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Novacura at WTC 2026: A Clean M3 Core – Without Losing the Shop Floor

May 30, 2026
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In late May, the Swedish Infor M3 community gathered in Linköping for the Working Together Conference (WTC) 2026, the annual event hosted by the M3 User Association (MAF). Across three days — a training day followed by two conference days — M3 users, partners, and Infor experts met for keynotes, hands-on sessions, and a packed exhibition, all around one shared question: how do you get more value from M3 as the platform moves to the cloud?

Novacura was there as a Gold exhibitor, and had the privilege of joining one of our customers on stage. The programme made the mood of the moment clear: sessions on Infor CloudSuite and Cloud Release Management, Process Mining and the Velocity Suite, integration strategy, and — unmistakably — the rise of AI and “agentic” automation across M3. Infor’s own main-stage session was even titled “The Industry Agentic Cloud.”

The tension every M3 customer is navigating

A theme ran through the whole conference: the move to Infor M3 Cloud pushes organisations toward standard — a “clean core,” with fewer modifications and an easier path to stay evergreen. That’s the right direction. But it raises an important question for anyone running a real operation: if you strip out the customisations, what happens to the tailored, hands-on workflows your people depend on every day — the scanning, the traceability, the line-side reporting that standard screens don’t quite cover?

That’s exactly the gap our on-stage session set out to address.

WHY THE APPROACH RESONATES

Beyond the specifics, the session landed on a pattern many M3 customers in the room recognised — the practical benefits of using an execution layer alongside a standard M3 Cloud core:

  • Build fast, iterate with users. Instead of a 25-page spec written up front, let the team prototype early and refine the solution hand-in-hand with the end users who actually do the work.
  • Developers who speak M3. Building with people who know both M3 and the mobile side made for a smoother, faster implementation.
  • Flexible by design. Workflows can be shaped to each operational reality — and adapted as processes evolve — without touching the ERP core.

Where this is heading: AI in Novacura Flow

Fittingly for a conference themed around the “agentic cloud,” we also looked ahead — to how AI is being built into Novacura Flow across three levels: a co-pilot for developers that helps build workflows from a plain-language prompt; assisting AI inside the process that guides end users and automates steps (from pre-filling records to conversational, agent-style tasks); and a process-optimisation co-pilot that reads workflow telemetry to surface bottlenecks and unnecessary loops. The through-line: AI that’s deeply integrated with the ERP, and directly, practically applicable — not AI for its own sake.

The takeaway

Clean core and capable field execution aren’t opposites. As WTC 2026 showed, the winning pattern is to keep M3 standard and let a flexible execution layer handle the last mile — the scanning, traceability, and real-time reporting that operations depend on. You can go to the cloud without losing the shop floor.

Thank you to MAF for another excellent Working Together Conference and to everyone who stopped by our stand. If you’re weighing a clean-core move to M3 Cloud and wondering how to keep your operators productive, let’s talk — bring your process, and we’ll help you map the execution layer around it

Homan Elfström

Regional Manager at Novacura
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The tension every M3 customer is navigating Why the approach resonates Where this is heading: AI in Novacura Flow The takeaway

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