financial management

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Oracle Payments Flaw Shows Why Legacy ERP Can’t Patch at Back-Office Speed

A critical Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability affecting Oracle Payments faced active exploitation attempts, putting renewed attention on how quickly enterprises patch legacy ERP environments tied to finance and payment workflows002E Cybersecurity Dive reported on July 1 that researchers observed exploitation...

Analytics and AI

Oracle Begins NetSuite Next Rollout; Ask Oracle Moves into ERP Workflow

Oracle NetSuite has launched the North America rollout of NetSuite Next featuring enhanced AI capabilities and the Ask Oracle assistant for existing customers, marking its most significant update since launch, while also introducing specific AI-driven tools for finance and industry-specific solutions.

ERPfixers CostMatrix SAP Cost Transparency Solution

Financial Management

ERP Finance Teams Need More Than Blended COGS to Explain Margin Pressure

ERPfixers is targeting a common finance blind spot in SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA environments: the loss of cost-driver visibility once inventory becomes COGS. CostMatrix aims to restore that detail, helping controllers understand exactly what's behind changing margins.

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.

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.

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.

Systems Administration

Westbank First Nation Picks Unit4 ERPx to Modernize Administrative Systems

Westbank First Nation has chosen Unit4 ERPx to modernize its fragmented administrative systems across finance, procurement, projects, and planning, aiming to enhance data visibility and operational efficiency within its unique governance framework.

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

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.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Hitachi Solutions Named 2025 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Partner of the Year

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.

Tax Compliance

Does Your ERP Know What Tax Regime You’re In? A Compliance Readiness FAQ for Enterprise Finance Leaders

Tax compliance has evolved into a critical board-level consideration for ERP systems, emphasizing the need for real-time reporting, continuous transaction controls, and adaptable architectures while leveraging AI to address compliance challenges across jurisdictions.

Financial Management

SAP’s Autonomous Finance Push Turns CFO Attention to Governance

SAP’s autonomous finance push is moving CFO priorities toward governance, controls, and AI-ready financial processes. For SAP customers, the opportunity depends on how well automation, GRC, and finance transformation connect inside ERP operations.

Sage CTO Aaron Harris outlining how the role of AI is changing and how transparency is critical for acceptance during Sage Future 2026.

Analytics and AI

Finance AI Trust Gap Critical as Explainability Becomes Non-Negotiable

The focus of the AI debate in finance has shifted from capability to trust and explainability, as finance leaders now demand transparent AI systems that can be trusted and understood, marking a crucial evolution in ERP platform requirements.

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.

Tax Compliance

Framework or Platform? How Sovos Is Turning Tax Compliance into an ERP Strategy Decision

The article discusses the urgent need for ERP programs to integrate tax compliance as a core architectural element rather than a secondary concern, emphasizing that organizations must choose between ERP-native frameworks or specialized third-party solutions to address rapidly evolving regulatory requirements, with the choice impacting operational flexibility, risk management, and overall compliance efficiency.

Analytics and AI

Workday Names Co-Founder Aneel Bhusri CEO as Company Reorients Leadership for AI Era

Workday appointed co-founder Aneel Bhusri as CEO, succeeding Carl Eschenbach, to lead the company's next phase focused on leveraging AI within enterprise applications while maintaining operational discipline established during Eschenbach's tenure.

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ERP Strategy and Planning

Brex’s ERP Integrations Move Accounting Control Upstream

Brex’s Accounting API connects transaction systems directly to ERP logic, enforcing accounting rules earlier in the process. The shift highlights how accounting control is moving upstream across enterprise finance architectures.

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Analytics and AI

Microsoft Pitches Agentic ERP, CRM as Operating System for AI-First Enterprises

Microsoft's shift to AI-first autonomous enterprises involves agents across Dynamics 365 that interpret data, collaborate, and enhance operations by automating tasks within finance, supply chain, and CRM, emphasizing the integration of systems and intelligence for adaptive, measurable outcomes.

Financial Management

Healthcare ERP Market Set to Double by 2033 as Hospitals Lean on Finance-Led, On-Premises Platforms

The healthcare ERP market is set to more than double from USD 7.5 billion in 2023 to USD 15.7 billion by 2033, driven by hospitals' need for integrated operations and data centralization amidst rising complexity and regulatory pressures, with finance and billing being the leading segments.

Automation

RPA Pushes Healthcare from Manual Admin to Intelligent Automation

Hospitals are increasingly adopting robotic process automation (RPA) to alleviate administrative burdens and workforce shortages while enhancing patient experiences, evolving from basic scripts to AI-enabled intelligent automation that reshapes claims management, scheduling, and compliance.

Human Capital Management

Epic’s Healthcare-Native ERP, AI Gambit: Disruption or Long Game Against Major Players?

Epic's development of a healthcare-native ERP aims to integrate seamlessly with its EHR and AI features, potentially disrupting the market by consolidating operational functions while forcing health systems to reflect on their existing application frameworks, though full capabilities are not expected until 2027.

Financial Management

Sage Intacct Launches in Singapore, Bringing Cloud Finance and AI to APAC Growth Plans

Sage has launched Sage Intacct in Singapore to enhance cloud financial management for mid-sized businesses, enabling faster financial closes, compliance with local regulations, and integration across Asia’s complex multi-entity environments.

Financial Management

Intuit, Rehmann Launch Joint ERP Push for Mid-Market Multi-Entity Accounting

Intuit and Rehmann are collaborating to launch an AI-driven ERP suite targeting mid-market firms with complex financial needs, aiming to streamline multi-entity finance on a unified cloud platform while enhancing automation and visibility.

Digital Commerce

How Workday and Zuora Are Fueling Finance’s Future

Businesses are transitioning to recurring and usage-based revenue models to foster growth, but this poses significant operational challenges for finance departments using legacy ERP systems; to address these issues, Workday and Zuora have partnered to create a dual-platform strategy that combines a stable ERP with an agile monetization engine, streamlining complex transaction management and enhancing operational efficiency.

Business Process Management and Automation

Zuora and Workday Deepen Partnership to Tackle Complex Revenue Management

Zuora and Workday have expanded their partnership to integrate Zuora's monetization platform with Workday Financial Management, aiming to streamline financial processes for B2C companies managing complex billing models, enhance accuracy, and promote strategic financial decision-making.

Human Capital Management

Workday turns 20. What now for the HCM giant?

At Workday Elevate London, celebrating its 20th anniversary, the company focused on the future of agentic AI solutions, introducing new tools aimed at enhancing financial and human resources management, while positioning itself as a leader in the evolving landscape of enterprise resource planning.

Financial Management

Atlas Salt digs into Oracle Cloud for efficiency and financial management

Atlas Salt is digging into Oracle’s project and financial management solutions to support the development of its Great Atlantic Salt deposit.

Financial Management

Workday Brings Zuora Monetization Suite into Financial Management Solution

Zuora has partnered with Workday to enhance financial management processes for businesses by integrating their monetization suite with Workday Financial Management, thereby improving accuracy, streamlining workflows, and supporting flexible billing models to drive growth and operational efficiency.

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Financial Management

KPMG UK joins FinTech Scotland for accelerated tech adoption and growth

KPMG UK has joined forces with FinTech Scotland to help foster innovation, boost growth and drive technology adoption in the fintech sector.

CRM and Customer Experience

Workday and Compa team up to transform HR capabilities

Workday has announced a partnership with Compa, a provider of software-delivered market data, to bring Compa’s real-time market intelligence directly into Workday, helping companies make more informed pay decisions to attract and retain talent. Compa’s market intelligence will replace yearly...

Financial Management

Transform financial efficiency with GL Connect

Enhanced financial visibility empowers businesses to make informed decisions and improve efficiency, and tools like SplashBI's GL Connect can facilitate this process through user-friendly interfaces, real-time reporting, and customizable templates.