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.

Is the future agentic for ERP?
The future is agentic - or is it? Microsoft and Celonis case studies may show ERP users the truth behind the AI agent hype.
satya nadella, microsoft ceo | microsoft Q3 results
Microsoft Introduces Copilot Chat with AI Agents for 365 Customers
Microsoft has launched Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, a pay-as-you-go AI chat service for commercial customers that enhances workforce efficiency and collaboration through GPT-4o-powered interactions, IT controls, and integration with Dynamics 365 to support a wide range of business processes and decision-making.
Dell Technologies Accelerates AI Innovation and Strengthens Cybersecurity Strategies for Microsoft Customers
Dell Technologies has launched new AI innovations to streamline AI adoption, enhance cybersecurity, and simplify data management for Microsoft customers in multicloud environments, including services like Dell APEX File Storage and protection solutions aimed at improving operational efficiency and security.
Microsoft building | SSE
Microsoft Customers Share Business Impacts of Generative AI
At Microsoft Ignite 2024 in Chicago, major organizations showcased how they are harnessing Microsoft's AI solutions, such as Copilot and Azure OpenAI Service, to transform operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive significant improvements in productivity and sustainability across various sectors, including aviation, logistics, and manufacturing.
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Julia White joins Amazon Web Services as marketing chief
Amazon Web Services has appointed Julia White, a former executive at SAP and Microsoft, as its new Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President.
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Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft drive AI innovation with Copilot practice
To address the increasing demand for AI transformation, Accenture and Avanade, in their joint venture with Microsoft, announced they are launching a Copilot business transformation practice to help organizations reinvent their business operations and integrate generative AI, agentic AI and...
Microsoft to raise prices of Power BI licenses in 2025
Microsoft plans to increase the prices of its Power BI Pro and Premium per user licenses to $14 and $24 per month, respectively, starting April 1, 2025.
(From left to right) Ralph Haupter, President, EMEA, Microsoft; Clare Barclay, incoming President, Enterprise & Industry, EMEA, Microsoft; Darren Hardman, incoming CEO, Microsoft UK
UK: Microsoft brings in new CEO for the AI Age
Microsoft has appointed Darren Hardman as CEO, Microsoft UK, replacing Clare Barclay who becomes president, enterprise and industry, EMEA
Microsoft CEO: AI Agents are the New Excel, not ChatGPT
Reporting from Microsoft’s AI Tour event in London, ERP Today heard Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella expand upon Redmond’s post-ChatGPT Copilot era for enterprise tech as the company unveiled a series of new AI agents for Dynamics 365.
photo of a field with a tree during sunset in Buckinghamshire | Buckinghamshire and Microsoft to roll out Copilot
Microsoft and England’s Buckinghamshire to transform public services with AI
Microsoft has announced today that Buckinghamshire Council has adopted Copilot for Microsoft 365 to transform the delivery of public services in the county.
Construction site Enerfab SAP RISE Smarter Projects AI
The Potential of Smarter Projects with Enerfab’s Rajesh Kapoor
Enerfab's Rajesh Kapoor speaks with ERP Today to shed light on how his company is leveraging SAP and Microsoft tech for smarter projects.
image of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK | Aberdeen City Council and Microsoft
Aberdeen City Council to double query responses with Microsoft chatbot
Aberdeen City Council has launched an enhanced version of its AB-1 in Azure, to optimize and scale its chatbot.
a blue chip with AI written on it attached to a motherboard | Snowflake launches open LLM Arctic to cater to enterprise needs
Snowflake launches open LLM Arctic to cater to enterprise needs
Snowflake has announced a large language model (LLM), Snowflake Arctic, designed to set a precedent for open enterprise-grade LLMs.
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Microsoft and AFL-CIO collab to liberate workers with AI
Microsoft and the AFL-CIO have entered into a partnership to create an open dialogue to discuss how AI will educate workers, incorporate labor’s voice in tech development and help shape policy that supports workers.
SAP AI MICROSOFT : A shield
Microsoft’s new Security Copilot shields SAP systems with AI
Microsoft has announced the new Microsoft Security Copilot, an AI-driven security solution, to revolutionize how companies like SAP defend.
OpenAI Co-founder/Chairman & CTO Greg Brockman, OpenAI Co-Founder & CEO Sam Altman and TechCrunch News Editor Frederic Lardinois | Ex-OpenAI CEO Altman joins Microsoft amid weekend of shakeups
Ex-OpenAI CEO Altman joins Microsoft amid weekend of shakeups
Microsoft has announced it has hired ex-OpenAI CEO Sam Altman after he was fired from his role at Microsoft-backed OpenAI.
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Microsoft Ignite reveals AI Accelerator and Cobalt CPU to meet AI demand
Announced at Microsoft Ignite, the company unveiled two custom-designed chips and integrated systems that resulted from that journey.
abstract image of a brain | Oracle and Microsoft
Oracle and Microsoft collab to support growth flurry of AI services
Oracle has announced a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to support the growth of AI services.
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Race for the prize: An update on the AI race as ChatGPT speeds ahead
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U.S. and China's flags placed next too each other
Robo trade wars as US to bar Chinese companies from buying AI cloud services
The U.S. administration is set to restrict Chinese firms’ access to U.S. AI cloud services to “close loophole in chip-export controls".