ERP users may soon get ahead by going headless, says Rimini Street boss
AI AND ML
Look to AI agents and open source to escape the vendor-driven upgrade cycle
Weeks after Salesforce boasted about the adoption of "headless CRM," the concept of "headless ERP" crops up.
This notion, according to Seth Ravin, CEO of third-party support vendor Rimini Street, is coming to help beleaguered ERP customers escape the application upgrade treadmill driven by the dominant database vendors.
For Salesforce, its Headless 360 allows customers to access all of their Salesforce data from developer tool Cursor, WhatsApp, ChatGPT, Claude, or a terminal. It has processed 4.5 million MCP calls and nearly a trillion API calls since launching in April, the CRM giant said.
For ERP, a monolithic category of enterprise software that conducts financial planning in some of the world's largest companies, the idea is the same, Ravin told The Register. Build a UI layer on top of existing applications, with AI agents or...
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