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
Workday’s Moat Is Real—But AI Is Testing Its Limits
Two analysts offer diverging views on Workday's long-term viability, with Joe Schmidt suggesting that AI may erode the structural switching costs that currently protect it, while Josh Bersin argues that Workday's established frameworks position it favorably as AI evolves, highlighting a critical market shift towards architectural effectiveness in ERP and HCM systems.
Future ERP systems will likely undergo a significant transformation, from static and reactive to dynamic, event-driven platforms powered by agentic AI, enabling them to execute workflows and interact autonomously across business processes. Image from Adobe.
Analytics and AI
Event-Driven Agentic AI: What Happens When ERP Becomes the Operator
The ERP landscape is undergoing a transformative shift towards event-driven architecture and agentic AI, moving from static systems reliant on manual input to autonomous, adaptive platforms that can proactively respond to business events, enhancing operational agility and decision-making while necessitating careful governance and data quality management.
Manufacturers face deployment hurdles for smart technologies: SYSPRO
Manufacturing Systems and Automation
Syspro Marketplace Expands ERP Reach for Manufacturers and Distributors
Syspro has launched a curated marketplace to help manufacturers and distributors enhance their ERP platforms by providing access to a growing ecosystem of integrated solutions, thereby reducing the need for costly custom integrations and accelerating operational performance.
Analytics and AI
IBM Client Zero on Oracle: A Blueprint for Enterprise AI at Scale
Enterprises are investing heavily in AI but are struggling to move beyond pilots, redesign work, and prove ROI on Oracle platforms. This webinar shows how to operationalize AI using IBM’s Client Zero experience and Oracle technology as a repeatable blueprint...
Analytics and AI
SAP Targets Data and Model Gaps with Dremio and Prior Labs Acquisitions to Advance Enterprise AI Architecture
SAP aims to enhance enterprise AI by acquiring data platform Dremio and AI research firm Prior Labs, addressing fragmented data environments and improving model performance on structured business data, thereby integrating data infrastructure and AI model development into a unified architecture.
Cloud Platform and Technology
SaaS ERP Market Accelerates as AI and Cloud Reshape Enterprise Operations
The global SaaS-based ERP market is set for rapid growth, projected to reach $281.58 billion by 2034, driven by cloud adoption and AI integration, reshaping procurement and competitive strategies in response to increasing expectations for real-time intelligence and industry-specific solutions.
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Application Development and Integration
SAP API Policy Raises New Questions About ERP Integration and AI Access
SAP’s updated API policy is raising questions about ERP integration, AI access, and partner products. The policy puts new scrutiny on undocumented APIs, large-scale extraction, and the supported pathways customers and partners use to access SAP data.
Analytics and AI
ERP Today Interview: Leanne Taylor, Syspro
Syspro CEO Leanne Taylor discusses how they're embedding AI into ERP systems to have it function as an activation layer to help make better and more informed decisions the user can trust.
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Financial Management
AI in Finance Faces Its Real Test Inside Quote-to-Cash Workflows
Most finance teams are using AI, but measurable impact remains limited. A Zuora webinar shows how quote-to-cash workflows expose the real constraints: integration, auditability, and control.
Sage CTO Aaron Harris outlining how the role of AI is changing and how transparency is critical for acceptance during Sage Future 2026.
Analytics and AI
Finance AI Trust Gap Critical as Explainability Becomes Non-Negotiable
The focus of the AI debate in finance has shifted from capability to trust and explainability, as finance leaders now demand transparent AI systems that can be trusted and understood, marking a crucial evolution in ERP platform requirements.
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Analytics and AI
How SAP Is Testing New AI Capabilities in Football With TSG Hoffenheim
SAP is using a football use case with TSG Hoffenheim to test how AI can be embedded directly into operational systems, offering insights into enterprise AI adoption strategies.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Sage Targets Agentic Future With Expanded Developer Platform
Sage is enhancing its developer platform with new AI tools and flexible commercial models to streamline partner-led innovation, aiming to accelerate solution delivery for its customers and strengthen ecosystem collaboration.
Analytics and AI
ERP Today 2025 Awards: AI in ERP Reaches a Turning Point
IFS.ai wins the ERP AI and Innovation of the Year Award for its deep integration of AI within core ERP systems, showcasing real-world applicability that enhances decision-making and operational performance, with Sovos recognized as runner-up for its sophisticated real-time tax compliance solution.
Financial Management
Sage AI Agents Target Everyday Finance And HR Friction
Sage is advancing from AI copilots to integrated task-focused agents within finance, HR, and operations workflows, launching AI agents that automate processes in Sage Intacct, Sage HCM and Sage X3 with a focus on accuracy, auditability, and human oversight to enhance decision-making while reducing manual tasks.
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Analytics and AI
AI Is Expanding, but ERP Systems May Not Be Ready—Stanford AI Index 2026
AI adoption is expanding across enterprises, but ERP systems may not be ready. The Stanford AI Index 2026 highlights gaps in governance, trust, infrastructure, and talent that affect how AI supports business decisions.
Analytics and AI
Dynamic Finance Emerges as a Competitive Differentiator in the AI Era
Research from the IBM Institute for Business Value reveals finance functions are evolving from retrospective roles to proactive decision-makers in enterprise performance, highlighting a stark performance gap where only 12% of organizations exhibit advanced maturity in strategic influence and digital agility.
Analytics and AI
Syspro Betting On AI to Activate Manufacturing ERP’s Future
Syspro is transforming its ERP system into a proactive decision-support tool for manufacturers and distributors by embedding AI directly into workflows to enhance real-time validation, reduce disruptions and improve operational efficiency while maintaining governance and accountability.
Analytics and AI
Sage Intacct Tightens Grip On Connected Finance Workflows
Sage enhances its Sage Intacct platform by integrating planning, spend management, cash flow, and industry-specific workflows to provide finance leaders with a comprehensive mid-market solution, ensuring quicker insights while maintaining control over core processes.
CRM and Customer Experience
ERP Today 2025 Awards: Customer Experience Moves to the Core of ERP Strategy
SugarAI won the Customer Experience Solution of the Year award for its successful transformation of Country Fare by leveraging sales data to enhance customer engagement and proactive relationship management, while Inetum was recognized as a runner-up for optimizing service delivery using AI.
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Analytics and AI
SAP Q1 Earnings Shows Cloud Strength, but Can the AI and Backlog Momentum Hold?
SAP delivered a Q1 earnings beat, but the more important story was beneath the headline numbers. The company showed strong cloud growth and expanding backlog, while also signaling likely deceleration ahead and a gradual shift toward Business AI as a consumption-based revenue model.
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Analytics and AI
Workday Advances ‘Lights-Out Finance’ Vision with Autonomous Financial Testing Tool
Workday is advancing its “lights-out finance” vision with an AI-driven Financial Test Suite that continuously detects fraud and anomalies before transactions are completed.
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Spend Management and Procurement
SAP Embeds AI and Joule Into SAP Ariba To Transform Enterprise Procurement
SAP’s next-generation Ariba platform integrates AI and Joule on SAP BTP to help enterprises automate sourcing, improve decision-making and modernize procurement operations.
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Analytics and AI
Companies Are Acting on AI Value They Haven’t Realized Yet
Most organizations say AI delivers value, but few can measure it consistently. New research shows that measurement maturity and operating models determine whether AI produces repeatable enterprise ROI.
Analytics and AI
Sage HCM Aims To Close HR Finance Data Gaps
Sage has launched Sage HCM, a new cloud solution for mid-market organizations that integrates HR, payroll and financial data, featuring AI-powered workflows and construction-specific capabilities to enhance labor cost visibility and payroll accuracy.
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Analytics and AI
Drivestream Opens AiPEX University to Show Higher Education What Agentic AI Can Actually Change
Drivestream has launched AiPEX University, a new immersive experience center built with Oracle to help higher education leaders see how agentic AI could operate across enrollment, financial aid, academic planning, student engagement, HR, and finance.
Application Development and Integration
IFS Starts 2026 Strong As Industrial AI Embeds In Ops
IFS reported 25% YoY growth in annual recurring revenue to start 2026 and a shift in industrial AI usage from single-task support to integration into planning and execution processes, highlighting the company's deepening role in asset-intensive sectors.
SAP agentic AI manufacturing Hannover Messe 2026
Analytics and AI
Breaking the Execution Barrier: Why Agentic AI is Rewiring Manufacturing ERP
QAD | Redzone showcased its agentic AI manufacturing platform at Hannover Messe 2026. It is designed to turn passive ERP systems into autonomous engines of real-time execution. Here's what it means for enterprise technology leaders on the shop floor.
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Manufacturing Systems and Automation
SAP EWM Meets Humanoid Robotics in New Accenture and Vodafone Warehouse Pilot
SAP, Accenture, and Vodafone Procure & Connect have launched a warehouse pilot that integrates humanoid robots with SAP Extended Warehouse Management, showcasing how SAP EWM could become a control layer for physical AI, governed automation, and real-time warehouse execution.
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Financial Management
Zuora Adds AI Agents for Quote-to-Cash Workflows and Auditability
Zuora introduces AI agents for quote-to-cash workflows, focusing on how outputs are integrated, explained, and executed within financial controls, audit frameworks, and operational processes.
Project Prometheus AI
Analytics and AI
Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus Nears $38 Billion Valuation, Targets Industrial AI and ERP-Linked Execution
Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus is nearing a $38 billion valuation, signaling a shift toward physical AI that connects ERP systems with real-world operations across manufacturing, logistics, and supply chains.
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