CloudPe at ERP Expo 2026: Driving digital transformation through ERP and AI-driven solutions

CloudPe, Powered By Leapswitch Networks, participated in the ERP Expo 2026 held from 07th to 09th May 2026 at the Auto Cluster Exhibition Centre, PCMC, Pune.

Mr Mahesh Landge inaugurated the Expo. Key dignitaries present at the opening ceremony included Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker Anna Bansode and DICCI Founder Milind Kamble.
For CloudPe, the event was more than an industry showcase. It was an opportunity to engage with businesses that are actively rethinking how infrastructure, AI, and ERP ecosystems must work together to support India’s rapidly evolving enterprise landscape.

ERP Systems Are Becoming AI Ecosystems

The old ERP was focused on improving efficiencies, managing workflow, and integrating business data for the organisation. Now, companies are demanding much more from ERP: Modern ERP environments are increasingly integrating AI-enabled Analytics. AI presents a challenge for organisations in selling analytics. The challenge is that selling analytics to users as a way of getting better insights on what they’re looking for is quite complex and a work in progress.
Nowadays, enterprises rely on automated business intelligence and machine learning to gain a competitive edge, streamline their processes, and make their customer experiences more delightful. Capabilities, including predictive inventory management, instant data visualisation, and intelligent automation, empower organisations to speed up their decision-making based on reliable data. Meanwhile, VMware solutions enable them to build secure, flexible, and advanced data centres.
“ By the time of the ERP Expo 2026, one of the hot topics was how AI is completely transforming the way the enterprise works.”
ERP companies ceased to see ERP as just some technology anymore, but as a digital backbone of smart business infrastructure. Even so, it also begs an important question: Is the infrastructure ecosystem in India prepared for an enterprise of scale that leverages AI-enabled ERP?

AI Adoption Begins with Infrastructure Readiness

The realisation of infrastructure limitations is being accelerated by the adoption of AI-enabled ERP platforms by organisations.
Organisations are willing to leverage the AI features, but face these drawbacks: Increasing compute costs. Unstable cloud prices, latency, and performance bottlenecks. Data sovereignty issues and scalability limitations for AI workloads. And these fears varied little from conversation to conversation at the expo, mainly because businesses were investing in the field of automation and intelligent data analysis.
The transformation in AI is not only related to application deployment. It is now an infrastructure way of thinking where environments have to support high-performance workload with security, reliability, and cost. And that is where the discussion around sovereign AI cloud infrastructure is picking up pace in India.

The Rising Importance of Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure

Already recording an enterprise ecosystem that, despite focusing on local suppliers, has a global reach, India’s enterprise ecosystem is only going to see increased focus on data localisation, compliance, and independence from technology infrastructural lock-in.

• With AI ingesting more and more business-critical data, companies are becoming aware of where their data is sitting, in which location, and the workload is on what platform.
• The popularity of regional clouds at the ERP Expo 2026 marked a trend in the wider industry, where there is increased demand for ownerless infrastructure.
• Having Data Residency in India, lower latency for enterprise applications, and more control over sensitive company information.
• AI-Specific EC2 is scalable CPU compute for AI-focused workloads, providing scalable, flexible, and robust electricity for carrying the various technology stacks. It is optimised with cluster placements, which makes the Multiple GPU Instances Cost predictable.

Security and compliance are suitable for enterprise-level environments. The point here is that the decision to use cloud as an environment is no longer simply a technical decision from the IT department but a strategic business decision.

CloudPe’s Perspective from ERP Expo 2026

In the run-up to the event, CloudPe worked with ERP providers, enterprise owners, startups, and digital transformation teams to explore how companies are preparing for AI.
One revelation was crystal clear: Businesses are searching for infrastructure partners that can scale over time, not just offer a standard hosting environment.

• AI and ML workloads
• Scalable enterprise applications
• High Performace Compute (HPC) environments.
• Data-intensive ERP ecosystems.

Companies these days are willing to obtain cloud strategies that not just ensure business continuity but also facilitate efficiency, optimise resource usage, and minimise operational challenges. On top of it, businesses are ideally looking for reliable infrastructure, cost-effective cloud scalability, and smoother workflow integration.

ERP, AI, and the Future of Indian Enterprises

India’s ERP and enterprise technology landscape is going through a model shift.
The coming together of artificial intelligence, automation, cloud, and enterprise software is changing how organisations do business across sectors like manufacturing, logistics, health care, retail, and finance.
Something like ERP Expo 2026 demonstrates how fast the conversation is moving from digital adoption to digital preparedness.
The future of enterprise transformation will strongly rely on infrastructure ecosystems to support: AI-targeted decision making, business intelligence in real time, upward scalable cloud-native applications, and data storage. Data stored in a highly secure and compliant environment.
APIs for high-availability enterprise operations: With Indian companies fighting hard to modernise, reliance on AI-ready infrastructure will only grow as they scale operations.

Looking Ahead

The first episode of ERP Expo 2026 was a clear indicator of a defining change in the Indian tech industry. AI is no longer a layer of innovation; now it is a way of life. It’s getting deeply embedded across the enterprise stack, ERP systems, cloud environments, and more.
For CloudPe, the event further emphasised the growing need for scalable, secure and sovereign cloud infrastructure for the next generation of enterprise workloads.
With companies across India accelerating digital transformation journeys using AI, infrastructure readiness will continue to be one of the most foundational enablers of sustainable digital growth.