If your organisation is under pressure to do more with procurement while keeping costs under control, Zycus is a name worth knowing. Founded in the United States and now operating globally, Zycus has spent over two decades building one of the most complete source-to-pay suites in the market. What sets it apart today is a serious, long-standing investment in artificial intelligence, a platform now built around agentic AI that can automate and orchestrate procurement processes

Sage Intacct is a growing cloud financial management system for mid-sized organizations. Owned by Sage since 2017, it is built around a dimensional general ledger and strong multi-entity accounting, and it has a loyal following among finance teams in professional services, non-profits, software, healthcare and financial services. Viewpoint Analysis has worked with customers looking at Sage Intacct, and it has received good reviews. Even so, many Sage Intacct customers look at

Oracle is one of the two giants of enterprise resource planning, and its ERP business spans several very different products. Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP is its modern SaaS suite for large organisations, while many thousands of businesses still run the on-premise E-Business Suite or JD Edwards, often heavily customised over decades. Organisations look at alternatives for different reasons depending on which ERP variant they run. Some are facing the cost and effort of moving from E

BambooHR is one of the best-known HR platforms for small and mid-sized businesses. Based in Utah and led by CEO Brad Rencher, it serves more than 30,000 customers in over 190 countries, and it is well liked for being easy to set up, easy to use and focused on the needs of smaller people teams. Its platform covers core HR, onboarding, performance, payroll and benefits for US employees, and the company is now adding embedded AI through Bamboo AI. Even with such success, many Ba

AuditBoard, the platform that over half of the Fortune 500 trusts to manage its GRC function, has become Optro. The rebrand was announced on 9 March 2026 at the Institute of Internal Auditors' Great Audit Minds conference in Las Vegas, and it marks something more significant than a cosmetic refresh. In this article, we cover who Optro is, what prompted the name change, what the new strategy means, and everything you need to know about the platform, its customers, its competit

Getting the right people in the right place at the right time sounds straightforward. In practice, it involves scheduling complexity, compliance risk, payroll accuracy, and labour analytics that no spreadsheet can handle reliably at scale. For many organisations in 2026, workforce management software has moved from a back-office tool to an operational priority - particularly as hybrid working, deskless workforces, and tightening employment regulation have raised the stakes of

Pigment is a business planning platform used by finance, sales, HR and supply chain teams to build budgets, forecasts and scenarios in one shared model. It has become one of the fastest-growing names in enterprise performance management (EPM), and on 21 October 2026 it announced a $250 million Series E at a $2.3 billion valuation, with NVIDIA also planning to invest. For any organisation thinking about moving off spreadsheets or replacing an older planning tool, that makes Pi

HiBob is the company behind Bob, a cloud HR and payroll platform built for mid-sized and multinational businesses that have outgrown basic HR tools but do not want the weight of a full enterprise HCM suite. It has become one of the most talked-about names in mid-market HR software, and a September 2026 investment led by Salesforce has put it at the center of the conversation about how workforce data feeds AI across the rest of the business. If HiBob is on your radar, or you a

There are a growing number of great use-cases for using AI in a business - and Evisort remains one of the clearest examples in the Contract Lifecycle Management space, even though the company no longer trades under its own name. Managing contracts efficiently and effectively is crucial for ensuring compliance, mitigating risks, and driving operational success, and Evisort's AI-native approach to contract intelligence - now delivered through Workday Contract Intelligence and W

Most organisations manage hundreds, sometimes thousands, of contracts at any given time - with suppliers, customers, partners, employees, and regulators. Yet for many, those agreements still live in shared drives, email threads, and spreadsheets, with no systematic oversight of deadlines, obligations, or renewal dates. The cost of that disorganisation is well documented: research consistently puts revenue leakage from poor contract management at around nine percent of annual

BambooHR is one of the best-known names in HR software for small and mid-sized businesses, and a vendor that comes up again and again when a growing organisation decides it is time to move its people data off spreadsheets and email. It built its reputation on being easy to use, and in 2026 it has been adding AI agents and connections to AI assistants on top of its core HR platform. For UK and European buyers, there are also some important points to understand about how payrol

Managing freight is know to be difficult. Shippers and logistics providers are navigating a landscape of carrier capacity volatility, rising transport costs, cross-border regulatory change, and growing pressure to demonstrate sustainability credentials across the supply chain. In this environment, the ability to plan, execute and optimise freight movements across road, rail, sea and air from a single technology platform is no longer a nice-to-have. Freight management software

Every product you sell carries a trail of data: specifications, images, translations, compliance documents and the attributes each marketplace insists on. When that data lives in spreadsheets, ERP fields and shared drives, the cost shows up as slow launches, returns caused by wrong descriptions, and teams re-keying the same details for every channel. Product Information Management (PIM) software exists to fix that. This guide covers eleven PIM platforms for 2027, split into e

Oracle NetSuite is the finance backbone for so many growing businesses, with more than 43,000 customers worldwide. It is excellent at being the system of record. Yet accounts receivable is often the one corner of a NetSuite finance team where the work still happens in inboxes, spreadsheets, and bank PDFs that someone copies in by hand. That gap is exactly where AR automation earns its keep. This post looks at where NetSuite typically sits in a customer's technology environmen

Most professional services firms can tell you what they billed last month. Far fewer can confidently say which projects actually made money, or who will be free to staff the engagement closing next week. Professional Services Automation (PSA) software is built to close that gap between the work and the money. This guide covers ten PSA platforms for consultancies, IT services firms, marketing agencies, managed service providers and specialist practices heading into 2027, split

Customer data has never been more abundant, and customer intelligence has rarely been harder to act on. Most organisations now collect behavioural, transactional, and demographic data across dozens of touchpoints - website, app, email, in-store, call centre, CRM, loyalty programme - but that data sits in separate systems, owned by separate teams, producing separate views of the customer that cannot easily be reconciled. The result is the personalisation gap: knowing in theory

Bad data costs money. When the same customer appears three times across your CRM and ERP, when product information on your website does not match what sits in your ERP, or when supplier records live in a dozen different spreadsheets, the effects reach well beyond IT: billing errors, unreliable reporting, stalled analytics projects and hours of manual reconciliation. Master Data Management (MDM) software tackles the problem at its root by creating and maintaining a single, tru

People decisions have always been among the most important that an organisation makes, and among the least data-driven. Hiring, headcount planning, retention, skills development, and organisational design have historically relied on gut feel, lagging indicators, and spreadsheets compiled from HR systems that were never designed for analysis. That is changing fast. Workforce analytics has moved from a specialist capability of large enterprises to an accessible priority for org

Accounts receivable automation is one of the easier finance technology investments to justify, and one of the most often under-sold. The cash benefit is striking, the savings arrive quickly, and implementation is now measured in weeks rather than months or years. Yet plenty of AR projects stall at the approval stage. Usually that is not because the case is weak, but because it was presented as a software purchase rather than as a decision about cash, cost and risk. This guide

Most sustainability teams know the feeling. Energy data sits with facilities, workforce data sits in the HR system, supplier emissions are scattered across procurement records, and the annual report deadline arrives before anyone has reconciled the spreadsheets. Auditors and investors now expect sustainability figures to withstand the same scrutiny as the financial numbers next to them, and that's hard to do from a shared drive. 2026 has also reset the rules. The EU Omnibus I