Published on ABC Money (UK), 15 July 2026 — written in collaboration with Uniksystem.
Seventy per cent of ERP modernisation projects will fail to meet their objectives over the next three years. Not “underperform.” Fail. And yet the pressure to push AI into core business processes has never been higher. Our latest article, now live on ABC Money, makes the case that you don’t rip out the ERP — you build above it.
The numbers that should keep CIOs up at night:
- The average enterprise now runs 897 applications — and only 28%% are integrated.
- 95%% of IT leaders point to integration hurdles, not model quality, as the primary blocker to AI projects.
- The low-code BPM market hit EUR 9.7 billion in 2024 and is on track for EUR 26 billion by 2033, with enterprise adoption already at 86%%.
The piece lays out the three-layer architecture that actually ships — the legacy ERP as the stable system of record at the base, a low-code BPM orchestration layer above it, and AI attached to process nodes as services with governance and audit built in. And it shows the pattern already running in production: BNP Paribas, Nordea and HSBC in banking, Toyota in supply chain, and seven Portuguese banks on the Uniksystem platform processing over 90,000 non-compliance cases a year — with near-100%% document-intelligence accuracy, 280%% ROI on automation, and new processes live in two to four weeks.
The companies pulling ahead aren’t the ones with the newest ERP. They’re the ones with the smartest orchestration layer sitting above it.