IFS kicked off the week announcing its full year 2025 year-to-date financial results. Oracle announced the Digital Assets Data Nexus, a soon-to-be released platform expected to enable banks and financial institutions to more easily launch and leverage blockchain-based digital assets in financial products. Finally, UKG unveiled a new AI-guided user experience for the UKG Pro suite that is now available for customers to turn on.
IFS kicked off the week announcing its full year 2025 year-to-date financial results. Oracle announced the Digital Assets Data Nexus, a soon-to-be released platform expected to enable banks and financial institutions to more easily launch and leverage blockchain-based digital assets in financial products. Finally, UKG unveiled a new AI-guided user experience for the UKG Pro suite that is now available for customers to turn on.
Hi and welcome to episode 211 of The ERP Minute. I’m your host, Rebekah McCabe.
IFS kicked off the week announcing its full year 2025 year-to-date financial results, demonstrating sustained profitable growth, as the world’s largest industrial enterprises move from AI experimentation to deployment across their most critical operations. Annual recurring revenue was up 22% year over year, with cloud revenue up 31% year over year. Finally recurring revenue was up 20% year over year, now representing 82% of total revenue. IFS has continued to report substantial growth, with zero signs of slowing down as its AI and product strategy continues to expand.
In other news, Oracle announced the Digital Assets Data Nexus, a soon-to-be released platform expected to enable banks and financial institutions to more easily launch and leverage blockchain-based digital assets in financial products. Powered by Oracle Blockchain and Oracle AI Database 26ai, the platform will feature multi-ledger infrastructure, pre-built tokenization smart contracts, enterprise-grade security, and streamlined workflow automation of business processes. In addition, the platform will offer dynamic API and event orchestration for seamless end-to-end integration with financial systems, along with advanced, AI-powered data governance features to help address compliance, supervision, and regulatory reporting needs. Oracle is expanding its capabilities to meet the more specialized needs of banks and financial institutions, taking steps towards even greater security and data compliance.
Finally, UKG unveiled a new AI-guided user experience for the UKG Pro suite that is now available for customers to turn on. The experience brings consumer level usability to enterprise software through a completely new, streamlined user interface that blends personalization, conversational search, and simplicity. The result is a unified, consistent experience across the entire UKG Pro suite, spanning both HCM and Workforce Management. UKG Bryte AI works within the Pro suite, introducing a conversational interface that reimagines how people interact with workforce technology, moving beyond traditional point-and-click systems to a search- and context-driven experience that is deeply personalized, more intuitive, and adaptive. Vendors like UKG are transforming the boundaries of technology, enabling more seamless user experiences leveraging cutting edge technology.
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