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.

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Analytics and AI
Enterprise Apps as Systems of Action: Workday Pushing AI into Execution with Sana Launch
Workday has launched Sana, a unified AI interface that integrates directly into its HR and finance platform, enabling users to not only analyze but also execute tasks within governed workflows, thereby redefining enterprise AI adoption by embedding it in critical business processes.
Automation
Oracle Launches Fusion Agentic Applications and Expands AI Agent Studio to Operationalize Enterprise Workflows
Oracle's launch of Fusion Agentic Applications marks a significant evolution in ERP, embedding AI agents directly within its cloud applications to facilitate outcome-driven execution and seamless integration with existing business processes.
SAP Concur Fusion 2026
Spend Management and Procurement
SAP Concur Fusion 2026: SAP Embeds Joule AI Across Travel, Expense, and Payments Workflows
SAP unveiled new AI-driven capabilities at SAP Concur Fusion 2026, including Joule integration with Microsoft 365, AI agents for expense automation, and expanded Amex and Visa partnerships.
Oracle Database
Analytics and AI
Oracle March Update Embeds Smarter AI Agents Into Analytics Cloud
Oracle's March 2026 update for Oracle Analytics Cloud introduces AI Data Agents to enhance decision-making by integrating enterprise data with user-friendly analytics, reducing the time from data inquiry to actionable insights and improving the consistency of KPIs across organizations.
Analytics and AI
Secure Your SAP S/4HANA Transition in the Age of AI & Agents with PwC
PwC and MuleSoft highlight the importance of a unified integration platform for seamless SAP S/4HANA transitions, emphasizing how MuleSoft's capabilities tackle the challenges of AI-driven transformations.
Analytics and AI
MuleSoft Vibes
Move from idea to production faster without sacrificing quality, governance, or reuse. MuleSoft Vibes brings agentic and generative capabilities directly into the MuleSoft platform, helping the entire IT team design, build, test, and operate integrations with confidence. Learn more here!
Analytics and AI
MuleSoft Agent Fabric
Intelligently orchestrate and govern every AI agent, regardless of where it’s built, to maximize ROI, increase productivity, and continuously improve agent performance. Learn more here!
Analytics and AI
MuleSoft
The agentic enterprise is here. With MuleSoft Agent Fabric, harness your cross-ecosystem agents to work together seamlessly. MuleSoft is the open foundation to govern, orchestrate, and unlock the full potential of the multi-agent enterprise. Learn more here!
CIOs attend SAPinsider Las Vegas 2026 session on AI adoption and SAP strategy
ERP Strategy and Planning
SAP CIOs Say AI Adoption Remains Early Despite Growing Attention
CIOs report that AI execution in ERP environments remains limited, with organizations prioritizing efficiency, cost control, and data readiness over large-scale AI deployment.
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Data and Data Management
SAPinsider Las Vegas: Why Data Strategy Must Start With Trust
At SAPinsider Las Vegas 2026, Ingo Hilgefort explains why data trust, governance, and business alignment are essential to building a successful data and analytics strategy.
Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, host location of SAPinsider Las Vegas 2026 CIO transformation discussions
ERP Strategy and Planning
CIOs Shift SAP Transformation Focus to Long-Term Value at SAPinsider Las Vegas 2026
CIOs at SAPinsider Las Vegas 2026 discuss how SAP transformation decisions are shifting toward long-term value, with a focus on migration versus modernization, cost pressures, and post-go-live accountability.
Analytics and AI
SAPinsider Las Vegas Q&A with David Robinson: Why SAP Customers Need Faster, Smaller, More Continuous Transformation
David Robinson, President of SAP North America, emphasized at the SAPinsider Las Vegas keynote that customers should view modernization as an IT operating model transformation rather than just a platform move, highlighting the need to address technical debt, separate core processes from innovation, and focus on continuous innovation through incremental changes and effective governance.
Analytics and AI
UiPath, Deloitte Launch Agentic ERP Platform
UiPath and Deloitte are enhancing their partnership to launch the Agentic ERP offering, which integrates autonomous AI agents and robotic process automation to provide a strategic approach for automating complex enterprise workflows across ERP systems.
Analytics and AI
Emerging AI Laws in Asia Are Raising New Questions for ERP Systems
AI regulation across Asia is evolving from voluntary guidance to binding rules, creating a fragmented compliance landscape that influences ERP design and implementation of AI, particularly concerning AI-generated content, high-impact decision-making, and the need for documentation and explainability.
Analytics and AI
NetSuite’s Long Bet Pays Off: Why Unified ERP Is the Real Foundation of AI
Evan Goldberg founded NetSuite to address the chaos of disconnected systems in business, aiming for a unified platform that offers a single source of truth, which now positions the company to effectively incorporate AI and adapt to evolving hybrid business models while maintaining a focus on simplicity and operational clarity.
Security
Rise with SAP Security Risk Is Increasingly Shaped by Timing, Data, Assurance
As organizations accelerate their migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, security risks intensify, prompting a shift in focus towards proactive security measures, data-centric access control, and a structured assurance model to ensure effective protection and compliance in increasingly complex cloud environments.
Manufacturing Systems and Automation
IFS Cloud Selected to Modernize JVCKENWOOD’s Manufacturing Operations
JVCKENWOOD has chosen IFS Cloud as its unified ERP and MES system to enhance global production and supply chain efficiency through Industrial AI, signaling a shift in manufacturing competitiveness toward integrated, AI-driven decision-making.
Analytics and AI
How Clean Core ERP Has Evolved Into a Mandate
A clean core ERP system prioritizes standardization and controlled extensions to enhance manufacturing efficiency, allowing organizations to rapidly adapt and innovate without compromising the integrity of their operational systems.
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Analytics and AI
Zone & Co Launches ERP Command Interface for Agentic Finance
Zone & Co has introduced Zone Control Center, a command interface that enables finance teams to monitor and orchestrate ERP finance workflows using the Zoe agentic orchestration layer.
Analytics and AI
The Importance of Decision-Centric Enterprises
Aptean is revolutionizing ERP by operationalizing decision-making through its Decision Centric Enterprise model, integrating AI-driven agents to enhance real-time decision support and execution in supply chains and IT.
Application Development and Integration
‘The Intelligence is Embedded in the Workflow’: Jeff Weiss
CMiC's Nexus 1 integrates over 25 AI agents into its ERP, enabling construction professionals to interact with project data using natural language, streamline workflows, reduce report preparation time and enhance decision-making.
Analytics and AI
Agentic AI Operating Models are Redefining Supply Chain Design
As supply chains experience growing disruptions, leading organizations are adopting agentic AI operating models that autonomously optimize operations and react to real-time events while necessitating governance to address challenges like data accuracy and security.
Oracle Database@Google Cloud
Analytics and AI
Oracle Beats Estimates as AI Cloud Demand Surges, Lifts 2027 Revenue Outlook to $90B
Oracle's shares surged 10% after reporting strong fiscal third-quarter results, with higher-than-expected earnings and revenue driven by cloud and AI infrastructure demand, while also raising its 2027 revenue outlook amid significant new contracts and a plan to expand its data center capacity.
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Analytics and AI
Salesforce Pushes ‘Agentic Enterprise’ Vision with Telecom AI Agents and New AI Work Metric
Salesforce has introduced telecom-specific AI agents, expanded Agentforce for IT service management, and unveiled a new metric called the Agentic Work Unit to measure the work completed by AI agents across enterprise systems.
SAP S/4HANA
Analytics and AI
Japan Cloud ERP Market Growth Propelled by Digital Transformation, AI
Japan's cloud ERP market is set for a breakout with projected 20.1% annual growth through 2032, driven by government-backed digital transformations and increasing AI adoption.
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Analytics and AI
Data Activation vs. AI Frustration: Analyzing Boomi’s 2026 Platform Evolution
The AI honeymoon is over. Explore how Boomi’s new Meta Hub and Agent Control Tower solve the "fragmented data" bottleneck to move enterprise AI into governed production.
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Financial Management
The CFO’s New Mandate for AI Assurance
AI is transforming finance by automating workflows and enhancing decision-making, but CFOs remain accountable for the integrity and explainability of outcomes, necessitating strong governance and reliable data to ensure compliance.
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