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.

Financial Management
Finance Transformation Stalls Where Data Assembly Begins
Finance teams still lose hours exporting ERP data and reconciling spreadsheets before analysis can begin. Two Unit4 blogs argue that connected FP&A changes both forecast responsiveness and how skilled finance staff spend their time.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Having It Both Ways: How Hybrid Cloud Control and Orchestration Achieve Reliable, Resilient Enterprise Ops
Hybrid cloud orchestration gives enterprises a way to coordinate legacy, SAP and cloud-native environments without sacrificing reliability or control. AI-powered automation is expanding that model by improving workload management, resilience and operational visibility.
Analytics and AI
Rethinking ERP: A Conversation with Two Software Industry Futurists
Organizations are transitioning from monolithic ERP systems to flexible, best-fit solutions that extend the life of existing infrastructures while reducing migration risks and enhancing agility through multi-vendor strategies.
Analytics and AI
Ypê Reduces Processing Cycles by 60% with Rimini Agentic UX™
Ypê, a Brazilian household brand established in 1950, aims to enhance its order-to-cash process and customer experience through AI-driven solutions to eliminate inefficiencies and improve data accuracy across its operations.
Analytics and AI
Agentic AI Services
Traditional ERP Software is reaching its limits. Discover how to leverage Agentic AI to achieve ERP transformation for enhanced productivity, greater agility and reduced cost. AI is changing everything. While existing ERP Software can continue providing great value for many...
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Analytics and AI
How Midmarket Manufacturers Are Moving AI From Experimentation Into Execution
Robert Kramer of KramerERP examines how QAD, Redzone and ChampionAI are helping midmarket manufacturers move AI from experimentation into execution, with customer results ranging from a 93% changeover reduction at Sauder to a 90% cut in RFQ creation time at KION.
Analytics and AI
Infor Makes ERP Architecture the Starting Point for Metal Fabrication AI
A four-part manufacturing series links Infor's Industry AI Agents to connected operational data, process mining, and an ERP model designed to reduce customization.
Analytics and AI
Epicor Brings Embedded AI Agents to ERP Users Across Latin America
Epicor Prism is now generally available across Latin America, embedding more than 18 vertical AI agents inside Epicor Kinetic and Prophet 21 as the company extends its Cognitive ERP strategy into the region.
Analytics and AI
SAP Brings AI Token Costs Into Finance Planning
SAP is moving AI token spending into regular finance planning after rising consumption exposed gaps in visibility and accountability. Its approach combines business-level cost ownership, token caps, model routing, and forecasting as employees and automated agents increase AI use.
Analytics and AI
Agentic AI in Finance: Why Autonomy Must Be a Risk Decision
Agentic AI promises to move finance beyond scripted automation, but greater autonomy does not automatically mean better outcomes. Finance leaders need to assess where agents can act independently, when humans should intervene, and how every decision can be governed and explained.
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Analytics and AI
Infor Uses Forward-Deployed Engineering To Move AI Into ERP Execution
Infor is pairing forward-deployed engineering with its AI Adoption Hub to move AI from feature availability into ERP execution. The four-week deployment claim gets attention, but reuse, governance and measurable operating improvement will decide whether the model scales.
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Analytics and AI
Lockheed Martin’s SAP SuccessFactors Go-Live Shows Why HR Data Comes Before HR AI
Lockheed Martin has consolidated core HR for 123,000 employees on SAP SuccessFactors, sequencing workforce data consolidation ahead of AI. SAPinsider 2026 research suggests most organizations should follow that order.
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Analytics and AI
Team Liquid Levels Up Coaching With SAP Business Data Cloud
SAP announced on September 15, 2026, that Team Liquid is using SAP Business Data Cloud and Joule to connect gameplay, wellness, biometric and operational data for World of Warcraft's Race to World First. SAPinsider research shows why the same connected-data challenge remains unsolved for most enterprises.
Analytics and AI
Microsoft Publishes Draft ‘Humanist AI’ Code Barring Cyberattacks, Deception and Resistance to Human Control
Microsoft has published a draft AI Code of Conduct for its MAI models, setting fixed limits on cyberattacks, deception and resistance to human control while opening the framework to six weeks of public consultation.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Workday Names Sarah Kennedy Ellis Chief Marketing Officer
Workday has named former Google Cloud marketing leader Sarah Kennedy Ellis chief marketing officer, putting her in charge of global marketing and communications as the company expands its enterprise AI positioning.
Application Development and Integration
What Customers Need to Know About SAP’s API Policy
SAP has clarified how its API Policy applies to existing integrations, custom ABAP, third-party platforms, and AI agents. Most documented integrations remain intact, while autonomous AI access faces stronger governance requirements and several commercial and operational questions remain unresolved.
Security
CISA Warns AI Could Overwhelm Defenders Already Buried in Technical Debt
CISA Acting Director Nick Andersen warns that AI and accumulated technical debt could overwhelm infrastructure operators with vulnerabilities, increasing pressure to prioritize the risks with the greatest operational consequences as the agency rebuilds its cyber workforce.
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Analytics and AI
When the Vendor Becomes the Customer: What KPMG and ServiceNow Are Testing in HR
KPMG will implement ServiceNow's own global HR rollout while expanding its internal use of the ServiceNow AI Platform, creating a two-way reference deployment. The alliance turns HR service delivery into a live test of governed agentic AI operating above the ERP.
Human Capital Management
SAP Autonomous HCM Explained: What It Is, How It Works, and Where AI Fits in HR
SAP Autonomous HCM connects SuccessFactors, People Intelligence, workforce planning and Joule Agents so AI can move beyond isolated HR tasks and help coordinate processes across payroll, recruiting and workforce decisions.
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Analytics and AI
Chinese AI Models Are Changing the Economics of AI in ERP
Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi are giving European enterprises lower-cost, open-weight alternatives to US providers. Their rise could change the economics of embedding AI into ERP while increasing pressure on vendors to support more flexible, multi-model strategies.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Workday Adds 100+ State and Local Government Customers as Agencies Replace Legacy ERP
Workday says more than 100 state and local governments selected its platform in two years, as agencies replace aging ERP systems and consolidate HR, finance, and payroll. Akron and Georgia show how that modernization can reduce manual work, standardize processes, and create a foundation for AI agents.
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Analytics and AI
Boomi’s Agent Control Plane Targets the Governance Gap Stalling Enterprise AI
Boomi's new Agent Control Plane offers AI-native infrastructure to govern autonomous agents interacting with enterprise systems. This platform aims to close critical governance gaps, mitigate execution risks, and control AI-related costs across various deployment environments, ensuring secure and auditable agent operations for enterprises.
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Financial Management
Sage Intacct Adds AI Anomaly Detection and Lending Management in New Release
Sage Intacct’s August release adds AI-powered anomaly detection to accounts payable and launches Lending Management in the US, alongside new reporting, payments, construction and hospitality capabilities. Several headline features remain in Early Adopter programs.
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Security
‘The Cyber Defense Window Is Closing’: What the Warning Means for ERP Security
AI is lowering the time, expertise, and cost required to exploit weaknesses in complex ERP environments. Security experts warn that excessive permissions, AI agent identities, and slow manual defenses are becoming more consequential as AI-enabled attacks accelerate.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Inside Torque: How Syspro Wants Manufacturers to Trust Autonomous AI
Syspro has launched Torque, an industrial AI platform that acts on manufacturing problems inside existing ERP, MES and SCADA systems while logging every decision with its full reasoning. Chief Solutions & Technology Officer Chris Lloyd explains why autonomy became possible now, and what early adopters are willing to hand over.
Analytics and AI
SAP Is Pushing Industry AI Toward Autonomous Execution
SAP is pushing Industry AI beyond recommendations toward systems that can increasingly coordinate and execute work across complex business processes. Its approach combines industry-specific knowledge, enterprise data, AI agents and forward-deployed engineering.
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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.
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Analytics and AI
Why Organizational Memory Is Becoming Manufacturing’s Last Defensible Asset
IFS Loops CTO Ravi Bulusu argues that when AI agents execute the work applications once mediated, only two assets remain defensible: organizational memory and process intelligence. With 60% of IFS agentic transactions now fully automated, manufacturers need to decide what stays inside the firewall.
Analytics and AI
Rootstock Pilots Manufacturing AI Agents, Adds Native ERP Security and Finance Updates
Rootstock is piloting AI agents for manufacturing sales and purchasing while expanding its ERP platform with native security, bank reconciliation, and international financial capabilities.
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