cloud and AI roadmap. The firm’s alignment with RISE, GROW, Business AI, Business Data Cloud, and planned Zora AI integration with Joule points to a broader shift in how partners package implementation, automation, and operate services.

ERP Strategy and Planning

The Mid-Flight ERP Decision: What to Do When the Platform Changes Before Go-Live

Cloud ERP vendors continuously release new capabilities, creating a challenge many organizations never anticipated when they approved their business case. This article explores how ERP leaders should respond when a platform changes before go-live and offers a practical framework for balancing customization, standardization, governance, and long-term value.

Analytics and AI

SAP’s Cloud Backlog Bounced Back, but AI Pricing Stole the Earnings Call

SAP's latest quarter demonstrated strong cloud momentum, but the bigger story may be emerging around AI economics. As SAP expands Business AI, Joule, and autonomous agents, executives are signaling a future where ERP pricing could shift from licenses and subscriptions toward measurable business outcomes.

Enterprise Architecture

ERP Systems Explained: A Practical FAQ for Buyers

Cloud ERP, SaaS ERP, hybrid ERP, composable ERP, AI-native ERP, and agentic ERP are often discussed interchangeably, but they describe very different technology models. This ERP Today guide explains the major ERP deployment, architecture, industry, and intelligence categories enterprise buyers need to understand.

Supply Chain Management

Acumatica’s Vertrax Deal: Why Vertical ERP IP Is Getting Harder to Leave to Partners

Acumatica acquired Vertrax, expanding its industry-specific capabilities for the fuel and energy distribution sector, ensuring continuity in products and services while enhancing its cloud ERP offerings.

Quality and Testing

KTern.AI’s AWS Agents Target the Consulting-Heavy Work Behind SAP Transformation

KTern.AI says a network of specialized AI agents can automate major SAP transformation activities, potentially reducing consultant dependency and accelerating S/4HANA migration programs.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Earnings Update: The ERP Work Behind Levi’s Q2 19% E-Commerce Surge

Levi Strauss & Co. reported an 8% year-over-year revenue increase in its fiscal Q2, driven by strong e-commerce and direct-to-consumer sales, while highlighting progress in its ERP transformation by migrating Asia and Beyond Yoga to its new platform, aiming for a unified cloud ERP system to enhance operational efficiency and support future automation.

Security

DLA’s ERP Modernization Race Shows How Audit Pressure Is Rewriting Federal Cloud Deals

DLA is years ahead of schedule on a major ERP modernization initiative aimed at reducing technical debt, improving auditability, and moving away from heavily customized systems. The effort highlights how cloud services, managed support, and process standardization are becoming foundational to federal ERP transformation.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Higher Education’s Cloud ERP Shift Is Stuck on the Student System

Higher education’s cloud ERP transition is not stalled by lack of interest. It is slowed by the student system, where Workday’s cloud momentum and Oracle’s PeopleSoft runway create very different modernization paths.

Automation

Unit4 Gives ERPx Customers a No-Commitment Path to AI Adoption

Unit4 has launched 'AI for Your World,' a commitment-free initiative allowing mid-market ERPx customers to trial its AI capabilities, including the Advanced Virtual Agent, until August 31, 2027, facilitating low-risk experimentation and potential subscriptions thereafter.

Enterprise Architecture

Priority Acquires Obol to Bring Cash Visibility Inside Cloud ERP

Priority Software acquired Obol, an AI-powered cash-flow management company, to enhance its cloud ERP platform with real-time cash forecasting and liquidity optimization, enabling customers to make better financial decisions using integrated tools.

Human Capital Management

Workday Turns to HR Path to Reach More SMBs in Ireland and Scotland

Workday has appointed HR Path as an authorized value-added reseller for the UK and Ireland, enhancing its partner-driven market approach for small and medium-sized businesses while providing customers with a streamlined relationship for their HR and finance system needs.

Financial Management

Oracle Cloud ERP 26C Puts Finance Release Readiness Under Pressure

Oracle's Cloud Financials 26C readiness documentation highlights a new quarterly release cycle that requires finance and IT teams to prepare for significant changes, including compliance updates, AI-enabled capabilities, and 137 changes across multiple modules, necessitating ongoing release management as a core operational discipline.

Financial Management

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance: A Complete ERP for Modern CFOs

This page presents Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance as a complete ERP financial management solution designed to meet complex business needs, integrating processes from accounting and treasury to inventory, operations, and cash optimisation. It emphasises how Dynamics 365 Finance gives CFOs real-time visibility of company finances and project performance, supporting more informed strategic decisions and improved financial control on the Microsoft cloud.

ERP Strategy and Planning

ERP Replace: A Structured Path to Modern ERP

This solution brief presents ERP Replace as a structured way to move from legacy ERP to a modern, cloud-based platform, focusing on speed, risk reduction, and predictable outcomes. It explains how preconfigured baselines, implementation accelerators, and stage-gated governance help organisations manage data, processes, and change more effectively during ERP replacement programmes

ERP Strategy and Planning

ERP Unlocked: De-Risking and Accelerating Transformation

This article explores how ERP leaders can rethink transformation to both de-risk delivery and accelerate time to value, rather than treating ERP as a slow, high-stakes rebuild. It outlines practical ways to use preconfigured industry baselines, data and integration accelerators, and stage-gated governance so decisions are transparent, auditable, and tied directly to business outcomes.

ERP Strategy and Planning

WEINIG Group Unifies Global ERP on Dynamics 365

WEINIG Group, a leading manufacturer in the wood processing industry, partnered with Hitachi Solutions to consolidate a highly decentralised ERP landscape into one global Microsoft Dynamics 365 solution hosted on Azure. By moving from more than 80 separate ERP systems to a unified platform, WEINIG gained shared financial services, better inventory visibility, and common processes and data to support informed decision-making across its international operations

Financial Management

Linde Engineering Sharpens Project Financials with Dynamics 365

Linde Engineering partnered with Hitachi Solutions to deploy Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Project Operations, modernising how it manages project costs, billing, and revenue. By moving to a cloud-based, project-focused ERP, the engineering business gains clearer visibility into profitability across complex plant projects and a more controlled, consistent approach to financial management.

Digital Commerce

END Clothing Elevates Omnichannel Retail with Dynamics 365

END Clothing partnered with Hitachi Solutions to replace legacy retail systems with a modern Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform spanning commerce, finance, and supply chain. The unified cloud solution supports omnichannel experiences across ecommerce and stores, improves stock visibility, and gives END faster, more accurate data to guide growth in luxury fashion retail.

Financial Management

Plastic Energy’s Dynamics 365 Finance Transformation

Plastic Energy, a leader in advanced plastic recycling, partnered with Hitachi Solutions to implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance as a cloud-based platform to support rapid global growth. Using Hitachi’s Essentials for Finance accelerator, the team delivered a multinational rollout across ten countries in nine months, enabling standardised processes, faster reporting, and better financial insight for its circular-economy operations.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Enabling The Royal Mint’s Sustainable Precious Metals Programme with Dynamics 365

The Royal Mint partnered with Hitachi Solutions to design and implement a new cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management platform to power its world-first Sustainable Precious Metals programme. The ERP solution tracks e-waste from intake through processing to finished products, supporting circular economy goals while improving agility, data management, and security.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Rotork Transforms Global ERP and Customer Operations with Microsoft Dynamics 365

Hitachi Solutions has been recognised as the 2025 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Partner of the Year, highlighting its leadership in delivering innovative ERP and finance transformations on the Microsoft cloud. This recognition showcases the company’s proven expertise in helping customers modernise financial operations, optimise business performance, and realise greater value from Dynamics 365 Finance.

Analytics and AI

Nokia’s ERP Overhaul Shows Why AI Ambitions Are Moving to the Hyperscaler Layer

Nokia has signed a multi-year RISE with SAP agreement to consolidate multiple ERP systems into a unified SAP S/4HANA landscape hosted on Microsoft Azure, using clean-core principles and SAP's transformation methodology to prepare its global business backbone for embedded AI, operational resilience, and continuous cloud innovation.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Ontario Health Centre Shows Why Nonprofits Are Outgrowing Legacy ERP

An Ontario Community Health Centre migrated from Sage 300 to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with Dynamics Square Canada, automating vendor invoice capture and employee expense management to free a lean two-person finance team from manual workarounds and improve financial visibility across locations.