Automation

Analytics and AI
SAP Is Pushing Industry AI Toward Autonomous Execution
SAP is pushing Industry AI beyond recommendations toward systems that can increasingly coordinate and execute work across complex business processes. Its approach combines industry-specific knowledge, enterprise data, AI agents and forward-deployed engineering.
Manufacturing Systems and Automation
TRA Snow & Sun Replaces QuickBooks With Acumatica ERP
TRA Snow & Sun replaced QuickBooks, Salesforce, spreadsheets, and paper workflows with Acumatica Manufacturing Edition after growth exposed gaps in inventory visibility, order tracking, and coordination between sales, production, and finance.
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Financial Management
Why Isn’t Your ERP System Paying Off? The Answer May Be Hidden in AP
Priority Commerce finds that fragmented accounts payable workflows are preventing organizations from realizing the full value of their ERP systems, making deeper AP integration, embedded payments, and workflow adaptability increasingly important.
AI is doing more than making enterprise systems smarter. It is exposing weak data, disconnected processes and unclear ownership that were already there.
Automation
AI Reveals Vulnerabilities in the Enterprise Operating Model
Enterprise AI is not held back only by technology. ERP, supply chain, data, security, and people need to work together in a connected operating model that turns trusted context into controlled action.
Analytics and AI
How to Intervene Before Shop Floor Disruption: Syspro CEO Leanne Taylor Q&A
In this Q&A, 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.
Analytics and AI
ServiceNow’s Q2 Results Show AI Governance Is Becoming a Buying Trigger
ServiceNow reported stronger-than-expected Q2 2026 results with subscription revenues reaching $3.88 billion, driven by a significant increase in its AI business crossing over $1 billion in annual contract value, and raised its full-year revenue outlook while emphasizing the importance of AI governance for enterprise software.
Automation
2026 Priority Commerce Report on Closing the ERP Value Gap
A 2026 Priority Commerce report highlights that many ERP systems still rely on manual AP processes, revealing an 'ERP value gap' that can be closed through fully integrated and embedded payment solutions, which enhance visibility, scalability, and efficiency in financial workflows.
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.
Automation
Epicor’s Conexiom Expansion Pushes AI Automation Deeper into Distributor Workflows
Conexiom has expanded its partnership with Epicor to enhance AI-driven order and invoice automation for distributors using Epicor Eclipse and Prophet 21, aiming to streamline order-to-cash cycles, reduce manual data entry, and improve operational efficiency.
IFS industrial AI and Microsoft
Service Management
IFS Brings Industrial AI to Microsoft’s Executive Demo Floor
IFS showcases its Industrial AI capabilities across Microsoft Experience Centers globally, demonstrating how autonomous agents can enhance asset-heavy operations by managing complex scenarios like packaging-line failures, ultimately highlighting the practical deployment of AI in operational environments.
Supply Chain Management
Infor Aligns Its Agentic ERP Strategy with ‘Enterprise Resource Execution’ Framework
Infor is aligning its agentic enterprise strategy with enterprise resource execution, or ERX, a Gartner-introduced framework for ERP’s next phase that emphasizes real-time sensing, decision-making, and execution through governed AI agents and industry-specific context.
Unit4 Marketplace
Automation
Unit4 Gives ERPx Customers a No-Commitment Path to AI Adoption
Unit4 has launched 'AI for Your World,' a commitment-free initiative allowing mid-market ERPx customers to trial its AI capabilities, including the Advanced Virtual Agent, until August 31, 2027, facilitating low-risk experimentation and potential subscriptions thereafter.
Supply Chain Management
DeepFabric Takes Aim at the Manual Work Still Slowing Supply Chains
DeepFabric has launched its AI agent platform aimed at automating manual coordination tasks in supply chain operations, offering over 50 specialized agents that improve efficiency and reduce costs for enterprise clients, while emphasizing the importance of human oversight in the process.
Tax Compliance
Azentio Builds UAE E-Invoicing Compliance into ERP Workflows
Azentio Software has launched a pre-approved UAE e-invoicing solution integrated within Azentio ERP to help businesses comply with the Federal Tax Authority’s upcoming e-invoicing mandate starting January 2027, featuring AI capabilities for enhanced data accuracy and streamlined tax compliance.
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.
IFS Chelsea FC AI
Enterprise Asset Management
IFS and Chelsea FC Move Industrial AI from Sponsorship into Club Operations
IFS and Chelsea FC are enhancing their partnership to integrate IFS technology across the club's operations, initially focusing on finance and procurement and later expanding into asset management and facility operations, aiming to leverage Industrial AI for operational efficiency.
accounts payable workflow automation
Automation
Why AP Workflow Automation Still Leaves Finance Teams Doing Manual Work
Accounts payable automation has come a long way—yet most finance teams are still doing significant manual work. This article examines why AP workflows break down even with automation tools in place, where the ERP gaps lie, and what CFOs and finance leaders need to do to build truly touchless invoice and payment processing.
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.
SAP AI budget discipline for hiring and travel
ERP Strategy and Planning
After SAP’s Leadership Reorg, AI Overhaul Places New Scrutiny on Hiring and Travel
SAP is reallocating its operating budget by tightening hiring, limiting travel, and reviewing supplier spending to prioritize investments in AI capabilities and technologies, signaling a strategic shift towards enhancing its AI-driven products and services while managing operational costs.
AI coding legacy modernization
Automation
NTT DATA Bets Cursor Can Speed the Messy Work of Legacy Modernization
NTT DATA’s partnership with Cursor brings AI coding agents directly into its global software engineering model, aiming to speed legacy modernization while strengthening governance and aligning modernization with enterprise‑wide AI strategy.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
AI Made Code Faster—Tricentis Says Quality Teams Are Falling Behind
Tricentis’ 2026 Quality Transformation Report shows that AI has accelerated software creation faster than many organizations can validate it, turning quality engineering into a boardroom issue for ERP and enterprise application leaders.
Supply Chain Management
IFS Is Building the Operations Layer Around Industrial AI
IFS’s Softeon acquisition is only one part of a broader push to connect warehouse execution, logistics optimization, MRO, asset management, and ERP around Industrial AI.
Financial Management
Why Finance AI Needs Guardrails: Sage Intacct’s Next Test Is Data Control
Sage Intacct 2026 R2 moves the connected finance story into data-control territory, with AI Gateway, intelligent 3-way matching, and construction workflows showing why finance AI needs guardrails before automation can scale.
Analytics and AI
GenAI in ERP Needs a Smaller Starting Point and a Harder Business Proposition
Enterprise leaders, while ambitious in their generative AI strategies, face a significant gap between their AI aspirations and actual production adoption, as illustrated by Mukesh Kumar's insights on targeted automation in ERP systems addressing specific, high-impact problems.
Analytics and AI
Why AI Ambitions Still Depend on IT Modernization: METRO’s Migration Program
International food wholesaler METRO AG has completed a multi-year data center migration program with Wipro, moving legacy IT operations into a modern multi-cloud ecosystem to enable enterprise-scale AI adoption, automation, and cloud-first digital transformation.
Automation
New Relic Prepares Observability for AI Agents That Skip the Dashboard
New Relic has introduced Autopilot and Ground Truth to shift observability toward an AI-agent-first operating model. Autopilot automates SRE triage and remediation using runbooks and context, while Ground Truth exposes governed telemetry to external AI agents via open standards. Both products reflect a broader industry move toward headless, agentic operations where AI systems, not human engineers, handle first-response tasks.
Financial Management
Trintech AI Agents Are Targeting the Manual Work Behind the Financial Close
Trintech has launched two new AI agents designed to eliminate manual investigative work from the financial close process. The Flux Agent identifies material account fluctuations during the close, while the Variance Analysis Agent automates post-close budget-to-actual analysis. Both tools operate within governed financial workflows, keeping outputs connected to audit trails and human review controls.
Business Process Management and Automation
Syspro Whitepaper: Platform or Liability? How to Know When Your ERP Has Become a Constraint
The Syspro whitepaper outlines how manufacturing leaders can identify when their ERP systems hinder growth instead of facilitating it, highlighting five warning signs of a liability, a gap assessment framework, modern evaluation criteria for selection, and how SYSPRO's platform addresses these challenges.
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Automation
Syspro Checklist: Are Fragmented Systems Holding You Back?
Syspro's checklist helps identify the hidden costs of fragmented systems and provides criteria for evaluating unified ERP solutions, guiding organizations on how to build a business case against system fragmentation.
Manufacturers face deployment hurdles for smart technologies: SYSPRO
Automation
Syspro x Frost & Sullivan Research: Complex Manufacturing Outlook — Emerging Trends and Opportunities
A Frost & Sullivan study in collaboration with Syspro explores the digital transformation landscape in complex manufacturing, revealing key technology trends, productivity gains from AI and automation, adoption barriers, and the evolving definitions of smart factories amidst growing cybersecurity concerns.
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