The 2 primary ecosystems most important to my work just crossed the same line, and I don’t think enough people are talking about what it means for talent.
The 2 primary ecosystems most important to my work just crossed the same line, and I don’t think enough people are talking about what it means for talent.
Oracle is rolling out NetSuite Next across North America right now. Ask Oracle answers questions in plain English instead of making users build saved searches. AI Canvas turns scenario planning into a live, shared workspace. SuiteAgents are starting to reconcile transactions and flag overruns on their own.
Meanwhile, Microsoft just moved Copilot’s Sales Agent and Service Agent from preview to general availability across Dynamics 365, with Cowork plugins built to work directly in the flow of the job.
Two different vendors, two different platforms, but with the same general direction they are headed. The routine work in both ERPs is being absorbed by AI at the same time, at real speed.
Here is why I think this matters more for hiring than for the software itself.
When the system handles the “what happened” questions on its own, the value of a consultant shifts hard toward the “why does this matter and what do we do about it” questions.
That is judgment and business context, not platform details. And to be clear, I am not talking about finding consultants who are experts in both NetSuite and Dynamics. Those people are very rare, and honestly, that is not really the skill that matters most here.
What I keep seeing in searches is something different. The strongest candidates are the ones who understand the fundamentals of ERP systems so well- chart of accounts design, close processes, how modules actually talk to each other- that they can walk into either platform and get productive fast.
They are not translating NetSuite to Dynamics line by line. They already know how ERP systems are supposed to work, and that knowledge transfers regardless of which login screen they are staring at. AI can absorb the platform-specific busywork. It cannot grasp why a process exists in the first place.
If you are hiring into this space, this is the moment to stop screening for years on a specific platform and start screening for that deeper fundamentals-first thinking.
If you are the one being hired, this is exactly the kind of depth worth building.
Either way, this is where I think the ERP talent market is headed, and I would love to hear where you are seeing it show up!
Oracle is rolling out NetSuite Next across North America right now. Ask Oracle answers questions in plain English instead of making users build saved searches. AI Canvas turns scenario planning into a live, shared workspace. SuiteAgents are starting to reconcile transactions and flag overruns on their own.
Meanwhile, Microsoft just moved Copilot’s Sales Agent and Service Agent from preview to general availability across Dynamics 365, with Cowork plugins built to work directly in the flow of the job.
Two different vendors, two different platforms, but with the same general direction they are headed. The routine work in both ERPs is being absorbed by AI at the same time, at real speed.
Here is why I think this matters more for hiring than for the software itself.
When the system handles the “what happened” questions on its own, the value of a consultant shifts hard toward the “why does this matter and what do we do about it” questions.
That is judgment and business context, not platform details. And to be clear, I am not talking about finding consultants who are experts in both NetSuite and Dynamics. Those people are very rare, and honestly, that is not really the skill that matters most here.
What I keep seeing in searches is something different. The strongest candidates are the ones who understand the fundamentals of ERP systems so well- chart of accounts design, close processes, how modules actually talk to each other- that they can walk into either platform and get productive fast.
They are not translating NetSuite to Dynamics line by line. They already know how ERP systems are supposed to work, and that knowledge transfers regardless of which login screen they are staring at. AI can absorb the platform-specific busywork. It cannot grasp why a process exists in the first place.
If you are hiring into this space, this is the moment to stop screening for years on a specific platform and start screening for that deeper fundamentals-first thinking.
If you are the one being hired, this is exactly the kind of depth worth building.
Either way, this is where I think the ERP talent market is headed, and I would love to hear where you are seeing it show up!
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