🧠 The Modern ERP Digest – Edition 22

Curated by Aaron Engelsrud | Published on PeopleSoftCloud.com

Aaron • Dec 15, 2025

☕ This Week’s Focus

This week brings clarity on two fronts: Oracle is leaning even harder into multicloud and enterprise AI, and PeopleSoft continues to pick up steady, meaningful enhancements across UX, branding, and learning modules.

Despite swirling headlines about OpenAI and market speculation, Oracle leadership maintains that the partnership is healthy, and the broader ecosystem seems to agree. AWS re:Invent showcased deep multicloud alignment, finance leaders are openly acknowledging AI’s transformative impact, and agentic ERP thinking continues to gain traction across the industry.

Inside the PeopleSoft community, we’re seeing practical improvement everywhere: smarter landing pages, deeper ELM functionality, cleaner branding options, and technical insights that make day-to-day work smoother.

Edition 22 reflects an ecosystem that is stabilizing around a simple truth: AI is becoming the engine, but PeopleSoft remains the backbone.

⚙️ Oracle, AI & Infrastructure

🔗 Oracle: No Delays in OpenAI Arrangement (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/12/oracle-says-there-have-been-no-delays-in-openai-arrangement.html
Oracle pushes back on reports of friction with OpenAI, affirming that joint infrastructure expansion and model hosting remain on schedule. The announcement signals confidence as AI demand increases.

🔗 AWS re:Invent 2025: Accelerating Multicloud Innovation (OCI Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/aws-reinvent-2025-accelerating-multicloud-innovation
Oracle and AWS highlight deeper interoperability, enabling cross-cloud database access, shared AI tooling, and streamlined workload mobility. The message is unmistakable: multicloud is becoming the default enterprise pattern.

🔗 Oracle Can’t Escape OpenAI’s Shadow (WSJ)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/oracle-cant-escape-openais-shadow-ed90ae19
The Wall Street Journal frames Oracle’s AI ascent as both opportunity and challenge. OpenAI accelerates Oracle’s credibility but also raises expectations. The takeaway: Oracle must deliver AI infrastructure at scale to justify the narrative.

🔗 Oracle Using OpenAI to Build an Enterprise AI Platform (NextPlatform)
https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/12/11/oracle-is-using-openai-to-build-a-platform-for-the-enterprise/
A detailed look at how Oracle is weaving OpenAI models into its database, apps, and cloud stack. The architecture suggests Oracle is trying to build the first vertically integrated enterprise AI platform.

📊 ERP Strategy & Industry Insight

🔗 3 ERP Experts on AI’s Impact on Finance (InformationWeek)
https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/3-erp-experts-on-ai-s-impact-on-finance-why-finance-will-never-be-the-same
Leaders across ERP agree: finance will be one of AI’s fastest-moving domains. Automated close cycles, anomaly detection, forecasting, and agent-driven workflows are already reshaping expectations for 2026.

🔗 ERP as We Know It Is Dead: Get Ready for Agentic AI ERP (Diginomica)
https://diginomica.com/erp-we-know-it-dead-whats-next-get-ready-agentic-ai-erp-says-rimini-street-cio-vijay-kumar
A bold take from Rimini Street’s CIO: the next generation of ERP won’t just record data, it will act on it. Agentic AI will orchestrate tasks, trigger processes, and collaborate across modules. This aligns closely with Oracle’s 26AI direction and AI Assistant roadmap.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 PUM Map Tip: Understanding the tools_client Folder (PeopleTools Tech Tips)
https://peopletoolstechtips.com/peoplesoft-pum-map-the-tools_client-folder/
A helpful breakdown of what lives inside the tools_client folder and how it supports PUM automation. Great tutorial for PeopleSoft admins streamlining update image workflows.

🔗 Branding System Options for Fluid (JSMPros)
https://blog.jsmpros.com/2025/12/branding-system-options-for-fluid.html
A concise look at Fluid branding strategies—theme variations, logo placement, color alignment, and system-wide UX consistency. Perfect for teams prepping 2026 UI refreshes.

🔗 PeopleSoft ELM Image 25: Learning Experience Enhancements (PeopleSoft Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/peoplesoft-elm-image-25-advances-in-learning-experience-flexibility
Oracle delivers updates to ELM focused on flexible learning paths, adaptive experiences, and more intuitive navigation. Strong improvements for institutions sharpening their digital learning strategy.

🔗 Transforming PeopleSoft Experience: New PeopleSoft Landing Page (PeopleSoft Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/transforming-peoplesoft-experience-the-new-peoplesoft-landing-page
Oracle previews a redesigned landing page framework with modular tiles, hover insights, and cleaner UI logic. A meaningful UX step forward, especially for teams planning broader Fluid modernization.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Edition 22 reveals a maturing industry perspective: AI is not replacing ERP; it’s expanding it.

Oracle’s Linux and database moves show that the real AI breakthroughs are happening at the infrastructure layer. Multicloud partnerships aren’t competitive maneuvers anymore; they’re strategic commitments. And the OpenAI collaboration continues to shape how Oracle positions itself as an enterprise AI platform provider.

But the most telling stories this week come from PeopleSoft. From UX updates to ELM enhancements to integration patterns for AI assistants, the platform continues evolving through work that teams can actually adopt, not theoretical roadmaps.

The future feels clearer every week:
AI accelerates, cloud connects, and PeopleSoft adapts.
It’s not chaos. It’s convergence.

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