Buyers Guides for Enterprise Resource Planning
2025 Software Provider and Product Assessment
The 2025 ISG Buyers Guides™ for Enterprise Resource Planning, covering ERP and Financial Management ERP, Midsize Enterprise Resource Planning, covering Midsize ERP and Midsize Financial Management ERP, Manufacturing ERP, covering Manufacturing ERP and Midsize Manufacturing ERP, and Healthcare ERP are the distillation of continuous market and product research. It is an assessment of how well software providers’ offerings address enterprises’ requirements for ERP software. The Value Index methodology is structured to support a request for information (RFI) for a request for proposal (RFP) process by incorporating all criteria needed to evaluate, select, utilize and maintain relationships with software providers. The ISG Buyers Guide evaluates customer experience and the product experience in its capability and platform.
The Buyers Guides for Enterprise Resource Planning evaluate providers across four software categories with unique research for each focus area to help enterprises assess and select software providers. The ERP Buyers Guide report includes two software categories with specific ratings, rankings and analysis for overall enterprise resource planning and financial management ERP; the Midsize ERP Buyers Guide report includes two software categories with specific ratings, rankings and analysis for overall midsize ERP and midsize financial management ERP; and the Manufacturing ERP Buyers Guide report includes two software categories with specific ratings, rankings and analysis for overall manufacturing ERP and midsize manufacturing ERP.
- The Enterprise Resource Planning Buyers Guide evaluates 16 software providers and products in key areas, including accounting and financial management, indirect tax, compliance, risk management, inventory, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay and investment in the offering, as well as manufacturing operations, advanced planning and scheduling, demand planning, manufacturing execution, quality, maintenance and distribution. The guide assesses the following providers: Acumatica, Aptean, Epicor, Exact, Forterro, IFS, Infor, Microsoft, Oracle, Oracle NetSuite, QAD, Ramco, Rockwell Automation, Sage X3, SAP Business One and SAP S/4HANA.
- The Financial Management ERP Buyers Guide evaluates 22 software providers and products in key areas, including accounting and financial management, consolidation and intercompany management, indirect tax, compliance, risk management, fixed assets, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory and investment management. The guide assesses the following providers: Acumatica, Aptean, Cardinia, Deltek, Epicor, Exact, Forterro, IFS, Infor, Microsoft, Oracle, Oracle NetSuite, QAD, Ramco, Rockwell Automation, Sage Intacct, Sage X3, SAP Business One, SAP S/4HANA, TechnologyOne, Unit4 and Workday.
- The Financial Management ERP Buyers Guide evaluates 22 software providers and products in key areas, including accounting and financial management, consolidation and intercompany management, indirect tax, compliance, risk management, fixed assets, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory and investment management. The guide assesses the following providers: Acumatica, Aptean, Cardinia, Deltek, Epicor, Exact, Forterro, IFS, Infor, Microsoft, Oracle, Oracle NetSuite, QAD, Ramco, Rockwell Automation, Sage Intacct, Sage X3, SAP Business One, SAP S/4HANA, TechnologyOne, Unit4 and Workday.
- The Midsize Enterprise Resource Planning Buyers Guide evaluates 14 software providers and products in key areas, including accounting and financial management, compliance, risk management, manufacturing, operations, planning and distribution. The guide assesses the following providers: Acumatica, Aptean, Epicor, Exact, Forterro, IFS, Infor, Microsoft, Oracle NetSuite, QAD, Ramco, Rockwell Automation, Sage X3 and SAP Business One.
- The Midsize Financial Management ERP Buyers Guide evaluates 19 software providers and products in key areas, including accounting and financial management, consolidation and intercompany management, indirect tax, compliance, risk management, fixed assets, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory and investment management. The guide assesses the following providers: Acumatica, Aptean, Certinia, Deltek, Epicor, Exact, Forterro, IFS, Infor, Microsoft, Oracle NetSuite, QAD, Ramco, Rockwell Automation, Sage Intacct, Sage X3, SAP Business One, TechnologyOne and Unit4.
- The Midsize Financial Management ERP Buyers Guide evaluates 19 software providers and products in key areas, including accounting and financial management, consolidation and intercompany management, indirect tax, compliance, risk management, fixed assets, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory and investment management. The guide assesses the following providers: Acumatica, Aptean, Certinia, Deltek, Epicor, Exact, Forterro, IFS, Infor, Microsoft, Oracle NetSuite, QAD, Ramco, Rockwell Automation, Sage Intacct, Sage X3, SAP Business One, TechnologyOne and Unit4.
- The Manufacturing ERP Buyers Guide evaluates 16 software providers and products in key areas, including manufacturing operations, advanced planning and scheduling, demand planning, manufacturing execution, shop floor management, material flow optimization, multi-site operations, quality management, facilities and equipment maintenance, warranty management, environmental, smart manufacturing and distribution. The guide assesses the following providers: Acumatica, Aptean, Epicor, Exact, Forterro, IFS, Infor, Microsoft, Oracle, Oracle NetSuite, QAD, Ramco, Rockwell Automation, Sage X3, SAP Business One and SAP S/4HANA
- The Midsize Manufacturing ERP Buyers Guide evaluates 14 software providers and products in key areas, including manufacturing operations, advanced planning and scheduling, demand planning, manufacturing execution, shop floor management, quality, maintenance and distribution. The guide assesses the following providers: Acumatica, Aptean, Epicor, Exact, Forterro, IFS, Infor, Microsoft, Oracle NetSuite, QAD, Ramco, Rockwell Automation, Sage X3 and SAP Business One.
- The Midsize Manufacturing ERP Buyers Guide evaluates 14 software providers and products in key areas, including manufacturing operations, advanced planning and scheduling, demand planning, manufacturing execution, shop floor management, quality, maintenance and distribution. The guide assesses the following providers: Acumatica, Aptean, Epicor, Exact, Forterro, IFS, Infor, Microsoft, Oracle NetSuite, QAD, Ramco, Rockwell Automation, Sage X3 and SAP Business One.
- The Healthcare ERP Buyers Guide evaluates 8 software providers and products in key areas, including accounting and financial management, compliance, risk management, inventory, procurement, fixed assets, cost accounting and analytics. The guide assesses the following providers: Infor, Microsoft, Oracle, Oracle NetSuite, Sage Intacct, SAP S/4HANA, TechnologyOne and Workday.
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