{"id":5971,"date":"2026-04-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/track.com.tr\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:23:27","slug":"operasyonel-dijital-cekirdegin-yukselisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/track.com.tr\/en\/operasyonel-dijital-cekirdegin-yukselisi\/","title":{"rendered":"THE RISE OF THE OPERATIONAL DIGITAL CORE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ff9e76c7498a19e4621284918c8fcbba\"><strong>The Shift from Transactional ERP to Operational Intelligence<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5d0f0ffcef487148971f3973fb215650 wp-block-paragraph\">The enterprise platform landscape is undergoing one of its most significant structural shifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-39e9398fc7660a4accfd0c8956bc8e3b wp-block-paragraph\">Most large organisations continue to rely on ERP systems designed for a transactional era; optimised for data entry, process compliance, and financial control. While these foundations remain essential, they are increasingly misaligned with the demands of modern operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d7d6ba675bce2c40365a0eb5ce89213e wp-block-paragraph\">Today, assets are more connected. Services are more contracted. Workforces are more widely distributed. Customers expect outcomes, not processes. At the same time, disruption driven by climate pressures, supply chain volatility, workforce constraints, and inflation has become a constant rather than an exceptional occurrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-811c807c1002dd4e9254ee10853a5ca8 wp-block-paragraph\">As organisations look toward 2026 and beyond, enterprise platforms must evolve from systems that primarily record activity into operationally intelligent foundations, where industrial AI is applied directly within asset, service, and planning workflows to anticipate issues, optimise decisions, and orchestrate execution in real time. This shift underpins the emergence of a new paradigm. The Operational Digital Core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2107c2c782ae565d80e211addfbce002\"><strong>Why Traditional ERP Models Are Under Pressure<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8e8f6eb9efacee849ab63bc0948ab209 wp-block-paragraph\">Macroeconomic and operational pressures are accelerating this transition, exposing the limitations of traditional ERP models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-62ca851a79b83efb3f2da5a7dc987d7c wp-block-paragraph\">Persistent inflation, ongoing supply chain fragility, geopolitical uncertainty, and labour shortages are forcing organisations to extract more value from existing assets while managing risk in increasingly fast-paced and dynamic operating environments. At the same time, digital expectations continue to rise, particularly in asset-intensive and service-driven industries, as leaders increasingly expect enterprise platforms to support real-time decision-making, continuous optimisation, and coordinated execution rather than only reporting and control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0b3ec07a06209dfaa979a6a2cfeb4051 wp-block-paragraph\">Industry analysts are pointing to structural change in enterprise platforms.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2025-08-26-gartner-predicts-40-percent-of-enterprise-apps-will-feature-task-specific-ai-agents-by-2026-up-from-less-than-5-percent-in-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gartner predicts that<\/a>&nbsp;<em>\u201c<\/em>by the end of 2026, 40% of enterprise applications will include integrated task-specific AI agents, up from less than 5% today,\u201dsignaling how intelligence is becoming embedded directly into enterprise systems. Against this backdrop, industrial AI is being increasingly adopted by industrial companies to ease these pressures by improving foresight, responsiveness, and operational performance.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idc.com\/resource-center\/blog\/the-ai-illusion-are-you-advancing-or-just-adopting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IDC warns that<\/a>&nbsp;<em>\u201c<\/em>legacy systems and siloed data remain some of the biggest barriers to AI effectiveness<em>,\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>highlighting how traditional architectures can actively slow progress toward intelligent operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-36a8777022e0ecc23dbd10815ba26436 wp-block-paragraph\">What is becoming clear is that transactional systems alone are no longer sufficient. Organisations need platforms capable of sensing change, responding in real time, and optimising performance across assets, services, and people, particularly in environments where disruption is the norm rather than the exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3a52f6c4c9e8bf988cbbc5f58e22c303\"><strong>What Will Shape Enterprise Platforms in 2026?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/track.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-25.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/track.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-25.png 605w, https:\/\/track.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-25-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. <strong>Multi-Platform Enterprise Architecture Becomes the Default<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cb4a18c3de17dd8a7a59e70aed4e4eae wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Multi-Platform Enterprise Architecture Becomes the Default<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5759f2ba81a71f5a0f90554667ee1761 wp-block-paragraph\">The shift away from monolithic ERP architectures has been underway for more than a decade, but adoption is accelerating as organisations seek greater flexibility and speed. By 2026, how enterprise platforms are designed will look fundamentally different. Rather than relying on a single system to standardise every process, organisations are increasingly favouring:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-99e46b0f2afe0e0877722fb102fef4ce\">Redesigning processes from the ground up, eliminating non-value-adding steps before automation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-717afb2bda23363661113ade410ca943\">Modular capability assembly for ecosystem-based design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-63a9bf6b747c2f4374c4e964b3b53158\">Domain-driven data ownership and business-unit autonomy supported by API-first governance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-53189a4eabe4dcd2e6f7781d63f84c4e wp-block-paragraph\">In this landscape, organisations increasingly look for platforms that integrate deeply while still allowing choice at the edge, focusing operations on what is truly business-critical rather than extending blanket process automation across the enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-05a762796c620bf94601bfee2dbdb66a wp-block-paragraph\">For operational leaders, this architectural shift enables faster response to change. For finance leaders, it improves transparency without sacrificing control. For IT teams, it marks a move away from rigid platforms toward governed flexibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. <strong>Operational Intelligence Overtakes Transactional Processing<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6f88438dd1605f89ec53736697c1e9f8 wp-block-paragraph\">The next phase of enterprise transformation is not process automation, but operational intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-512474d11c7a51fc472b35389d4b168e wp-block-paragraph\">Organisations are increasingly prioritising sense-and-respond orchestration across assets, services, and workforces. Capabilities that were once considered advanced are becoming baseline requirements, including: anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, autonomous scheduling, and continuous optimisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a03202e53931f73521500b9df6ad9327 wp-block-paragraph\">This shift reflects a broader change in expectations. Leaders no longer want systems that simply execute predefined processes; they want platforms that can interpret operational signals, recommend actions, and increasingly act autonomously within defined parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-eef2c8a16b18273a77ac387f8b468fd5 wp-block-paragraph\">AI plays a central role here, but its value is realised only when intelligence is embedded directly into operational workflows. Platforms that treat AI as an external analytics layer struggle to influence real-world execution. Those that integrate intelligence into day-to-day operations enable faster decisions, reduced downtime, and improved outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. <strong>Service and Asset Performance Become Core Value Drivers<\/strong>3. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7256ff7b76ca9ee868bb7a64059169cd wp-block-paragraph\">Across asset-intensive industries, service and asset performance are no longer viewed purely as cost centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-566d6c4273b1a6d884664f71107b8fff wp-block-paragraph\">In 2026, organisations will increasingly link margin expansion and competitive differentiation to outcomes such as asset uptime, SLA performance, service profitability, and lifecycle cost<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2bfce81700e71c00f1252648f2b3cb24 wp-block-paragraph\">optimisation. This is particularly evident as service-based and outcome-based business models continue to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3408c8ef72f692aa58429c24588ad3d4 wp-block-paragraph\">Traditional ERP systems, designed primarily for financial reporting, lack the operational depth required to manage these requirements alone. As a result, organisations are adopting platforms that connect strategic investment planning, asset design, service execution, and performance management within a single operational context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4bb63fb3fa2e4aac23c0dd873d2c9504 wp-block-paragraph\">For functional leaders, this enables proactive performance management rather than reactive firefighting. For the C-Suite, it provides clearer visibility into the true cost and value of assets and services across their lifecycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. <strong>Integration, Data Convergence, and Edge Execution Redefine Operations<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-048a6bc144631b6e088155aa6aceb56f wp-block-paragraph\">While multi-platform architecture reshapes how enterprise systems are designed, operational execution realities are reshaping how those platforms must function on a day-to-day basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-111a71b474d00ab1f6e648d848396ecd wp-block-paragraph\">The historical separation between ERP, EAM, FSM, MES, and operational control systems is breaking down as organisations demand real-time processing and visibility across increasingly distributed environments. This includes central operations, field teams, and production or plant-level execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9493569d6fdff3938d2c1485f0e22ecf wp-block-paragraph\">Organisations are therefore prioritising converged data models that support faster decision-making and more consistent execution across the value chain. By 2026, dependence on proprietary integration platforms and rigid back-office standardisation will increasingly give way to modular operational cores built on unified data models, reducing complexity while improving responsiveness where work actually happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. <strong>AI-Native ERP to Drive Operational Richness.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4457094b4bf633f3e532e220a62a6b9b wp-block-paragraph\">Where earlier shifts focus on why operational intelligence matters, this trend reflects what that intelligence requires from enterprise platforms themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c195378fee4876a66109b14dbadeedcd wp-block-paragraph\">AI and automation are evolving from decision-support tools into active participants in operational execution. Agentic AI refers to autonomous software systems that can perceive their environment, process information, make decisions, and take actions to achieve specific goals, operating independently within defined parameters and governance. Increasingly, these agents operate directly within enterprise workflows, supporting asset-level decision-making, workforce coordination, intelligent workflows, and predictive execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1e22c56354731bfb3173972d45dbe0f2 wp-block-paragraph\">Importantly, this evolution does not remove the human element. Instead, it changes the nature of work, shifting human effort away from repetitive decision-making toward oversight, exception handling, and strategic planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-564744cbda2105c0ec6450381dd7788c wp-block-paragraph\">Platforms that support AI-native processes, rather than retrofitting AI onto legacy transactional workflows, will be better positioned to deliver operational resilience, consistency, and scalability in complex environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a85c69a7bd539a667b2c88219f7ae2d5\"><strong><strong>How Technology Enables the Operational Digital Core<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9d499a3e60dafcf7c0c40deb7df3d9ee wp-block-paragraph\">Technology is the enabler that makes this transformation possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-60af6eea393b665355f0010b90e0551c wp-block-paragraph\">The convergence of cloud-native architectures, edge computing, and AI agents allows intelligence to be embedded directly into operational workflows. GenAI chaining models support complex decision-making across multiple domains, while unified data models ensure context and consistency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-898e87d57fdd9a9bebc27d3548079784 wp-block-paragraph\">Crucially, these technologies only deliver value when aligned to real operational needs. Clean, operationally aligned data, industry-specific AI models, and rapid iteration cycles are key enablers of success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f2e582be9c2706679bd15edf086753ca wp-block-paragraph\">Together, these capabilities form the foundation of the Operational Digital Core, supporting real-time execution, resilience, and continuous optimisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SOURCE: Federico Tondi (2026 January 29) The Rise of the Operational Digital Core. 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