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.

Hangzhou East Railway Station in China, illustrating the rise of Chinese AI models in enterprise ERP.
Analytics and AI
Chinese AI Models Are Changing the Economics of AI in ERP
Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi are giving European enterprises lower-cost, open-weight alternatives to US providers. Their rise could change the economics of embedding AI into ERP while increasing pressure on vendors to support more flexible, multi-model strategies.
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.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
How SAP Defines Sovereign Cloud for ERP
SAP defines sovereign cloud across data, operational, technical, and legal control. The framework shows why ERP sovereignty depends on far more than where information is stored, particularly as organizations divide workloads across cloud environments and introduce AI into core business processes.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Epicor Prism Lands in Latin America as Cognitive ERP Becomes the Company’s Operating Thesis
Epicor has launched Prism, its portfolio of vertical AI agents, across Latin America, extending a 2026 strategy that ties embedded AI, cloud migration deadlines, and new CEO Vaibhav Vohra to a single Cognitive ERP vision.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Unit4 Expands Canadian Public Sector Reach Through Canoe Procurement Agreement
Unit4 has joined the Canoe Procurement Group of Canada as an Approved Supplier, giving public sector organizations a pre-tendered path to ERPx as the vendor expands government and higher education deployments.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Australian Infrastructure Department Taps Accenture to Replace SAP with Workday, ServiceNow
Australia’s Infrastructure Department is replacing SAP ECC6 with Workday and ServiceNow under a $38.8 million Accenture deal. The move shows how the approaching end of ECC6 mainstream maintenance can become an opportunity to reconsider the incumbent ERP rather than automatically move to S/4HANA.
Construction professionals review a large building site, reflecting Sage Intacct Construction and construction ERP operations.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Sage Acquires Bangert to Strengthen Sage Intacct Construction Onboarding
Sage has acquired Bangert to strengthen Sage Intacct Construction onboarding, bringing specialist construction implementation expertise and the AI-powered AskRichard support platform into its construction business.
Vaibhav Vohra, new CEO of Epicor, stands confidently in a modern, blue-lit office environment.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Epicor Names Vaibhav Vohra CEO as the Architect of Cognitive ERP Takes the Helm
Epicor has named Vaibhav Vohra as CEO effective October 1, 2026, succeeding Steve Murphy. The product and technology leader behind the vendor's Cognitive ERP vision now takes charge of its AI-driven next chapter.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Deloitte Australia Shows How SAP Partners Are Rebuilding Around Cloud and AI
Deloitte Australia’s SAP service catalog shows how major systems integrators are reshaping ERP delivery around SAP’s cloud and AI roadmap. The firm’s alignment with RISE, GROW, Business AI, Business Data Cloud, and planned Zora AI integration with Joule points to a broader shift in how partners package implementation, automation, and operate services.
ERP Strategy and Planning
The Mid-Flight ERP Decision: What to Do When the Platform Changes Before Go-Live
Cloud ERP vendors continuously release new capabilities, creating a challenge many organizations never anticipated when they approved their business case. This article explores how ERP leaders should respond when a platform changes before go-live and offers a practical framework for balancing customization, standardization, governance, and long-term value.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Microsoft’s $100B Azure Year Shows Enterprise AI Is Moving Beyond One Model
Microsoft’s FY26 results show Azure crossing $100 billion in annual revenue while Microsoft pushes multi-model AI, Copilot adoption, GitHub scale, and Dynamics 365 agentic workflows into one enterprise platform story.
Systems Administration
Australia’s Home Affairs Starts the Clock on a 2030 SAP ECC6 Replacement
Australia's Department of Home Affairs is initiating a project to replace its SAP ECC6 enterprise resource planning system by December 2030, engaging consultancy Next Apex to assist in assessing its current systems and future needs amidst a broader movement towards modular ERP selection across public agencies.
AI property management ERP
Analytics and AI
Property ERP Shows Where Enterprise AI Gets Practical
Aareon's latest SAP S/4HANA-based strategy offers a practical example of where enterprise AI is becoming most credible: inside industry-specific workflows. By embedding AI into invoice processing, mail management, and operating-cost settlement, the company highlights both the promise of real estate AI and the continued importance of SAP migration, cloud strategy, and data quality.
Analytics and AI
SAP’s Cloud Backlog Bounced Back, but AI Pricing Stole the Earnings Call
SAP's latest quarter demonstrated strong cloud momentum, but the bigger story may be emerging around AI economics. As SAP expands Business AI, Joule, and autonomous agents, executives are signaling a future where ERP pricing could shift from licenses and subscriptions toward measurable business outcomes.
types of ERP systems
Enterprise Architecture
ERP Systems Explained: A Practical FAQ for Buyers
Cloud ERP, SaaS ERP, hybrid ERP, composable ERP, AI-native ERP, and agentic ERP are often discussed interchangeably, but they describe very different technology models. This ERP Today guide explains the major ERP deployment, architecture, industry, and intelligence categories enterprise buyers need to understand.
Analytics and AI
Managed Claude on Google Cloud Shows the Model-Governance War Is Heating Up
Google Cloud has integrated Anthropic's Claude models into its Agent Platform's Model Garden, offering enterprises a managed AI service with production-ready features and governance controls, allowing seamless multi-model applications and compliance with regional data requirements.
Business and technology leaders reviewing identity governance, access management, and cloud ERP security controls across integrated enterprise applications
Security
The Hidden Governance Challenge Behind Enterprise Cloud Integrations
As organizations expand cloud ERP ecosystems and integrate more applications, identity governance is emerging as a critical operational challenge. Sustainable access management depends less on technology alone and more on clear ownership, governance frameworks, and business accountability.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Why Microsoft Migrated a Billing Backbone to SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud
Microsoft successfully migrated its 70 TB SAP ECC billing system to SAP S/4HANA private cloud in just six months, minimizing downtime to 24 hours while enhancing integration, operational efficiency, and financial performance.
Security
AWS Security Hub’s Azure Move Shows ERP Security Is Now Multi-Cloud and AI-Native
AWS has expanded Security Hub to provide targeted protection for AI workloads and security monitoring for Microsoft Azure, enabling the discovery and evaluation of Azure resources alongside AWS findings, thereby enhancing visibility and governance across multi-cloud and hybrid ERP environments.
Security Patch Day
Security
July Patch Day Gave an AI Wake-Up Call from Microsoft, ServiceNow, and SAP
July's record-breaking patch cycle from Microsoft, ServiceNow, and SAP highlights a new reality for enterprise security teams. AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, shrinking remediation windows, and expanding the attack surface across ERP systems, cloud platforms, identity infrastructure, and business-critical workflows.
SAP S/4HANA migration in pharma
Application Development and Integration
Why Integration, Not AI, May Be the Most Important Factor in Pharma’s ERP Journey
As AI dominates SAP transformation headlines, pharmaceutical organizations remain focused on a more fundamental challenge: creating integrated, governed, and audit-ready ERP environments. New research suggests integration maturity, cloud architecture decisions, and regulatory readiness continue to drive SAP S/4HANA migration priorities across life sciences organizations.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Earnings Update: The ERP Work Behind Levi’s Q2 19% E-Commerce Surge
Levi Strauss & Co. reported an 8% year-over-year revenue increase in its fiscal Q2, driven by strong e-commerce and direct-to-consumer sales, while highlighting progress in its ERP transformation by migrating Asia and Beyond Yoga to its new platform, aiming for a unified cloud ERP system to enhance operational efficiency and support future automation.
DLA ERP Modernization
Security
DLA’s ERP Modernization Race Shows How Audit Pressure Is Rewriting Federal Cloud Deals
DLA is years ahead of schedule on a major ERP modernization initiative aimed at reducing technical debt, improving auditability, and moving away from heavily customized systems. The effort highlights how cloud services, managed support, and process standardization are becoming foundational to federal ERP transformation.
Cloud Platform and Technology
SNP Transformation World 2026 – SNP’s Don Mahoney on Kyano, Palantir, and Data Precision
SNP's Don Mahoney on the Kyano platform, Kyano Lorna and Oros, the new Palantir partnership, and why data migration demands 100% precision.
higher education
Cloud Platform and Technology
Higher Education’s Cloud ERP Shift Is Stuck on the Student System
Higher education’s cloud ERP transition is not stalled by lack of interest. It is slowed by the student system, where Workday’s cloud momentum and Oracle’s PeopleSoft runway create very different modernization paths.
US Air Force
Cloud Platform and Technology
Air Force Looks to Standardize ERP Services on Cloud One OCI
The US Air Force is seeking partners through a request for information to develop and sustain Enterprise Resource Planning Common Services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, aiming to enhance shared cloud services and integration for defense ERP environments.
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.
SAP Business Data Cloud ERP data readiness - governed foundation for analytics and AI
Data and Data Management
SAP Business Data Cloud Turns ERP Data Readiness Into the Real Test
SAP Business Data Cloud promises a governed foundation for analytics and AI—but ERP data readiness, fragmented legacy architectures, and budget pressure mean most organizations aren't ready to capture that value. With 45% still evaluating BDC and only 3% achieving a unified data layer, partner execution and data context are now the deciding factors.
Real-time ERP data pipeline for enterprise AI agents - data lakehouse architecture
Cloud Platform and Technology
Real-Time ERP Data Becomes the Next Test for Production AI Agents
Enterprise AI agents are only as useful as the business context they can see. Real-time ERP data movement—governed, low-latency, and pipeline-native—is now the defining test for whether production AI delivers on its promise for finance, order management, and supply chain teams.
SAP Business Data Cloud
Cloud Platform and Technology
SAP Business Data Cloud Raises the Stakes for ERP Data Readiness
SAP Business Data Cloud positions itself as the governed foundation for AI-driven analytics. But adoption is still early, data fragmentation remains the norm, and only 3% of organizations have achieved a unified data layer. This article examines what ERP teams need to address before BDC can scale: semantic preservation, BW migration maturity, partner capability, and governance frameworks for agentic AI.
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