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
CFOs Are Being Pushed to Prove Agentic AI ROI Before Governance Is Ready
Avalara's new research reveals that finance leaders are under significant pressure to rapidly deploy agentic AI for financial processes in order to demonstrate ROI, despite lacking adequate governance and accountability frameworks.
Analytics and AI
Managed Claude on Google Cloud Shows the Model-Governance War Is Heating Up
Google Cloud has integrated Anthropic's Claude models into its Agent Platform's Model Garden, offering enterprises a managed AI service with production-ready features and governance controls, allowing seamless multi-model applications and compliance with regional data requirements.
Manufacturing Systems and Automation
SAP’s Korea AI Tour Showed Why Manufacturing AI Starts with ERP Standardization
At the SAP NOW AI Tour Korea 2026, SAP showcased Joule's capabilities in root-cause analysis for profitability and procurement, emphasizing the significance of ERP standardization and data integration for effective AI-driven operations in manufacturing.
Security
AWS Security Hub’s Azure Move Shows ERP Security Is Now Multi-Cloud and AI-Native
AWS has expanded Security Hub to provide targeted protection for AI workloads and security monitoring for Microsoft Azure, enabling the discovery and evaluation of Azure resources alongside AWS findings, thereby enhancing visibility and governance across multi-cloud and hybrid ERP environments.
Analytics and AI
Can Agentic AI Work on the Pharma Plant Floor? Pharma AI Startup Katalyze Raises $10.5M to Find Out
Katalyze AI has secured $10.5 million in seed funding to enhance its agentic AI operating system designed for pharmaceutical manufacturing and life sciences, aiming to connect disparate data systems within the sector, thereby improving operational efficiency and compliance.
Security
AI Agents Need a Gateway, and Citrix Is Putting NetScaler in the Middle
Citrix has enhanced its NetScaler AI Gateway with Model Context Protocol (MCP) Gateway functionalities to streamline governance for large language model and agentic AI traffic, introducing centralized authentication and model-routing features to address emerging enterprise needs for secure and monitored access to backend systems.
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.
Supply Chain Management
Is AI’s Next Target the Supply Chain Control Layer? Auger Raises $50M to Test the Stack
Auger, a supply chain software startup founded by ex-Amazon executive Dave Clark, has raised $50 million in Series B funding to enhance its AI platform that unifies existing enterprise systems and aims to automate decision-making within supply chains.
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.
Oracle Fusion Agentic Applications
Application Development and Integration
Oracle’s Next Agentic AI Move Puts Builders Inside Fusion
Oracle has launched a new AI-native builder experience for Fusion Applications, enabling customers and partners to create agentic applications with no-code, low-code, and pro-code options, all while ensuring integrated security and governance controls within Oracle's existing framework.
AWS SAP Transformation
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.
Analytics and AI
SNP Transformation World 2026 – Mandaco’s Stefan Schneider on AI in the M&A Process
Mandaco's Stefan Schneider on AI in M&A, why the human in the loop matters more than ever, and how interpersonal skills define deal success.
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Analytics and AI
Workday Research Shows Why AI Alone Is Not Fixing Busywork
New Workday research shows that disconnected systems continue to consume employee time, while organizations embedding AI directly into core workflows are realizing significantly stronger productivity gains and higher user confidence.
Analytics and AI
From SNP Transformation World 2026 – SAP’s Thomas Pfiester on AI as a Growth Accelerator
SAP's Thomas Pfiester explains why AI is a growth accelerator, how clean data powers agentic AI, and why adoption decides transformation success.
higher education
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.
SAP Business Data Cloud ERP data readiness - governed foundation for analytics and AI
Data and Data Management
SAP Business Data Cloud Turns ERP Data Readiness Into the Real Test
SAP Business Data Cloud promises a governed foundation for analytics and AI—but ERP data readiness, fragmented legacy architectures, and budget pressure mean most organizations aren't ready to capture that value. With 45% still evaluating BDC and only 3% achieving a unified data layer, partner execution and data context are now the deciding factors.
AWS agentic AI SAP ERP exceptions - MCP agentic ERP infrastructure with AgentCore
Application Development and Integration
AWS Is Giving SAP Agents a Rulebook for ERP Exceptions
AWS has introduced an Agentic Standard Operating Procedures framework that gives AI agents a rulebook for resolving SAP ERP exceptions—reading approved procedures, acting on live SAP data via Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, escalating high-risk cases to humans, and logging every step for full audit compliance.
Real-time ERP data pipeline for enterprise AI agents - data lakehouse architecture
Cloud Platform and Technology
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.
SAP Business Data Cloud
Cloud Platform and Technology
SAP Business Data Cloud Raises the Stakes for ERP Data Readiness
SAP Business Data Cloud positions itself as the governed foundation for AI-driven analytics. But adoption is still early, data fragmentation remains the norm, and only 3% of organizations have achieved a unified data layer. This article examines what ERP teams need to address before BDC can scale: semantic preservation, BW migration maturity, partner capability, and governance frameworks for agentic AI.
AI-First Monetization and Zuora
Financial Management
BlackLine: Agentic Finance Needs a Close Readiness Test
AI will not fix a financial close process still built on manual journals, spreadsheet reconciliations, and after-the-fact audit documentation. BlackLine's new benchmark guide defines the seven close readiness metrics finance teams need to measure before agentic automation can scale safely and makes the case that governance and observability must come before AI deployment.
Automation
Agility’s $2.5B Wall Street Pitch Tests Whether Warehouse Humanoids Are Ready for Real Work
Agility Robotics is going public through a $2.5B SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI—a move that would make it the first US-listed pure-play humanoid robotics company. With 65,000 hours of real-world warehouse operations and $300 million in Digit v5 orders, Agility is testing whether physical AI can survive Wall Street's scrutiny of ROI, uptime, and supply chain integration.
Analytics and AI
SAP and IBM Say AI-Ready ERP Still Starts with Trusted Infrastructure
SAP and IBM are positioning ERP infrastructure as the foundation of AI readiness. New customer wins—including JYSK, GBM, DIFARE Group, and Plastilene Group—show how SAP Cloud ERP Private on IBM Power Virtual Server gives enterprises a secure, scalable path to modernization without abandoning the resilience of IBM Power.
ERP Today Awards
Clinical Applications
ERP Today Awards: AI, Operational Execution, Real-World Impact Defined ERP Leadership in 2025
The ERP Today Awards 2025 make one thing clear: ERP leadership is no longer defined by deployment success, but by real-world impact. Across five award categories—spanning AI innovation, operational execution, customer experience, SMB transformation, and large enterprise projects—the 2025 winners set a new standard for what it means to lead with enterprise technology.
middleware partnership management
Application Development and Integration
meshIQ and Dataeko Target the Middleware Blind Spot Blocking Modernization
meshIQ and Dataeko have partnered to give enterprises unified visibility and control over middleware environments that connect ERP, supply chain, and banking systems across hybrid and multi-cloud estates. Powered by meshIQ's Version 12.1 agentic AI, the partnership targets the middleware blind spots blocking cloud modernization.
Enterprise AI sprawl and invisible AI governance concept
Analytics and AI
The AI Bill Is Bad, But Not Knowing What Is Running May Be Worse
Enterprises are learning the biggest AI bill is not tokens but invisible AI they cannot see, govern, or measure. This article explains how ERP and IT leaders can bring AI agents, tools, and workflows under real governance before sprawl, risk, and cost spiral out of control.
Manufacturing AI
Manufacturing Systems and Automation
Epicor Takes Its ERP AI Bet to Europe’s Factory Floor
Epicor has launched Epicor Prism in the UK and parts of Europe, introducing embedded AI agents within its ERP system to facilitate easier data interpretation and decision-making for manufacturers, while also addressing ERP customization challenges.
Analytics and AI
Microsoft’s Layoffs Has Put Its AI Sales Machine Under Scrutiny
Microsoft's recent layoff of 4,800 employees, mainly from its sales and Xbox divisions, reflects a broader shift in the enterprise software model due to AI investments, highlighting challenges in selling complex AI solutions while adapting workforce structures to meet changing customer needs.
Finance AI
Financial Management
Sage Finds Finance AI Can Be 99% Accurate and Still Fail the Trust Test
A recent Sage study revealed that 71% of finance leaders would dismiss a highly accurate AI tool if it lacked explainability, emphasizing that transparency and the ability to validate AI-generated outputs are crucial for trust and compliance in financial decision-making.
enterprise AI ROI
Analytics and AI
AI’s Token Binge Is Over—Now Enterprise Budgets Want Proof
Enterprises that once rewarded employees for maximizing AI usage are now discovering how quickly token costs can spiral. As finance leaders tighten budgets, AI pilots are being judged on workflow‑level outcomes, model routing discipline, and whether they actually improve delivery, code quality, and ERP operations—not just how many tokens they consume.
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