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
Why Agribusiness ERP Has to Treat Contracts as Risk Signals
Agribusiness contracts carry commodity, FX, and interest-rate exposure long before settlement. This article explains how SAP Agricultural Contract Management turns contracts into a live risk engine inside ERP, with msg global's implementation approach.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Federal ERP Modernization Gets Another Procurement Path as 2027 Deadline Nears
Federal agencies require effective procurement strategies for ERP modernization, as highlighted by M&S Consulting's participation in NASA's SEWP VI contract, which provides a framework for essential IT services and emphasizes the importance of leveraging small-business certifications in the contracting process.
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Governance, Risk, and Compliance
SAPinsider’s New Global Tax Report Shows Why ERP Data Is at the Center of Compliance
SAPinsider’s 2026 Global Tax Management benchmark shows that tax compliance is becoming an ERP data problem, with AI, e-invoicing, regulatory change, and fragmented systems forcing tax, finance, and IT leaders to rebuild the foundation.
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Analytics and AI
MCP Is Becoming the Plumbing of Agentic ERP—ERP Leaders Need to Understand It
MCP is emerging as the protocol layer that lets AI agents discover and call enterprise tools, data sources, and workflows. For ERP leaders, the opportunity is lower integration friction. The risk is that access control, auditability, and cost discipline move closer to the agent boundary.
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.
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Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Microsoft Power Platform Narrows the Access Gap for ERP Agents
Microsoft's June 2026 Power Platform updates introduce Advanced Connector Policies that govern AI agent access to SAP systems at the action and MCP server level. ERP leaders must understand what the new controls mean for low-code automation, connector visibility, and enterprise AI compliance.
Enterprise Architecture
Who Governs AI Agents When Workflows Cross Platforms?
As AI agents expand across ERP, cloud, and workflow platforms, enterprise leaders face a critical governance challenge: who owns accountability when data, models, and audit trails are fragmented across multiple systems. This analysis explores the control plane problem and what ERP teams must do to prevent agent sprawl.
Security
NTT DATA and Pathlock Bring Always-On Cyber Defense to SAP Workflows
NTT DATA Business Solutions and Pathlock have joined forces to deliver always-on SAP cybersecurity — combining a managed SOC with AI-native application controls to protect finance, procurement, and supply chain workflows against unauthorized access, fraud, and misconfiguration at global scale.
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Financial Management
Perplexity Tests the Real Finance AI Question: Can the Agent Show Its Work?
Perplexity has introduced a finance-specific AI agent designed to provide trusted data integration, robust audit trails, and prebuilt workflows for corporate finance teams, emphasizing the importance of traceability for meeting audit and reporting requirements.
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Tax Compliance
Does Your ERP Know What Tax Regime You’re In? A Compliance Readiness FAQ for Enterprise Finance Leaders
Tax compliance has evolved into a critical board-level consideration for ERP systems, emphasizing the need for real-time reporting, continuous transaction controls, and adaptable architectures while leveraging AI to address compliance challenges across jurisdictions.
Cloud Platform and Technology
The SAP Migration Decision in 2026: Three Companies, Three Answers, One Urgent Security Context
In 2026, three distinct approaches to SAP migration are highlighted by Lwart Environmental Solutions, which opts to extend its current system for operational stability; Victrola, which successfully executes a greenfield migration to SAP Cloud ERP with significant reporting efficiencies; and Reveal USA, which emphasizes proving value before transformation by guaranteeing an 8x return on investment, reflecting a market grappling with simultaneous technical, operational, and security challenges.
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Security
SAP June Security Patch Day Puts ERP Trust Controls Under Pressure
SAP's June 2026 Security Patch Day highlighted significant ERP security risks, delivering 15 new Security Notes with a focus on foundational trust layers like SAML authentication and RFC communication, emphasizing the need for organizations to prioritize the remediation of vulnerabilities that affect authentication, access control, and supply chain risks in their SAP environments.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
SAP June Patch Day Brings Four Critical Fixes Across NetWeaver, ABAP, Commerce Cloud
SAP's June 2026 Security Patch Day issued four critical fixes for vulnerabilities affecting SAP NetWeaver, ABAP, Java, Commerce Cloud, and Data Hub, prompting priority patch application to safeguard systems, as outlined in 15 new security notes highlighting risks in authentication and memory management.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Lwart Extends SAP ECC 6 as Factory Expansion Raises ERP Migration Risk
Lwart Environmental Solutions has opted to maintain its SAP ECC 6 system amid a significant factory expansion, prioritizing stability and operational continuity over immediate ERP modernization.
Financial Management
SAP’s Autonomous Finance Push Turns CFO Attention to Governance
SAP’s autonomous finance push is moving CFO priorities toward governance, controls, and AI-ready financial processes. For SAP customers, the opportunity depends on how well automation, GRC, and finance transformation connect inside ERP operations.
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Analytics and AI
SAP Sapphire Madrid: Autonomous Enterprise Pitch Meets Europe’s AI Control Test
At SAP Sapphire Madrid, the company introduced the Autonomous Enterprise as the next evolution in ERP, focusing on AI-driven solutions tailored for European markets, emphasizing sovereignty and regulatory compliance in data handling and operational control.
ERP transformation
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.
Tax Compliance
Framework or Platform? How Sovos Is Turning Tax Compliance into an ERP Strategy Decision
The article discusses the urgent need for ERP programs to integrate tax compliance as a core architectural element rather than a secondary concern, emphasizing that organizations must choose between ERP-native frameworks or specialized third-party solutions to address rapidly evolving regulatory requirements, with the choice impacting operational flexibility, risk management, and overall compliance efficiency.
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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.
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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...
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Cloud Platform and Technology
The New SAP Defense
As organizations transition to SAP S/4HANA and hybrid-cloud architectures, the necessity for a layered Zero Trust security approach, supported by Unified Risk Management and consolidated monitoring solutions, becomes critical to address the expanded attack surface.
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.
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