Codestone Group

Running SAP Business ByDesign? SAP's cloud ERP roadmap has significant implications for your technology timeline, and most businesses are further behind the curve than they realise.

This Thursday at 11am, we are running a free expert-led session on the practical path from SAP Business ByDesign to SAP Cloud ERP.

What the session covers:
- SAP's evolving ERP strategy and what it means for ByD customers
- The tools that make intelligent migration faster and lower-risk
- How to build a transition plan that fits your business
- A free Digital Discovery Assessment for every attendee

If you are evaluating what comes next for your ERP platform, this is the session to join.

Register via the link in the comments.

Codestone has been awarded the Microsoft AI and Cloud Partner Program Support Services Designation.

What makes it worth sharing is how it was earned. ISSI assessed us independently across three areas: how our support function runs, how our support team is built and certified, and how we measure performance. We were approved on all three. Plenty of providers say their support is good. This is an independent body confirming it.

For our clients, that is what verified support looks like.

We are proud to be a finalist for Leadership Team of the Year at the Solent 250 Awards 2026.

The category recognises visionary leadership, ethical decision-making and a culture of continuous learning, the things that shape how we grow and how we show up for our clients.

This one belongs to the whole team, not just the people at the top. It reflects the standards and the culture that everyone at Codestone builds every day.

Winners are announced on Tuesday 16 June at the Harbour Hotel, Southampton. We will be there, and we are going for it.

If SAP Cloud ERP is so hard to use, why do over 460,000 growing companies rely on it every day? The complexity myth comes from the old on-premise world, where managing SAP required specialist teams and months of configuration. That is not what cloud ERP looks like in 2026.

Dashboards and workflows are designed for the people who use them, not the IT team that maintains them. Teams get productive quickly. Updates happen automatically, without a project.

The businesses that struggle are usually the ones that over-customised or under-invested in training at go-live. That is a process problem, not a technology one.

Myth 4 of 10. Download the eBook to see the rest. Link in comments.

SAP Sapphire 2026 sent a clear signal to mid-market businesses evaluating cloud ERP.
SAP unveiled 224 specialised AI agents, alongside 51 Joule assistants, set to roll out across its cloud applications over the coming months, spanning finance, procurement, supply chain and HR. This is not AI as a bolt-on. It is AI built into the core of how the system is designed to operate.

For finance leaders and operations teams, the direction is significant. Routine decisions, exceptions and escalations are being designed to run automatically, with the system learning and adapting as it goes.

Cloud ERP adoption has always been about more than moving off-premise. What Sapphire 2026 confirmed is that the pace of intelligent automation is accelerating faster than most migration timelines account for.

If you are evaluating your ERP roadmap, the question is less whether to move and more how quickly you can get there. 2026

Most growing businesses already use Microsoft Power BI to see what is happening across the business. But as you scale, reporting on its own stops being enough.

Leaders want faster answers. Teams want less manual effort. And with AI now part of every conversation, the businesses that move first are the ones with their data in order.

That is what our next session is about. We will cover:
- Why businesses are looking beyond traditional reporting
- What Microsoft Fabric is, and how it builds on the Power BI you already use
- How to move from reporting to faster decisions and clearer visibility
- Why strong data foundations are the starting point for any AI ambition

Real examples from retail, manufacturing, and distribution. Built for owners, finance leaders, operations managers, and IT decision-makers in growing businesses.

Speakers: Simon Fenech & Mike Hobson

Register via the link in the comments.

Two days at Smart Manufacturing Week. One theme came up in almost every conversation: data is everywhere, but visibility is not.

Production knows one thing. Finance knows another. Operations is working from something else entirely. The gap between what the system holds and what people use to make decisions is where margin disappears.

That is the problem SAP Business One is built to solve.

SAP Business One for Manufacturing | Codestone See how growing manufacturers get real-time control of production, inventory and finance with SAP Business One. Download the IDC Spotlight free.

Day 2 at Smart Manufacturing Week, and this afternoon Toralf Andersson made the case that going live is not the finish line.

If your planners are still running parallel spreadsheets, your finance team is still reconciling manually, and production decisions are still happening outside the system, the ERP has not truly delivered. That is the conversation worth having, not just at the NEC, but across every manufacturing business that has invested in technology and is still waiting to see the returns.

Thank you to everyone who came to find us at Stand H153 over the last two days.

Dan Mycek joins Codestone as Account Manager, and we're glad to have him. Account Manager is one of those roles where the right person makes a real difference to how clients experience working with us day to day. Looking forward to seeing what Dan brings. Welcome to the team!