ERP Market Acceleration Puts Pressure On Modernization Plans
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is entering a rapid growth phase, with forecasts projecting the global market to exceed $280 billion by 2034 at a 13% compound annual growth rate. Organizations are accelerating ERP modernization to streamline finance, HR, and supply‑chain functions while embracing cloud solutions that lower upfront costs. While on‑premises deployments remain dominant in regulated sectors, cloud ERP is expanding fastest, creating hybrid estates that span mature and high‑growth regions. The shift forces technology leaders to treat ERP as a strategic portfolio rather than a mere maintenance task.
Tax Season Scams 2026: How IRS Phishing, Fake Tax Messages, and AI Fraud Threaten Businesses
The 2026 tax season is seeing a surge in sophisticated scams that blend traditional IRS impersonation with AI‑generated messages, QR‑code links, and polished phishing campaigns. Microsoft reported over 29,000 users in 10,000 organizations targeted by tax‑related phishing, while a February...
Novo Nordisk, OpenAI Bring AI Into Core Operations to Accelerate Time to Market
Novo Nordisk has teamed up with OpenAI to embed advanced artificial intelligence across its entire value chain, from early‑stage research to manufacturing, distribution, and commercial operations. The partnership aims to accelerate drug discovery, streamline production, and shorten the time it...
Crawford Connect Highlighting ERP’s Noisiest Supply Chain Gaps at Epicor Insights
Crawford Software showcased its Crawford Connect platform at Epicor Insights 2026, positioning it as a portal‑driven extension that sits on top of Epicor and other ERPs. The solution provides dedicated buyer, supplier and customer portals that transform email‑heavy interactions into...
Choosing the Right Integration Strategy and Framework for Manufacturers
Manufacturers increasingly confront integration bottlenecks as they layer ERP, MES, WMS, e‑commerce and AI tools. While point‑to‑point connections are quick to deploy, they become fragile and costly once three or more critical systems interconnect. Integration platform as a service (iPaaS)...
France Defines a New Model for Managing Technology Dependencies
France unveiled a digital‑sovereignty program to curb reliance on non‑European technology, beginning with the migration of the central digital authority (DINUM) from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The plan obliges every ministry to submit a technology‑dependency reduction roadmap by autumn 2026,...
Dynamics 365 Gains Momentum: Franklin Sports, Zwilling Highlight ERP Standardization and Finance Automation
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is experiencing double‑digit growth as enterprises seek unified, cloud‑based ERP platforms. Franklin Sports chose Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management, partnering with Sunrise Technologies to replace fragmented legacy systems and gain real‑time visibility across its global...
Bluerock TMS Targets Last Mile’s Costliest Blind Spots
Bluerock TMS unveiled a cloud‑native Last Mile Distribution solution at Modex 2026, delivering end‑to‑end visibility from order intake to proof of delivery in a single system. The platform replaces fragmented routing tools with an AI‑assisted, execution‑centric control layer that plugs...
The Cloud Cost Squeeze Has Arrived: 88% of CFOs Report Rising Spend
A new Azul survey of 300 U.S. CFOs reveals that 88% of organizations see cloud spending climb, with 66% elevating it to a board‑level concern. CFOs report that 10‑30% of their cloud budgets are wasted, highlighting a growing efficiency gap....
SAP GRC for SAP HANA Update Signals Real-Time Processing Shift and 2027 Transition Timeline
SAP announced an updated SAP GRC for SAP HANA that introduces Fiori‑based workflows, AI‑assisted automation, and real‑time risk, access, and control analysis. The release is currently in a limited Early Adoption Care program and targets general availability in Q3 2026. SAP...
Oracle Database@AWS Reaches 12 Regions, Broadening Multicloud Database Footprint
Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available in 12 AWS regions across North America, Europe and Asia‑Pacific, adding Dublin, London, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Seoul. The rollout also upgrades high‑availability in Canada Central and Sydney with two Availability Zones. These additions give...
Bangladesh’s Digital Tax Push Reshapes Compliance for RMG Supply Chains
Bangladesh’s National Board of Revenue has moved corporate tax, VAT, customs and payments fully online, automating returns, audits and refunds. The shift targets a tax base where fewer than 25,000 of roughly 288,000 registered firms file returns, exposing a compliance...
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...
Madsen’s Custom Cabinets (1983) Ltd.
After six decades in Alberta’s architectural millwork market, Madsen’s Custom Cabinets migrated from a legacy on‑premise Epicor system to the cloud‑based Epicor Kinetic. The move consolidated fragmented data sets, enabled employees to work from any location, and set the stage...
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...
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,...
SAP Shifts to AI Consumption Pricing as Agents Threaten Saas Revenue Model
SAP announced a transition from its traditional per‑user and subscription pricing to a consumption‑based model that charges customers for AI usage. CEO Christian Klein said the change, coupled with new forward‑deployed engineering teams, aims to embed AI agents directly into...
Dynamics 365 Wave 1 Puts Agentic AI at the Heart of ERP
Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 2026 Wave 1 transforms Copilot from a passive assistant into an agentic operating layer embedded across finance, supply chain, HR, commerce and core ERP functions. The release introduces autonomous agents that execute tasks—such as account reconciliation, invoice capture,...
How Data Center Location, ESG Regulations, and AI Infrastructure Are Reshaping Risk
Data center location has moved from a purely technical choice to a core governance decision, as it directly influences energy costs, cooling requirements, water usage, and grid reliability. Climate stressors such as heat and drought are concentrating in key hubs,...
Tennant ERP Rollout Disruption Triggers $30M Sales Hit and Investor Scrutiny
Tennant Company disclosed that its North American ERP rollout crippled order processing, resulting in roughly $30 million of lost sales and remediation expenses projected over $20 million for 2026. The disruption sent the stock down more than 23% in a single session,...
Universities Accelerate ERP Transformations to Standardize Systems and Enable AI
Higher education institutions are accelerating ERP modernization to replace fragmented, heavily customized systems with standardized, integrated cloud platforms that can support AI and automation. Central Michigan University is moving from a customized SAP ERP to a new integrated solution, entering...
How AI Is Forcing ERP Vendors to Rethink the Human Side of Transformation
A recent SAP and Wakefield Research survey of 100 U.S. CHROs reveals that 88% see AI speeding up early‑career talent readiness, while 87% expect new hires to be AI‑comfortable from day one. The findings pressure ERP vendors to embed AI...
UAE Approves SAP for E-Invoicing, Expanding ERP’s Role in Compliance Architecture
The UAE Ministry of Finance has pre‑approved SAP as an e‑invoicing service provider, making it the first major ERP vendor on the government’s list. The pre‑approval precedes a phased rollout that begins with a pilot in July 2026 and becomes...
US Tech Sector Lost Jobs in March, AI Enters Layoff Calculations
The U.S. technology sector shed roughly 15,000 jobs in March, even as the broader economy added 178,000 positions and the national unemployment rate held at 4.3%. CompTIA’s analysis of BLS data shows tech unemployment at 3.9%, slightly below the overall...
Oracle’s AI Pivot Is Reshaping How It Builds Software, Staffs Teams, and Funds Growth
Oracle is repositioning AI from a product add‑on to the core engine of its operating model, coupling a record AI backlog with a $50 billion capital‑expenditure plan. The company announced thousands of layoffs, with estimates ranging from 20,000 to 30,000 jobs...
Designing Supply Chains for Measurable ROI, Improved Automation
Warehouse leaders are rushing into robotics and high‑density storage without first defining success metrics, cleaning processes, or ensuring data integrity. This strategic misalignment leaves 92% of supply‑chain executives reporting that automation investments fall short of expected ROI. Experts advise a...
How-To Guide to Planning Your Next AP Automation Project
The guide outlines a step‑by‑step methodology for finance leaders to launch an accounts‑payable (AP) automation project, emphasizing strategic alignment with broader business goals. It recommends a phased rollout—starting with invoice capture and validation before adding approval workflows and payment automation—to...
SAP Business Data Cloud Explained: A New Model for ERP Data and Analytics
SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is a fully managed SaaS that unifies data management, governance, and analytics across SAP and non‑SAP systems, tackling the fragmentation that still plagues most ERP environments. A recent SAPinsider benchmark shows only 3% of organizations...
SAP and ODI Team Up to Make Enterprise Data AI‑Ready
SAP and the Open Data Institute (ODI) have launched a global program to create AI‑ready data foundations for enterprises. The initiative underpins IDEA (Interchange for Data and Enterprise AI), a neutral framework that defines governance, semantics, and lineage across heterogeneous...
Application-as-a-Service Pushing ERP Toward Composable Stacks
Application‑as‑a‑Service (AaaS) is moving from a niche buzzword to a mainstream architectural choice, with research forecasting robust growth through 2033. Enterprises are abandoning monolithic ERP suites in favor of composable stacks that stitch together best‑of‑breed SaaS applications for CRM, HR,...
Inside How the World’s Largest Biscuit Brand Transformed ERP and Cut Costs 30%
Parle Products, the world’s top‑selling biscuit brand, has migrated its legacy SAP ECC system to SAP Cloud ERP Private hosted on IBM’s hybrid cloud. The clean‑core architecture and integrated AI tools have streamlined finance, supply chain and manufacturing processes. Early...
Navigating ERP Migrations Without the Usual Pitfalls
Aptean warns that ERP migrations fail more often due to data, process and people issues than software flaws. It proposes a disciplined four‑step data migration framework—scope definition, cross‑functional team, data standardization and incremental testing—to curb scope creep and poor data...
SAP Security Investment Still Misses Where Risk Is Highest, Benchmark Data Shows
SecurityBridge introduced the Cybersecurity Resilience Index for SAP (CRIS), a benchmarking model built on anonymized data from thousands of production systems. The index evaluates eight security domains against more than 550 controls, revealing that most organizations score only 30‑40% overall...
Maersk Uses SAP on Azure to Cut Costs and Enable AI-Driven Logistics
Maersk migrated its SAP landscape to Microsoft Azure, replatforming 500 legacy servers and achieving near‑100% uptime with zero incidents. The cloud move transforms SAP from a static record system into a real‑time platform that supports AI‑driven logistics, predictive analytics, and...
Oracle Launches Defense Isolated Cloud to Enable Secure Collaboration at Scale
Oracle announced its Defense Industrial Base Isolated Cloud Environment (DICE), an air‑gapped OCI offering that meets U.S. Secret and future Top Secret classification requirements. The service, unveiled at the Oracle Federal Forum, is undergoing security assessments and aims for provisional...
How Clorox Planned Its SAP S/4HANA Transformation — Insights From the CIO
Clorox embarked on a five‑year, $580 million ERP overhaul, migrating to SAP S/4HANA under CIO Chau Banks and Accenture partner Johan Opperman. The program was framed as an enterprise reinvention, emphasizing cross‑functional alignment, phased “waves” that respected seasonality, and a robust change‑network to...
Syspro Names Leanne Taylor CEO as Part of Leadership Succession Plan
Syspro announced that Chief Revenue Officer Leanne Taylor will succeed Jaco Maritz as CEO, completing a planned leadership succession. Taylor, who joined in April 2025, has driven global strategy, partner expansion, and customer engagement across manufacturing and distribution. Maritz will...
‘The “SaaSpocalypse” Narrative Is Conflating Disruption With Complete Elimination:’ Rick Rider
Rick Rider, Infor’s SVP of product management, pushes back against the “SaaSpocalypse” hype, arguing that autonomous AI agents will augment rather than eliminate enterprise SaaS. He stresses that vertical, industry‑specific SaaS retains deep transactional data and compliance logic that AI...
Rocketlane Launches Nitro to Automate Professional Services Delivery
Rocketlane introduced Nitro, an AI‑driven execution layer that embeds autonomous agents into its Professional Services Automation (PSA) platform. The new module automates repeatable delivery tasks such as configuration, data migration, testing, and documentation, linking execution directly to resource tracking and...
The Power BI Crash That Sparked a Data Revolution at Dodge Industrial
Dodge Industrial’s reliance on a 20‑year‑old SAP BW system forced business users to build a shadow data warehouse in Power BI, which ultimately crashed the company’s entire tenant. The outage prompted Data & Analytics Manager Daniel Garrett to partner with Protiviti...
Demystifying SAP Business Suite and Cloud ERP with SAP Transformation Leader Anurag Barua
SAP transformation deadlines are tightening as SAP pushes customers toward its cloud‑first Business Suite, with AI increasingly embedded in core processes. Anurag Barua, SAP’s Transformation Leader, explains the suite’s role as a unified digital backbone and clarifies when to adopt...
Cultivating Twin Transformation in Manufacturing
Mid-sized manufacturers must pursue Twin Transformation—simultaneous digital and sustainable change—by integrating SAP S/4HANA migration, Digital Manufacturing, and Sustainability Footprint Management. The article maps this journey into three phases (landscape analysis, strategic choices, sustaining value) and applies three Sustainable Gardener principles:...
Snowflake Research Finds UK Firms Investing in AI but Struggling to Scale Productivity Gains
Snowflake’s latest research, based on 500 senior UK decision‑makers, shows that while 99% of large enterprises intend to maintain or increase AI spending, only 23% have translated that investment into productivity gains at scale. Early or modest gains are reported...
Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Exposes the Cost of Delayed Digital Infrastructure
Cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing is advancing quickly, yet many early‑stage firms postpone building an integrated digital backbone. The resulting manual handoffs create safety, compliance, and scalability risks. SAP’s Cell and Gene Therapy Orchestration platform introduces guided workflows, e‑signatures,...
Levi’s ERP Overhaul Hits 60% as Retailer Positions for AI-Driven Orchestration
Levi Strauss & Co. has completed about 60% of its global ERP modernization, a cornerstone of its shift toward AI‑driven orchestration and a data‑centric operating model. The overhaul supports the company’s ambition to grow revenue to roughly $10 billion, with direct‑to‑consumer...
From Manual Close to Strategic Finance
Finance leaders are increasingly hampered by a manual, spreadsheet‑heavy financial close that drags on for weeks and diverts senior talent to reconciliation work. The article argues that this bottleneck erodes data quality, controls, and strategic insight, especially as reporting demands...
Strategic Reporting Playbook
Group reporting and consolidation have become essential to CFO credibility as organizations grow in complexity. Finance teams still rely on fragmented, period‑driven processes that deliver insights too late for effective decision‑making. The playbook advocates moving to continuous, connected consolidation, providing...
SAP Targets Regulated ERP Workloads with Sovereign Cloud Launch in France
SAP has launched a sovereign cloud service in France in partnership with Bleu, a French provider owned by Orange and Capgemini. The offering meets France’s SecNumCloud certification, ensuring data residency, security, and operational control for public‑sector and regulated enterprises. It...
Microsoft Begins Validating NVIDIA AI Supercomputer, Signaling Hyperscaler Shift for ERP Workloads
Microsoft announced that Azure is now validating NVIDIA’s next‑generation AI supercomputer, the Vera Rubin NVL72, marking one of the first hyperscaler tests of this rack‑scale platform. The system, slated for a 2026 launch, promises lower cost‑per‑token for large‑scale model training...