RESEARCH

The Agent in the Back Office

Why it’s too early to rip out your ERP

Download this free white paper

Every other conference panel of the last two years has told finance and HR leaders their ERP is about to die. This white paper argues the opposite. The technology is moving fast, but what is actually changing is the commercial model and the liability around it, not the system of record itself.

It sets out what agentic AI really means for enterprise ERP, and covers:

  • Why ERP is not dead, but the commercial model around it is
  • What the “SaaS is dead” noise gets wrong, and what is really happening
  • How the system of record is becoming a control plane
  • Mobley v Workday, and where vendor liability now sits
  • Flex credits and consumption pricing, the contract you cannot easily model
  • The four big decisions facing finance and HR leaders in 2026/27
  • What works alongside the core, and the 70% that consultants are ignoring

It closes with the conversation the boardroom should be having now, before these decisions arrive as surprises.

 

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