Rimini Street declares traditional ERP software is dead

Rimini Street has announced the publication of its latest white paper, ‘The Rise of Agentic AI ERP’, which declares the death of traditional ERP software.

The document focuses on next-generation technology and tools that will eventually replace today’s ERP software, which the company says has become too big, complex, inflexible and expensive to meet the needs of a fast-changing world.

“The Rise of Agentic AI ERP white paper represents the official Rimini Street position on the future of ERP,” said Seth Ravin, President and CEO, Rimini Street. “We believe ERP is evolving from a product to a process, and innovation should be efficiently layered over existing systems in a unified approach — not forced into disparate silos through costly upgrades. This paper is a blueprint for organisations to transform intelligently and efficiently.”

Key points from the white paper include:

• Why the traditional ERP suite is peaking in capability and there is little value in any continued ERP upgrades or migrations.
• How to build on existing ERP Software with agentic AI ERP enhancements.
• A vision for agentic transformation, where autonomous AI agents orchestrate business processes across composable ERP platforms with significant labour cost savings.
• How agentic AI ERP can be deployed within existing IT budgets with time-to-value measured in weeks, not months and years.
   

Agentic AI is changing everything, driving the next major evolution in ERP technology and solving strategic, operational and cost challenges for organisations, according to Rimini Street. With agentic AI ERP, autonomous AI agents orchestrate business processes across systems for greater agility, intelligence and measurable outcomes.

The company says that agentic AI ERP can be easily deployed on and around existing ERP software with nominal investment and minimal risk, delivering value in weeks, not months and years. Organisations can extend the useful lifespan of their existing customised and stable releases of ERP software through at least 2040 and invest the savings to fund deployment of an agentic AI ERP layer over their existing ERP software.

“The Rise of Agentic AI ERP white paper is a bold and compelling articulation of our unique vision and point of view from a company that specialises in ERP processes and systems,” said Vijay Kumar, Chief Innovation Officer, Rimini Street. “Dozens of leading organisations around the world have launched their ‘Transformation without Disruption’ Agentic AI ERP projects with Rimini Street, looking to embed AI use cases that automate decisions, streamline workflows and enable autonomous execution, and the business outcomes are already proving extraordinary.”

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