How SAP Concur Automates Expense Reporting with Agentic AI
SAP Concur has upgraded its ExpenseIt platform with an agentic AI layer that goes beyond OCR, using Google Cloud’s Gemini models to infer missing receipt details. The new Receipt Analysis Agent applies routing, reflection, and tool‑use design patterns, automatically pulling travel itinerary and calendar data to complete expense entries. This partnership accelerates automation, reduces manual corrections, and positions Concur at the forefront of AI‑driven finance solutions. Future integrations aim to add multimodal grounding, edge processing, and tighter ties to Google services.
Hoshizaki Bets On IFS Cloud For Future AI Manufacturing Modernization
Japanese foodservice equipment maker Hoshizaki is migrating its legacy, heavily customized ERP to IFS Cloud, a standardized SaaS platform, to support over 700 users across two production sites. The move consolidates order management, production planning, manufacturing execution and inventory control...
Novvia Group: Unpacking Success Across Multisite Implementations
Novvia Group, an industrial packaging distributor, completed 14 Epicor ERP implementations across 17 of its businesses within 18 months. Six S Partners guided the rollout, emphasizing unified core processes and a single source of truth. The project leveraged automation to...
What To Know When Evaluating Sensitive Data Discovery And Classification Solutions
The Forrester Wave™ Q2 2026 evaluates the leading sensitive data discovery and classification solutions, emphasizing accuracy, scalability, and breadth of data‑source coverage. Vendors now claim 95%‑plus detection rates and support cloud, on‑prem, and in‑motion scanning, but buyers must validate performance in...
Building End-to-End Payroll Integrations in Workday Using PECI and PICOF
Workday’s Cloud Connect for Third‑Party Payroll offers two outbound formats—PICOF and PECI—to move employee data to external payroll providers. PICOF, the legacy format, delivers a snapshot of final data per employee but can miss intermediate changes and lacks automated correction...
Hadrian Named a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation
Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive security platform, has been named a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) released on March 24, 2026. The guide positions AEV as the successor to breach and attack simulation and...
Gmail’s End-to-End Encryption Comes to Mobile, a Year After Its Web Launch
Google has extended its client‑side, end‑to‑end encryption for Gmail to Android and iOS, completing the mobile rollout that began with the web launch in April 2025. The feature is limited to Workspace Enterprise Plus customers with the Assured Controls add‑on, allowing encrypted...
ERP News Magazine April 2026 – Issue #59
ERP News Magazine released its April 2026 Issue 59, launching the Q2 editorial theme “From Cloud to Collaboration – How ERP Unites People, Platforms, and Intelligence.” The issue shifts focus from pure cloud adoption to positioning ERP as a coordination layer...
Why Your Digital Transformation Didn’t Fail. Your Data Environment Did.
Manufacturers are investing heavily in digital transformation—ERP, MES, and BI layers—but many projects stall because the underlying data environment remains unfinished. Without clear KPI ownership, reconciled metric definitions, and validated inputs, shop‑floor teams distrust system outputs and revert to spreadsheets....
Cynet Named Leader and Outperformer in 2026 GigaOm Radar for XDR
Cynet has been positioned as a Leader and Outperformer in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for XDR, landing in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant for its comprehensive AI‑driven platform. The vendor earned perfect 5/5 scores in both Agentic AI detection and ecosystem...
Optimize Your Tax Stack for SAP
Vertex released a new white paper outlining how its tax technology can be optimized for SAP ERP environments. It highlights the growing pressure from frequent tax rule changes, digital compliance mandates, and cloud migration timelines that expose hidden inefficiencies in...
ImPAC Labs and Cyera Partner to Deliver Data-Aware Cloud Security
imPAC Labs announced a new integration with Cyera that blends imPAC’s cloud‑visibility and custom security controls with Cyera’s data discovery and classification engine. The partnership delivers data‑aware guardrails, allowing security teams to enforce policies based on the sensitivity of the...
How AI Is Transforming Cloud-Native Identity and Access Management
AI is reshaping cloud‑native identity and access management (IAM) by replacing static rule sets with adaptive, real‑time security controls. Research shows 40% of enterprises suffered identity‑related breaches in 2024, prompting a shift toward behavioral analytics, automated least‑privilege provisioning, and zero‑trust...
Oracle Taps Lucinity Tech to Enhance AI-Driven Compliance Tools
Oracle is integrating Lucinity’s AI‑native investigation technology into its Financial Crime and Compliance Management (FCCM) platform, embedding AI agents into the Oracle AI Investigator tool. The partnership aims to automate manual investigation tasks, surface relevant context, and guide decision‑making for...
Britain's Biggest Nuclear Site Skips Competition, Hands SAP £33M to Start ERP Switch
Sellafield Limited, the operator of the UK’s largest nuclear site, awarded a direct £33 million ($41 million) contract to SAP for Core HR SaaS licensing, bypassing competitive tendering. The move initiates the first phase of a four‑deal migration from legacy SAP ECC,...
Automating Financial Operations for Faster, Safer Financial Reporting
South African firms are adopting MoData’s integrated Record‑to‑Report suite—Accurate, Adra and Cadency—to automate reconciliation and accelerate the financial close. The automation cuts manual reconciliations by up to 90% and reduces month‑end close time from 10‑11 days to 5‑7 days. The...
Designing for Complexity: Lessons From Building a Digital Wallet Integration
The integration of digital wallets like Apple Pay forced banks to abandon traditional, siloed software projects and adopt an ecosystem‑first approach. By 2025 Apple Pay alone handled roughly $9‑9.5 trillion in transactions for over 800 million users, illustrating the massive scale and...
AI Process Mapper 5.0 with Generative AI Delivers Extensive New Features Including Process Analysis, SOP Generation, Web-Based Editor, and More
The Efficiency Group launched AI Process Mapper 5.0, a generative‑AI‑powered BPMN platform that creates, edits, and documents business workflows from simple prompts or source documents. New capabilities include a web‑based graphical editor, AI‑driven process analysis with impact scores, and automated...
Unito Expands Partnership with Asana, Now Included in Enterprise Offering for AI-Driven Workflow Integration
Unito has deepened its strategic partnership with Asana by becoming the first technology partner offered directly through Asana’s procurement channel. The no‑code sync engine is now an add‑on for enterprise customers, enabling two‑way integration with more than 60 enterprise tools...
Globant and CMPC Launched an AI-Based Supply Chain Traceability Solution Compliant with EU Deforestation Regulation
Globant has deployed an AI‑driven supply‑chain traceability platform for CMPC, a global pulp, paper and packaging leader. Built on SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Clean Core, the solution automates document extraction and compliance workflows, shrinking manual traceability from up...
ServiceNow AI-Enables Its Entire Product Lineup
ServiceNow announced that its full suite of products is now AI‑enabled, adding a conversational front‑door (EmployeeWorks), a cross‑enterprise data layer (Workflow Data Fabric), and an AI Control Tower for governance. The rollout introduces Context Engine, which injects real‑time enterprise context...
RxERP Hub Targets Pharma’s Serialization Blind Spots
RxERP unveiled the RxERP Hub, upgrading its serialized platform into a full‑scale infrastructure for the pharmaceutical supply chain. The Hub adds unit‑level audit logging that records every transaction—from receiving to dispensing—creating a real‑time, immutable trail. This turns serialization from a...
How GenAI Fixed Withholding Tax at Scale, Improved Processes
A global agribusiness handling withholding tax certificates across Latin America replaced a manual, spreadsheet‑driven process with a cloud‑based automation platform powered by generative AI. The new stack ingests emails, extracts data from varied Spanish PDFs, validates against the on‑prem ERP,...
Balance Control When Negotiating With Salesforce
Since launching Agentforce in 2024, Salesforce has repositioned itself as an AI‑first, multicloud vendor, bundling AI, data and automation into larger deals—a shift analysts call “AI gravity.” This strategy often pushes buyers into higher‑tier licenses and unused add‑ons, leading to...
Minor Hotels Unveils Plans for Global Data and AI Platform
Minor Hotels announced a new global data and AI platform built with Google Cloud, Salesforce, OneTrust and Deloitte. The platform will unify guest data across its 63‑country footprint, enabling real‑time personalization and AI‑driven service. Designed from scratch, it leverages generative...
UMass Memorial Health Expands Epic EHR to Milford Regional
UMass Memorial Health expanded its Epic electronic health record system to Milford Regional, which went live on April 1. The integration follows Milford’s 2024 affiliation with UMass Memorial and a 2025 implementation effort that included extensive staff training. A single, uniform...
Salesforce Won't Be Discarded in the AI Boom, but What Companies Want Is Changing
Salesforce remains a core player as AI reshapes enterprise software, but customers are demanding lower‑cost, AI‑driven alternatives. Blavity plans to replace its Salesforce CRM with an AI solution, targeting 50‑60% savings, while retaining Slack for internal communications. Salesforce has rolled...
Mythos Autonomously Exploited Vulnerabilities that Survived 27 Years of Human Review. Security Teams Need a New Detection Playbook
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview autonomously uncovered a 27‑year‑old OpenBSD TCP stack bug and dozens of other zero‑day flaws across operating systems, browsers, and crypto libraries, costing roughly $20,000 per discovery campaign. The model demonstrated a 90‑fold improvement over Claude Opus...
Labguru Customer Portal Launched for CRO/CDMO and Client Collaboration
Cenevo has unveiled the Labguru Customer Portal, a digital hub that extends its ELN and LIMS platforms to external partners. The portal lets CROs and CDMOs centralize visibility across projects, standardize workflows, and manage multiple client programs at scale. Clients...
Anthropic Takes Claude Cowork Out of Preview and Straight Into the Enterprise
Anthropic has moved Claude Cowork from preview to general availability, embedding the AI‑driven task assistant into all paid Claude plans—Pro, Team, and Enterprise. The service lets non‑technical users delegate workflow‑heavy tasks such as document editing, spreadsheet updates, and meeting summarization to...
WakeMed Takes New Approach to Enterprise Clinical Asset Management
WakeMed Health & Hospitals has signed a multi‑year deal with PartsSource to consolidate visibility, service orchestration, and supply‑chain data for more than 38,000 medical devices across its three North Carolina hospitals. The new Asset Uptime platform delivers real‑time telemetry, predictive...
Introducing the Sandbox Environment: Safely Test and Optimize E-Signature Workflows
Zoho Sign has launched a sandbox environment that mirrors a live portal, letting users test e‑signature workflows without affecting production. The isolated space supports template tweaks, API and SDK experiments, and integration trials while preserving live credits. Early error detection...
EZO Report Highlights Persistent Gaps in IT Visibility and Automation Across Enterprise Teams
The 2026 State of IT Maturity Report from EZO reveals that enterprise IT teams still struggle with fragmented systems and limited automation. More than half of organizations depend on spreadsheets for asset tracking, and only 21% enjoy real‑time visibility backed...
MailRoute Expands MSP Program to Simplify Email Security Delivery
MailRoute has refreshed its MSP and channel partner program to deliver email security as a fully white‑label service that can be provisioned in minutes via MX‑level filtering. The new model lets managed service providers onboard client domains by changing two...
Broadcom’s Automic Automation V26 Unveiled: Bringing Trust and Governance to AI in Enterprise Business Operations
Broadcom released Automic Automation V26, an intelligent control plane that embeds AI governance into enterprise orchestration. The platform adds guardrails such as auditability, role‑based access control, and an agent‑less Kubernetes model, targeting complex back‑office processes like banking, claim handling, and...
USCIS Explores Remote Identity Verification for Immigration Services
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Request for Information seeking a software‑only, API‑driven platform that can authenticate identity documents and perform facial comparison remotely. The agency wants a solution that works on any mobile device or web browser,...
Adeptia Makes Integrations AI-Observable with Adeptia Automate 5.2
Adeptia unveiled Automate 5.2, an AI‑native upgrade that embeds a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, making enterprise integrations directly queryable by AI assistants and business users. The platform delivers real‑time workflow status, execution history, and diagnostics through natural‑language prompts, eliminating...
Citrix Introduces NetScaler AI Gateway to Bring Enterprise Governance to AI Application Delivery
Citrix unveiled NetScaler AI Gateway, extending its flagship application‑delivery platform to govern enterprise AI workloads. The new layer adds token‑based rate limiting, latency‑aware load balancing, and prompt redaction to control large‑language‑model costs and performance. Integrated with Citrix Aidrien and the...
Microsoft 365 Modernization Is Becoming a Data Sovereignty Challenge
Enterprises are now treating Microsoft 365 data sovereignty as a front‑line buying criterion rather than a post‑deployment check. Modernization projects—migrations, restructurings, and Copilot rollouts—are accelerating, exposing gaps in permissions, guest access, and identity sprawl that can undermine compliance. Governance must travel...
Weak at the Seams
The article argues that cyber risk is no longer a collection of isolated silos but a systemic threat amplified by digital transformation across healthcare, finance and manufacturing. While global security spending is projected to exceed $212 billion in 2025, the exposure...
OPSWAT Adds Predictive AI Engine to MetaDefender for Pre-Execution Threat Detection
OPSWAT introduced Predictive Alin AI, its first proprietary AI‑driven threat detection engine, into the MetaDefender platform. The static‑analysis engine predicts malicious intent in milliseconds, delivering sub‑100‑ms inference while maintaining a tiny memory footprint. In internal tests the engine achieved 99.99%...
Palo Alto Networks, SonicWall Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities
Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall each released emergency patches addressing multiple vulnerabilities, including two high‑severity flaws. Palo Alto fixed three bugs—most notably CVE‑2026‑0234 affecting Cortex XSOAR/XSIAM’s Microsoft Teams integration—and added dozens of Chromium security updates. SonicWall patched four issues in...
How Huntington Modernized without Touching the Core Ft. Qolo
Huntington National Bank partnered with payments platform Qolo to launch a virtual‑account‑based product called Connected Deposits, layering modern functionality over its legacy core. The solution creates sub‑accounts that behave like real bank accounts—complete with routing numbers, inbound wires and automated...
Intruder Expands Cloud Security with Agentless Container Image Scanning
Intruder introduced Container Image Scanning, an agent‑less service that automatically checks container images for vulnerabilities across AWS Elastic Container Registry, Google Artifact Registry and Azure Container Registry. The feature runs daily, prioritizing active tags and presenting findings alongside other attack‑surface...
Confluence and ACA Partner to Streamline GIPS Verification
Confluence Technologies and ACA Group have teamed up to automate data feeds between Confluence’s Revolution Composites platform and ACA’s GIPS verification requirements. The integration lets asset managers extract and deliver GIPS‑compliant data with a single click, eliminating manual mining and...
Why Security Automation Is Changing How Teams Protect Enterprise Networks
Enterprise security teams face exploding alert volumes and slow manual triage, prompting a shift toward automation. SIEM platforms aggregate and normalize logs, while SOAR solutions execute playbooks that isolate threats, block IPs, and open tickets without human clicks. High‑quality connectors...
Sage Analyst Briefing - AI Innovation Progress on Show
Sage plc used an analyst briefing in Atlanta to preview AI‑driven upgrades ahead of its San Francisco customer event. The company highlighted the maturation of Sage Intacct, now in 120+ countries with 160+ currencies, and a new AI‑powered Finance Intelligence Agent...
Modernising Legacy Systems – without the Downtime
Legacy platforms still power core banking, insurance, trade and public‑sector operations, but they constrain innovation and customer experience. BBD Software argues that modernisation must move work, not just data, by coordinating people, systems and decisions. Their approach starts with a...
UK’s Biggest Police Force Gears up for £1 Billion ERP Overhaul, Swaps SI for SI, Oracle for Oracle
The Metropolitan Police has awarded DXC a contract worth up to £1 bn ($1.3 bn) to replace its aging ERP platform, P‑SOP, with Oracle Fusion SaaS. The legacy system, implemented in 2015, relies on 55 secondary interfaces and has already cost the...
The State of AI in CRM: A Sneak Peek Into 2026
In 2024 only 21% of commercial leaders had deployed generative AI across B2B sales, yet by 2025 roughly 45% of sales professionals were using AI tools at least weekly, primarily inside their CRM systems. The adoption gap highlights that frontline...