The Year in Review - the year in Cloud ERP

ERP stories in 2025 were often AI stories in an ERP wrapper - but not always. That required us to hit the tarmac, and bear down. Old issues with ERP were still with us - including cloud migrations and third-party integration hurdles. Making sense of "agentic ERP" keynote fanfare added to the challenges customers faced - but could ERP vendors deliver?

When you look at the new AI tools in application software today, it’s telling how there is no way for users to report these aberrant AI results. The feedback mechanism is non-existent. There’s no way to capture and report the bad AI acts/recommendations. The new AI tech is tucked into an existing process where the reviews/controls/oversight were never part of the process.

Why? This article framed five big problems vexing ERP users today. The counsel then is still quite valid at the end of this year. More ...