Sage Defines its Future in AI for ERP
Analyst Perspective
Sage recently held its Future user conference in Atlanta. Our ISG Buyers Guide for Midsize ERP Financial Management (2024) rated Sage Intacct as one of the top three providers, reflecting its strong performance in both product capabilities and customer experience. The event showcased its advances and roadmap aimed at embedding artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (GenAI) and agentic AI in its applications, especially ERP. In 2024, nearly every software provider highlighted its (mostly potential) use of AI and GenAI capabilities in their products, especially in the form of assistants and copilots. Today, Sage has already deployed its copilot to assist finance organizations with invoice processing, automating data entry, and repetitive tasks and workflows. It can monitor business data to prevent errors and anomalies from being entered into its system as well as create alerts for key metrics and financial activity that requires immediate attention. ISG Research asserts that by 2028, almost all providers of ERP software will have incorporated AI to reduce workloads, speed processes and reduce errors. This year, Sage (like many other software providers) is emphasizing agents and agentic capabilities along with AI and GenAI. Agents are especially useful because they enable business applications to extend and amplify their offerings’ existing capabilities while making it easier for their customers to adopt and employ AI technology.