10/09/2026
"How did margin change by customer last quarter?"
Ask Claude that over a direct connection to your ERP and it pulls customers, invoices, and costs to answer. Ask a follow-up and it pulls all of that again.
Now picture ten people on your team asking some version of that question in a week, with retries and a few "can you break that out by region?" requests on top. Any one query costs almost nothing. But across a team and a month, it adds up to a load nobody planned for.
That load lands on the one system you can't afford to slow down.
Your ERP exists to take orders, ship product, and close the books, and every heavy analytics query competes with the people doing that work.
The pricing is shifting too. Salesforce has already announced it will charge credits for AI agent calls into its platform, and other vendors are following.
A better setup reads the ERP on a schedule and lands the data in a governed layer built for analytics, with business names that AI understands and one shared definition of margin.
Connect the model your team already uses to that layer through MCP, and it can ask as many follow-ups as it likes without touching the ERP.
Our latest blog walks through the vendor pricing changes, the architecture, and everything you need to consider.
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