Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with PCG is part of an exclusive webinar series for enterprise business software users. This event will feature an hour-long discussion about the emerging landscape for A&D original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their Tier 1, 2, and 3 suppliers. 

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive, expert webinar events for industry professionals across the enterprise technology and MarTech fields. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, Expert Webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers in enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people visit Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with industry experts from PCG, an ERP business transformation advisory service provider, and other leading companies and firms, including Infor, AEVEX Aerospace, and BDO USA.

The discussion follows an earlier Solutions Review Spotlight, “Reaching New Heights: Navigating Aerospace and Defense in 2025,” and will focus on the emerging landscape for A&D original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), their suppliers, and why A&D manufacturing companies need industry-focused, modern ERP systems that are compliant with regulations and equipped with built-in business models, flexible deployment options, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Moderator

Kyler Cheatham, Chief Performance Officer at The Confluencial: Kyler Cheatham is an influencer, spokeswoman, and innovator. As a 40 under 40 Winner and Global Women in Tech Speaker, she knows what it takes to generate change through strategy and influence. Kyler has been disrupting the technology industry with new ideas and perspectives for years and has earned her reputation as one of the leading Women in ERP.

Speakers

Dan Kath, Vice President of Aerospace & Defense Portfolio at PCG: Dan has around 20 years of experience in the industry. Before joining PCG, he held several roles at Infor, including Vice President of Major Accounts and Director of Enterprise Global Accounts, where he was responsible for managing all aspects of business relationships, including new sales and client retention for select global Infor customers.

Alex Plitsas, Vice President of Transformation at Infor: Alex Plitsas is a seasoned executive with a track record of success in various business operations, problem-solving, team building, and program management projects in the public and private sectors. He also has a wealth of experience in defense and national security, including over a decade of leading business and digital transformation projects.

Andrew McWaters, VP Business Systems at AEVEX Aerospace: Andrew McWaters is a seasoned pharmaceutical industry veteran with experience leading information technology teams at multiple companies. Since joining AEVEX Aerospace, he has helped the company support its U.S. and partner nation security objectives by providing full-spectrum aviation and technology-based solutions.

Luis Avila, Managing Director of Strategy and Enterprise Transformation at BDO USA: Luis has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, strategy, deal advisory, and management consulting. As a trusted advisor, he has focused on helping business leaders confidently move forward through complex enterprise transformation and M&A in the aerospace & defense, technology, and manufacturing industries.

John Shorter, Software Executive: John is an industry expert with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry at companies like Infor, Oracle, GE, and more. He has led many Industry 4.0 initiatives throughout his career with compelling outcomes, and is skilled in Systems Engineering, IT Strategy, Six Sigma, Veterans, and Manufacturing.

About PCG

PCG is a trusted provider of tailored end-to-end IT solutions that consistently and predictably deliver business sustainability. With the technical expertise of highly trained engineers, the company has the resources and capabilities to care for every aspect of a customer’s technology environment—from the back office to edge apps to the cloud and across the entire supply and demand chain.

FAQ

• What: Mission-Critical: Modernizing ERP Systems for Aerospace & Defense
  
• When: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details), LinkedIn, and Insight Jam.

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Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with IBM is part of an exclusive webinar series for enterprise business software users. This event will provide viewers with a deep-dive exploration of the challenges facing ALM in the oil and gas sector, showcase how generative AI can revolutionize practices, and more.

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive, expert webinar events for industry professionals across the enterprise technology and MarTech fields. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, Expert Webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers in enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people visit Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with oil and gas sector experts from IBM to explore the difficulties facing asset lifecycle management (ALM) in the industry and how generative AI can help address them. The hour-long webinar will also look toward the future of the oil and gas sector and explore topics like emerging trends in the industry, ethical implications of AI technology, AI maturity models, and how organizations can plan for a more sustainable, efficient, and resilient future in the industry.

Speakers

Carol Lee Andersen, Vice President, Global Oil & Gas Industry Leader at IBM: Carol Lee is a dynamic executive with extensive global experience in the Oil and Gas, Technology, and Manufacturing sectors. As the Global Vice President of Oil and Gas at IBM Technology, she leads large-scale transformation initiatives for Asset Lifecycle Management, helping energy companies harness the power of technology to drive efficiency, sustainability, and growth.

Ravi Teja Siragam, GTM Product Manager, Maximo for Oil & Gas at IBM: Ravi brings 12 years of experience across the oil and gas, petrochemical, and energy sectors, blending deep domain expertise with strong technical skills. He began his career as a Maintenance Manager at a gas-based chemical plant, later transitioning to Procurement Manager. Ravi then joined a leading engineering solutions company, supporting onshore and offshore upstream operations for an IOC over five years.

About IBM

IBM continues to push the boundaries of AI, quantum computing, and sustainability. As one of the leaders in ethical AI, IBM is helping shape transparent systems to address global challenges, from healthcare to environmental sustainability and beyond. The company also aims to drive innovation through partnerships in space technology, cloud computing, and data-driven industries.

FAQ

• What: Oil & Gas Asset Lifecycle Management: Navigating Challenges with Gen AI
• When: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details), LinkedIn, and Insight Jam.

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Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Infor, hosted by PCG, is part of an exclusive webinar series for enterprise business software users. This event will feature an hour-long discussion and software demo to help companies harness the power of advanced A&D vertical industry solutions.

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive, expert webinar events for industry professionals across the enterprise technology and MarTech fields. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, Expert Webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers in enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people visit Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with aerospace and defense (A&D) experts from PCG, an ERP business transformation advisory service provider, and Infor, the global enterprise software provider, to discuss how A&D solutions can help organizations improve performance, be more secure, and meet regulatory requirements, all at a lower cost of business. The hour-long webinar will also feature a live product demo of the Infor CloudSuite A&D solution.

Speakers

Dan Kath, Vice President of Aerospace & Defense Portfolio at PCG: Dan has around 20 years of experience in the industry. Before joining PCG, he held several roles at Infor, including Vice President of Major Accounts and Director of Enterprise Global Accounts, where he was responsible for managing all aspects of business relationships, including new sales and client retention for select global Infor customers.

Alex Plitsas, Principal of Aerospace & Defense at PCG: Alex Plitsas is a seasoned executive with a track record of success in various business operations, problem-solving, team building, and program management projects in the public and private sectors. He also has a wealth of experience in defense and national security, including over a decade of leading business and digital transformation projects.

Chris Lewis, Vice President of Solution Consulting at Infor: Christopher Lewis has been consulting for digital transformation business application technologies for the aerospace and defense industries for the past 15 years. He focuses on driving value, process transformation, and change management for positive strategic business outcomes.

Ed Talerico, Director of Product Management at Infor: For the past 28+ years, Edward has held positions in pre-sales, development, and consulting services at Infor, working with Infor’s A&D customers before taking his current role as Infor LN Product Director to manage the North American needs for customers moving to LN Industry CoudSuites.

About PCG

PCG is a trusted provider of tailored end-to-end IT solutions that consistently and predictably deliver business sustainability. With the technical expertise of highly trained engineers, the company has the resources and capabilities to care for every aspect of a customer’s technology environment—from the back office to edge apps to the cloud and across the entire supply and demand chain.

About Infor

Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. The company develops complete solutions for its focus industries, including industrial manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, food and beverage, automotive, aerospace and defense, hospitality, and high-tech. Infor’s mission-critical enterprise applications and services are designed to deliver sustainable operational advantages with security and faster time to value.

FAQ

• What: Reaching New Heights: Navigating Aerospace and Defense in 2025
• When: Thursday, February 13th, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details), LinkedIn, and Insight Jam.

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Solutions Review’s listing of the best manufacturing ERP software companies is an annual look into the solution providers included in our Buyer’s Guide and Solutions Directory. Our editors gathered this information via online materials, reports, product demonstrations, conversations with vendor representatives, and free trial examinations.

As the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and manufacturing software marketplace continues to grow and evolve, evaluating and selecting a solution for your company has grown along with it. With so many different manufacturing platforms for other markets, company sizes, and use cases, it can be challenging to narrow a search down to only the providers who offer software with the specific qualifications a company needs.

There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all manufacturing ERP solution, either, so each team must make time for in-depth research into the capabilities, strengths, and potential drawbacks each one offers. With that in mind, Solutions Review editors updated this list of the best manufacturing ERP software companies in the marketplace to consider if you’re looking for a new solution.

Note: Companies are listed in alphabetical order.

The Best Manufacturing ERP Software Vendors for 2025

abas ERP

Description: abas has provided global organizations with flexible, easy-to-use ERP software solutions for over thirty-five years. Its ERP solution is tailored to the needs of mid-size manufacturers worldwide and across multiple industries, including industrial machinery, automotive, electronics, fabrication and assembly, and custom manufacturing. The company’s manufacturing ERP solutions include functionalities for customer relationship management (CRM), warehouse management,  production, point of sale, scheduling, financials, business process management, and more.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Acumatica

Description: Acumatica provides cloud and browser-based business management software designed for small and mid-sized businesses across industries. Its manufacturing ERP solution is capable of supporting various methodologies, including make-to-order (MTO), engineer-to-order (ETO), batch processes, make-to-stock (MTS), and configure-to-order (CTO). It also includes functionality for manufacturing management, CRM, inventory, order management, and financials. The company has an extensive network of global partners and complementary applications that can expand the functionalities of Acumatica’s solutions.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Aptean

Description: Aptean provides industry-specific software for specialized manufacturers and distributors across 20 worldwide markets. The company’s ERP solutions are developed from the ground up for each industry, including process manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, financial services, retail, distribution, and food. Features include real-time inventory management, integrated testing processes, regulatory reporting, and lot traceability. Aptean also offers a manufacturing execution system (MES) solution.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Aquilon Software

Description: Aquilon Software provides ERP software for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), focusing on manufacturers and distributors in North America. The company’s Manufacturing ERP solution is outfitted with Inventory Management, Bill of Materials/ Labor, Manufacturing Estimating, Work in Progress, and Mill Order/ Reman modules. Its Manufacturing ERP can also integrate with Aquilon’s Financial Distribution ERP solutions, providing organizers an option for a 360-degree view of their broader business.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

BatchMaster Software

Description: BatchMaster Software is a developer and implementer of process manufacturing solutions for food, beverage, chemical, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, personal care, and other process industries. Its end-to-end ERP solutions can support sales, financials, purchasing, customer, supply chain, and industry-specific process manufacturing processes, like production, regulatory compliance, quality management, lot traceability, mobile warehousing, planning, scheduling, and more. Alongside its ERP feature, BatchMaster’s solutions can also work with Sage 100, Sage 300, Microsoft Dynamics GP, QuickBooks, and SAP Business One. 

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Cetec ERP

Description: Cetec ERP is a web-based SaaS platform for companies in the manufacturing and distribution markets. Its full-suite manufacturing Cloud ERP solution includes order fulfillment, CRM, sales management, MRP, job costing, mobile warehousing, inventory management, purchasing, quality assurance, integrated document management, financial accounting, manufacturing quotes, and shop floor control functionalities. The company offers several pricing packages so companies of different sizes can equip themselves with the right tools for their business. 

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

DELMIAWorks

Description: Born on the shop floor, DELMIAWorks (formerly known as IQMS Software) is all about manufacturing. Their ERP software is tailored specifically for the manufacturing environment, from small-scale to larger-sized businesses. Structured on accountability, the DELMIAworks system combines manufacturing, MES, and ERP software to improve every aspect of your business. The software system is used in several industries, including automotive, medical, aerospace, defense, assembly, food, beverage, general multi-process, contract, and more. The platform is part of Dassault Systèmes’ solution suite. 

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Deskera

Description: Deskera is an “all-in-one” integrated platform that provides SMBs with a suite of ERP, MRP, accounting, finance, inventory management, warehouse management, CRM, marketing, and human resource management products. Use cases for Deskera’s suite cover everything from accounting to budgeting, multi-channel order management, forecasting, revenue recognition, sales pipeline management, and more. With Deskera’s MRP, companies can track inventory levels, plan purchasing and production needs, calculate production costs, and streamline operations for maximum efficiency.

Learn more about leading ERP products with Solutions Review’s Free ERP Buyer’s Guide.

ECI Software Solutions

Description: For over 30 years, ECI Software Solutions has provided on-premise and cloud-based technologies, alongside industry-specific software, for small to medium-sized companies in the manufacturing, wholesale/retail distribution, building, construction, and field service industries. Its manufacturing suite includes several industry-specific products, including the M1, JobBOSS², Macola, and Deacom solutions. Capabilities cover everything from inventory management to material requirements planning, production order processing, master scheduling, shop floor control, manufacturing cost accounting, and more.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Epicor

Description: Epicor Software Corporation provides enterprise solutions for global companies in the manufacturing, distribution, lumber, and building supply (LBM), retail, and automotive industries. The company has nearly 50 years of experience equipping its clients with analytics, CRM, data management, ERP, e-commerce, financial, HR, sales, and supply chain management tools. With Epicor’s ERP solution, Kinetic, manufacturers can track project progress in real-time, improve their technical data processes, increase automation, turn data into actionable insights, and more.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Genius ERP

Description: Genius ERP is an end-to-end manufacturing ERP solution for planning, executing, measuring, and improving high-variable production processes for SMEs. It can help users handle make-to-order, engineer-to-order, custom-to-order, and assemble-to-order manufacturing projects while automating time-consuming steps, generating quotes, reducing bottlenecks on the shop floor, and more. Genius ERP can connect every part of a business with an easy-to-use centralized system that lets users easily share information across their company.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Global Shop Solutions

Description: Global Shop Solutions offers ERP software designed to help businesses simplify their manufacturing processes. The company provides applications for quote-to-cash, shop management, scheduling, inventory, accounting, quality control, CRM, and more. Available in the cloud or on-premise, Global Shop Solution’s manufacturing customers can utilize real-time inventory accuracy to optimize deliveries, lower administrative costs, increase sales, and improve customer service. The company supports thousands of manufacturing facilities in over 25 countries and nearly 30 industries. 

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Infor

Description: Infor is a cloud-based software solution provider for the manufacturing, distribution, consumer products, public sectors, energy, healthcare, hospitality, and service industries. The applications Infor offers are built to give users everything they need to run day-to-day operations and grow their businesses long-term. For example, its manufacturing solutions can be configured to discrete and process manufacturing environments, equipping organizations with the capabilities to accelerate time to value, automate complex processes, gain a 360-degree view of customers, and increase collaboration.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

MIE Solutions

Description: MIE Solutions is a global provider of production control software for the entire manufacturing sector. The company offers a collection of enterprise and cloud-based products to help organizations across industries streamline processes, improve efficiency, and boost ROI. MIE Trak Pro is the company’s primary offering and offers capacity planning, quality control, forecasting, reporting, sales orders, accounting, and other functionalities to manufacturing, assembly, and distribution companies.  It also partners with Workbooks to equip its mid-market clients with CRM and business applications.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

MRPeasy

Description: MRPeasy is a cloud-based material requirements planning (MRP) and ERP system designed to meet the needs of small manufacturers in markets like 3D printing, biotechnology, automotive, chemical, aerospace, composites, electronics, food, agriculture, engineering, industrial equipment, and other needs. Its features include workstation capacity planning, bills of materials (BOM), tools, shop floor planning, inventory control, sales and order management, procurement, financials, and a collection of integrations.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

NetSuite

Description: Oracle NetSuite is a global provider of cloud-based services for organizations in over 20 industries that need help growing, scaling, and adapting to changes in their industry of choice. With advanced financial management and supply chain planning features, NetSuite provides users with the tools they need to accelerate growth and drive innovation. Its built-for-manufacturing solution equips businesses with multi-language, multi-currency capabilities to support their processes and supply chains worldwide with optimized capabilities. 

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

OptiProERP

Description: OptiProERP is a business management ERP solution for manufacturing and distribution companies in the automotive, high-tech, medical devices, industrial machinery, wholesale, and telecommunications equipment markets. The company’s functionalities are embedded in SAP Business One. They include inventory management, purchasing, quality control, production management, CRM, sales, service management, shop floor execution, warehouse management, planning, scheduling, analytics, and financial management. 

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Plex

Description: Plex Systems offers an intelligent manufacturing platform to help process and discrete manufacturers connect, track, analyze, and automate every aspect of their organization to drive business transformation. The company’s cloud-based platform includes ERP, manufacturing execution systems (MES), quality management, analytics, industrial IoT, supply chain planning (SCP), and manufacturing automation products for the aerospace, food and beverage, automotive, electronics, and other manufacturing verticals.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Priority Software

Description: Priority Software provides organizations of all sizes with flexible, scalable, and end-to-end ERP solutions. With its purpose-built solution for manufacturing, Priority can provide manufacturers with a 360-degree, real-time view of production facility performance, tracking, and enhancement capabilities. Other features include material requirements planning, inventory control, product data management, multi-division planning, quality control, analytics, and more. These tools enable users to remove inefficiencies, automate processes, and empower teams with seamless synchronization between units.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

QAD

Description: QAD Inc. provides “next-generation” manufacturing and supply chain management solutions for global companies in the life sciences, automotive, supply, consumer products, food and beverage, high-tech, and industrial industries. Its cloud-based ERP solutions encompass digital manufacturing, enterprise management, connected supply chain, supplier management, and customer management functionalities to help manufacturers stay efficient, withstand disruptions, and identify competitive advantages.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

Rootstock Software

Description: Rootstock Software is a global cloud-based manufacturing ERP provider that offers a solution built on Salesforce’s Cloud Platform. The solution provides a single, connected, and flexible platform for supply chain, distribution, and manufacturing organizations looking to manage their growing business. Its product suite includes order management, supply chain planning, sales CRM, production, inventory management, customer service, enterprise analytics, data insights, and engineering functionalities for various manufacturing markets and use cases.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

SAP

Description: SAP is an enterprise application software provider with a global network of customers, employees, and partners from financial services, energy, consumer-centric, and service industries. The company offers several products for manufacturers, including digital manufacturing, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), manufacturing execution systems (MES), and production planning solutions. With these solutions, manufacturers can use data analytics, automated data collection, centralized operations, integrated scheduling, energy monitoring, and more.

For a deeper breakdown of each provider listed, consult our Free Manufacturing ERP Buyer’s Guide.

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As part of this year’s Insight Jam LIVE event, the Solutions Review editors have compiled a list of predictions for 2025 from some of the most experienced professionals across the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Process Management (BPM), and broader WorkTech marketplaces.

As part of Solutions Review’s annual Insight Jam LIVE event, we called for the industry’s best and brightest to share their ERP, BPM, CRM, and Marketing Automation predictions for 2025 and beyond. The experts featured represent some of the top WorkTech solution providers with experience in these marketplaces, and each projection has been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value.

WorkTech Predictions for 2025 and Beyond

Thomas Butta, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Airship

Data willingly and simply provided will be key to unifying customer experiences.

“While walled gardens are nothing new, the walls keep getting higher—fortified by data deprecation and growing privacy regulations. In 2025, industry giants like Meta and Google will continue to tighten their grip on audiences, keeping more traffic on their pages while scraping content for large language models without an equitable value exchange. The result: plummeting referral traffic and soaring acquisition costs.

“Now more than ever, brands must prioritize direct customer relationships or risk being disintermediated. Data willingly and simply provided and purposefully solicited will be key to unifying experiences everywhere customers choose to interact–on the web, in apps, and everywhere in between.”

Murray Campbell, Global Product Manager (Regulatory) at AutoRek

Compliance demands drive the rise of automation  

“Regulatory pressures aren’t just tightening the screws—they’re turbocharging the case for compliance automation. For example, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expanding its budget and workforce to unprecedented levels. As global authorities enforce increasingly complex mandates, businesses are drowning in a sea of audits, filings, and reporting requirements. The old-school, manual approach to compliance is officially obsolete.

“Regulators are increasingly favoring firms that adopt advanced technology, recognizing that automated processes provide a level of traceability and precision unattainable with manual methods. As the digital economy grows, transaction volumes surge, and regulatory demands evolve, sticking to outdated methods for critical processes becomes an inefficient and costly approach.

“In this high-stakes landscape, automation isn’t a luxury—it’s an essential component of doing business today. By automating tasks like validations and cash transfers, firms can achieve greater speed and precision in handling data-related processes. This also frees resources to focus on activities that benefit from human expertise and creative problem-solving.”

Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint

DevOps Supercharges AI-First Infrastructure in 2025

“DevOps will evolve to meet the unique demands of AI-driven infrastructure, where complex ecosystems of data, machine learning models, and interconnected systems power nearly every industry. This AI ecosystem involves managing vast amounts of data, training and deploying machine learning models, and supporting scalable compute resources—all requiring specialized infrastructure. DevOps teams will expand their role, going beyond workflow automation to fully owning and optimizing these AI-first infrastructures. They’ll set best practices for managing the speed, scale, and reliability of AI applications, helping organizations harness AI efficiently and securely as it becomes central to operations.”

Edge Compute: The New Frontier in 2025

“Edge computing will emerge as the new frontier, enabling real-time data processing closer to where it’s generated—whether in autonomous vehicles, IoT devices, or remote facilities. By minimizing latency and reducing the load on centralized cloud resources, edge computing will transform industries like manufacturing, healthcare, and retail with faster, more reliable data-driven insights. This shift empowers applications that demand ultra-low latency, increased security, and local processing capabilities, pushing businesses toward a future where edge intelligence enhances user experiences, operational efficiency, and scalability like never before.”

Bill Buckley, the SVP of Engineering at CloudZero

Damantha Boteju, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Configit

Manufacturers Will Lean into Generative AI for Augmentation and Employee Enablement

“One of the significant business benefits of Generative AI is reducing time to market while giving employees time back to work on bigger, more creative projects. Generative AI helps accelerate business processes and reduce mundane work, enabling employees to focus on being creative and putting more effort into better human interactions and collaboration. The most competitive companies in 2025 will be those who understand the power of artificial intelligence and copilots to build on the strength of their employees.”

Daniel Joseph Barry, Vice President of Product Marketing at Configit

The Concept of the Digital Configuration Thread Gains Prominence   

“The digital thread approach is rapidly becoming the data foundation for managing both standard and configurable products. As we move into 2025, we see this concept playing an even more prominent role. That’s because a digital thread can help manufacturers by providing end-to-end insight and traceability, enabling analysis and optimization of product portfolios, and supporting digital twins. However, achieving this approach often requires manufacturers to cobble together information from multiple bills of material (BOMs) in varying formats that reside in disparate systems–typically under the purview of multiple departments. That can lead to misunderstandings, inconsistencies, control issues, and maintenance concerns, but Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) produces a ‘digital configuration thread’ that can help manufacturers manage product configurations better.”

Manufacturers Will Look to Configuration to Help with Workforce Challenges

“Demands on manufacturers have never been higher, but U.S. manufacturers are struggling with a workforce gap. As seasoned workers hit retirement age, manufacturers will need to ensure they can capture the institutional knowledge of these employees in a more efficient way. That means moving away from a document- and experience-driven process to capture information from individual contributors. A configuration lifecycle management approach is one approach to doing this, laying the foundation for better collaboration and innovation by centralizing product configuration information so it can be shared among multiple departments. This capability lessens the sting of retiring pros and the fear of losing a company’s ‘brain trust.'”

Henrik Hulgaard, Vice President of Product Management at Configit

Configurability Will Become a Bigger Priority 

“As we saw in a recent survey of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) professionals conducted by CIMdata, configurability has become a bigger priority, and we anticipate that trend will continue in 2025. This will drive the need for new ways to support customization, as traditional processes and tools won’t suffice. Many manufacturers still try to manage configurable products and product variants as if they were standard products, but managing configurable products requires a different approach. This leads to the next prediction.”

The Adoption of Modularity Will Rise 

“We’ll see an increase in modularity due to the expanded demand for customization and increased regulations and compliance mandates. For instance, sustainability regulations that require reuse and recyclability, such as those we see in the U.S. and EU, are easier to meet with a modular approach. Many early adopters have already implemented a modular approach to their products, and we’ll see more adoption in the new year, as modularity benefits manufacturers by reducing time, effort, and costs. It enables them to meet customization demands more cost-effectively by reusing modules (collections of features or pre-assembled parts) rather than custom engineering.

“Adopting modularization can be demanding, as it requires process changes, but with the combined compelling events of regulations and competition, manufacturers can justify the investment and reap the benefits. Forward-thinking manufacturers have already recognized this and are adopting new approaches centered on modularity and transitioning from engineer-to-order (ETO) to more customize-to-order (CTO) approaches that better meet their customers’ needs and enable faster response and delivery of solutions with minimal impact on engineering resources.”

Rahul Pradhan, Vice President of Product and Strategy at Couchbase

Agentic AI Poised to Power Next Wave of AI Innovation in 2025

“In 2025, the trajectory of AI will be shaped by the rise of agentic AI—proactive, intelligent agents that go beyond basic chatbots in an evolution promising a profound transformation for both consumer and enterprise landscapes, accelerating the world into a new era of AI capabilities. With capabilities such as understanding context, setting goals, and adapting actions, agentic AI can complete tasks previously thought impossible by AI.

“For this to be made possible, agentic systems require a compound AI system using multiple models that are moved closer to data sources within security parameters. The systems also need to handle both structured and unstructured data at low latency—all in real-time — to make meaningful, context-aware decisions on the fly. This requires seamless integrations across unstructured data processing, vector databases, and transactional systems for efficient storage and retrieval of diverse data types.

“The companies that will excel in providing these robust integrations and infrastructures will be uniquely positioned to drive the next wave of innovation and value in the AI sector.”

Edge AI Agents: Autonomous Decision-Makers

“As the maturity of Agentic AI advances, edge devices will start to adopt agents that can act autonomously based on real-time data. Edge AI agents, powered by integrated databases, will be able to make decisions in milliseconds, bypassing the need for centralized processing. These autonomous agents will perform tasks like controlling robotic arms in manufacturing, adjusting energy consumption in smart grids, and ensuring patient safety in healthcare facilities. The combination of AI models, local data processing, and autonomous agents will make edge devices intelligent participants in broader ecosystems.”

Steve Rotter, Chief Marketing Officer at DeepL

AI will accelerate hyper-personalized, more consistent marketing.

“We live in a hyper-personalized world—custom coffee, made-to-order clothing, and on-demand news feeds. Brands are even now tailoring their marketing messages and language to every customer in their preferred language, style, and tone. Along with personalization, consistency of language across all streams is central to successful marketing. Research shows that it boosts revenue by 20 percent or more.

“However, achieving this consistency across borders and languages is tough, requiring not only linguistic translation but also cultural adaptation to ensure that messages resonate the right way in different markets. If advertisers and marketers don’t get this right, they’ll open themselves up to misunderstandings, wasted resources, and missed growth opportunities. 2025 will be an exciting year for the marketing world as we start seeing a better understanding of how AI can strengthen customer relationships and help businesses’ bottom lines.”

Jim Palmer, the Chief AI Officer at Dialpad

The AI trust divide will reshape market dynamics in 2025. 

“Organizations that address customer concerns and ensure human oversight to prioritize transparency and ethical governance will gain a competitive edge. Companies that proactively address customer concerns and maintain human oversight will excel in customer retention and navigate regulated markets more effectively than those rushing to market without proper ethics. As consumer awareness grows and regulatory frameworks evolve, the market will increasingly reward businesses that demonstrate responsible AI practices while fostering innovation, leading to a more mature competitive landscape.”

Businesses will grow increasingly skeptical of AI offerings. 

“We’ll see a shift towards industry-specific AI tools as businesses grow weary of generic solutions that fail to deliver on their promises. This skepticism will be fueled by the proliferation of rushed AI products that create more challenges than they solve, leading to stalled adoption and investment among wary buyers.”

The human element of customer service will be redefined.

“As AI handles routine inquiries and administrative tasks, customer service roles will evolve to focus on complex problem-solving and relationship building. This shift will attract and retain more skilled professionals who can dedicate time to nuanced customer needs, leading to improved job satisfaction and career advancement opportunities. Organizations that successfully blend AI efficiency with meaningful human interactions will see higher customer satisfaction and loyalty, while those maintaining traditional high-volume, low-value service models will lag behind.”

Alan Samuels, the Vice President of Data and Product at Encompass Corporation

In 2025, AI Will Move Beyond The Hype and into Practical Application

“As artificial intelligence (AI) matures, 2025 marks a pivotal shift in how the financial industry leverages its potential. Gone are the days of embracing AI for its novelty. In the coming year, financial organizations will focus on pragmatism, problem-solving, and creating measurable value.”

• Solutions-focused AI: Financial firms will focus on scalable solutions that deliver clear, measurable outcomes. AI applications are now subject to rigorous scrutiny regarding their origins, training data, and compliance with security standards.
• Accelerating Digital Transformation: Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision are enabling AI to process non-digital information, bridging the gap for businesses reliant on legacy systems.
• The Arms Race in Financial Crime: AI is transforming how institutions detect and prevent fraud, leveraging its ability to uncover patterns and connections hidden in vast datasets while staying ahead in an arms race against increasingly sophisticated bad actors.
• Rethinking Product Development: AI serves as a “co-pilot” for developers, assisting in coding and accelerating the translation of vision into actionable requirements. AI-powered tools are reshaping how financial firms deliver customer experiences, blending efficiency with personalization to meet evolving demands.
• Enhancing CX: AI-powered tools are reshaping how financial firms deliver customer experiences, blending efficiency with personalization to meet evolving demands.
• Corporate Digital Identity (CDI): CDI leverages multiple advanced technologies, including AI, security frameworks, and robotic process automation (RPA), by pulling information from both public and private domains, ensuring it adheres to regulatory requirements, such as documenting sources and demonstrating the provenance of data.

Alexandros Siskos, the SVP of Customer Success and Marketplace Strategy at Everseen

More than Half of Retailers Will Invest in AI Platform Technology.

“As retailers recognize the value of unified AI solutions over piecemeal approaches, we predict that over half of them will adopt AI platform technology to support a growing range of business applications. This platform approach will enable retailers to apply AI-driven insights across business functions such as loss prevention, inventory management, and customer experience. With the tech industry increasingly focused on this market, retailers are well-positioned to integrate foundational AI with tailored applications.”

Casey Ciniello, Reveal and Slingshot Senior Product Manager, Infragistics

Implementing AI Will be a Top Priority in 2025

“By 2025, generative AI will become more integrated into technology, including content creation, software development, and automated decision-making. The shift towards AI will be a top priority and present transformative challenges in 2025, including workforce concerns about job security and resistance among employees hesitant to embrace AI-driven interactions. Traditional mentoring and learning pathways could be disrupted, resulting in limited development opportunities for junior staff and leaving a critical gap in skill-building and career growth.

“To address these challenges, we must adopt a proactive approach to collaboration between human employees and AI tools, emphasizing the unique skills that humans bring to the table, such as creativity, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence. By fostering an environment where employees view AI as a partner rather than a replacement, organizations can alleviate fears and enhance morale.”

JJ McGuigan, App Builder Product Manager at Infragistics

“Industries like healthcare and finance, where compliance with strict regulatory standards is critical, often face extended development timelines due to the rigorous testing required. However, the growing adoption of low-code tools is poised to revolutionize the time needed to adhere to these standards. Low-code platforms not only accelerate app development but also ensure that applications are built in alignment with legal and regulatory requirements. By integrating industry best practices into the development process, low-code solutions will streamline compliance, enabling faster delivery of secure, compliant apps without sacrificing quality or oversight.”

Security-related attacks on AI agents will soon emerge as a critical threat.

“Technology leaders will need “Guardian Agents” to autonomously monitor, manage, and contain AI actions as they work to establish standards for AI oversight. With enterprise interest in AI agents intensifying, next-generation GenAI agents are rapidly reshaping strategic planning for product leaders. Guardian Agents will bring a holistic approach to AI security, integrating compliance assurance, ethics, data filtering, log analysis, and advanced observability. As we move through 2025, the number of product releases deploying multiple agents will rise, supporting increasingly sophisticated use cases. Guardrails, security filters, and human oversight alone won’t be enough to guarantee the safe and appropriate use of autonomous agents.”

Daniel Lereya, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at monday.com

Productization Fuels AI Business Transformation in 2025

“AI has moved beyond the hype and is now a fundamental force transforming business operations. As we move into 2025, the primary challenge won’t be the technology but adopting and integrating AI into existing workflows. Companies must focus on how AI can be embedded directly into platforms, including new and existing processes while extracting real and material business value to enhance and scale operations.

“For AI to truly drive value, it must be accessible, predictable, and trustworthy—solutions that provide clear ROI while seamlessly aligning with how companies already work. Businesses will prioritize AI tools that grow with them and can tackle a wide range of issues, from automating routine processes to solving complex problems across areas like customer service, supply chain optimization, and data analysis—all with minimal disruption and cost.

“Ultimately, success in 2025 will hinge on adopting AI and ensuring its implementation is smooth, scalable, and impactful within existing infrastructures. This will unlock new business opportunities, accelerate growth, and encourage companies to build a unique competitive edge in an increasingly AI-driven world.”

Enterprise Work Management: The Key to Scaling Success

“In 2025 and beyond, enterprise work management will be a cornerstone of business success as companies realize that seamless execution at scale is essential for growth. With hybrid teams spread across offices and remote locations, orchestrating workflows across departments, time zones, and geographies is no longer optional—it’s vital. Businesses that master this alignment will drive innovation and agility and stay ahead in an increasingly digital-first world.”

Unified Platforms Are the Future of Enterprise Tech

“Platforms will reign supreme as businesses consolidate their tech stacks into unified systems for greater efficiency and strategic advantage. With all company data in one place, decision-making becomes faster and smarter, unlocking insights that fuel growth. Companies looking to achieve a complete AI transformation will find it more effective to implement an AI platform as an integrated platform essential for unlocking its full potential across all aspects of the business. In a data-driven world, a holistic platform isn’t just nice; it will be a must-have for organizations looking to establish a unique competitive edge.”

Amol Dalvi, the VP of Product of Nerdio

Demand for Cost Efficiency and Resiliency in VDI and DaaS 

“Looking into 2025, we’ll see an increase in demand for cost efficiency coupled with robust business continuity and resiliency in virtual desktop solutions. These themes are echoed consistently by our customers who are asking questions like, ‘How do I ensure my AVD desktops remain accessible at all times?’ and ‘How can I meet stringent continuity requirements?’ The shift to cloud VDI solutions has brought many benefits, yet with the growing focus on uninterrupted access, we expect to see an evolving approach to meet both budget and reliability needs.”

Resurgence of On-Premises VDI Solutions 

“I anticipate a resurgence of on-premises VDI solutions in 2025. Azure Stack HCI could offer a VDI option for organizations that require specific data residency or regulatory control, face bandwidth challenges, or may not be fully comfortable relying solely on the public cloud. This trend would be especially significant for highly regulated sectors like healthcare, financial services, and federal government agencies, where tight control over data location and access can be critical. We’re even seeing an uptick in interest for environments where a completely disconnected setup—think submarine-level isolation from the internet—is a real business requirement.”

Stabilization of AVD as a Cloud VDI Leader 

“In the cloud arena, AVD continues to stabilize as a technology, which may encourage broader adoption by businesses that have been slower to make the shift. The improved reliability and usability of AVD, along with the integration of Microsoft 365 into the DaaS landscape, adds interesting new layers of choice. Organizations will need to weigh the flexibility and maturity of AVD against the growing adoption of Windows 365 to determine the best fit for their needs.”

Balancing AVD’s Versatility with Windows 365 Integration 

“As we look ahead, it will be fascinating to see how the market balances these options—whether enterprises lean more into the maturity and flexibility of AVD or focus on the pre-packaged option of Windows 365 for their evolving workforce needs. The decision will hinge on each organization’s unique needs for both flexibility and operational continuity.”

Jonathan Rhyne, CEO and co-founder of Nutrient

“As we embark on the journey of understanding AI’s impact on productivity, particularly in how we create, interact with, and experience documents, we find ourselves at an exciting crossroads. Currently, generative AI is revolutionizing content creation, enabling us to produce new material with unprecedented ease. Additionally, AI’s capability to access and summarize text from images has transformed our interactions with documents, making them more intuitive than ever.

“Looking ahead, I anticipate a significant evolution in how we experience these documents. One of AI’s groundbreaking advancements is its ability to establish a direct interface between humans and computers. While the popularity of natural language chatbots is currently capturing attention, they serve as a preliminary step in demonstrating the potential of transformer models.

“In the coming year, we can expect this new human-computer interface to facilitate real-time personalization of document content. This means that interactions will become dynamic, tailored to individual preferences and past experiences, all while leveraging the most current information available. Over time, the conveniences brought by AI will become so integrated into our daily lives that they will be taken for granted, much like our constant connectivity to the internet today.”

Steve Fenton, Principle DevEx Researcher at Octopus Deploy

Platform Engineering will be thinner.

“Platform engineering has become a path towards DevOps efficiency and developer productivity. In 2025, organizations will realize they can achieve the goals of platform engineering with fewer lines of bespoke code. Instead of trying to build a grand unifying platform, existing tools will provide solutions that reduce fragmentation, apply standards, and integrate security into software delivery.”

Continuous delivery is dead… Long live continuous delivery!

“As organizations shift to platform-as-a-service, Kubernetes, and serverless offerings, they often lose good practices along the way. The solid continuous delivery pipelines they created for traditional self-hosted and IaaS environments had solid practices that should be transferred to new environments.”

Paul Laudanski, Director of Security Research at Onapsis

Cloud migration delays will trigger security emergencies

“As organizations face pressure to migrate their business-critical data to the cloud, many are still dragging their feet. Once migration becomes urgent, especially as we approach deadlines such as SAP’s 2027 cutoff to move to S/4HANA, the rush to transition will lead to mistakes such as leaving remaining vulnerabilities in the code or data you are bringing over. These mistakes could lead to costly delays or re-dos. Organizations still on legacy systems need to modernize their applications immediately to survive in the digital world that is already surpassing them. In 2025, we must prioritize addressing this migration before the risk compounds by way of proper cross-functional planning and execution.”

Lalitha Rajagopalan, co-founder of ORO Labs

Integrating GenAI and no-code solutions into procurement processes will be integral to remaining agile in the face of global changes.

“With natural disasters, geopolitical tensions, and economic shifts on the rise, traditional, pre-built procurement solutions can no longer adapt fast enough to avoid disruptions. GenAI-powered procurement orchestration breaks free from ‘hard-coded’ limitations, allowing companies to dynamically respond as situations evolve. This will be key to eliminating complex systems, improving visibility, and unlocking hyper agility, inherently enabling teams to react faster to potential disruptions, keeping operations not only on track but ahead in an unpredictable world.”

GenAI investments will shift from generic, broad use cases to more specialized, strategic applications.

“As GenAI technologies mature, companies will prioritize tools with clear ROI and targeted use cases. Procurement is especially ripe for transformation, given its exposure to frequent disruptions from global instability and complex third-party networks. By implementing GenAI in this space, companies can replace cumbersome systems with streamlined solutions that enhance visibility, adaptability, and resilience, making it a clear area where specialized GenAI investment can drive tangible results.”

Itamar Golan, Co-Founder and CEO at Prompt Security

The Future of Work with AI

“Contrary to widespread concerns, I don’t expect AI to eliminate jobs in 2025. Instead, it will serve as a powerful tool to enhance human capabilities. Agentic AI systems will work alongside humans, such as in customer service, sales outreach, marketing content creation, software development, and healthcare applications, among others. This means that very soon, 30 percent of our tedious and repetitive tasks will be automated, giving us more time to focus on creative, innovative, and interesting pursuits.

“I believe we will also see a significant shift as the multimodality of AI becomes more mainstream (video, audio, etc.), as opposed to the majority of its use, which has been text-based. This creates new opportunities for human-AI collaboration.”

Organizational AI Adoption

“The democratization of LLM access, driven by ever-decreasing prices, is enabling broader adoption across organizations. Additionally, specialized AI solutions will increasingly be moving away from OpenAI’s dominance, with alternatives like Claude gaining traction in specific domains such as coding, which is something we’re already starting to see.”

Agentic AI

“AI chatbots use generative AI to provide responses based on a single interaction. A person makes a query, and the chatbot uses natural language processing to reply. In my opinion, the next frontier of artificial intelligence will be agentic AI, which employs sophisticated reasoning and iterative planning to autonomously solve complex, multi-step problems. It is poised to enhance productivity and operations across various industries.

“Agentic AI systems process vast amounts of data from multiple sources to independently analyze challenges, develop strategies, and execute tasks such as supply chain optimization, cybersecurity vulnerability analysis, and assisting doctors with time-consuming tasks. I believe that by 2025, we will see a significant increase in resources shifting from single-interaction procedures with LLMs to this multi-step approach of agentic AI, which will gradually solve complex problems for us autonomously.”

Nitesh Bansal, CEO and Managing Director of R Systems

Organizations Must Take A Practical Approach to Generative AI Usage

“It’s no secret that generative AI has already had a significant impact on digital product engineering. It has fundamentally changed the way companies optimize the design and functionality of their products–everything from accelerating ideation and prototyping to user experience and product performance.

“In 2025, we will see more of this, but we will also see organizations take a more practical approach to how they leverage AI. AI has had a lot of hype–and that will continue–but more and more tech leaders will place a higher emphasis on ensuring measurable ROI–especially what can be achieved in the same fiscal year or under 12 months. For example, if an organization requires complex coding to enhance a new product, using AI to automate routine development tasks can free up needed time and gain an immediate benefit.”

There Will Be Continued Innovation Challenges In Digital Product Engineering if Organizations Don’t Embrace Upskilling and Outsourcing

“Innovation in digital product engineering will continue to flourish, but it will not come without challenges. On the technical side, a growing reliance on data, AI, and the cloud will require robust security measures and compliance with industry, state, and federal regulations. Additionally, ensuring AI-driven products are fair, transparent, and free from harmful biases will require ongoing vigilance and mitigation strategies.

“In the face of these challenges, it will be more important than ever to engage with those with deep technology expertise and know-how. However, finding and retaining professionals with the right mix of AI, data science, and product engineering skills will continue to be a challenge in itself.

“In 2025, we will see an increased focus on upskilling and outsourcing in an attempt to keep pace with the rapidly evolving technology landscape. Internal teams will become keepers of industry and company expertise, engaging with external resources that can help them choose and leverage the right emerging technologies while also bringing outside thinking and experience to problem-solving.”

Pieter Danhieux, co-founder and CEO of Secure Code Warrior

Rewriting the AI Equation: Not AI Instead of Developer, but AI + Developer

“As companies are prompted to take drastic cost-cutting measures in 2025, it would be to no one’s surprise that developers are replaced with AI tooling. But as was the situation when Generative AI first made its debut, and now, with years of updates and more to come, it is still not a safe, autonomous productivity driver, especially when creating code. AI is a highly disruptive technology with many amazing applications and use cases, but it is not a sufficient replacement for skilled human developers. I agree with Forrester’s prediction that this shift towards AI/human replacement in 2025 is likely to fail, especially in the long term. I think the combination of AI + developer is more likely to achieve this than AI alone.”

Bulent Cinarkaya, GM of Field Service Management at ServiceNow

“Over the past year and a half, field service organizations have been running a lot of GenAI pilot programs. Now, they’re working out whether to build solutions in-house, buy off-the-shelf options, or go with a mix of both. Next year, we’ll likely see a big increase in GenAI rollouts, with the technology expanding beyond just text-based tools. We’re talking about smarter, multi-turn conversations and new image and video intelligence features that can handle more advanced tasks. These developments will help companies operate more efficiently and open up fresh ways to improve service and engage customers.”

Dorit Levy-Zilbershot, VP of AI and Innovation at ServiceNow

“Over the next year, we will witness the evolution of enterprise AI agents as they become increasingly sophisticated in their reasoning and comprehension capabilities. Emerging use cases will transform the way businesses leverage these agents, and the nature of human interaction with them will evolve as they take on more complex tasks and decision-making roles. Watch for the rise of AI-powered ‘supervisors’ that will have the ability to move past simply automating tasks to truly orchestrating the interaction of all AI agents throughout an entire organization. This will make it exponentially easier for humans to administrate teams of AI agents across their entire business.

“By the end of 2025, AI agents will cross the chasm from tools that require more hands-on supervision to fully autonomous systems. Expect to see AI agents independently automating complex, multi-step processes without a human in the loop. This will undoubtedly transform how executives view AI adoption, positioning it as a powerful engine for unprecedented growth and innovation.”

Heather Jerrehian, VP of Product Management – Employee Workflows at ServiceNow

“To build an AI-capable workforce, organizations need visibility into the day-to-day tasks people perform and a plan for how to free up that time for more impactful work. Task intelligence will be the new frontier in 2025, enabling AI-driven automation and workforce agility so leaders can make informed decisions about upskilling, reskilling, and redeploying talent.

“In 2025, organizations will embrace autonomous agents, pairing humans and AI agents to streamline operations while cultivating new skill pathways for the workforce. This enables humans and machines to co-create the future of work—harnessing what each does best in a seamless partnership.”

Terence Chesire, VP of Product Management – Customer and Industry Workflows at ServiceNow

“In customer service, the ongoing transition from on-premise to the cloud for contact center will continue to accelerate–driven by the need to adopt AI quickly. This may come as a surprise to many. While most other software stacks have already moved to the cloud, the contact center has remained on-prem. The implication of this shift is a greater need to integrate cloud contact center systems with cloud-based CRM to both orchestrate interactions and the work that needs to happen during and after the call.”

Mark Mader, President and CEO at Smartsheet

Generative AI (GenAI) is ushering in a renaissance age for the generalist.

“Organizations have spent a disproportionate amount of capital hiring hyper-specialized talent with deep technical knowledge for years. Now, with the democratization of GenAI, the value offered by hiring ‘capable generalists’ is on the rise. People who articulately frame their thoughts, pose well-formed questions (prompts), and exercise AI tools to their advantage stand to benefit greatly.

“The demand for specialized AI talent—model developers, AI ops talent, and engineers to build and maintain infrastructure—will persist in 2025. However, we will also see the demand for non-technical talent shift to a more balanced state. Organizations will place as much worth on employees with the skills to extract value from platforms as those who build them.”

Future of Work 

“Over the past year, many of us have started experimenting with GenAI to work smarter and faster, raising questions about how this new technology will impact knowledge workers’ roles. In the coming year, organizations will apply GenAI to reduce and even replace repetitive tasks. This will allow knowledge workers to shift their focus, freeing their time to work on the aspects of their roles that are more strategic and creative. As a result, we’ll start to see more innovation. Businesses will also be expected to move faster and deliver more for their customers. Those who adopt GenAI now will have a competitive edge as these expectations shift.”

In 2025, AI will start to become part of the everyday fabric of our work.

“This year, an unbelievable amount of software came online that enables people to take advantage of AI in the context of their daily work. In 2025, AI will become part of the everyday fabric of work. Adoption will increase dramatically. More people will experience AI within the software they currently use. This removes the friction of switching to another app and staring at a blank prompt window. People will know where to start, and when they see results generated, they’ll usually have a better sense of whether the result is accurate.”

Greg Benson, Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco and Chief Scientist at SnapLogic

Agents will Flourish with Human Oversight

“Agents have the potential to automate the grunt work of many human activities in the enterprise. However, the near-term success of Agents will depend on the harmonious interaction between autonomous processing and human approval of critical, consequential decisions. In this way, Agents are an accelerator to human workflows, but the human still has the final say. Future Agent systems will seamlessly incorporate a human in the loop.”

Increased Focus on Copyright and Data Provenance

“As AI-generated content proliferates, questions about copyright infringement and data lineage will intensify. The industry will see a push toward ‘provenance-aware’ AI models that provide transparency about the sources of their training data. Legal and regulatory developments in this area will be closely monitored and could redefine how AI models are trained and deployed.”

Nitin Singhal, VP of Engineering (Data, AI, and Integrations) at SnapLogic

AI Agents Will Empower Data Engineers To Deliver More Value

“In 2025, enterprise AI agents will fundamentally transform workplace operations, not just by automating repetitive tasks but by reimagining the way teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver value. Far beyond assisting humans, AI agents will optimize decision-making, reduce operational overhead, and empower employees to focus on creativity and strategic initiatives. This evolution will redefine roles like data engineers and software developers, transitioning their work from repetitive processes to managing AI systems, shaping data ecosystems, and unlocking new avenues of value.”

The Real Work Behind Building Responsible AI Systems Will Come to Light in 2025

“The adoption of generative AI will necessitate robust data integration and validation technologies. Organizations will prioritize data lineage, cataloging, and context-sensitive processing to reduce risks like hallucinations in AI outputs. Regulatory compliance frameworks around data privacy, security, and transparency will evolve, and we will see brand new AI regulations driven by global attention to responsible AI usage.”

Charles Ruffino, Fellow, Cloud Architecture at SoftIron

IT talent shortage will force radical workforce reimagination.

“The IT talent landscape is about to experience a tectonic shift that makes previous skill shortages look like a gentle tremor. The quantum of offshore talent is contracting faster than a startup’s runway during a funding drought, forcing organizations into a high-stakes game of technological musical chairs. Onshore talent acquisition will become a bloodsport, with compensation packages climbing like hyperscaler stock prices and the true cost of technical expertise revealing itself in brutal economic clarity.

“This talent crunch isn’t just a staffing problem—it’s an existential forcing function for IT infrastructure reimagination. While AI won’t magically replace human expertise overnight, it will accelerate a Darwinian evolution in how technical teams are structured, skills are developed, and complex systems are conceived. Organizations will be compelled to architect more resilient, self-documenting, and intrinsically manageable infrastructure, transforming a potential crisis into a strategic inflection point for technological innovation. The silver lining? Those who adapt fastest will emerge not just surviving but fundamentally redesigning the future of enterprise technology.”

J-M Erlendson, Global Evangelist at Software AG

Shadow AI is here to stay

“Even as companies push towards developing proprietary AI models, shadow AI will remain pervasive. People tend to favor their own way of doing things, so it’s incumbent on business leaders to evolve in how they address unsanctioned AI use. Blanket bans may have the unintended effect of discouraging innovation, while a failure to lay out policies will bring security and compliance risks. The focus from a governance standpoint should be to make sure company tools are the best available options, as well as educate workers about the inherent risks of shadow AI.”

AI-powered predictive analytics will evolve, driving timely decision-making for businesses.

“Right now, AI’s capabilities in predictive analytics are still mediocre, with machine learning falling short of delivering the deep insights businesses need. While AI today mainly identifies trends, significant advancements will begin to emerge in 2025 and beyond. Over the coming years, AI will continue to evolve to provide more accurate, preemptive decision-making support, empowering organizations to act on business practices proactively and in real-time rather than giving counsel based on older context.”

Aurélien Caye, Solution Specialist at Sprinklr

The Rise of AI-Powered Customer Support

“In 2025, traditional chatbot experiences will fall short as customer expectations evolve. Businesses will increasingly adopt autonomous, AI-powered agents capable of delivering more adaptable, responsive, and personalized support. Generative AI, especially through conversational AI copilots, will enhance both customer and agent interactions by enabling faster, more insightful responses that feel human. While this shift opens vast opportunities, it also brings challenges in responsible AI implementation. As organizations scale up AI adoption, they’ll need to establish guardrails, ensure transparency, and focus on regulatory compliance. Ethical considerations and transparency in AI decision-making will be essential to building customer trust.”

Optimizing AI Efficiency and ROI in 2025

“As organizations move beyond the initial generative AI hype, 2025 will see a focus on optimizing AI model efficiency. Companies will prioritize ‘smaller LLMs’ or open-source, in-house models to improve ROI and manage costs effectively. Multi-modal capabilities in AI will gain traction, allowing systems to interpret diverse content formats and provide more comprehensive support. Success will come from blending AI’s capabilities with human input to create meaningful customer experiences, ensuring that AI-driven transformations remain both sustainable and valuable.”

Ryan Tierney, SVP of Product Management at TrueCommerce

“As we move into 2025, many of the challenges supply chain leaders face today are likely to persist. While the obstacles themselves might not change dramatically, we can expect businesses to sharpen their focus in key areas, particularly around automation. Streamlining supply chain processes will continue to be a priority as companies look for ways to operate faster, more efficiently, and with fewer resources. Another area that will remain critical is data analytics. Supply chains are made up of complex, disparate systems, and getting smarter with data will be key to making informed decisions. Leaders will increasingly rely on internal intelligence to drive operational improvements.”

Claus Jepsen, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Unit4

Out With Generative AI, In With Automation

“In 2025, IT leaders will pull back from applying generative AI to enterprise use cases amid growing data privacy and intellectual property concerns. While generative AI will fail to gain immediate traction, I expect its human-like quality and prevalence in public discourse will warm more enterprises up to the use of automation. Greater understanding and adoption of automation will transform the user experience for enterprise software. We’ll see the era of ‘self-driving ERP, where more intuitive and conversational software enables users to have less and less direct interaction with the user interface.”

Chris Wysopal, the Chief Security Evangelist and Founder of Veracode

Development and Security Teams Will Redirect Their Secure Coding Training Budget Toward Auto-Remediation

“Developers will learn less about secure coding because they’ll rely more on generative AI to remediate flaws automatically. This progression is analogous to the task of calling someone on the phone. While a few decades ago, we all needed to remember someone’s number to reach them, today, all we need to do is tap a contact on our phone. For developers, the equivalent will be to produce secure code without learning how to code securely from scratch. Instead, they will adopt processes to find, test, and fix vulnerabilities automatically, meaning it won’t be as important to know about secure coding—or even to know if generative AI has learned how to write secure code.”

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Solutions Review’s listing of the best ERP software companies is an annual look into the solution providers included in our Buyer’s Guide and Solutions Directory. Our editors gathered this information via online materials, reports, product demonstrations, conversations with vendor representatives, and free trial examinations.

As the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software marketplace continues to grow and evolve, evaluating and selecting a solution for your company has grown along with it. With so many different solutions for different industries, company sizes, and use cases, it can be challenging to narrow a search down to only the providers who offer software with the specific qualifications a company needs.

There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all ERP solution, either, so each team must make time for in-depth research into the capabilities, strengths, and potential drawbacks each one offers. With that in mind, Solutions Review editors updated this list of the best ERP software companies in the marketplace to consider if you’re looking for a new solution in 2025 (and beyond).

Note: Companies are listed in alphabetical order.

The Best ERP Software Companies for 2025

Acumatica

Description: Acumatica provides cloud and browser-based business management software solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. The Acumatica ERP solution offers clients a suite of integrated applications for financials, manufacturing, project accounting, retail, distribution, construction, and CRM that are all based around and powered by a single cloud-based platform. The company also has an extensive network of global partners and complementary applications that users can integrate into Acumatica’s solutions and expand its functionalities.

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Aptean

Description: Aptean provides industry-specific software for specialized manufacturers and distributors across 20 markets worldwide. The company’s ERP, supply chain, transportation management, manufacturing execution, product lifecycle, customer experience, warehouse management, and other solutions can help businesses of all sizes scale and adapt to the trends in their industry. Aptean provides cloud and on-premise deployment options to meet the unique needs of each company they work with. The company’s ERP solutions are a good fit for food and beverage, process manufacturing, retail, distribution, and industrial manufacturing companies.

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Certinia

Description: Certinia, formerly FinancialForce, provides customer-centric ERP, Professional Services Automation (PSA), and Customer Success Operations solutions for telecommunications, business services, health, digital communications, life sciences, and professional services. For example, its ERP Cloud software comes equipped with accounting, revenue management, usage billing, procurement, financial planning, subscription management, analytics, reporting, inventory management, order management, self-service billing, and other capabilities to help service organizations improve their business.

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Deltek

Description: Deltek offers a collection of ERP, business development, professional services automation (PSA), project management, human capital management, information management, and small business software solutions. Deltek’s ERP and PSA solutions are available as cloud-based or on-premises systems and are developed to help companies streamline their core operations and boost departmental collaboration. The solution is used in many industries, including aerospace and defense, healthcare, non-profit, construction, accounting, engineering,  education, and more.

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Deskera

Description: Deskera is an “all-in-one” integrated platform that provides SMBs with a suite of ERP, MRP, accounting, finance, inventory management, warehouse management, CRM, marketing, and human resource management products. Use cases for Deskera’s suite cover everything from accounting to budgeting, multi-channel order management, forecasting, revenue recognition, sales pipeline management, and more. With Deskera’s ERP, companies can automate and centralize their business processes, unlock real-time insights into their operations, increase business control, maximize data accuracy, fulfill orders faster, reduce costs, and improve customer service.

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ECI Software Solutions

Description: For more than 30 years, ECI Software Solutions has served companies in the manufacturing, wholesale/retail distribution, building, construction, and field service industries. It is a privately-held company providing on-premise and cloud-based technologies, alongside industry-specific software, for small to medium-sized companies. The services offered include implementations, consultations, management, analytics, support, and product-specific training to help business owners streamline their day-to-day operations. 

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Epicor

Description: Epicor Software Corporation provides flexible, cloud-based enterprise solutions for global companies in the manufacturing, distribution, building supply (LBM), retail, and automotive industries. The company has decades of experience equipping its clients with analytics, CRM, data management, ERP, e-commerce, financial, HR, sales, enterprise content management, business intelligence, and supply chain management tools. Epicor also offers consulting, update, migration, education, cybersecurity, and implementation services to help its clients succeed. 

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ERPNext

Description: ERPNext is a free, web-based, open-source ERP solution to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) manage their inventory, accounting, sales, manufacturing, projects, website, purchase, and customer support. The solution is presented as a series of apps based on the MariaDB database system and uses JavaScript and a Python-based server-side framework. It offers solutions for companies in manufacturing, retail, education, non-profit, distribution, healthcare, agriculture, and services industries. 

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GenetiQ

Description: GenetiQ is a cloud ERP solution from Intact Software, a global company that provides software solutions to dealers, retailers, wholesalers, and distributors. With GenetiQ, Intact has created an ERP tailored specifically for the lumber and building materials industry, with features for each sector. For example, the platform comes equipped with stock management, financial reporting, accounting, integrated business intelligence tools, CRM functionalities, workflow automation, point-of-sale features, mobile access, and a collection of integrations with e-commerce and other relevant technologies.

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IFS

Description: IFS develops and delivers ERP software for customers worldwide who manufacture and distribute goods, maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. IFS’s products are user-friendly, flexible, and modular in design. The IFS Applications business software provides increased ERP functionality, including CRM, SCM, PLM, EOI, enterprise asset management, and MRO capabilities. IFS ERP includes planning and scheduling capabilities across Enterprise Project Management, Enterprise Asset Management, and Service Management functions. It can be configured for various industries and excels in demanding settings.

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Infor

Description: Infor is a global provider of cloud-based software solutions for the manufacturing, distribution, consumer products, public sectors, energy, healthcare, hospitality, and service industries. The business applications Infor offers are specialized by industry and are built to give users everything they need to run day-to-day operations and grow their businesses for the long term. System functionalities can help users take advantage of data-driven insights, adapt to emerging trends and challenges, and accelerate their path to innovation. 

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Microsoft

Description: Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 suite goes beyond traditional ERP systems by bringing comprehensive enterprise resource planning functionality with the Office 365 apps you already know in a single, cloud-based service. If you’re a small or medium-sized business, it helps you manage your finances. If your enterprise is more extensive, you can manage your operations and increase your speed of doing business with insights that help you make data-driven decisions that improve overall business performance.

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Multiview Financial Software 

Description: Multiview Financial Software provides companies with easy-to-use financial applications built to help users improve their financial planning and accounting efforts. As an “ERP software built for accountants by accountants,” Multiview comes equipped with core accounting capabilities for accounts payable, accounts receivable, and general ledger, alongside various business insights, automation, and inventory management tools. The Multiview Financial ERP platform provides organizations with a single point of truth that improves visibility across divisional, regional, or product line silos.

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My Office Apps

Description: My Office Apps offers a cloud-based, scalable, and configurable ERP system for growing companies. Kechie, the company’s ERP platform, is built to grow alongside a company and improve processes with AI-powered reporting tools, automation, and more. Specific features available with Kechie include contract management, CRM, equipment maintenance, procurement, RMA, order management, logistics, supply chain management, and warehouse management. Alongside its comprehensive ERP solution, My Office Apps also offers use-case-specific platforms for inventory management, manufacturing, and financial management.

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NetSuite

Description: Oracle Netsuite is a global provider of cloud-based services and ERP solutions for small, medium, and large organizations in over 20 industries. The company’s solution suite is designed to help organizations grow, scale, and adapt to changes in their industry. Its capabilities are an integrated system of features for enterprise resource planning, financial management, accounting, inventory management, HR, professional services automation, analytics, omnichannel commerce, and more. The company primarily works with healthcare, financial services, higher education, manufacturing, and retail. 

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Odoo

Description: Odoo provides companies with a suite of open-source business management applications for CRM, e-commerce, inventory management, point-of-sale, accounting, project management, human resources, and more. The company offers 30 applications that can be added to the platform as needed and cover everything from warehousing, manufacturing, and sales channels to timesheets, websites, purchasing, and more. With various pricing points for different needs, Odoo is an accessible option for growing companies looking for a solution that can scale alongside them.   

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Oracle

Description: Oracle is a leading cloud technology company providing organizations worldwide with various computing infrastructure and software products designed to help them innovate their business, unlock new efficiencies, and improve efficiency. With the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, companies can move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and between the cloud, on-premises, and other clouds. Its product suite includes solutions for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM), Customer Experience (CX), Human Capital Management (HCM), and more. 

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Priority Software

Description: Priority Software provides organizations of all sizes with flexible, scalable, and end-to-end ERP solutions. With built-in AI capabilities, an intuitive user experience (UX), various social engagement tools, mobile management, business intelligence, CRM, HR management, supply chain management, customer services, and other features, Priority’s cloud-based ERP system can meet the needs of companies across the manufacturing, distribution, construction, customer service, project management, and other SME organizations worldwide.

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QAD

Description: QAD began in 1979 as a small start-up looking to address a significant gap in business software for manufacturing companies. Today, they offer a flexible ERP solution for those same customers. Their ERP software is typically recommended for organizations with six or more users accessing the system. The platform provides users with around-the-clock and around-the-world support in all major languages. Running on the QAD Cloud, QAD’s “next generation” ERP delivers excellent availability and performance with the security demanded by a mission-critical application, including support for GPDR. 

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Ramco

Description: Ramco is an India-based software company and global provider of enterprise software. The company provides clients with an ERP suite equipped with functionalities for AI, machine learning, finance, accounting, quality management, supply chain management, HR, and other business tools. The company primarily works with aviation, manufacturing, facility management, logistics, energy, and other worldwide markets. With its cloud-based solution, companies will have a 360-degree view of their business anytime, from anywhere, as they can access each component of the suite over the internet from mobile or desktop devices.

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Sage

Description: Sage is a technology provider offering cloud business management solutions for worldwide small and medium-sized businesses in professional services, wholesale distribution, construction, manufacturing, non-profit, and food and beverage. The company offers three ERP solutions—Sage 100, Sage 300, and SageX3—equipped with inventory management, HR, accounting, CRM, and more. Sage also has a network of partners that customers can use to further their goals. 

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SAP

Description: SAP, the German software giant, provides businesses with its SAP S/4HANA next-generation ERP software, offering robust functionality across some industries, including manufacturing, services, retail, wholesale distribution, and more. S/4HANA provides applications covering customer relationship management, financials, human capital management, and product lifecycle management. This vendor offers various solutions that primarily serve medium and large-sized businesses. It is a good choice for widespread and complex organizations that need to control many facets of their business. 

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SYSPRO

Description: SYSPRO is a global provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for companies of all sizes in the manufacturing and distribution markets. SYSPRO’s scalable ERP, CRM, smart manufacturing, and POS solutions can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or as a combination. Users can access the platform from any device connected to the internet. The company can also act as an advisor to clients, offering various support services to clients. 

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Unanet

Description: Unanet provides purpose-built ERP and CRM solutions for government contractors, project-driven organizations, and businesses in the architecture, construction, engineering, and professional services industries. The company’s solutions can help users improve company decision-making, convert data into actionable insights, promote business growth, automate essential processes, and optimize how their company manages projects, customers, people, data, and operations. 

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Unit4

Description: Unit4 provides next-generation enterprise solutions for people-centric, mid-market organizations worldwide. The company’s cloud software combines financial, project management, HR, procurement, and FP&A capabilities into a unified platform capable of sharing real-time information with users. The company’s integrated suite of ERP software solutions is designed to help companies elevate their business by delivering improved visibility and control over finances, projects, procurement, reporting, forecasting, and payroll. 

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The editors at Solutions Review have compiled this list of the best ERP solutions for construction companies to consider working with. 

ERP is an indispensable enterprise technology solution for finance, accounting, risk management, and many more industries. Regardless of vertical, business size, or target audience, it’s crucial to make ERP a core part of your business management strategy from the get-go. For example, construction companies need to have a complete view of their finance, maintain equipment, and manage processes across their HR, back-office, and transportation departments.

Choosing the right vendor and solution can be a complicated process—one that requires in-depth research and often comes down to more than just the solution and its technical capabilities. To make your search a little easier, we’ve profiled the best ERP solutions for construction and put them all in one place. This list is not static, and vendors may change as the market evolves. The list is organized in alphabetical order.

The Best ERP Solutions for Construction Companies

Acumatica

Description: Founded in 2008, Acumatica provides cloud and browser-based business management software designed for small and mid-sized businesses. Acumatica’s Residential & Commercial Construction Software provides users with an easy-to-use cloud-based solution to help keep projects on track and drive growth by ensuring that managers, subcontractors, supervisors, and customers are on the same page. Features include robust financial reporting, job cost accounting, integrated payroll functionalities, project billing, inventory management, business intelligence, and more.

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CMiC

Description: CMiC offers a variety of robust project management, construction, and ERP solutions. With CMiC’s enterprise planning solution, companies can automate back-office functions and streamline field operations with a suite of capabilities tailor-made for the construction industry. Those capabilities include various resource planning tools—i.e., interactive schedules, dynamic timelines, user-friendly interfaces, real-time status updates—alongside financial forecasting, opportunity management, and other features to help users run their business.

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Computer Guidance Corporation (CGC)

Description: Computer Guidance Corporation (CGC) provides commercial contractors in North America with cloud-based construction ERP and management applications for projects across the industrial highway, HVAC, electrical, oil, mechanical, and other markets. The company’s eCMS Cloud Construction ERP solution includes a suite of apps to help commercial contractors of all sizes manage their finances and overall operations. Specific features include payroll management, reporting, accounting, project-wide communication tools, content management, and more.

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Epicor

Description: Epicor Software Corporation provides industry-specific business software for manufacturing, distribution, retail, and services organizations. With over 45 years of experience, Epicor Software offers unique solutions for business processes and operational requirements―in the cloud or on-premises. Alongside its general ERP capabilities, which can be customized for construction companies, Epicor also offers a Building Supply solution suite that offers several products for different use cases. These include LumberTrack, a lumber inventory management software, and BisTrack, an ERP software for building materials suppliers, distributors, and metal service centers.

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IFS

Description: IFS develops and delivers ERP software for customers worldwide who manufacture and distribute goods, maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. IFS’s products are user-friendly, flexible, and modular in design. The IFS Applications business software provides increased ERP functionality, including CRM, SCM, PLM, EOI, enterprise asset management, and MRO capabilities. With IFS, construction companies can utilize a project-based ERP system capable of helping them control and determine schedules across functions, coordinate departments, and use high-level visibility and transparency to maintain goals.

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MarkSystems

Description: MarkSystems, an ECI software solution, is a home building management software designed to help home building executives and managers track profitability and progress at every stage of a project. The fully integrated, easy-to-use, cloud-based, and single-platform ERP solution includes a collection of features for accounting, scheduling, sales management, purchasing, cost estimating, built-in reporting tools, interactive site maps, a design center for clients, and more.

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Oracle

Description: Oracle is a cloud technology company providing organizations worldwide with various computing infrastructure and software products designed to help them innovate their business, unlock new efficiencies, and improve efficiency. With the Oracle Smart Construction Platform, companies can connect project teams, empower decision-makers, turn data into actionable insights, orchestrate resources for smooth project deliveries, and synchronize operations across the supply chain.

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PENTA

Description: PENTA’s construction-oriented ERP software combines advanced enterprise technology with decades of construction industry experience into one integrated system. The PENTA Construction Software suite incorporates enterprise content management, construction accounting, payroll, records management, field data collection, project management, business intelligence, mobile software, daily analytics reporting, and equipment management capabilities. PENTA is best suited for commercial and industrial contractors across markets.

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Procore

Description: Procore Construction Management Software offers multiple solutions depending on your organization’s needs. This includes pre-construction, project management, training management, resource management, financial management, and analytics. The company’s solutions are tailored to the needs of construction business owners, subcontractors, general contractors, and public sector workers. The platform includes project management, accounting integrations, project financials, real-time data insights, training programs, bid management, and other tools to help users streamline their business processes.

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Sage

Description: Sage provides ERP software for small and medium-sized companies across industries. The company offers several software products for construction companies, including Sage Intacct Construction, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage ToolOps, and Sage Estimating. Companies can use these solutions to streamline field operations, financial management, accounting, pre-construction project management, payroll management, and other processes throughout a construction business.

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SAP

Description: SAP, the German software giant, provides businesses with its SAP S/4HANA next-generation ERP software, offering robust functionality to medium and large-sized businesses across industries. For example, construction companies can use SAP’s various solutions to connect teams to projects, optimize how they use a space, integrate responsible practices to minimize environmental impact, hire the right talent, run resilient supply chains, meet evolving customer expectations, improve operations, and utilize technology-driven tools for planning, logistics, and procurement.

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Striven

Description: Striven provides companies with an “all-in-one” business management software that combines CRM, project management, accounting, HR, inventory management, and other capabilities into a single system. With Striven’s construction management software, businesses can manage jobs, employees, and finances, all from one system. The software is outfitted with project management, built-in accounting, scheduling, inventory management, time tracking, recruiting, materials management, equipment tracking, job costing, subcontractor management, and other capabilities for construction companies.

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Viewpoint

Description: Viewpoint, a Trimble company, offers several scalable, fully integrated, and configurable ERP solutions for construction companies. The Vista Construction Software solution can boost company profits, streamline back-office processes, manage equipment usage, increase productivity, and manage job costs. Specific features include RFI management, standardized workflows, accounting tools, interactive data management tools, service management, equipment tracking, HR, integrated project management, payroll management, and more.

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The editors at Solutions Review have highlighted the updates in the 2024 edition of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems and summarized the findings.

Analyst house Gartner Inc. recently released the 2024 version of its Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems. According to Gartner, a warehouse management system (WMS) is “a software application that helps manage and intelligently execute the operations of a warehouse, distribution center (DC) or fulfillment center (FC).” These solutions can help businesses monitor warehouse activity, track inventory, adjust processes, sort products, and achieve more accurate visibility into their warehouse operations.

Gartner also summarizes some of the standard capabilities WMS should offer, which include functionalities for receiving, cross-docking, stock locating, inventory management, replenishment, quality inspection, order allocation, location management, picking, wave planning, staging, truck loading, cycle counting, shipping, automated material handling equipment (MHE) interfaces, and more.

Key Takeaways: 2024 Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems

In this updated Magic Quadrant, Gartner identifies twenty of the most significant Warehouse Management System providers in the marketplace. The researchers behind the report—Simon Tunstall, Dwight Klappich, Rishabh Narang, and Federica Stufano—evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of each provider listed and ranked them on the signature “Magic Quadrant” graph, which illustrates each vendor’s ability to execute its vision. The diagram includes four quadrants: leaders, challengers, niche players, and visionaries.

Below is a breakdown of each category and the companies associated with it. Solutions Review’s rundown of last year’s Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems is available here.

Leaders

Manhattan Associates once again leads this year’s Magic Quadrant report. It is the second-largest specialized supply chain suite provider, as evaluated by Gartner, and offers an extensive portfolio of supply chain management (SCM) solutions for logistics, omnichannel commerce, supply chain planning, and supplier enablement tools. Its strengths in the market include its strategy for growing its offerings, its innovative R&D team, the recent enhancements it introduced to various capabilities, and its microservices multitenant cloud architecture.

Blue Yonder, which operates independently under the Panasonic Connect umbrella, is the next Leader listed in Gartner’s report. According to Gartner, Blue Yonder offers the largest supply chain management suite, with a 2023 software revenue of $1.1 billion and $223 million in WMS software revenue. The company is one of the most mature and adaptable vendors in the WMS market. It offers a robust suite of capabilities, including workforce management, traceability, performance management, an extensive partner network, robotics functionalities, and more.

Körber’s supply chain software business is part of its larger international technology group. It focuses on a “buy and build” strategy, integrating multiple providers to support global customers under its brand. The company uses a cloud-first model for new business but plans to adopt a multitenant microservices architecture over the next several years. Its strengths include notable customer growth compared to other vendors in the market, the extensibility of its offerings, warehousing expertise, and its user-based pricing model.

According to Gartner’s research, Oracle has the second-largest market share in the SCE software market, as its 2023 software revenue reached $693 million, with another $280 million attributed to its WMS software. While Oracle’s solution suite includes several WMS products, Gartner’s report focused exclusively on Oracle Fusion Cloud Warehouse Management, a go-forward WMS integrated with Oracle’s other cloud-based SCM solutions. Other strengths include its consistent SCM cloud strategies, continued embrace of a “next-generation” user experience, support for a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) layer, leveraging of other Oracle technologies, and presence in fulfillment-intensive industries.

SAP is a global software “mega vendor” with $33 billion in total annual revenue, of which $25.9 billion comes from software. For this report, Gartner focuses on the SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) solution, which integrates with other SAP solutions and components, including transportation management, global trade compliance, field logistics, quality management, plant maintenance, and more. Additional strengths include its significant international presence, large customer base, and ecosystem of implementation and consulting partners.

Infor, owned by Koch Industries, closes out the LEader category with a WMS portfolio equipped with several SCM applications. Infor is another “mega vendor” with a projected global revenue of $3.4 billion and $200 million in WMS software revenue. It earns its spot as a Leader thanks to the financial stability Koch provides, an in-depth 10-year roadmap for its product suite, an extensibility approach, worldwide accessibility, a global partner network, innovative capabilities, and integration with other Infor applications.

Challengers

Ehrhardt Partner Group (EPG) is back as a Challenger in this year’s Magic Quadrant. The company provides a portfolio of WMS and logistics solutions, multiple SCE applications, a native WCS, and consulting, cloud, and hosting services. It earns slightly more than $100 million annually from its WMS licenses and services revenue, approximately two-thirds of its overall revenue. EPG’s strengths as a WMS provider stem from its thirty-five years of experience in the marketplace, the stability its status as a privately owned company provides, its expertise with complex warehouse settings, and its competitive pricing tiers

Tecsys is a warehouse management solution provider that also offers companion SCE capabilities. Its WMS software and service revenue is approximately $120 million and has a three-year CAGR for revenue of thirty-four percent. The company is well-regarded for its vertical industry expertise, broad suite of SCM capabilities, robust extensibility via the Itopia platform, low-code application platform (LCAP) capabilities, and ongoing partnerships with specialized low-code integration technologies and MHE providers.

Microsoft is another mega vendor in the WMS market. Gartner estimates that approximately $1 billion of its global revenue comes from its supply chain applications, including the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management suite. With that suite, Microsoft provides companies with WMS and SCM capabilities for planning, procurement, and order management. Strengths include its compatibility with the other capabilities available in the Dynamics 365 ERP, competitive pricing for organizations already in the Dynamics 365 ecosystem, its extensive technology ecosystem, and its adoption of generative AI capabilities.

SSI SCHAEFER is the final Challenger listed in this year’s Magic Quadrant. Its WMS, WAMAS WMS, is available independently of material handling systems and designed for manual warehouse operations. The company differentiates itself in the market with an extensive European footprint, a sizeable WMS-centric workforce, the variety of deployment models it offers, its ongoing investment in product portfolio enhancements, and the stability it has from its status as a family-owned organization with nearly ninety years of warehouse management experience.

Niche Players

Synergy Logistics is a smaller software company focusing exclusively on WMS products and related solutions. Its solution, SnapFulfil, is primarily used in Level 2 and 3 warehouse operations and offers rapid deployments, SaaS options, and a dedicated cloud solution. According to Gartner, its strengths include its flexible rule engine, expanding partner ecosystem, scalable seasonal pricing strategy, training offerings, favorable service and disaster recovery service-level agreements (SLAs), and high no-code adaptability levels that enable the company’s faster implementations.

Made4net is a WMS and SCE-related solution vendor with an estimated $30 million annual WMS revenue. While Mad4net was acquired by Ingka Investments, the investment arm of Ingka Group, in 2023, the company continues to operate as an independent subsidiary. Its SCExpert suite provides WMS, labor, transportation, delivery, and yard management capabilities. Other strengths include its international go-to-market strategy, cost-effective implementation methodology, and an automation strategy tailored to the customer base.

Mecalux, a division of the Mecalux group, has an annual revenue of approximately $1.58 billion, with $32 million coming from its WMS revenue. It predominantly works with SMBs and has around 1,100 mid-market customers in manual and automated environments. The company stands out for its dedication to robotics growth, geographic presence in various territories, relatively low TCO (software-plus service) compared with other vendors, integration experience with other MESs, and adaptable simulation and modeling tools.

Mantis is a WMS suite provider with clients that range from SMBs with single-site deployments to larger multi-national organizations with multi-site, multi-country implementations. Gartner spotlights its strengths stemming from its local presence, partner network, and growing customer base in EMEA, as well as its recent acquisition by ecovium, which helped Mantis expand its ecosystem. Other strengths include its inventory slotting vision, newer Microsoft Azure cloud hosting, and scalable seasonal subscription offerings.

Generix Group provides a portfolio of SCM solutions, including two WMS offerings alongside transportation management, yard management, logistics order management, replenishment management, and electronic data interchange (EDI). After receiving investments in R&D from a 2022 restructure, the company released several new features for resource planning and forecasting and updated predictive and prescriptive analytics. Other strengths include its model-driven architecture, back-office capabilities, and pricing model, which doesn’t restrict users to a subscription model.

Deposco is one of the two new entrants in the 2024 Magic Quadrant. It’s a provider of cloud-based SaaS platforms with a focus on SCM. Its software is built natively on the cloud, uses cloud infrastructure from AWS, and provides companies with distributed order management (DOM), demand planning, and supply planning capabilities. Its strengths as a WMS vendor include its SCE convergence strategy, a pre-built library of 150+ connectors for applications in the e-commerce market, accelerated onboarding process, mature data strategy, and support for scalability.

Dematic is the other newcomer to this year’s Magic Quadrant. The company is part of KION Group, a manufacturer of materials handling equipment, and functions as a material handling equipment (MHE) and software provider. Its WMS focuses on larger businesses with automated and manual warehouses across North America and Europe. It provides its clients with extensive industry expertise, a compelling roadmap for its product, and an evolving suite of capabilities that include WMS, WCS, WES, robotics support, and AI.

Vinculum is the final Niche Player in this year’s report. The company is a cloud and SaaS-based solution provider focusing on e-commerce and omnichannel retail, backstory fulfillment, and retail-centric 3PL markets. Vinculum earns high marks for its significant customer group in emerging markets, its integration framework, easy-to-understand pricing model, relatively quick implementations, rapid scalability, and its consistent introduction of new capabilities, including enhancements to its D2C, B2B, and pre-built integrations.

Visionaries

Reply offers a collection of IT services to global companies, primarily focusing on consulting, digital services, SI, and cybersecurity offerings. It also provides warehouse management applications and services, which garner approximately $41 million in revenue annually. Strengths include its extensive consulting capabilities, AI-driven innovations, an extensive collection of technology partnerships that help it provide clients with direct deliverables, and proven technical and commercial composability, which it achieves by using only the required microservices in its applications.

Softeon is the final vendor in Gartner’s 2024 Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems. It’s a small, SCE-centric solution provider with 25 years of industry experience and an annual WMS revenue of approximately $50 million. The company is one of the few WMS providers that offer fixed-priced implementations, which it supports with additional implementations and methodologies. Other strengths include its native integration into various technologies, scalability, cloud hosting offerings, and its adoption of emerging functionalities, like predictive analytics and ChatGPT-enabled integrations.

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The editors at Solutions Review have compiled some of the best online supply chain certification programs that active and aspiring professionals should consider. Solutions Review participates in affiliate programs and may make a small commission from products purchased through this resource.

Supply chain management is a complex process that requires a wealth of skills and experience in various fields. For example, a supply chain manager or professional needs to be intimately familiar with the systems, processes, people, timelines, production, and partners involved in a given supply chain, and that’s often the tip of a far larger iceberg. This means that active and aspiring supply chain professionals must consistently expand their knowledge of the trends, tools, and insights informing the market.

With that in mind, our editors have compiled some of the best online supply chain certification programs to consider. These are comprehensive programs developed for students looking to expand or fine-tune their supply chain management expertise. Click the GO TO CERTIFICATION link to learn more about each course and register.

The Best Supply Chain Certification Programs

Course Title: Leverage Data Science for a More Agile Supply Chain Specialization

OUR TAKE: Offered through the University of California, Irvine, this intermediate-level program will help you learn and implement data science skills into your company’s agile supply chain initiatives.

Provider: Coursera

Description: The more complex supply chains become, the more crucial it becomes to utilize various technologies and skills to navigate them. With this intermediate course, students will learn how data science can help them analyze historical supply chain data to predict future needs, manage inventory levels in uncertain environments, build simulated snapshots to test potential strategies, and more. The program consists of three unique courses and concludes with an Applied Learning Project.

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Course Title: Supply Chain Excellence MasterTrack Certificate

OUR TAKE: This “graduate-level” online certification program is designed for experienced students looking to learn the end-to-end skills necessary to advance their careers and lead supply chain management operations.

Provider: Coursera

Description: This course covers the three primary “flows” fundamental to supply chain excellence and is designed for intermediate students with an undergraduate education or professional supply chain experience. The program uses real-world projects and simulation exercises developed by Rutgers University’s Supply Chain Management Department faculty to educate students on the fundamentals of supply chain management and success. The online course usually requires 6-8 hours of study a week and can be completed in as little as four months.

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Course Title: Supply Chain Finance and Blockchain Technology Specialization

OUR TAKE: For professionals interested in pursuing a different kind of supply chain expertise, this four-course program will introduce you to the emerging shift from traditional trade finance to supply chain finance.

Provider: Coursera

Description: Students who enroll in this certification program will learn about the evolving trends in supply chain finance and become well-acquainted with the significant challenges and developments in that marketplace, including blockchain technology. The four courses can be completed in approximately four months and cover topics like trade finance management, accounts receivable, blockchain technology implementation, foreign currency risk management, marketing, supply chain finance services, and more. Upon completion, professionals will have the expertise and skillsets to analyze and identify supply chain finance opportunities for organizations.

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Course Title: Supply Chain Management Specialization

OUR TAKE: Acting as a gateway to the “Supply Chain Excellence” certification above, this program is designed for beginners who want a thorough introduction to the world of supply chain management.

Provider: Coursera

Description: This certification program includes four introductory courses on logistics, operations, planning, and sourcing. It concludes with a “capstone” focusing on supply chain management strategy and tasks students with a real-life business case. The certificate is best suited for students looking to start a career in the supply chain management field or who have some exposure to the field but lack the knowledge needed to understand the processes involved in supply chain management. The program has a flexible schedule and has a suggested time commitment of 3 hours a week.

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Course Title: MicroMasters Program in Principles of Manufacturing

OUR TAKE: Developed primarily for graduate-level engineers, technology developers, or product designers, this certification program will help students understand the processes and designs involved in manufacturing supply chains.

Provider: edX

Description: This instructor-led course uses a mixture of assignments, exams, lectures, and real-life business cases to equip students with the foundational knowledge to understand and manage the various processes and factors involved in a manufacturing enterprise. Other subjects covered include modeling and controlling multiple unit processes, manufacturing systems, and manufacturing-centric supply chains. There are eight courses included in this program, and students should expect to commit between 10-12 hours a week to the workload.

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Course Title: MicroMasters Program in Supply Chain Management

OUR TAKE: This certification program will introduce students to supply chain essentials and is best suited for students who are still in the early stages of their supply chain career and want to get ahead of the curve.

Provider: edX

Description: This MicroMasters program certificate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology comprises five graduate-level courses and a concluding capstone project. It will equip students with expertise in supply chain analytics, design, technology, end-to-end supply chain management, and more. The program represents the equivalent of one semester’s worth of coursework at MIT. If students commit eight to twelve hours per week to the material, it can be completed in approximately eighteen months.

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Course Title: Professional Certificate in Certified Supply Chain Analyst (CSCA)

OUR TAKE: Professionals who enroll in this three-month certification course will learn to understand and manage supply chain planning strategies, logistics management, sales order fulfillment, supply chain management tools, procurement management, and more.

Provider: edX

Description: The International Supply Chain Education Alliance offers this certification program to active and aspiring professionals looking to become Certified Supply Chain Analysts. The program consists of four skill-building courses, can be completed in around three months, and covers a suite of topics and skills, including supply chain performance, Lean, Six Sigma, supplier management, the flow of goods, and more. After completing the four courses, students can take the ISCEA-certified exam to earn their certificate.

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The editors at Solutions Review have highlighted the updates in the 2024 edition of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions and summarized the findings.

Analyst house Gartner Inc. recently released the 2024 version of its Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions. As defined by Gartner, a supply chain planning (SCP) solution provides “technological support to enable a company to manage, link, align, collaborate and share its planning data across an extended supply chain.” It can support various planning initiatives, ranging from demand planning to supply-side response planning, strategic planning, execution-level planning, and more.

A supply chain planning solution’s standard capabilities include demand and supply planning, financial impact analysis, and support for aligning planning decisions across an enterprise. It also lists some “optional capabilities,” including advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), digital supply chain twins, continuous planning, multienterprise planning, and supply chain design, modeling, and segmentation tools.

What’s Changed: 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions

In this updated Magic Quadrant, Gartner identifies twenty of the most significant Supply Chain Planning solution providers in the marketplace. The researchers behind the report—Pia Orup Lund, Tim Payne, Joe Graham, Caleb Thomson, and Jan Snoeckx—evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of each provider listed and ranked them on the signature “Magic Quadrant” graph, which provides readers with an illustration of each vendor’s ability to execute their vision. The diagram includes four quadrants: leaders, challengers, niche players, and visionaries.

Below is a breakdown of each category and the companies associated with it. Solutions Review’s rundown of last year’s Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions is available here.

Leaders

Like last year, Kinaxis is the highest-ranked Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. Its RapidResponse solution provides midsize and large enterprises with SCP capabilities, including demand planning, supply planning, production planning, supply chain execution, and sales and operations planning (S&OP). Its strengths as an SCP vendor include a unified user experience, its collection of certified third-party implementation partners, and an emphasis on planning automation and alignment functionalities.

Oracle earns its spot with the Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning solution, part of its broader Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) suite. Oracle primarily works with midsize-to-large enterprises, emphasizing those needing end-to-end supply chain management and manufacturing support. It differentiates itself from other providers with its vision for composable architecture, competitive pricing plans, and planning granularity, which enables customers to plan at any level of detail.

OMP’s offering, Unison Planning, supports almost every aspect of SCP, from detailed scheduling to network modeling functionalities. The company primarily works with large enterprises in the process manufacturing marketplace and earns top marks for its third-party implementation partners and support of various planning strategies. Gartner also spotlights OMP’s modeling of constraints as a differentiating quality, as it goes beyond traditional supply chain constraints with an emphasis on analytics and sustainability.

Logility has moved from the Challenger category into the Leaders. Its Digital Supply Chain Platform provides midsize and large enterprises with E2E enterprise and multienterprise planning, network design, demand planning, S&OP, inventory optimization, and production scheduling capabilities. Alongside its acquisition of Starboard Solutions in 2022 and Garvis in 2023, Logility differentiates itself in the market with an “above-average” vision for AI and its highly ranked customer engagement, service, and support efforts.

Blue Yonder rounds out the Leaders category with its Luminate Platform, which provides enterprises across industries with end-to-end multienterprise planning capabilities. Its strengths as an SCP provider include its comprehensive microservices architecture, supply chain analytics, and features suite, which provides inventory optimization, demand planning, promotion planning, detailed scheduling, and order promotion.

Challengers

John Galt Solutions is a Challenger in this year’s Magic Quadrant. The Atlas Planning Platform provides midsize and large enterprises with end-to-end planning capabilities in process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing, wholesale, and distribution markets. Its strengths include its shorter-than-average implementation times, well-regarded customer support services, and its vision for decision automation, as seen in its Atlas Intelligent Workflows, which can orchestrate human and machine activities.

SAP is once again a Challenger in Gartner’s report. Its SCP solution, SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP), provides midsize and large enterprises across industries with demand planning, inventory optimization, S&OP, and supply planning capabilities, alongside natively integrated solutions for scheduling and order promising. Other notable qualities include its above-average customer growth, customer engagement strategies, and its global network of distribution partners, value-added resellers, and implementation partners.

RELEX Solutions provides extensive SCP functionalities to companies across the retail, wholesale, consumer products, and food and beverage markets. It supports demand planning, manufacturing scheduling, and S&OP capabilities alongside retail-specific offerings, like trade and promotion management. Gartner also spotlights the company’s data management, customer engagement, and constraint modeling tools as notable features.

Arkieva has moved from a Visionary to a Challenger in this year’s reports. The Arkieva Enterprise platform provides enterprises in process manufacturing, retail, consumer products, telecom, and utility industries with planning capabilities, including top-rated S&OE and execution visibility features reinforced by machine-driven decisions. Other strengths include its planning decision alignment, ability to support its customers’ data model needs, and vision for maintaining a scalable SCP solution.

Anaplan closes out the category with its Connected Planning platform, which equips enterprises with demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, procurement planning, financial planning, and extended planning and analysis (xP&A) capabilities. It receives high marks for its unified user experience, robust workflow management tools, and configurable user screens. It plans to expand its analytics suite with a GenAI co-pilot. Gartner spotlights Anaplan’s open architecture as a differentiating strength, making the Connected Planning platform one of the most extensible solutions on the market.

Niche Players

Adexa’s digital SCP solution focuses on providing midsize to large enterprises in North America, Western Europe, and Asia/Pacific (including Japan) with the tools they need to deliver accurate end-to-end (E2E) plans. The company stands out in the SCP marketplace with its straightforward pricing model, support for planning at highly granular levels with detailed scheduling, strong attribute-based planning capabilities, and its vision for the range of constraints it can model.

Coupa is a Niche Player in this year’s report, a change from its placement in the Challenger category in 2023. Its AI-driven platform provides midsize to large enterprises across industries with a collection of business applications across supply chain planning, including strategic network design, sourcing, supply planning, demand planning, inventory optimization, and more. Strengths include its implementation support via third-party consultancy partners, a high-scoring customer experience, and configured functionality coverage.

ToolsGroup is one of the new additions to Gartner’s report. Its SCP solution, Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+), provides demand planning, replenishment, inventory planning, S&OP, transportation planning, and optimization capabilities. The company earns its place on the list with its “above-average” vision for handling uncertainty in supply chains, a transparent pricing model, affordable entry-level cost, and Inventory Hub offering, which supports real-time upstream and downstream latency to detect events in the supply chain.

Slimstock’s Slim4 platform focuses on inventory management, supplier collaboration, and demand and replenishment planning capabilities. The company primarily works with midsize enterprises across industries, focusing on wholesale and distribution markets in Western Europe and North America. Slimstock is well-regarded for its organic sales strategy, straightforward pricing model, and ability to be used as a single global reference for SCP.

AIMMS is another addition to this year’s report. Its low-code/no-code platform allows midsize and large enterprises in multiple industries to model and deploy SCP apps across their various planning layers. Gartner highlights AIMMS’ range of resource types and plan granularity as two of its greatest strengths, enabling users to plan at whatever level of granularity they need. The provider also earns high marks for its overall viability in the SCP market thanks to its high cloud deployment ratio and employee satisfaction scores.

Blue Ridge is the final newcomer in this year’s Magic Quadrant. With its Xpression Planning Platform, Blue Ridge provides distribution-intensive organizations with supply chain capabilities like demand planning, S&OP, procurement planning, and more. The company differentiates itself with its service cost and pricing strategies and singular focus on supply chain planning, which supports its organic growth strategy and viability in the market.

Visionaries

o9 Solutions is a Visionary in this year’s report, which marks a shift from its spot in the Leaders category in the 2023 iteration. Its o9 platform broadly focuses on providing planning capabilities across demand and supply use cases to help large enterprises in North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia/Pacific. Its strengths as an SCP vendor include its digital supply chain twin functionalities, the extensibility of its platform, and its customer engagement initiatives, which include everything from user conferences to road shows, webinars, executive councils, and more.

GAINSystems primarily works with companies in industrial manufacturing, distribution, defense, retail, and other similar industries. Its GAINS solution provides users with demand management, supply planning, network design, and inventory optimization capabilities. Additional strengths include its range of analytics tools, positive customer experiences, and support for different layers of planning-centric capabilities.

e2open returns to the Visionary category in this Magic Quadrant. Its SCP solutions are focused on integrated planning, with additional support for supply network and demand planning use cases. Gartner spotlights e2open’s vision for leveraging advanced technologies—i.e., deep learning, process mining, and several machine learning techniques—as one of its most notable strengths. Other differentiating qualities include a well-regarded customer engagement strategy and the platform’s ability to model different constraint types.

Dassault Systèmes closes the report with the DELMIA Quintiq solution, which focuses on integrated planning tools for various resources, including people, machines, materials, and transportation. According to Gartner, the vendor’s strengths as an SCP provider include the breadth of its capabilities, its ability to deal with complex supply chains and different constraints, and its ability to be deployed on various hyper-scale clouds or as an on-premises option.

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