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Critical Capabilities for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises

Published: 14 July 2022

Summary

Application leaders supporting ERP in service-centric companies seek varying capabilities based on their industry and size. Use this research to evaluate vendor offerings against typical use cases and create a shortlist that best matches your service-centric needs.

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Overview

Key Findings
  • Application leaders are seeking composable ERP platforms that allow their organizations to assemble and adopt a combination of business capabilities.

  • Product functionality is one of the most important factors for service-centric organizations when evaluating such suites. Besides that, different size organizations have different functional needs, which leads to different vendor shortlists.

  • The service-centric cloud ERP landscape is rapidly evolving as the functions embedded in these solutions start to align with more advanced enterprise needs like extended planning and analysis (xP&A) or composable architecture support.

Recommendations

Application leaders supporting ERP in service-centric companies should:

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  • FinancialForce
  • Infor
  • Microsoft (Dynamics 365)
  • Microsoft (Dynamics 365 Business Central)
  • Oracle (Fusion Cloud ERP)
  • Oracle (NetSuite)
  • Sage Intacct
  • SAP (Business ByDesign)
  • SAP (S/4HANA Cloud)
  • Workday
  • Financial Management
  • Order-to-Cash
  • Human Resources
  • Procurement
  • Extended Planning and Analysis
  • Composable Platform
  • Advanced Technology
  • Complex Corporate Requirements
  • Support/SI/Methodology
  • Geographic Coverage
  • Lower Midsize Enterprises
  • Upper Midsize Enterprises
  • Large Enterprises
  • Global Enterprises

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Critical Capabilities: A deeper look into provider offerings

How does a Critical Capabilities report work?

As a companion to the Magic Quadrant™, a Critical Capabilities report scores competing products and services against a set of meaningful differentiators. It reveals which options are the best fit in various use cases to help you focus on the vendors best suited to your needs.

A Critical Capabilities report is more than just a diagram. You also get:

Sharper focus

Narrow down the product and service criteria most important to you.

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