Cloud Platform and Technology

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integrates smoothly with cloud platforms, representing a pragmatic evolution in technology. The collaboration between ERP and cloud technology offers practical advantages, including scalability, accessibility, and agility for businesses. This combination enables real-time collaboration, data analytics, and improved security. Embracing the cloud allows ERP systems to adapt dynamically to changing business needs. Cloud-based ERP solutions offer efficient resource utilization, cost-effectiveness, and swift deployment, contributing to operational efficiency. In the current landscape of digital transformation, the integration of ERP with cloud technology serves as a practical strategy, ensuring businesses remain adaptable, competitive, and technologically proficient.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation
AETC Implements Rootstock Cloud ERP to Strengthen Planning, Growth
Applied Energy Technology Corp. has successfully implemented Rootstock Cloud ERP to modernize its manufacturing processes for small explosive devices, enhancing operational efficiency, compliance and scalability.
ERP Strategy and Planning
ERP Today 2025 Awards: Operational Innovation Expands Beyond Traditional Boundaries
Inetum won the Operational Innovation of the Year Award for its successful SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud implementation with Erri Berri, enhancing efficiency and agility, while Solvoz secured the runner-up position for its Mawared MENA platform, which digitizes procurement processes in humanitarian operations.
neocloud providers for ERP
Cloud Platform and Technology
Neoclouds: What They Are and How They Cut ERP Cloud Costs
Neoclouds lower ERP cloud costs by running AI workloads on specialized GPU infrastructure, improving efficiency and reducing the need for expensive general-purpose cloud resources.
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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.
Thales site in Saint-Héand, France, 2022 Description Production of night vision goggles (NVGs) at the Thales Saint-Héand site, Group's centre of excellence for optics. A total of 350 employees work across the full spectrum of functions, from product design to final delivery and support. Credit-copyright Julien Lutt / CAPA Pictures_SAP France sovereign cloud S3NS Thales
Cloud Platform and Technology
Thales First to Deploy SAP Cloud ERP on S3NS Sovereign Cloud in France
SAP is enabling SAP Cloud ERP Private to run on S3NS’s trusted cloud platform in France, allowing regulated industries to adopt cloud ERP and AI while meeting strict sovereignty requirements.
Office environment representing France’s tech dependency plan and shift from Windows to Linux across public sector IT systems.
ERP Strategy and Planning
How France’s Tech Dependency Plan Could Influence ERP Decisions
France’s tech dependency plan requires ministries to map reliance across infrastructure, AI, and core systems, introducing new scrutiny that may influence ERP evaluation and system design.
Cloud Platform and Technology
A Smarter Way to Run a City: How San Luis Obispo gets time back with Opkey
The City of San Luis Obispo enhances ERP operations and saves IT time by leveraging Opkey for automated testing and lifecycle management, which stabilizes processes, minimizes manual work, and adapts to continuous changes.
Cloud Platform and Technology
How Ameren Supercharged their Oracle Cloud Migration with Opkey
Ameren successfully accelerated its Oracle Cloud migration by leveraging Opkey's agentic AI platform, which facilitated automated testing, change impact analysis, and end-to-end lifecycle management, ultimately reducing risk and effort for a quicker and more efficient go-live.
Cloud Platform and Technology
TekSpark Cuts Redwood Migration Effort by 50% with Opkey
TekSpark successfully utilized Opkey's agentic AI to halve Oracle Redwood migration efforts by implementing automated testing and intelligent change impact analysis, resulting in quicker delivery, reduced risks, and enabling consultants to focus on more valuable tasks.
Cloud Platform and Technology
The SaaS Mess: How Enterprises Lost Control Of Their Software
The Forbes article discusses how ERP Lifecycle Optimization, encompassing change detection, impact analysis, automated testing, and AI-driven training, is essential for enterprises to regain control and efficiency amid the chaos created by disconnected composable ERP applications.
Cloud Platform and Technology
The Responsible Path to Agentic AI for Enterprise Apps
The whitepaper offers CIOs and leaders a practical roadmap for deploying domain-specific agentic AI in HCM, SCM, and Finance, including governance guardrails, an adoption timeline, and measurable outcomes.
Cloud Platform and Technology
The Future of ERP Is Agentic Opkey
The article discusses the sustainability of manual enterprise management and highlights how agentic AI is transforming the enterprise lifecycle by autonomously managing key processes while emphasizing the importance of balancing automation with human oversight for successful implementation.
Cloud Platform and Technology
2026 State of Enterprise Testing & App Lifecycle
A majority of IT leaders are struggling with the challenges of managing cloud updates, high costs from manual testing, and operational demands, while showing a strong interest in adopting agentic AI to improve testing and app lifecycle management.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Platform Brief: Opkey for Workday
Opkey enhances Workday ecosystems with pre-built tests and custom agents, facilitating migrations, post-implementation support, and ongoing updates through tools like Training Agent and Testing Agent.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Platform Brief: Opkey for Oracle
Opkey provides a comprehensive suite of tools, including thousands of pre-built tests, to assist Oracle app users with migrations, updates, and ongoing management.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Your AI Roadmap Has a Cloud Problem: New NTT DATA Research Reveals Why Enterprise Cloud Maturity Is the Gating Factor for AI Success
Despite extensive investments in cloud migration, only 14% of enterprises have achieved the advanced cloud maturity necessary to support AI-driven innovations, posing significant strategic challenges as organizations grapple with legacy systems and the urgent need for integrated cloud and AI strategies.
SAP earnings results showing cloud revenue growth, current cloud backlog, and Business AI strategy
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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ERP Strategy and Planning
Clorox Shows What SAP S/4HANA Transformations Require Before 2027
Clorox’s $580M SAP S/4HANA transformation highlights how design, benchmarking, and execution decisions shape outcomes beyond go-live.
Construction ERP cloud adoption
Cloud Platform and Technology
Construction ERP Survey Shows Demand for Cloud, but the Gains Remain Uneven
Construction firms emphasize the need for modern ERP systems with real-time data, mobile access, and integration, yet adoption rates vary, as many still experience operational challenges and unclear cloud migration progress despite a majority already using cloud-based solutions.
AI in higher education
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
Infor’s April Update Sharpens CloudSuite WFM for Frontline Reality
Infor's April 2026 Cumulative Update enhances CloudSuite Workforce Management with user-friendly improvements in scheduling and time and attendance functions, aiming to boost productivity and operational efficiency for supervisors and frontline managers.
Modern office buildings in Mumbai, where TCS is based.
ERP Strategy and Planning
What TCS and SAP Show About the Future of ERP Delivery
TCS and SAP show how ERP delivery is shifting toward integrated, partner-led models that combine workforce skills, system implementation, and ongoing operations.
Analytics and AI
Sovereign AI Gains Ground in Asia as Control, Compliance, Infrastructure Collide
Sovereign AI is gaining traction in Asia as governments, like India and Singapore, prioritize local control over AI infrastructure and data governance, prompting enterprises to adapt their systems and strategies to comply with varying regulations and infrastructure conditions across the region.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Automation, Cloud Redrawing ERP Market Boundaries
Enterprise resource planning is evolving into an intelligent, automated framework driven by cloud technology and AI, with projected software revenue reaching $157 billion by 2033, emphasizing the critical role of ERP in automating workflows and enhancing organizational responsiveness to disruptions.
ERP cloud lifecycle management dashboard showing integration complexity and AI-driven automation
Quality and Testing
Opkey Report Signals ‘Cloud Velocity Crisis’ as ERP Complexity, Costs, AI Expectations Collide
A new report from Opkey finds enterprise ERP teams struggling to keep pace with cloud release cycles, rising integration costs, and manual lifecycle processes, with agentic AI emerging as a key response.
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Security
SAP Security Patch Day April 2026: Critical Vulnerabilities, CVSS 9.9 SQL Injection, and Authorization Risks
SAP Security Patch Day April 2026 introduces a critical SQL injection vulnerability and high-severity authorization flaws across SAP BPC, BW, ERP, and S/4HANA. This analysis explains how these vulnerabilities affect enterprise risk and where exposure concentrates across SAP environments.
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Financial Management
Zuora Collections Launches in Europe with Germany Data Center for In-Region Data and AI-Driven Workflows
Zuora has launched Collections in Europe with a new Germany data center, bringing AI-driven workflows and in-region data handling to finance teams managing cash collection and forecasting.
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