The week began with Certinia’s announcement of their Summer ’25 Release. Related, Sage unveiled powerful new capabilities in Sage Intacct to help high-performing finance teams move faster, gain greater control, and lead with impact. In other news, Workday and IFS announced strategic acquisitions to expand the power of AI within each respective platform. To round out the week, Oracle deployed OpenAI GPT-5 across its database portfolio and suite of SaaS applications.
The week began with Certinia’s announcement of their Summer ’25 Release. Related, Sage unveiled powerful new capabilities in Sage Intacct to help high-performing finance teams move faster, gain greater control, and lead with impact. In other news, Workday and IFS announced strategic acquisitions to expand the power of AI within each respective platform. To round out the week, Oracle deployed OpenAI GPT-5 across its database portfolio and suite of SaaS applications.
Hi and welcome to a monumental episode 200 of The ERP Minute. I’m your host, Rebekah McCabe.
The week began with Certinia’s Summer ’25 Release, reinforcing their commitment to continuous innovation with powerful new capabilities to transform project management, optimize resources, and elevate customer experience. The release heavily leverages AI and automation with Certinia’s new Staffing and Customer Service Agents, AI-generated success plans, AI—powered summaries, and intelligent automation for staff projects. For enhanced visibility and control for design-making, Certinia released tools to make customer progress actionable and visible, as well as helping accelerate deal closure with comprehensive estimate control. Finally, various capabilities will be released to optimize operations for growth, including Intelligent Pooled Resource Management, faster budget building and planning, and tax simplification. Customers are expected to receive significant value from this release and continue to realize their potential with Certinia.
Related, Sage unveiled powerful new capabilities in Sage Intacct to help high-performing finance teams move faster, gain greater control, and lead with impact. With new AI-powered automation, embedded payments, and built-in sustainability insights, the latest innovations are designed to simplify operations, accelerate the close, and give finance teams time back to focus on higher value work. So, what’s new in Sage Intacct R3 2025? Updates fall into three main categories. AI-powered close, reconciliation, and answers offers new close automation with a subledger reconciliation assistant and close workspace, alongside Copilot search help. Smarter AP and procurement automation will bring Sage Vendor Payments powered by MineralTree, AI-powered line-level matching, and Sage Intacct eProcurment. Finally, sustainability by default delivers Sage Earth Carbon Accounting with no-setup carbon footprint estimates based on industry and revenue data. Sage has been very actively working to innovate, with acquisitions, expanded partnerships, and product releases like this. We expect to continue to see strides from Sage as we round out 2025.
In other news, Workday and IFS announced strategic acquisitions to expand the power of AI within each respective platform.
First, Workday announced it has acquired Flowise, a low-code platform that makes it easy to build AI agents—from simple chatbots to complex automated workflows. This acquisition provides Workday with a leading agent builder that will accelerate innovation across its platform and empower customers and partners to safely design, launch, and manage AI agents with greater speed, flexibility, and confidence. Flowise’s platform supports every part of the AI development journey—from prototyping and building to debugging, evaluation, and analytics—making it easier to take AI agents from idea to production. Benefits will include accelerated AI innovation, customization, controllability, and transparency, and responsible AI development.
Then, IFS announced the acquisition of 7bridges, an AI-powered supply chain management solution provider. The move strengthens IFS’s position by expanding capabilities in logistics and transportation optimization. 7bridges streamlines supply chains using advanced AI simulation and analytics to automate and optimize logistics networks. It has been purpose-built for industrial use cases, combining rapid, low-cost data capture, a high-quality semantic data layer, and powerful AI to solve complex supply chain optimization challenges.
Workday and IFS know how valuable AI is and will continue to be for businesses in an evolving market. These strategic acquisitions will deliver value to customers quickly and within the specific operational areas they need to achieve value.
To round out the week, Oracle deployed OpenAI GPT-5 across its database portfolio and suite of SaaS applications, including Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle NetSuite, and Oracle Industry Applications, such as Oracle Health. By uniting trusted business data with frontier AI, Oracle is enabling customers to natively leverage sophisticated coding and reasoning capabilities in their business-critical workflows. With the development of GPT-5, Oracle will help customers enhance multi-step reasoning and orchestration across business processes, accelerate code generation, bug resolution, and documentation, and increase accuracy and depth in business insights and recommendations. Oracle is simplifying the development process and enabling clients to do more independently of the vendors. Customers will continue to find real value with solutions like this from the ERP giants.
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