Analytics and AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics are indispensable in propelling digital transformation efforts, particularly influencing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). With the rapid progression of technology and computing power, organizations across various sectors are generating immense amounts of data daily, impacting ERP processes. The significance of this data lies in its potential to extract actionable insights, facilitate strategic planning, and drive innovation within the ERP framework. In this context, AI and analytics emerge as pivotal tools, facilitating the extraction of value from the vast amounts of data generated and collected across the enterprise, optimizing ERP functionalities. Analytics is commonly categorized into descriptive, prescriptive, diagnostic, and predictive types, enhancing the ERP landscape. AI algorithms contribute not only to predictive and prescriptive analytics but also empower companies to develop innovative ERP capabilities, exemplified by advancements such as Industry 4.0.

Analytics and AI
NTT DATA’s Strategic Agentforce Play: Accelerating Enterprise AI Agent Adoption
The enterprise AI revolution just got a major acceleration boost. NTT DATA’s newly announced industry-ready service for Salesforce’s Agentforce represents more than just another consulting partnership – it’s a strategic response to the explosive growth in agentic AI adoption that’s...
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Analytics and AI
Tricentis’ Agentic AI Unleashes Autonomous Testing for Modern ERP Systems
Tricentis has launched an innovative agentic AI strategy featuring remote Model Context Protocol servers and Agentic Test Automation, enabling enterprises to enhance software quality engineering through autonomous operations and customizable AI-powered testing solutions, particularly for complex ERP environments.
Strategic AI
Analytics and AI
Accommodating AI Regulations with Kyriba
As AI adoption accelerates, businesses must navigate evolving regulations like the EU AI Act, ensuring compliance, data security, and enhanced decision-making, with platforms like Kyriba's Trusted AI offering robust solutions and support for developing necessary skills.
Analytics and AI
How SAP and NVIDIA Are Rewriting the Enterprise AI Playbook
SAP's partnership with NVIDIA introduces 'Local AI from SAP,' allowing enterprises to harness over 100,000 AI models while ensuring data security and compliance, fundamentally transforming the deployment of AI in regulated industries.
Analytics and AI
IFS Doubles Down on Industrial AI on Last Day in Nashville
At IFS Connect North America 2025, IFS demonstrated a practical AI implementation roadmap emphasizing embedded intelligence over competing solutions, showcasing measurable ROI and a case study from Cimcorp that highlights a gradual adoption approach, while addressing industry challenges related to data governance and ease of integration.
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Sage Unveils Vision for “Agentic AI Era” to Modernize SMB Operations for CFOs
At the Sage Future conference in Atlanta, the company unveiled its strategic direction towards Agentic AI, enhancing CFOs' capabilities and SMB productivity through autonomous AI solutions, while emphasizing trust, transparency, and partnerships to ensure accurate, context-aware, and secure AI deployment.
Analytics and AI
From Nashville with AI: Microsoft Shares Blueprint for ERP Transformation at IFS Connect
At the IFS Connect North America 2025 event in Nashville, Microsoft's Jennifer Martinez presented a strategic framework for enterprise AI transformation focusing on four pillars—enhancing employee experiences, reinventing customer engagement, reshaping business processes, and accelerating innovation—while emphasizing a three-stage implementation roadmap that includes embracing available AI tools, developing customized solutions, and prioritizing security and governance.
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Beyond AI Theater: How Industrial Leaders Are Actually Making Money with AI
At IFS Connect 2025, executives learned that focusing on practical generative AI solutions integrated with organizational data, rather than consumer-grade productivity tools, is essential for achieving measurable ROI amid the growing demand for Industrial AI.
Analytics and AI
IFS Stays Focused on Industrial AI with Nexus Black, 25R1, and an SAP Play
At IFS Connect 2025, CEO Mark Moffat emphasized the urgent need for adaptation to AI in business, unveiling a major push for IFS in industrial AI through new capabilities in IFS Cloud 25R1, the launch of IFS Nexus Black for rapid AI innovation, and a Migration Accelerator Service aimed at SAP customers, all aiming for significant market presence by 2029.
Analytics and AI
Georg Glantschnig Explains Microsoft’s “Power of One” Stack
Georg Glantschnig of Microsoft emphasizes that future ERP systems must not only support but also run business processes, highlighting a shift towards agentic AI and adaptability over traditional rigidity.
Strategic AI
Analytics and AI
Future-Proof Your Workforce Using Strategic AI in ERP
Artificial intelligence is transforming enterprise work by promoting AI-augmented operations, and organizations like Codestone are providing structured approaches for effective AI integration through a three-phase deployment plan that emphasizes exploration, establishment, and growth.
Analytics and AI
The Future of ERP Is Agentic
Tapping the New Digital Workforce of AI Agents to Transform ERP Testing and Lifecycle Management
Analytics and AI
SAP Designs for Human Empowerment: Sean Kask
At SAP Sapphire 2025, Chief AI Strategy Officer Sean Kask emphasized SAP's deep, ethically guided AI strategy, highlighting its focus on building competitive advantages through human empowerment and controlled experimentation amidst a landscape filled with AI hype.
Analytics and AI
From SAP Sapphire 2025: Sean Kask, Chief AI Strategy Officer, Opens SAP’s AI Playbook, Covers Agentic Intelligence, Strategic Differentiation, and the Race to Real Adoption
At SAP Sapphire 2025, Sean Kask, SAP’s Chief AI Strategy Officer, emphasized a customer-focused AI strategy that integrates various models and maintains ethical standards, showcasing the potential of tools like Joule to autonomously execute complex processes while leveraging proprietary knowledge graphs for contextual accuracy, positioning SAP as a leader in AI-powered enterprise solutions.
Analytics and AI
Digital Labor, Real Trust: Salesforce Launches Agentforce to Reinvent Front-Office Financial Services
Salesforce's upcoming Agentforce for Financial Services introduces AI agents designed to alleviate the administrative tasks of financial professionals, enhancing client engagement and compliance amid workforce shortages and rising customer expectations.
Analytics and AI
Inetum strengthens ServiceNow practice with ISG ‘Rising Star’ recognition and launch of Agentic AI Center of Excellence
Inetum has achieved significant recognition for its ServiceNow practice, being named a 'Rising Star' by ISG in 2025, and has inaugurated a Center of Excellence for ServiceNow Agentic AI to foster innovation and develop proactive AI-driven solutions for digital transformation.
Inetum Earns ISG "Rising Star," Launches ServiceNow Agentic AI Center
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Inetum Earns ISG “Rising Star,” Launches ServiceNow Agentic AI Center
Inetum's ServiceNow practice has achieved ISG 'Rising Star' recognition and launched an Agentic AI Center of Excellence, marking significant advancements in enterprise technology that highlight the increasing integration of intelligent, autonomous capabilities in the ERP landscape.
Analytics and AI
From SAP Sapphire 2025: How SAP and Google Cloud Are Accelerating Real-World Impact from AI
The collaboration between SAP and Google Cloud focuses on developing practical, AI-powered enterprise systems that enhance innovation and reduce project risk, leveraging tools like SAP Joule and Google’s Gemini models for real-time access to actionable data and robust infrastructure, exemplified by successful implementations at companies like AMD and Suzano.
Sage 50’s AI-Powered Copilot to Boost UK SMB Efficiency
Analytics and AI
Sage 50’s AI-Powered Copilot to Boost UK SMB Efficiency
Sage has integrated AI into its Sage 50 platform to better serve UK small and mid-sized businesses, enhancing financial operations with features like faster reporting, automated data extraction, and improved security, while emphasizing the importance of technology for operational success.
Analytics and AI
From SAP Sapphire 2025: Joule Everywhere – How SAP Is Making Business AI Omnipresent and Proactive
SAP's upcoming Joule Everywhere update in 2025 integrates generative AI agents across its entire ecosystem, enabling intelligent co-piloting and seamless decision-making within workflows while enhancing security and governance.
Analytics and AI
From SAP Sapphire 2025: The New Operating System for Business AI
SAP introduces AI Foundation, a unified operating system for Business AI that simplifies enterprise AI development, reduces costs, and accelerates innovation through features like low-code tools and built-in governance, empowering organizations to quickly transform data into actionable insights.
Analytics and AI
From SAP Sapphire 2025: Agentic AI in Action – SAP’s New Network of Autonomous Business Agents
At SAP Sapphire 2025, SAP introduced a production-grade network of autonomous business agents integrated with SAP Joule, enabling organizations to execute end-to-end processes across finance, HR, procurement, and supply chain without custom code, while ensuring governance and compliance through SAP LeanIX.
Sage Agentic AI
Analytics and AI
Make smarter, faster decisions with Sage Ai
Sage Ai automates tasks like processing invoices, gives you a real-time view of your business performance, and tells you what you can do to improve it. As technology moves forward, we move with it. Our 40 years of experience ensures you make the most of technology as it advances.
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Adoption of AI in Manufacturing: A look into trends, strategies and challenges
The adoption of Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing is transforming decision-making, predictive maintenance, and quality control, with 80% of manufacturers investing in AI to enhance efficiency and innovation, despite facing integration challenges that require clear strategies and investment in workforce upskilling.
Analytics and AI
The Digital Transformation Trap: Inside HCLSoftware’s Pragmatic AI Strategy
HCL Software is redefining the enterprise software landscape with an outcome-based, empathy-driven approach to AI and automation, focusing on customer needs and integrating advanced technologies into existing platforms without discarding legacy systems.
UK Businesses Gear Up for Significant AI Investment in 2025
Analytics and AI
NewRocket Launches Flightpath.AI at Knowledge 2025 to Accelerate Applied AI Adoption on ServiceNow
NewRocket has launched Flightpath.AI, a four-week program aimed at transforming generative and agentic AI concepts into practical solutions on the ServiceNow platform, enabling businesses to test AI applications and develop prototypes that demonstrate real-world outcomes.
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Analytics and AI
Epicor Pushes the Boundaries of Industrial Intelligence with New AI and Sustainability Tools
At the Epicor Insights 2025 conference, Epicor announced its commitment to the manufacturing and supply chain sectors with the introduction of AI-driven tools, including Epicor Prism and Grow AI for enhanced operational efficiency and data quality, alongside the Carbon Cost Rollup for managing carbon footprints in production, highlighting the increasing importance of sustainability in ERP systems.
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