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.

Inside Nexus Black: IFS Launches a Fast-Track AI Lab for Industrial Innovation
At IFS Connect UKI 2025, IFS launched Nexus Black™, an innovative AI initiative aimed at rapidly transforming industrial AI aspirations into operational advantages for sectors like manufacturing and energy, addressing the fragmentation of existing tools and emphasizing co-development with clients while integrating successful solutions into the IFS Cloud.
Veolia’s Invoice Processing Rehaul
Veolia found itself struggling with a Shared Service Center (SSC) serving 30 entities of the group, performing inefficient legacy operations.
Practical AI, Powerful Results
Discover how Acumatica is revolutionizing ERP systems with practical, industry-specific AI solutions. This blog post explores how AI can transform your business operations by prioritizing security, usability, and customer success. Learn about Acumatica's strategic approach to AI, designed to solve real-world business challenges and deliver immediate value. Dive into the principles of innovation that guide Acumatica's development of transformative technologies, ensuring that AI serves a purpose beyond just technological advancement. Ready to see how AI can work for you? Read on to find out more!
SNCF Réseau modernizes its IT management: how Inetum contributes to the implementation of ServiceNow
SNCF Réseau's transition to the ServiceNow platform through the HARMONIS project has centralized and standardized IT service management, improved data quality in its CMDB, and introduced agile methodologies, with plans to enhance user support through AI innovations like a virtual agent.
Rootstock Launches Summer ’25 Release with AI Agent, New Data Grid, and Expanded Financials
Mastering Data Readiness for Generative AI Success
In today’s AI-driven landscape, businesses struggle with data readiness—poor quality, limited volume, and ethical constraints threaten the success of generative AI initiatives. In addition, questions are frequently asked about improving data quality, what to do with limited data volume, and how to address ethical constraints that threaten the success of generative AI initiatives. This session will explore why these challenges can lead to biased, inaccurate, or outdated outputs that erode customer trust and ROI. By attending this session, you will: Learn strategies to ensure high-quality, diverse datasets that power reliable AI outcomes. Discover how to streamline preprocessing, scale infrastructure, and maintain current data in a compliant way. Leave with insights to transform your data into a competitive edge for Generative AI innovation.
Orbit Analytics: User Demo Recap
In a video demonstration, pre-sales engineer Rick showcases Orbit’s reporting and analytics software features, highlighting report creation, sharing, visualization, and dashboard functionality using an Excel dataset.
AI in Action: Google Cloud Next ’25 Spotlights Real-World Innovation Across Industries
At Google Cloud Next '25, the company showcased how AI is transforming various industries by enhancing operations, improving customer experiences, and driving innovation, with examples from McDonald's, Intuit, and Verizon, illustrating AI's operational integration and strategic importance.
Google to Acquire Wiz for $32 Billion in Cloud Security Push
AI Takes the Lead: Google Cloud Unveils Blueprint for Enterprise Transformation
At Google Cloud Next 2025, Google emphasized that artificial intelligence is not just a future goal but is currently transforming enterprises through accessible and integrated solutions, such as the Gemini models and Vertex AI, providing businesses with the tools and infrastructure necessary to enhance productivity, decision-making, and customer experiences.
Virtual Agent launch reduces agent interactions by 85% for top financial services firm
A financial services organization reduced person-to-person support chats by 85% and maintained pre-COVID incident levels by implementing a Virtual Agent to facilitate self-service solutions for common queries, ultimately freeing up agents to handle more complex issues and improving overall support efficiency.
Tackling the Industry’s Biggest Challenges to Drive Manufacturing Forward
Tackling the Industry’s Biggest Challenges to Drive Manufacturing Forward
Manufacturers face numerous challenges today, including rising costs and skills gaps, but QAD aims to transform these obstacles into opportunities through pragmatic AI solutions, low-code extensibility, and a deep understanding of industry-specific needs.
UK Businesses Gear Up for Significant AI Investment in 2025
UK Businesses Gear Up for Significant AI Investments in 2025: Freshworks Study
UK organizations are expected to increase their AI investment by 25% in 2025, driven by the recognition of AI's importance in enhancing workplace efficiency and employee experience, with 54% planning a 29% spending boost next year.
A Streamlined Approach to Custom Gen AI Models with NTT DATA Business Solutions
A Streamlined Approach to Custom Gen AI Models with NTT DATA Business Solutions
NTT DATA Business Solutions' GenAI Connector simplifies the development of custom generative AI models for businesses, enabling faster and more effective integration of AI into operations, enhancing customer experiences, and driving growth.
Rootstock Launches Summer ’25 Release with AI Agent, New Data Grid, and Expanded Financials
Mastering Data Readiness for Generative AI Success
In today’s AI-driven landscape, businesses struggle with data readiness—poor quality, limited volume, and ethical constraints threaten the success of generative AI initiatives. In addition, questions are frequently asked about improving data quality, what to do with limited data volume, and how to address ethical constraints that threaten the success of generative AI initiatives. This session will explore why these challenges can lead to biased, inaccurate, or outdated outputs that erode customer trust and ROI. By attending this session, you will: Learn strategies to ensure high-quality, diverse datasets that power reliable AI outcomes. Discover how to streamline preprocessing, scale infrastructure, and maintain current data in a compliant way. Leave with insights to transform your data into a competitive edge for Generative AI innovation.
Unifying Your ERP Ecosystem Agentic AI Powered Lifecycle Optimization
The on-demand webinar explores how Opkey's Agentic AI-powered ERP Lifecycle Optimization Platform enhances enterprise resource planning through simplified deployment, cost reduction, and intelligent automation for improved efficiency and innovation.
How Agentic AI Reduces Costs in ERP Applications Deployment and Maintenance
ERP projects often exceed budgets and face post-implementation challenges due to unclear business processes, resistance to change, inadequate training, and the need for ongoing updates, but these issues can be mitigated by leveraging agentic AI solutions that automate process discovery, enhance training, streamline user acceptance testing, and improve update testing.
Acumatica Business Intelligence, Reporting and Analytics
Acumatica’s Business Intelligence, Reporting, and Analytics tools provide growing businesses with real-time transparency, seamless integration with Microsoft Power BI, customizable insights, automated notifications, and powerful report customization to enhance decision-making and profitability across various industries.
NetSuite Boosts UK Business Efficiency with Expanded AI Capabilities
Oracle NetSuite has expanded its AI capabilities in the UK to enhance efficiency for businesses by introducing AI agents and generative functionalities that streamline data entry, boost productivity, and facilitate informed decision-making at no additional cost.
Tech Transformation 2025
The 2025 Tech Transformation Playbook: Lessons from Leading CIOs
In a panel discussion featuring IT leaders, key trends highlighted include business process automation as a priority for 2024, the widespread yet uneven adoption of SAP S/4HANA, the ongoing challenges of AI integration, and the critical importance of data management for successful transformations, underscoring the need for bold organizational changes and a cultural shift towards digital and data-driven methodologies.
AI
Empowering Your Business with AI: Key Features in ServiceNow’s Yokohama Release
The Yokohama release of ServiceNow introduces innovative AI features, including an AI Governance Module for secure deployment, Now Assist for ATF and eBook Generation to boost operational efficiency, and Spoke Generation along with Table Summarization to enhance integration and data insights, thereby empowering business technology decision-makers to optimize their AI initiatives.
Oracle Unveils AI Agent Studio for Fusion Cloud Applications
Oracle Unveils AI Agent Studio for Fusion Cloud Applications
Oracle has launched the AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, a platform enabling customers and partners to create and manage customizable AI agents to enhance enterprise productivity and streamline processes while integrating advanced features like agent templates, orchestration, and robust security.
The Melting Pot of AI & ERP: Transforming Enterprises with Affective and Augmented Intelligence
The future of ERP systems lies in transforming them from transactional and reactive tools into intelligent, emotion-aware, and proactive decision-making partners by leveraging affective and augmented intelligence, enabling businesses to enhance operational efficiency, predict risks, and adapt seamlessly to challenges.
Inetum
The Future of Digital Transformation
Insights from Intetum UK CEO Kathy Quashie 
Engineering Trust in the Heart of AI
Insights from PWC’s UK Head of AI Public Policy and Ethics.
Boomi launches AI Studio to manage the agentic AI revolution
Boomi launches AI Studio to manage the agentic AI revolution
Boomi has launched Boomi AI Studio, a vendor-agnostic platform set to be generally available in Q2 2025. It enables organizations to design, monitor, and manage AI agents securely at scale, while ensuring compliance, particularly for ERP systems.
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EY Announces AI-powered Blockchain Analyzer Tool to Bolster Vulnerability Detection
EY has launched enhanced AI capabilities for its Blockchain Analyzer's Smart Contract and Token Review tool, automating testing processes to reduce review times by over 50% and improve vulnerability detection, addressing the increasing security needs in the blockchain environment.
Mike Gannon to head Snowflake’s revenue operations
Mike Gannon to head Snowflake’s revenue operations
Snowflake has appointed Mike Gannon as Chief Revenue Officer to succeed retiring Chris Degnan, with Gannon's extensive sales leadership experience expected to drive the company's growth and enhance its platform capabilities in enterprise data solutions.
Case Study – CloudPaths and Blue.Cloud
After a failed implementation by a previous partner, CloudPaths stepped in to meet Blue.Cloud’s complex NetSuite needs, including Services Resource Planning (SRP) and Bamboo HR integration. Solutions like ARM and SuiteProjects modules delivered 100% project profitability visibility and supported rapid growth and operational efficiency.