For finance and treasury teams, the pressure to manage cash, liquidity, and financial risk in real time has never been higher. Rising interest rates, currency volatility, and tightening regulatory requirements have pushed treasury management from a back-office function to a boardroom priority in 2026. The market for treasury management systems (TMS) is responding - with AI-driven forecasting, deeper bank connectivity, and cloud-native platforms increasingly replacing legacy o

Zycus has built a credible position in the source-to-pay market, particularly among mid-market and enterprise buyers attracted by its AI-powered spend analytics, strong contract management capability, and a price point that sits below the largest S2P suites. For many organisations it has been a solid workhorse - but procurement technology is evolving rapidly, and the reasons businesses find themselves looking at Zycus alternatives in 2026 are real and varied. Whether the conv

For most organisations, spend management is one of the last areas to be properly digitised - and one of the most useful when it is done well. Whether the pressure is coming from the CFO demanding better visibility of committed spend, a procurement team drowning in manual purchase orders, or an audit finding that a significant proportion of purchases are happening outside approved channels, the case for a modern spend management platform has never been easier to make. In 2026,

IFS has built a strong reputation in asset-intensive industries - aerospace and defence, energy and utilities, manufacturing, construction, and field service management - and for many organisations it remains a credible fit. But ERP decisions are rarely permanent, and the reasons businesses find themselves looking at IFS alternatives in 2026 are varied: contract renewal pressure, the desire to consolidate onto a broader platform, dissatisfaction with implementation complexity

If your business is still managing stock on spreadsheets, or your current system cannot keep pace with multi-channel demand, omnichannel fulfilment, or supplier volatility, you are not alone - and 2026 is the year many organisations are finally drawing a line under the problem. Inventory management has moved from a back-office operational concern to a board-level priority, driven by the combined pressure of rising carrying costs, customer expectations for same-day availabilit

The LMS market in 2026 is one of the largest and most fragmented in enterprise software, and for buyers approaching it for the first time, the volume of vendors claiming broadly similar capabilities can make the search feel overwhelming before it has started. Hundreds of platforms exist, spanning compliance-first systems, modern skills and development platforms, extended enterprise tools, and AI-driven learning experience platforms, with differences that are often obscured by

If your organisation is evaluating HR technology for your workforce, SAP SuccessFactors will almost certainly appear on your longlist. It is one of the most widely deployed Human Capital Management (HCM) platforms in the world, used by some of the largest and most complex organisations across every major industry - and lots of SMB businesses too. But size and recognition do not automatically mean it is the right fit - and for buyers approaching the market with an open mind, u

When an IT incident strikes, the speed and structure of your response depends almost entirely on the tooling and processes your team has in place. Yet many organisations are still managing incidents through ITSM ticketing systems not designed for real-time coordination, and communication channels that make post-incident learning almost impossible. In 2026, there is no shortage of better options. The challenge is knowing which type of platform you actually need. The incident m

Workday is one of the most widely used enterprise HR platforms (and finance) in the world, but it is not the right fit for every organisation. Whether the concern is cost, complexity, implementation timescale or a change in business requirements, the decision to explore alternatives is more common than many HR and IT leaders expect. Viewpoint Analysis is a Technology Matchmaker. We help businesses to find and select new enterprise software, and, if possible, we help them fix

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

Data is the foundation of every modern enterprise. Whether you are consolidating fragmented systems, building a single source of truth, or unlocking predictive intelligence, the software you choose to manage, move, store and analyse data has never mattered more. This guide provides an independent overview of the data software market in 2026. It is designed to help IT and data leaders understand their options across the full data stack, from ingestion and integration through t

This post is an independent overview of the leading Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software vendors available in 2026, designed to help IT buyers and operations teams understand their options before committing to a platform. Viewpoint Analysis is a Technology Matchmaker - we help businesses find and select technology fast, and help IT vendors to get found by the right buyers. What is RPA Software? Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software enables organisations to automate r

Unframe is a fast-growing enterprise AI platform that emerged from stealth in April 2025 with $50 million in funding. The company delivers tailored, production-ready AI solutions in days rather than months, using a modular building-block architecture and a managed delivery model. For enterprise IT leaders exploring how to move beyond AI pilots into scalable, operational deployment, Unframe is a vendor worth understanding. This profile covers what Unframe does, who it serves,

Automation Anywhere is one of the most established names in enterprise automation. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company began life as an RPA (Robotic Process Automation) vendor and has since evolved into what it now calls an Agentic Process Automation (APA) platform. In plain terms, this means software that does not just execute scripted tasks but reasons, decides, and adapts across complex business workflows with minimal human oversight. For

This guide provides an independent overview of the leading low-code and no-code software vendors active in 2026. It is designed to help IT leaders, digital transformation teams, and enterprise technology buyers understand the vendor landscape - from enterprise application development platforms and process automation tools to citizen developer environments and AI-assisted app builders - and to find the right starting point for a software selection. At Viewpoint Analysis, we he

When enterprise IT teams talk about their biggest operational headaches, two themes come up consistently: the sheer volume of alerts generated by modern infrastructure, and the time it takes to find the root cause when something goes wrong. Riverbed was built to solve exactly these problems. For over twenty years the company has been helping organisations understand, optimise and manage the performance of their networks and applications. Today it has repositioned itself at th

Sona is a London-based technology company building an AI-native platform for frontline workforce management. Founded in 2021, the business has grown rapidly on the back of a clear and well-executed thesis: that the software managing the world's largest workforce has not meaningfully changed in twenty years, and that AI now makes it possible to do something fundamentally better. Sona combines scheduling, HR, payroll, time and attendance, business intelligence, and employee com

Conversational AI has moved rapidly from a supporting act to a central pillar of how organisations engage with customers and support their employees. The chatbot deployments of five years ago - scripted, brittle, and frequently frustrating - have been replaced by a new generation of AI-native virtual agents that understand natural language, maintain context across multi-turn conversations, execute actions in connected systems, and resolve a significant proportion of interacti

If your finance team is still chasing paper receipts, waiting for end-of-month expense reports, or issuing petty cash for team spending, there is a better way. The spend management market has matured significantly over the past decade, and a number of platforms now exist that give businesses real-time control over employee spending without slowing teams down. Soldo is one of the most established names in that space, particularly across the UK and Europe. If you are currently

Master data management has long been one of the most technically demanding and commercially consequential problems in enterprise IT. When data about customers, products, suppliers and locations is fragmented across dozens of systems, every downstream process suffers: AI outputs become unreliable, sales reporting breaks down, and regulatory compliance becomes harder to demonstrate. Reltio was built to solve exactly this problem, and for over a decade it has been one of the mos