🧠 The Modern ERP Digest – Edition 21
Curated by Aaron Engelsrud | Published on PeopleSoftCloud.com
Aaron • Dec 8, 2025
☕ This Week’s Focus
This week presents a sharp contrast between AI acceleration and security pressure. Oracle continues to push forward with next-generation Linux releases, database AI enhancements, and bullish analyst predictions. At the same time, universities and enterprises are wrestling with Clop-linked attacks targeting E-Business Suite and legacy integrations.
It’s a reminder of the dual reality ERP teams live in: progress is real, but so is the risk.
And as we move into the final month of 2025, PeopleSoft practitioners are leaning hard into hybrid innovation. This includes AI capabilities, new analytics in Update Images, and deeper architectural thinking around observability and integration.
Edition 21 is a snapshot of a landscape evolving fast, but guided by the people who keep ERP systems stable, secure, and moving forward.
⚙️ Oracle, AI & Infrastructure
🔗 Oracle Linux 10.1 Now Generally Available
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/oracle-linux-10-1-now-generally-available
Oracle announced Linux 10.1, featuring upgraded kernels, expanded hardware support, and optimized performance for AI and containerized workloads. This release signals Oracle’s intent to make Linux the backbone of OCI and on-prem AI architectures in 2026.
🔗 Oracle Linux vs Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Oracle Linux Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/oracle-linux-vs-red-hat-enterprise-linux
A clear, side-by-side comparison showing where Oracle Linux stands apart, including kernel choices, update models, license terms, and support strategy. A worthwhile review for PeopleSoft teams evaluating OS standardization during cloud migration planning.
🔗 Wells Fargo: Oracle Will Emerge as an AI Leader (CNBC)
Analysts at Wells Fargo project significant upside for Oracle as AI workloads move to specialized infrastructure. The forecast highlights Oracle’s vertical integration, database, apps, and hardware, as a differentiator in the next wave of enterprise AI adoption.
🔗 Clop Attacks Hit University of Pennsylvania via Oracle E-Business Suite (CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/university-pennsylvania-oracle-e-business-suite-clop-attacks/
CyberScoop reports that Clop attackers targeted vulnerabilities in the university’s E-Business Suite instance. The takeaway for all ERP teams is straightforward: identity surfaces and integration points remain the most exploited paths, and vendor security events quickly become your problem.
🔗 Oracle AI Database 26AI Coming Soon for On-Prem Linux Platforms
Oracle confirms that 26AI will be available not just in the cloud, but also on-prem for Linux x86. This will bring vector processing, semantic search, embedded AI models, and agentic workflows directly into customer-owned datacenters. This is big news for hybrid ERP environments.
👩💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice
🔗 When AI Writes PeopleCode: Fact or Fiction? (JSMPros)
https://blog.jsmpros.com/2025/12/when-ai-writes-peoplecode-fact-or.html
A practical, grounded review of AI-assisted coding for PeopleSoft. Instead of hype, this piece lays out real capabilities, limitations, and safe use cases, including debugging help, pattern suggestions, and boilerplate generation without handing over architectural decision-making.
🔗 Image Highlights: PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 55 (YouTube)
This video walks through the latest FSCM Image 55 enhancements, including:
• New landing page layout
• Notification Publisher improvements
• Customization Insights
• Interactive Insights in WorkCenters
• Procurement Card approval upgrades
• Replenishment activity insights
• Travel authorization proxy insights
🔗 The PeopleSoft Connection – Episode 5: Page & Field Configurator
The newest “PeopleSoft Connection” episode shines a spotlight on Page and Field Configurator; still one of the most underrated, high-impact tools in the PeopleSoft toolbox. A great refresher for admins looking to reduce customizations without sacrificing flexibility.
🔗 Oracle’s Integration Architecture for PeopleSoft + AI Assistants (PeopleSoftCareer)
A comprehensive guide for implementing AI-powered assistants with PeopleSoft using OCI AI Agents, eventing patterns, and integration gateways. This is the emerging blueprint for agentic PeopleSoft, where AI orchestration complements, not replaces, core ERP functions.
🔗 OpenSearch and Elasticsearch in PeopleSoft (PeopleSoftCloud)
OpenSearch and Elasticsearch in PeopleSoft
If you’ve been working with PeopleSoft recently, you’ve probably noticed Oracle pushing toward modern search capabilities with Elasticsearch support. It’s one of the most significant shifts in PeopleSoft’s search infrastructure in over a decade.
A look at two major search engines and how they fit into PeopleSoft’s evolving observability and indexing story. From real-time dashboards to log analytics and performance tuning, OpenSearch continues to play an increasingly important role in PeopleSoft modernization on cloud platforms.
💬 Aaron’s Take
Edition 21 shows a clear message across all layers of ERP: technology is accelerating, but risk is accelerating too.
Oracle is doubling down on AI; from Linux and database layers to infrastructure and app-level assistants. Analysts are bullish again. Tools are improving. Hybrid and on-prem customers are getting more AI capabilities than ever before.
But none of that shields organizations from the security pressure we’re seeing in higher ed and public-sector ERP. Clop’s attack against E-Business Suite is a wake-up call: modernization without hardening is just wishful thinking.
Inside PeopleSoft teams, the momentum is encouraging—AI practices, new image features, integration frameworks, and clearer search strategies. These aren’t theoretical improvements; they’re upgrades that change how people actually work.
The next phase of ERP is clear: AI where it helps, cloud where it fits, security everywhere, and PeopleSoft evolving alongside it all, quietly, steadily, and effectively.
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