Why the Next Generation of ERP Is All About Outcomes
Diginomica, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Oracle's Hari Sankar explains how agentic ERP applications shift finance from AI assistance to executing processes toward business outcomes.
This Diginomica piece, featuring Oracle's Hari Sankar, says the first wave of AI in finance focused on productivity through assistants and co-pilots.
The next shift is agentic applications that coordinate and execute processes while people set outcomes and boundaries and remain accountable.
Account reconciliation is given as an example, with an agent gathering data, matching balances, documenting evidence and routing remaining exceptions to people.
The article stresses that ERP provides the data, processes and controls needed, and that permissions, audit trails, policies and human approvals must be built into the architecture from the start.