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What Manufacturers Should Look for in a Modern ERP Platform

Manufacturers are facing growing pressure to improve efficiency, increase visibility, and support growth without adding complexity. As labor constraints, rising costs, and supply chain challenges continue, many organizations are rethinking whether their current systems can support the business moving forward.

In this Nucleus Research report, explore the trends shaping the ERP market and learn what manufacturers should consider when evaluating solutions to support operational performance, automation, and future growth.

You'll learn:

How manufacturers are using ERP to improve operational visibility and coordination
Why automation, AI, and usability are becoming key evaluation criteria
What capabilities help organizations scale without increasing complexity
Which ERP vendors are recognized as market leaders

Whether you're planning a modernization initiative or simply exploring what's changing in the ERP landscape, this report provides valuable insight into what leading manufacturers are looking for in today's ERP platforms.

How Manufacturing ERP Solutions Compare in 2026

Manufacturers evaluating ERP solutions face no shortage of options. As operations become more complex and the need for visibility, automation, and agility grows, choosing the right platform has never been more important.

In this G2 Grid® Report, explore how leading mixed mode ERP solutions compare based on customer satisfaction, market presence, and feedback from real users. The report highlights the platforms manufacturers rely on to support production, supply chain, inventory, quality, and business operations.

You'll learn:

Which ERP solutions are recognized as leaders in the market
How real users rate leading mixed mode ERP platforms
Key capabilities manufacturers should consider during ERP evaluations
How top solutions support complex manufacturing environments

Whether you're actively evaluating ERP systems or planning for future modernization, this report provides valuable insights to help guide your research.

How to Deploy AI on the Shop Floor—and Scale with Confidence

Manufacturers are under increasing pressure to do more with less. Labor shortages, production complexity, supply chain disruption, and rising customer expectations are pushing organizations to explore AI—but success depends on turning operational data into faster, more informed decisions.

In this IDC PeerScape report, discover how manufacturers are using agentic AI to connect people, machines, and data in practical ways that improve productivity, decision-making, and operational resilience.

You’ll learn how to:

Turn disconnected data into real-time insights and actions
Help frontline teams make faster, more informed decisions
Improve production, scheduling, and resource utilization
Automate quality and operational workflows

Whether you're just beginning to explore AI or looking to expand existing initiatives, this report offers practical examples and guidance from manufacturers already putting these technologies to work.

The ROI of 3D: How Furniture Manufacturers Save $400K a Year

Office furniture manufacturers face rising product complexity, shorter sales cycles, and higher digital expectations, while traditional visualization like photography, Photoshop edits, and outsourced rendering stays slow and costly. Provoke Insights interviewed leaders at MillerKnoll, Kimball International, Fellowes Brands, and HNI to quantify what changes when they standardize on 3D Cloud.

Download the full report for the complete numbers and the four impact areas behind them.

Inside you'll find:

How manufacturers save up to $400K a year by bringing rendering in-house
Why per-image costs drop 80-90% with standardized 3D workflows
How teams grow output 50%+ without new hires
Where 3 days per project gets recovered through faster iteration
How self-service tools cut dealer visualization time 50-55%

The New Deal Team: What 1,000 Dealmakers Reveal About AI-Driven M&A

AI is no longer an edge in M&A, it is becoming the baseline. Datasite surveyed 1,000 senior dealmakers, backed by in-depth interviews with M&A leaders, to reveal how AI is reshaping every stage of the deal, and where human judgment still decides the outcome. See where your peers are placing their bets and how the modern deal team is being built.

Inside the report, you will learn:

The deal stages where AI is already fully embedded, led by due diligence and sourcing
Why 62% of dealmakers now call human-only decisions indefensible on complex deals
The decisions that stay human, from final sign-off to reading the room with a founder
How top firms build accuracy, security, and governance into AI-assisted dealmaking
What the next deal team looks like as AI handles the prep and people close the last mile

State of Context Management Report 2026

DataHub commissioned independent research firm TrendCandy to survey 250 IT and data leaders about the state of context management in 2026. The findings reveal a market at an inflection point: high confidence, real infrastructure gaps, and a correction already underway.

What you'll learn:

Why organizations that self-assess at the highest stage of context management maturity still struggle with the fundamentals
How “good enough” context solutions that work in pilots consistently break down at production scale
Why 83% of IT and data leaders now believe agentic AI cannot reach production value without a dedicated context platform
What the surge in context management infrastructure investment reveals about where the market is heading
The three imperatives for data and IT leaders in 2026

Cost Savings and Business Benefits for Office Furniture Manufacturers

Office furniture manufacturers face increasing product complexity, pressure for faster sales cycles, and growing expectations for digital buying experiences. Traditional visualization methods like static photography and external rendering are costly, slow, and difficult to scale.

This business impact study examines how leading contract furniture manufacturers are using 3D product visualization to drive measurable gains across their operations.

What you'll learn:

How manufacturers increased visualization output by 50% without adding headcount
Why bringing rendering in-house saved one organization $400,000 annually
How consolidating fragmented tools into a single platform reduced complexity and vendor costs
Why earlier visualization in the buying journey led to a 65% increase in new design projects and $1 million in BOM value

Cost Savings and Business Benefits for Office Furniture Manufacturers

Office furniture manufacturers face increasing product complexity, pressure for faster sales cycles, and growing expectations for digital buying experiences. Traditional visualization methods like static photography and external rendering are costly, slow, and difficult to scale.

This business impact study examines how leading contract furniture manufacturers are using 3D product visualization to drive measurable gains across their operations.

What you'll learn:

How manufacturers increased visualization output by 50% without adding headcount
Why bringing rendering in-house saved one organization $400,000 annually
How consolidating fragmented tools into a single platform reduced complexity and vendor costs
Why earlier visualization in the buying journey led to a 65% increase in new design projects and $1 million in BOM value

Cost Savings and Business Benefits for Office Furniture Manufacturers

Office furniture manufacturers face increasing product complexity, pressure for faster sales cycles, and growing expectations for digital buying experiences. Traditional visualization methods like static photography and external rendering are costly, slow, and difficult to scale.

This business impact study examines how leading contract furniture manufacturers are using 3D product visualization to drive measurable gains across their operations.

What you'll learn:

How manufacturers increased visualization output by 50% without adding headcount
Why bringing rendering in-house saved one organization $400,000 annually
How consolidating fragmented tools into a single platform reduced complexity and vendor costs
Why earlier visualization in the buying journey led to a 65% increase in new design projects and $1 million in BOM value

The Pentest Tax: The Hidden Cost Draining Your Security Team

Enterprise security teams are spending more time managing their penetration testing programmes than running them. Scheduling, scoping, chasing stakeholders, tracking findings in spreadsheets, and manually assembling audit evidence — the admin overhead is enormous, and most of it is invisible.

This report from OnSecurity, based on analysis of 14,000+ security engagements across 500+ organisations, quantifies the real cost of running a security testing programme without dedicated tooling — and shows what the shift to a platform-driven model looks like in practice.

What you will learn:

How ~20 days of admin overhead per engagement breaks down across scoping, scheduling and coordination
Why 76% of organisations testing multiple asset types face compounding complexity
The four characteristics of streamlined security operations that cut human effort by 30-50%
A practical checklist for programme structure, remediation tracking, compliance readiness and tooling

Cost Savings and Business Benefits for Office Furniture Manufacturers

Office furniture manufacturers face increasing product complexity, pressure for faster sales cycles, and growing expectations for digital buying experiences. Traditional visualization methods like static photography and external rendering are costly, slow, and difficult to scale.

This business impact study examines how leading contract furniture manufacturers are using 3D product visualization to drive measurable gains across their operations.

What you'll learn:

How manufacturers increased visualization output by 50% without adding headcount
Why bringing rendering in-house saved one organization $400,000 annually
How consolidating fragmented tools into a single platform reduced complexity and vendor costs
Why earlier visualization in the buying journey led to a 65% increase in new design projects and $1 million in BOM value

State of Context Management Report 2026

DataHub commissioned independent research firm TrendCandy to survey 250 IT and data leaders about the state of context management in 2026. The findings reveal a market at an inflection point: high confidence, real infrastructure gaps, and a correction already underway.

What you'll learn:

Why organizations that self-assess at the highest stage of context management maturity still struggle with the fundamentals
How “good enough” context solutions that work in pilots consistently break down at production scale
Why 83% of IT and data leaders now believe agentic AI cannot reach production value without a dedicated context platform
What the surge in context management infrastructure investment reveals about where the market is heading
The three imperatives for data and IT leaders in 2026

AI Is Live In Production. Is Your Identity Stack Ready?

AI agents, copilots, and AI-powered features are already touching customer data and internal systems. Yet 88% of leaders say their identity and security infrastructure is behind, and the most confident teams report the most incidents.

The 2026 State of AI and Identity Report draws on responses from more than 300 technology and security leaders to show where that gap turns into real risk, and what the teams who contain it do differently.

In this report, you will learn:

Why identity risk spikes when AI moves from pilot to pervasive use
How the confidence-reality gap leaves mature-looking organizations exposed
Why comprehensive policies and processes are not enough on their own
How leading teams rethink deployment, isolation, and machine identity
The 9 architecture questions to ask any identity vendor

Energy-Based Safety: Applying the 80/20 Rule to SIF Prevention in High-Risk Operations

Fatality rates in high-risk industries have stayed flat for decades, even as recordable injury rates have fallen. Traditional safety programs catch the visible hazards but miss the high-energy sources that cause the most severe outcomes.

Energy-based safety offers a different approach. Built on research showing that 13 high-energy hazards account for 85% of serious injuries and fatalities, it gives EHS teams a structured way to focus on what matters most.

Inside this report you will find:

How the Energy Wheel improves hazard recognition by approximately 30% during pre-job briefs
How High Energy Control Assessments (HECA) provide a quantitative score for safety capacity in any job task
How the Safety Classification and Learning (SCL) model helps you classify events consistently and prioritize investigations
How energy-based observations transform safety measurement from lagging indicators to real-time, actionable insights

2026 EHS Trends and Priorities: What Energy Sector Leaders Need to Know

New research from Intelex reveals where EHS is headed - and what it means for energy companies navigating AI adoption, tighter regulations, and a shifting workforce.

Based on a survey of 864 senior EHS professionals across North America and Europe, this report delivers sector-specific benchmarks and actionable insights for 2026.

In this report, you'll learn:

How executive engagement in energy compares to other industries and why it matters for EHS effectiveness
The safety culture approaches gaining traction - including a 42% higher rate of peer-to-peer accountability in energy
Where AI and IoT are driving real improvements and where implementation challenges remain
What 75% of respondents say about the growing EHS talent shortage and the skills they need next