Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) serves as a cornerstone in ensuring effective Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) within organizations. By integrating GRC modules, ERP systems provide a centralized platform to manage and monitor governance practices, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. This approach enhances transparency and accountability across various business processes. ERP’s real-time reporting and analytics capabilities enable organizations to proactively identify potential risks and address compliance issues promptly. The integration of GRC within ERP streamlines workflows, promoting a culture of risk-aware decision-making. This synergy empowers organizations to navigate complex regulatory landscapes, mitigate risks efficiently, and uphold the highest standards of governance, ensuring a resilient and compliant operational environment.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Transformation Capability Management: Why ERP Programs Drift Even with Good Change Management

ERP programs falter not from inadequate change management but from early weak structural decisions, with the need for 'Transformation Capability Management' (TCM) to ensure organizations build durable abilities rather than depend on external partners, as traditional change management alone cannot address underlying capability, capacity, and governance challenges.

AI is reshaping enterprise partnerships across ERP, supply chain, governance, and ecosystem collaboration

Analytics and AI

AI Is Changing the Rules of Enterprise Partnerships: Q&A with Blue Yonder’s VP Kelley Lear

In this ERP Today Q&A, Blue Yonder’s Kelley Lear explains how AI is changing the rules of enterprise partnerships. The discussion covers agentic AI, hyperscaler and ERP alliances, supply chain disruption, data readiness, governance, and what separates outcome-focused partnerships from those that stall.

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Human Capital Management

How AI Is Forcing ERP Vendors to Rethink the Human Side of Transformation

Research indicates that 88% of chief human resource officers believe AI accelerates the readiness of early-career talent, placing pressure on ERP vendors to enhance their platforms for intuitive AI experiences, while also emphasizing the need for clear governance to mitigate risks.

Security

SAP Security Has the Board’s Attention—Now What?

SAP security has gained visibility at the executive level but often fails to drive decisions due to a lack of effective translation of cyber risks into clear business impacts, as highlighted by Asha Vartak, emphasizing that awareness alone is insufficient for action in a landscape increasingly influenced by AI and regulatory pressures.

Security

Rise with SAP Security Risk Is Increasingly Shaped by Timing, Data, Assurance

As organizations accelerate their migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, security risks intensify, prompting a shift in focus towards proactive security measures, data-centric access control, and a structured assurance model to ensure effective protection and compliance in increasingly complex cloud environments.

Security

SAP February Patch Day Puts ABAP and Platform Risk in Focus

SAP’s February 2026 Patch Day delivered 26 new notes and one update, with critical exposure centered in ABAP and core platform services. Vendors warn impact depends on how trust and integrations operate inside each landscape.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

SAP’s EU AI Cloud Addresses Data Sovereignty as Regulations Tighten in Europe

SAP’s EU AI Cloud reflects how data sovereignty and regulation are reshaping where and how enterprises deploy AI in Europe.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

SAP Sustainability Control Tower: New Analytics Tab Enhances Reporting

SAP has enhanced the Sustainability Control Tower with an Analytics tab in the Analyze ESG Data app, allowing detailed, customizable views of ESG metrics, facilitating compliance with EU sustainability regulations, and enabling teams to manage reporting data efficiently.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Europe’s ERP Vendors Are Gaining Ground Alongside Oracle, Microsoft

European ERP vendors like SAP, Unit4, Odoo, AFAS, and Exact are emerging as viable alternatives to US giants by aligning with regional regulatory, data protection, and localization needs, particularly for organizations prioritizing compliance and sovereignty.

Cloud Platform and Technology

How the digital sovereignty agenda in the EU reshapes cybersecurity

The EU's push for digital sovereignty is transforming cybersecurity into a critical, integrated discipline, prompting businesses to adopt stringent regulations, lifecycle-embedded practices, and proactive risk management.

Analytics and AI

Year in Review: Testing, Transformation, and the Race to AI-Ready ERP in 2025

In 2025, the conversation around cloud migration shifted from why to how. According to SAPinsider’s 2025 research report on SAP S/4HANA deployment, for instance, 31% of the organizations who responded to the survey have transitioned to SAP S/4HANA, while another 27% are in implementation. Additionally, 54% of respondents said they plan to incorporate AI or...

Human Capital Management

SAP, Oracle Lead the Charge as AI-Driven Performance Management Market Targets USD 6.33B by 2030

The employee performance management market is expected to grow from $3.52 billion in 2025 to $6.33 billion by 2030, driven by a shift towards continuous, analytics-enabled performance cycles embraced by major firms like Adobe and Microsoft, with AI-centric platforms at the core, as organizations increasingly link performance to skills-based talent strategies and digital transformation efforts.

Security

Five Risks SAP Leaders Can No Longer Ignore in 2026

As SAP vulnerabilities surge and attackers exploit weaknesses swiftly, organizations must prioritize automated security measures and cloud responsibility models while addressing legacy systems and integrating SAP into broader security operations to mitigate risks and safeguard critical business processes.

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Security

SAP Issues Three Critical Security Fixes in December Patch Day

On December 9, SAP released 14 security notes, including three critical patches for vulnerabilities in SAP Solution Manager, Apache Tomcat in SAP Commerce Cloud, and SAP jConnect, urging customers to prioritize updates based on severity to protect against potential exploits.

Analytics and AI

SAP Is Building a Sovereign AI Stack for Europe

Regulatory trends in the EU are fostering a shift towards sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, highlighted by companies like SAP, which has invested in local partnerships with firms like Mistral AI to enhance digital autonomy and develop industry-specific applications.

Analytics and AI

SAP Signavio AI Agent Mining Tackles Invisible Autonomy Risk

SAP users are increasingly incorporating AI agents into workflows, which introduce 'invisible autonomy' risks that necessitate oversight, prompting the launch of SAP Signavio's AI agent mining capability to enhance monitoring, efficiency, and performance assessment of these agents.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Citizen developers and governance in enterprise software today

The integration of AI into ERP systems heightens concerns over governance and security as citizen developers leverage low-code and no-code solutions, prompting enterprises to seek a balance between empowering these developers and maintaining compliance, illustrated by Mendix's approach to providing a structured platform that supports full software development lifecycle management.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

How technology can help organizations get their houses in order

The new EPR legislation will come into effect in 2025 and will require most large organizations to collect and report on plastic usage in their supply chain. Technology will be key in aiding companies to do so.