Finance leaders have long looked to automation as the lever for efficiency. Hyperautomation — the orchestration of RPA, AI, process mining, and workflow tools, has delivered impressive gains by removing manual effort from high-volume, rules-driven tasks like invoice processing, reconciliations, and reporting. The result? Faster cycle times, fewer errors, and lower costs.

But efficiency has a ceiling. Once the transactional load is optimized, the real question becomes: how do we create smarter outcomes, not just faster ones?

By embedding AI into forecasting, scenario modelling, and driver-based planning, CFOs can unlock agility, accuracy, and automation. But it requires intent—not just tech.

SAP Phase Zero: Helping you navigate the SAP Omniverse

SAP today isn’t a single journey, it’s an Omniverse.

ECC, S/4 HANA, Business Suite, Sovereign cloud, AI, robotics all co-existing, all competing for attention.

In this complexity, Phase Zero is your navigation system.

It helps you map where you are today, resist vendor-driven deadlines, and chart a course that’s modular, business-led, and future-proof.

At Dragon ERP, we use Phase Zero to give leaders clarity, control, and confidence to move through the SAP Omniverse with purpose.

Phase Zero:

Helping you navigate the SAP Omniverse.

The SAP Omniverse is a new paradigm that recognizes how AI, robotics, and legacy SAP systems are converging to fundamentally reshape how SAP is consumed by the business —both as a product and as a business operating model. It’s not a new product or platform. It’s a way of seeing SAP as everything, everywhere, past and present

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is undergoing a transformative evolution in the public sector. With rising fiscal pressures, demand volatility, and a growing need for transparency, modern public bodies must reinvent how they plan, forecast, and steward public funds.

This article explores a future-facing FP&A Target Operating Model (TOM) for large public sector organisations—designed to deliver better outcomes while reducing the burden on taxpayers.

By embedding AI into forecasting, scenario modeling, and driver-based planning, CFOs can unlock agility, accuracy, and automation. But it requires intent—not just tech.

Cloud Isn’t the Silver Bullet for FP&A—But AI Might Be

While cloud ERP promises flexibility, agility, and scale, it rarely delivers enterprise-grade FP&A without targeted investment in data, operating model reform, and decision intelligence.

This is where AI-enabled FP&A comes in.

By embedding AI into forecasting, scenario modeling, and driver-based planning, CFOs can unlock agility, accuracy, and automation. But it requires intent—not just tech.

As the SAP ecosystem evolves, businesses still running SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) are at a crossroads. The future lies in cloud-native platforms—and the natural path forward leads to SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for planning, and SAP Group Reporting for consolidation.

SAP is stepping into the AI era with SAP Joule, its embedded AI copilot designed to revolutionize how businesses work with enterprise data. First introduced in 2023 and now fully unveiled at Sapphire 2025, Joule is positioned as the core digital assistant across SAP’s cloud portfolio—and now, even beyond it.

The Rise of Autonomous Decision-Making in ERP

By 2030, ERP systems will shift from merely augmenting human decisions to independently executing them—responsibly, transparently, and adaptively. Advances in AI-enabled decision-making will unlock ERP’s full autonomy, driven by these key capabilities:

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Data Swamp, it’s a nice way to describe the mismanaged data and data assets created by complex connected organisations over the last three decades of industry 3.0