QuickBooks Online is the accounting system behind millions of small and mid-sized businesses and Intuit Enterprise Suite customers grew 28% year on year. In other words, more and more of the businesses running QuickBooks Online are no longer small. That growth brings a familiar problem. Invoices go out of QuickBooks Online easily enough, but getting them paid still relies on someone working through the ageing report, sending reminders, picking up the phone, and matching bank

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

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

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

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

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

Coupa is one of the best-known names in business spend management, the category of software that brings sourcing, procurement, invoicing, payments, expenses and supplier management together on one platform. For many large organisations it sits alongside the ERP as the system employees use to buy things and the system finance uses to control and pay for them. Over the past year Coupa has also changed hands at the top and made a run of acquisitions aimed at putting AI agents to

Late payment is still one of the biggest drains on a finance team's time. Collectors chase the same customers every month, reminders go out from spreadsheets, and nobody can say with confidence which invoices will be paid this week. Collections software fixes that, but the market is crowded, and the right choice for a large global business on SAP is rarely the right choice for a growing business on Xero. This guide does one job: it names the collections software we think fits

Billtrust is one of the best-known names in B2B accounts receivable. Its platform covers invoicing and presentment, credit, cash application, collections, and payments through the Billtrust Business Payments Network, and it has a particularly strong following among North American distributors, wholesalers, and manufacturers. Billtrust handles more than $1 trillion in invoice value each year but organisations look at alternatives for a range of reasons: ranging from total cost

Every finance team knows the month-end pattern. Some invoices never reached the customer because a procurement portal rejected the upload. Payments have arrived, but the remittance details sit in an email attachment that nobody has matched yet. The collections team spends its week chasing the same overdue accounts with the same templated reminders, while Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) creeps upward and the cash forecast turns into guesswork. This might now be the point where fi

Pay technology has always mattered. In 2027 it will matter more visibly than ever. The EU Pay Transparency Directive's transposition deadline passed on 7 June 2026. Only a handful of member states had national laws in place by then, with most still legislating, but the direction of travel is fixed: employers will need to disclose pay criteria, share salary ranges at the point of hire, and, for organisations with 150 or more employees, report on gender pay gaps from June 2027

Coupa is one of the biggest names in enterprise procurement, built around a Business Spend Management model that covers sourcing, contracts, procurement, invoicing, and expenses in a single suite, and for large organisations with complex spend it remains a genuinely capable platform. But it is not the right fit for every organisation. As a vendor, they have been established and installed for a number of years - so it's reasonable that companies are looking at what their optio

Choosing compensation management software is an interesting decision that straddles the border between HR and the finance team. It's also changing in real time - with the EU Pay Transparency Directive becoming enforceable in June 2026 across all 27 member states, and several US states adding their own pay transparency requirements in 2025, the platform you choose now needs to stand up to regulatory scrutiny as well as run a smooth annual merit cycle. Getting the selection wro

If you have a shortlist of finance software vendors and need to move from that shortlist to a preferred supplier, a well-structured RFP is what gets you there without the process dragging on for months or the decision coming down to whoever gave the most polished demo. Our latest RFP template focuses on customers looking to buy a new finance solution. Viewpoint Analysis is a Technology Matchmaker: we help finance and IT leaders find and select the right technology fast. This

If you run finance for a mid-sized business and your team still lives in Excel for budgeting, reporting, and month-end close, Datarails is one of the vendors you have probably come across. Rather than asking finance teams to abandon spreadsheets for a new interface, Datarails automates the data collection and consolidation behind those spreadsheets, while leaving Excel as the front end. If you are using social media, you'll see Datarails is everywhere. This Vendor Profile aim

Viewpoint Analysis is a Technology Matchmaker, we sit between ERP vendors and enterprise buyers, researching the ERP market and helping the wider IT buyer community understand their ERP software options. A key part of what we do is help buyers not only understand a busy technology marketplace, but also navigate the selection process. As an ERP Software Selection Consultant, we provide a range of services all designed to take the weight off the purchasing team and get the righ

SAP is the largest ERP vendor in the world, and for decades SAP ECC has sat at the centre of finance, supply chain, and operations for a huge share of the world's largest organisations. Its successor, S/4HANA, is now the platform SAP wants every ECC customer to move to, and with mainstream maintenance for ECC ending in 2027, many businesses are being pushed into that decision on someone else's timeline rather than their own. That pressure, combined with the cost and complexit

Why the AP Portal Needs to Be Handled Better by AR Software: Our Viewpoint Series Ask most finance teams how their invoices reach a customer, and they'll describe a delivery choice: email, EDI, or a portal, depending on what the buyer wants. That framing is the problem. Email and EDI are transport. A portal is a gate - and gates say no. An invoice sent by email either arrives or it doesn't; a delivery failure is apparent and immediate. An invoice submitted into a customer's A