Analytics and AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics are indispensable in propelling digital transformation efforts, particularly influencing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). With the rapid progression of technology and computing power, organizations across various sectors are generating immense amounts of data daily, impacting ERP processes. The significance of this data lies in its potential to extract actionable insights, facilitate strategic planning, and drive innovation within the ERP framework. In this context, AI and analytics emerge as pivotal tools, facilitating the extraction of value from the vast amounts of data generated and collected across the enterprise, optimizing ERP functionalities. Analytics is commonly categorized into descriptive, prescriptive, diagnostic, and predictive types, enhancing the ERP landscape. AI algorithms contribute not only to predictive and prescriptive analytics but also empower companies to develop innovative ERP capabilities, exemplified by advancements such as Industry 4.0.

Analytics and AI
10 steps to utilize generative AI in your ERP system
Generative AI – all you need to know, including our 10 steps for CIOs to prepare their ERP for effective generative AI.
IBM building | IBM and Databand.ai
Analytics and AI
IBM Launches Dedicated Microsoft Practice to Accelerate AI and Cloud-driven Business Transformation
IBM is strengthening its partnership with Microsoft by establishing a Microsoft Practice within IBM Consulting aimed at leveraging AI, cloud, and security solutions to deliver measurable business outcomes across various industries undergoing digital transformation.
Analytics and AI
NetSuite Analytics and Reporting
AI-powered business intelligence tools help you get the data and insights needed to run your business and make better decisions.
Oracle +IBM
Analytics and AI
GenAI powers new assistant, automated insights in NetSuite 2025.1
AI adoption among small-to-midsize businesses has surged nearly threefold from 2023 to 2024, with Verizon's survey highlighting this trend alongside NetSuite's release of innovative AI enhancements in 2025, including generative AI capabilities for streamlined reporting, data visualization, and tailored insights to improve business decision-making and efficiency.
IFS Industrial AI
Analytics and AI
IFS boosts ARR by 30% in Q1 on Industrial AI Performance
IFS achieved a 30% increase in annual recurring revenue and a 39% rise in cloud revenue in Q1 2025, driven by strong customer adoption of its Industrial AI initiatives, particularly through the IFS.ai platform, leading to a market valuation exceeding €15 billion.
Analytics and AI
A guide to Embedded Analytics in SYSPRO ERP
SYSPRO Embedded Analytics provides manufacturers and distributors with integrated business intelligence tools that enhance visibility, decision-making, real-time reporting, cross-functional data management, and performance tracking, leading to improved operational efficiency.
Analytics and AI
AI That Works for You
Acumatica's AI-powered cloud ERP integrates intelligent capabilities into its platform to enhance efficiency, automation, and decision-making. It offers industry-specific AI solutions that provide practical value, including real-time data extraction, anomaly detection, and predictive forecasting. The AI features are designed to be intuitive and seamlessly integrate into existing workflows, empowering businesses to leverage AI without added complexity.
Analytics and AI
Inside Nexus Black: IFS Launches a Fast-Track AI Lab for Industrial Innovation
At IFS Connect UKI 2025, IFS launched Nexus Black™, an innovative AI initiative aimed at rapidly transforming industrial AI aspirations into operational advantages for sectors like manufacturing and energy, addressing the fragmentation of existing tools and emphasizing co-development with clients while integrating successful solutions into the IFS Cloud.
Analytics and AI
Veolia’s Invoice Processing Rehaul
Veolia found itself struggling with a Shared Service Center (SSC) serving 30 entities of the group, performing inefficient legacy operations.
Analytics and AI
Practical AI, Powerful Results
Discover how Acumatica is revolutionizing ERP systems with practical, industry-specific AI solutions. This blog post explores how AI can transform your business operations by prioritizing security, usability, and customer success. Learn about Acumatica's strategic approach to AI, designed to solve real-world business challenges and deliver immediate value. Dive into the principles of innovation that guide Acumatica's development of transformative technologies, ensuring that AI serves a purpose beyond just technological advancement. Ready to see how AI can work for you? Read on to find out more!
Analytics and AI
The Impact of AI in the Food and Beverage Industry: An Expert Q&A With Benny Dor and Chad Merck
The article discusses the transformative impact of AI on the food and beverage industry, highlighting its potential to automate processes, improve decision-making, and drive sustainability, while Aptean collaborates with Microsoft to integrate AI capabilities into its ERP systems and support companies in overcoming adoption challenges.
Analytics and AI
Orbit Analytics: User Demo Recap
In a video demonstration, pre-sales engineer Rick showcases Orbit’s reporting and analytics software features, highlighting report creation, sharing, visualization, and dashboard functionality using an Excel dataset.
Analytics and AI
AI in Action: Google Cloud Next ’25 Spotlights Real-World Innovation Across Industries
At Google Cloud Next '25, the company showcased how AI is transforming various industries by enhancing operations, improving customer experiences, and driving innovation, with examples from McDonald's, Intuit, and Verizon, illustrating AI's operational integration and strategic importance.
Analytics and AI
Virtual Agent launch reduces agent interactions by 85% for top financial services firm
A financial services organization reduced person-to-person support chats by 85% and maintained pre-COVID incident levels by implementing a Virtual Agent to facilitate self-service solutions for common queries, ultimately freeing up agents to handle more complex issues and improving overall support efficiency.
Tackling the Industry’s Biggest Challenges to Drive Manufacturing Forward
Analytics and AI
Tackling the Industry’s Biggest Challenges to Drive Manufacturing Forward
Manufacturers face numerous challenges today, including rising costs and skills gaps, but QAD aims to transform these obstacles into opportunities through pragmatic AI solutions, low-code extensibility, and a deep understanding of industry-specific needs.
Analytics and AI
ServiceNow Acquires Logik.ai to Supercharge AI-Powered CRM Capabilities
ServiceNow has agreed to acquire Logik.ai to enhance its CRM and Sales Order Management capabilities, aiming to streamline sales processes through AI-powered solutions for complex product configurations, thus positioning itself as a serious competitor in the evolving $80+ billion CRM market.
UK Businesses Gear Up for Significant AI Investment in 2025
Analytics and AI
UK Businesses Gear Up for Significant AI Investments in 2025: Freshworks Study
UK organizations are expected to increase their AI investment by 25% in 2025, driven by the recognition of AI's importance in enhancing workplace efficiency and employee experience, with 54% planning a 29% spending boost next year.
A Streamlined Approach to Custom Gen AI Models with NTT DATA Business Solutions
Analytics and AI
A Streamlined Approach to Custom Gen AI Models with NTT DATA Business Solutions
NTT DATA Business Solutions' GenAI Connector simplifies the development of custom generative AI models for businesses, enabling faster and more effective integration of AI into operations, enhancing customer experiences, and driving growth.
Epicor
Analytics and AI
Mastering Data Readiness for Generative AI Success
In today’s AI-driven landscape, businesses struggle with data readiness—poor quality, limited volume, and ethical constraints threaten the success of generative AI initiatives. In addition, questions are frequently asked about improving data quality, what to do with limited data volume, and how to address ethical constraints that threaten the success of generative AI initiatives. This session will explore why these challenges can lead to biased, inaccurate, or outdated outputs that erode customer trust and ROI. By attending this session, you will: Learn strategies to ensure high-quality, diverse datasets that power reliable AI outcomes. Discover how to streamline preprocessing, scale infrastructure, and maintain current data in a compliant way. Leave with insights to transform your data into a competitive edge for Generative AI innovation.
AI-enabled Supply Chains
Analytics and AI
The Autonomous Advantage: Driving Business Value with AI-Enabled Supply Chains
The modern supply chain is being revolutionized by the integration of agentic AI, which enhances operational efficiency and revenue growth through proactive and autonomous decision-making, though organizations face challenges such as data accuracy and geopolitical risks.
Transforming Business Operations: Codestone's Strategic Approach to Digital Transformation
Analytics and AI
Transforming Business Operations: Codestone’s Strategic Approach to Digital Transformation
Codestone stands out in the ERP landscape by leveraging AI to help organizations implement tailored SAP and Microsoft solutions, driving business outcomes through a value-based, user-focused approach.
Analytics and AI
Unifying Your ERP Ecosystem Agentic AI Powered Lifecycle Optimization
The on-demand webinar explores how Opkey's Agentic AI-powered ERP Lifecycle Optimization Platform enhances enterprise resource planning through simplified deployment, cost reduction, and intelligent automation for improved efficiency and innovation.
Analytics and AI
How Agentic AI Reduces Costs in ERP Applications Deployment and Maintenance
ERP projects often exceed budgets and face post-implementation challenges due to unclear business processes, resistance to change, inadequate training, and the need for ongoing updates, but these issues can be mitigated by leveraging agentic AI solutions that automate process discovery, enhance training, streamline user acceptance testing, and improve update testing.
Analytics and AI
Acumatica Business Intelligence, Reporting and Analytics
Acumatica’s Business Intelligence, Reporting, and Analytics tools provide growing businesses with real-time transparency, seamless integration with Microsoft Power BI, customizable insights, automated notifications, and powerful report customization to enhance decision-making and profitability across various industries.
Analytics and AI
NetSuite Boosts UK Business Efficiency with Expanded AI Capabilities
Oracle NetSuite has expanded its AI capabilities in the UK to enhance efficiency for businesses by introducing AI agents and generative functionalities that streamline data entry, boost productivity, and facilitate informed decision-making at no additional cost.
Tech Transformation 2025
Analytics and AI
The 2025 Tech Transformation Playbook: Lessons from Leading CIOs
In a panel discussion featuring IT leaders, key trends highlighted include business process automation as a priority for 2024, the widespread yet uneven adoption of SAP S/4HANA, the ongoing challenges of AI integration, and the critical importance of data management for successful transformations, underscoring the need for bold organizational changes and a cultural shift towards digital and data-driven methodologies.
AI
Analytics and AI
Empowering Your Business with AI: Key Features in ServiceNow’s Yokohama Release
The Yokohama release of ServiceNow introduces innovative AI features, including an AI Governance Module for secure deployment, Now Assist for ATF and eBook Generation to boost operational efficiency, and Spoke Generation along with Table Summarization to enhance integration and data insights, thereby empowering business technology decision-makers to optimize their AI initiatives.
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