The ERP Minute Episode 238: May 21, 2026

Hi and welcome to episode 238 of The ERP Minute. I’m your host, Rebekah McCabe.

In ERP news this week, Epicor held their annual conference, Epicor Insights, in Nashville, Tennessee. The conference took place over four days of breakthrough sessions, immersive workshops, and networking opportunities. In just the first days of the conference, Epicor has already made many exciting announcements regarding their products, their AI strategy and tools, and more. 

Want to get the insider scoop on Epicor Insights 2026? ERP Advisors Group is in attendance gathering the latest information and insights from the vendor in real time. To see more of our insider view on the conference, check out our social media platforms such as LinkedIn, and be on the lookout for our conference review at erpadvisorsgroup.com. 

In other major industry announcements, SAP introduced the Autonomous Enterprise to help enhance the world’s most critical business workflows, so that humans and AI work together to meet global business demands. Autonomous Enterprise is a unified AI platform, combining their SAP Business AI Platform with the SAP Autonomous Suite across industries. 

The company also revealed Joule Work, redefining how users engage with SAP products. Instead of navigating individual applications and entering data across several screens, users will now interact primarily with Joule, the vendor’s AI first-solution and agentic AI studio. Joule Work will go beyond conversation, proactively surfacing relevant insights and automating routine tasks behind the scenes so work moves forward even when humans aren’t actively steering it. Both these announcements by SAP demonstrate the ERP titan’s commitment to advancing artificial intelligence and pushing the boundary for what can be accomplished with evolving AI technology. 

Next, Workday announced that the Sana Self-Service Agent is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This new integration will enable employees and managers to get answers to HR and finance questions and complete everyday tasks directly inside Microsoft 365, without switching apps, while organizations maintain security, compliance, and control. With Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, every employee and manager can manage everyday HR and finance needs in seconds, including checking time‑off balances, updating personal information, viewing payslips, reviewing tax withholding information, and more. Workday continues to work towards creating more accessibility and ease of integration for their clients, affirming their dedication to optimizing HR and finance tasks for their clients.

Finally, in further AI news, OneStream announced at the OneStream Splash User Conference the general availability of SensibleAI™ Agents, pre-built agents that operate natively on the OneStream platform and are integrated into Microsoft Office 356 suite, for reporting, financial analysis, and informational search. The availability of these agents will open those same capabilities to third-party AI tools, allowing finance to forecast, guide and report on the business using Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. With their new “Finance Agentic Layer,” finance teams can use any AI tool for finance work, ask plain language and get answers grounded in trusted data, and operate with built-in governance. Creating accessibility to more advanced AI agent tools like OneStream will help businesses maximize their software’s capabilities and get the most of their data, allowing for advanced insights and reporting.

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