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Evaluating Enterprise Applications this quarter? This page brings together what changed, which companies are most active, what practitioners are asking and how to build a shortlist.
CRM, ERP and business applications, and how AI agents and low-code tools are changing the way they are built and used.
What changed recently
Start with the news. These are the Enterprise Applications stories getting the most attention right now, so you know what has shifted before you talk to anyone.
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Pro Tips: 4 tips to overcome data problems in your CRM
Most CRM data problems don’t look like problems. At a glance, your CRM looks fine: records exist, fields are filled, and reports run. But, the real problems aren’t visible errors; they’re small inconsistencies that slowly change how your CRM behaves when repeated over time.If you're a Zoho CRM user, here's how you can address your data...
Enterprise ApplicationsHow-to
Engineering resource planning: A guide to capacity and profitability
Engineering resource planning helps architecture and engineering firms align project demand with the right staffing. Learn how to connect resource decisions with project budgets, utilization, margins, and financial performance to support more profitable growth. The post Engineering resource planning: A guide to capacity and profitability appeared first on Sage Advice US .
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Engineering KPIs: 10 metrics for financial performance
Engineering KPIs help teams connect project activity to financial performance, improve profitability and cash flow, strengthen forecasting, and make better pricing, staffing, and growth decisions. The post Engineering KPIs: 10 metrics for financial performance appeared first on Sage Advice US .
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Project profitability: How to calculate, analyze, and improve margins
To know whether a project is paying off, you need more than the revenue figure. True project profitability means understanding what's left once all costs are counted and having a system to track your margins before problems catch you off guard. The post Project profitability: How to calculate, analyze, and improve margins appeared first on Sage Advice US .
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From static PDFs to smarter workflows part 1: Unlocking full PDF editing in Zoho Workplace
Saving a document as a PDF often feels like reaching the finish line. But in reality, that’s usually where the real administrative marathon begins.A date changes. A clause needs to be updated. An image needs to be replaced. A sensitive section has to be removed before sharing. A few pages need to be extracted. The document then needs information...
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How to use church finance reports to improve transparency and decision-making
Learn how church finance reports help leaders track giving, manage budgets, report clearly to the congregation, and make better decisions with confidence. The post How to use church finance reports to improve transparency and decision-making appeared first on Sage Advice US .
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HubSpot named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for B2B Marketing Automation Platforms
Marketing Hub recognized as a Leader for the sixth consecutive year
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Reducing spreadsheet rework in a multi-site FQHC’s month-end close
Multi-site FQHC finance teams lose time rebuilding site, grant, and program reports in spreadsheets. Where that time goes, and how to win it back. The post Reducing spreadsheet rework in a multi-site FQHC’s month-end close appeared first on Sage Advice US .
Companies to know in Enterprise Applications
Those stories keep returning to the same names. These are the companies we track in this category; each profile has its news, solutions and published reviews.
SAP
Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
SAP is a German enterprise software company, SAP SE, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, and founded in 1972. It sells enterprise resource planning software, notably SAP S/4HANA Cloud, along with the SAP HANA database, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Business Data Cloud, the Joule AI copilot and agents, SuccessFactors, Ariba, Concur and Signavio. SAP is listed in Frankfurt and on the NYSE.
Oracle
Austin, Texas, USA
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It serves enterprises and governments with databases, ERP, HCM and industry applications, and cloud infrastructure for AI training and inference. Founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, Oracle is listed on the NYSE and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, USA
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications, security products and developer tools such as GitHub. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is one of the largest providers of cloud and AI services to businesses.
Salesforce
San Francisco, California, USA
Salesforce is a US enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 1999. It sells customer relationship management (CRM) applications including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud, the Agentforce AI agent platform, Data Cloud, Tableau analytics, MuleSoft integration, Slack and Informatica data management. Salesforce is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Workday
Pleasanton, California, USA
Workday is a US enterprise cloud applications company founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri and headquartered in Pleasanton, California. It sells software for human capital management, financial management, spend management and planning (Adaptive Planning), with AI agents built into its platform, to medium and large organisations. Workday is listed on Nasdaq.
ServiceNow
Santa Clara, California, USA
ServiceNow is a US enterprise software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2004 by Fred Luddy. Its ServiceNow AI Platform automates workflows across IT service management, IT operations, security, customer service, HR and field service, with AI agents, low-code app building and observability capabilities. ServiceNow is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Adobe
San Jose, California, USA
Adobe is a US software company founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro), Document Cloud (Acrobat, PDF), Adobe Experience Cloud for marketing and customer experience, and Firefly generative AI models to creative professionals, businesses and enterprises.
Infor
New York, New York, USA
Infor is a US enterprise software company that provides industry-specific cloud ERP and business applications, sold as CloudSuites for sectors such as manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, hospitality and the public sector. Its products run on the Infor OS platform and AWS. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in New York City, Infor has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries since 2020.
IFS
Linköping, Sweden
IFS is a Swedish enterprise software company providing IFS Cloud, a single platform for enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and field service management (FSM), with industrial AI capabilities. It serves asset-intensive and service-centric industries such as aerospace and defence, energy and utilities, manufacturing and construction. Founded in 1983 in Linköping, Sweden, IFS is privately owned by investors including EQT and Hg.
Epicor
Austin, Texas, USA
Epicor is an enterprise software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, providing industry-specific ERP and business management software for manufacturing, distribution, retail and automotive aftermarket businesses. Its products include Epicor Kinetic, Prophet 21, Eclipse and BisTrack, offered as cloud and on-premises solutions. Epicor is privately owned by investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, which acquired it from KKR in 2020.
HubSpot
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
HubSpot is a US software company that provides an AI-powered customer platform for marketing, sales, customer service, content and operations, built around a shared CRM. Its products include Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, Content Hub, Data Hub and Commerce Hub, with AI features branded Breeze. Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and listed on the NYSE.
Zoho
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Zoho is an Indian software company, Zoho Corporation, founded in 1996 as AdventNet by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas and headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It sells a broad suite of cloud business applications, including Zoho CRM, Zoho Books, Zoho Workplace and the Zoho One bundle, and IT management software through its ManageEngine division. Zoho is privately held and has never taken external funding.
UKG
Weston, Florida, USA
UKG is a US human capital management (HCM) and workforce management software company formed in 2020 by the merger of Ultimate Software and Kronos Incorporated, with headquarters in Weston, Florida and Lowell, Massachusetts. Its products include UKG Pro for HR and payroll, UKG Pro Workforce Management, and UKG Ready for smaller organisations. UKG is privately held, with Hellman & Friedman among its major investors.
Sage
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Sage is a British software company, The Sage Group plc, headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and founded in 1981. It sells accounting, financial management, payroll and HR software to small and medium-sized businesses, including Sage Intacct, Sage Accounting, Sage 50, Sage 200, Sage X3 and Sage HR. Sage is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Dayforce
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Dayforce is a human capital management software company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its cloud platform, also named Dayforce, combines payroll, HR, workforce management, benefits and talent management on a single application with continuous payroll calculation. Formerly Ceridian HCM Holding Inc., the company renamed itself Dayforce in 2024. Thoma Bravo completed its acquisition of Dayforce in February 2026, taking the company private.
Coupa
San Mateo, California, USA
Coupa is a business spend management software company founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. Its cloud platform covers procurement, invoicing, expense management, supplier management, contract management and treasury, helping organisations control and analyse spending. Coupa was listed on Nasdaq from 2016 until private equity firm Thoma Bravo completed its acquisition of the company in 2023.
Veeva Systems
Pleasanton, California, USA
Veeva Systems is a US cloud software company for the life sciences industry, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Its Veeva Development Cloud supports clinical, regulatory, quality and safety processes, while Veeva Commercial Cloud, including Vault CRM, supports sales and marketing, alongside data products such as OpenData. Veeva is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a public benefit corporation.
Freshworks
San Mateo, California, USA
Freshworks is a SaaS company that provides customer service and IT service management software, including Freshdesk, Freshservice and Freshsales, with AI capabilities branded Freddy AI. It serves small, mid-sized and enterprise businesses. Founded in 2010 in Chennai, India, as Freshdesk by Girish Mathrubootham and Shan Krishnasamy, Freshworks is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and listed on Nasdaq.
Zendesk
San Francisco, California, USA
Zendesk is a customer service software company founded in 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl and Alexander Aghassipour, and headquartered in San Francisco. It sells a cloud customer service platform covering ticketing, messaging, voice, help centres, AI agents and workforce engagement. Zendesk has been privately held since 2022, when Hellman & Friedman and Permira acquired it.
Atlassian
Atlassian is a software company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. It sells team collaboration and software development tools including Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Bitbucket, Loom and the Rovo AI platform, delivered mainly through Atlassian Cloud. Atlassian is listed on Nasdaq and redomiciled to the United States in 2022.
What practitioners are asking
Vendor news only tells you half of it. This is what people working in Enterprise Applications are discussing and asking each other.
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Vendors are bundling copilots into every suite. How are you deciding what to switch on, and how are you measuring value?
Build a shortlist
With the news, the companies and the open questions in view, pick three to five companies whose products match your problem, read their recent stories and put your remaining questions to the community before you speak to sales.
More Enterprise Applications stories
If you want more background, here is more of the recent coverage.
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Introducing Zoho AgentInbox: Email infrastructure built for AI agents
Most AI agents doing real work eventually need to send or receive email. The default move is to hand them access to someone’s existing inbox—either a shared address, a forwarded alias, or direct credentials to a human account. It works. At least for a while.When an agent borrows a human mailbox, it inherits everything that comes with it: the...
Enterprise Applications
SAP Named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for AI-Enabled Direct Spend
SAP is invested in helping manufacturers connect sourcing, engineering, planning, and supplier collaboration on a single foundation.
Enterprise Applications
What Implementation Teams Wish Organizations Knew About Enterprise RFPs
RFPs are common in the world of enterprise software. Truly successful ones, less so.
Enterprise Applications
SAP AppHaus Network Partner Bluestonex Builds the Bridge: From Inspiration to Hands-On AI Innovation
Two different showcases shed light on different applications and scenarios from the retail and supply chain industries.
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The Industry Cloud for Life Sciences
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The Autonomous Enterprise, Unfiltered: Lessons From 16 Executive Conversations
The Autonomous Enterprise podcast set out to close the gap between strategic ambition and operational reality.
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Introducing Zoho DAP: The last mile of your software investment
Your new software works. But why isn't anyone using it yet?This is a common puzzle most change managers struggle to solve. In large organizations, optimizing workflows to improve efficiency is a continuous process, so companies are always looking for better tools to simplify and automate repetitive work.The process begins with evaluation, countless...
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Zoho Apptics: Product analytics and engagement platform in Zoho One
Your Zoho One subscription now includes access to the Zoho Apptics Pro plan, adding a product analytics layer for the mobile, web, and desktop applications your business builds and maintains.With Zoho Apptics, your teams can now monitor app stability and performance, analyze user behavior, collect feedback, manage app-store reviews, and improve...
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SAP Recognized as a Leader in the Inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Workforce Management Technology
As organizations prepare for the next era of work, leaders need more than scheduling tools and time systems. They need a connected understanding of their workforce.
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The Outcomes Era is here
Over the last three-and-a-half years, we’ve witnessed one of the largest technology investment cycles in history. Trillions of dollars have been poured into semiconductors, hyperscalers, and foundation models.
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Your guide to upgrading from IFS Applications to IFS Cloud
Evaluate the move with clear eyes: understand what you gain, what staying on IFS Applications really costs, and how to... The post Your guide to upgrading from IFS Applications to IFS Cloud appeared first on IFS Blog .
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Fall 2026 Spotlight: HubSpot just made its most foundational product release, giving teams a new way to work to get 3x better outcomes
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HubSpot and OpenAI deepen partnership to bring AI transformation to every SMB
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Focusing on Outcomes
With a look at IFS Logistics and How IFS is leading towards outcome-based pricing There is a lot of focus... The post Focusing on Outcomes appeared first on IFS Blog .
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Bridging the Gap Between Digital Strategy and Infrastructure Execution: IFS and Black & Veatch Join Forces
Asset-intensive industries are facing growing pressure to modernize infrastructure, improve operational performance and deliver critical projects with greater certainty all... The post Bridging the Gap Between Digital Strategy and Infrastructure Execution: IFS and Black & Veatch Join Forces appeared first on IFS Blog .
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Why Service Requests Improve Customer-Centric Service
Customers rarely contact a service organization with a perfectly defined job plan. They describe a problem, request an outcome, or... The post Why Service Requests Improve Customer-Centric Service appeared first on IFS Blog .