🧠 The Modern ERP Digest – Edition 19

Curated by Aaron Engelsrud | Published on PeopleSoftCloud.com

Aaron • Nov 23, 2025

☕ This Week’s Focus

If the past few weeks highlighted the tension between AI hype and operational reality, this week makes one thing clear: ERP modernization is now a global, security-first conversation.

Oracle expanded its global cloud footprint, new ransomware reports raised fresh concerns about vendor risk, and distributed database innovation accelerated the march toward agentic AI. Meanwhile, higher ed leaders are openly acknowledging that technology debt is shaping ERP roadmaps more than ever before.

And across the PeopleSoft community, practitioners continue to modernize where it counts: UX, automation, and performance-driven integrations.

This is modernization through execution, not expectation.

⚙️ Oracle, AI & Infrastructure

🔗 Oracle Opens Second Public Cloud Region in Italy

https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-opens-second-public-cloud-region-in-italy-2025-11-19/

Oracle launched a new public cloud region in Milan, strengthening its global coverage and reinforcing multicloud, multi-region resilience for EMEA customers. Another signal that Oracle intends to win by scale and geographic relevance.

🔗 Big Tech, Big Debt: What Oracle’s Borrowing Says About Its Future (Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/17/big-tech-debt-oracle

Axios highlights a growing concern among analysts: tech giants taking on billions in debt to fund AI expansion. For Oracle, the question isn’t capability; it’s whether the investment curve outpaces enterprise adoption.

🔗 Clop Ransomware Allegedly Breaches Oracle (CyberPress)

https://cyberpress.org/oracle-allegedly-breached-by-clop-ransomware/

Security researchers report a potential breach tied to the Clop ransomware group. While details are still emerging, it reinforces a critical point: vendor security posture is part of your ERP architecture.

🔗 Distributed Databases Enabling Agentic AI Across Global Regions (Oracle Database Blog)

https://blogs.oracle.com/database/distributed-databases-enabling-agentic-ai-across-global-regions

The Oracle Database team explains how distributed datasets enable AI agents to operate across regions in near real time. This is the technical backbone of agentic ERP: low-latency data access with global consistency.

🔗 Introducing Oracle’s AI Agent Marketplace (Fusion Insider)

https://blogs.oracle.com/fusioninsider/introducing-ai-agent-marketplace

Oracle unveiled a marketplace of prebuilt AI agents across Finance, HR, and Supply Chain. These agents move beyond suggestions; they execute tasks, automate processes, and support real agentic workflows.

📊 ERP Strategy & Higher Ed

🔗 Emerging Tech Demands Drive ERP Modernization in Higher Ed (GovTech)

https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/emerging-tech-demands-drive-erp-modernization-in-higher-ed

Higher ed leaders are facing rising expectations for automation, analytics, and AI-driven services. GovTech reports that most institutions aren’t replacing ERP; instead, they’re modernizing around it, leaning on cloud platforms, integrations, and targeted upgrades.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 Designing PeopleSoft Landing Pages – Advanced Sectionalized Homepages (NewPeopleSoft Blog)

https://newpeoplesoft.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/designing-peoplesoft-landing-pages-a-comprehensive-guide-to-advanced-sectionalized-homepages/

A deep, practical guide on building advanced Fluid landing pages using sectionalized layouts. Ideal for teams preparing modern UX enhancements in PUM 53+ environments.

🔗 The PSADMIN Command Line Survival Guide (PeopleSoftCloud)

This week’s feature post dives into essential PSADMIN command-line workflows—perfect for admins transitioning into platform engineering roles who want to automate routine tasks and boost operational efficiency.

🔗 Consuming Enormous Datasets with PeopleCode (JSMPros)

https://blog.jsmpros.com/2025/04/consuming-enormous-datasets-with.html

A highly technical walkthrough from JSMPros on how to efficiently process large datasets in PeopleCode without performance bottlenecks. A must-read for developers building integrations or large ETL-style routines.

💬 Aaron’s Take

This week’s news reinforces that modernization isn’t just about new features. It’s also about reach, risk, and readiness.

Oracle continues to expand globally, AI agents continue to mature, and distributed databases are quietly rewriting what’s possible in ERP automation. But the real story is the one beneath the headlines:

Security is now the architecture.

A ransomware breach isn’t “their” issue; it’s your enterprise risk.

And in higher ed, we’re finally hearing what many IT leaders have known for years: you don’t need to rip and replace ERP. You need to modernize with intent.

The PeopleSoft community remains a perfect illustration of that truth. Whether it’s advanced Fluid UX, more innovative PeopleCode practices, or command-line automation, teams are modernizing where the work lives.

Modern ERP isn’t about chasing the next platform; it’s about shaping the one you already trust.

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