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

Most finance teams have automated invoicing, added AR software for collections and dunning, and built dashboards that track days sales outstanding. Cash application, the step where an incoming payment is actually matched to the right open invoice, is often still handled by hand: a person opening a bank statement, reading a remittance email, and deciding where a payment belongs. That gap is getting harder to defend in 2026, as a new generation of AI-native tools reach match ra

Who are Monk, the AI Accounts Receivable Software Company? Monk is a New York-based software company that builds AI-native accounts receivable (AR) automation for business-to-business finance teams. Founded by George Kurdin and Joe Zhou, the company came out of stealth in October 2025 and has grown quickly since, automating the invoice-to-cash cycle for a mix of AI-native technology companies and more traditional B2B businesses. The platform handles invoicing, collections, ca

Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the on-premises ERP platform many still know by its original name, Navision, is further along its end-of-life journey than most other legacy ERP platforms on the market. This is a challenge for NAV customers who still have this major software solution at the very heart of their business. Every version of NAV is already out of mainstream support, and Microsoft has never released a NAV version beyond 2018, choosing instead to put all its investment into

Oracle NetSuite is one of the most widely adopted cloud ERP platforms for fast-growing mid-market businesses, covering financials, inventory, order management, and CRM in a single system. They were the first mover in the cloud ERP market - so lots of companies have implemented NetSuite and are making decisions to replace it each year. Some customers have found that costs climb sharply as they add users, modules, and transaction volume, others are frustrated by how dependent t

ADP is one of the best-known names in payroll, with a product range that stretches from RUN Powered by ADP for small businesses through to ADP Workforce Now and ADP Vantage HCM for larger, more complex organizations. That scale is exactly why so many businesses end up looking elsewhere. Some have outgrown the tier they started on and find themselves paying for capability they never use, others are frustrated by implementation timelines, support response, or the cost of add-on

Every accounts receivable software vendor now claims to use AI. Some have spent two decades building the workflow engine underneath and are steadily layering machine learning and generative AI on top. Others have started from a blank page in the last few years, building AI agents that do the chasing, the matching, and the exception-handling themselves. There is a big difference between the two – the new AI-native category has the potential to be revolutionary for the accounts

Every finance team eventually outgrows its accounting system. The signs are familiar: month-end close taking longer each quarter, multiple entities forcing manual consolidation in spreadsheets, and finance leaders spending more time reconciling data than analysing it. In 2026, the shift toward cloud-native, AI-assisted financial management platforms has accelerated, with real-time consolidation, embedded compliance, and automated reconciliation now standard expectations rathe

Finance teams are done reconciling spreadsheets at month-end. Budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation processes that once lived across a patchwork of Excel workbooks are increasingly expected to run on a single connected platform - one that closes the gap between the finance function and the rest of the business. In 2026, the pressure on Enterprise Performance Management platforms has shifted from basic budget consolidation toward continuous, AI-assisted planning that finan

Payroll is one of our most popular reports, not just because it is so common, but because it is a complicated, busy market with lots of options, and getting the right solution and a trusted vendor is perhaps more critical than almost every other software choice. This guide covers the leading payroll software options for UK organisations in 2026, from global enterprise HCM suites through to UK-built specialists and SME-focused platforms. Viewpoint Analysis is a Technology Matc

Accounts payable automation has moved from a back-office efficiency project to a strategic priority for finance teams under pressure to reduce costs, improve cash flow visibility, and manage supplier relationships more effectively. Manual invoice processing is slow, error-prone, and increasingly difficult to justify when AI-powered capture and matching can remove most of the manual effort from the process. In 2026, the addition of AI-powered document understanding has signifi

If your sales team is spending more time building quotes than closing deals - or if pricing errors and approval bottlenecks are slowing down your revenue cycle - you are not alone. For businesses selling configurable products or complex services, the quoting process is one of the most friction-heavy parts of the sales motion, and one of the most expensive to get wrong. Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software exists to solve exactly that problem: replacing manual, error-prone q

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

Board, formerly known as Board International, is a Swiss enterprise planning vendor whose platform brings financial planning, operational planning and business intelligence together in one place. For finance and operations leaders who are tired of reconciling separate spreadsheets, budgeting tools, and reporting systems, Board is one of the longer-standing names in the market, having built its Enterprise Planning Platform over three decades. Viewpoint Analysis is a Technology