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Omie found a better way in: the accountant
Omie brings invoices, inventory and cash flow into one cloud system for Brazilian businesses. Its growth story starts with the person who already knows where the paperwork hurts.
Marcelo Lombardo and the accountant next door
Omie grew when Marcelo Lombardo followed the people already recommending his software. Now the founder is changing the machinery again, with WhatsApp, AI and a costly farewell to franchises.
DualEntry wants to give finance its month back
An expensive ERP ordeal sent two founders into the accounting software business. Their wager: a better ledger begins with a less painful move.
Global Shop Solutions: The factory’s missing piece is information
A manufacturer can own exquisite machines and still lose money looking for parts. Global Shop Solutions has spent 50 years connecting the shop floor to the accounts - and its customer stories reveal how much of the work happens before anyone clicks a button.
XAPT and the art of making 700 things agree
A heavy equipment dealer sells a machine once, then spends years keeping it useful. XAPT’s NAXT365 puts that long relationship into one system - and asks the dealership to change with it.
Plex puts the factory floor on the balance sheet
A factory can survive a broken machine. A number nobody trusts is harder to repair. Plex by Rockwell Automation connects production, inventory and finance so the people making the goods and the people counting the money can agree.
Xpedeon Put the Whole Construction Back Office on One Screen
Construction runs on thin margins and thick piles of paperwork. Xpedeon’s three-decade wager is that the site, the supply chain and the finance office should stop arguing from different spreadsheets.
Kerrie Jordan Learned Software by Listening to the People Who Use It
An artist's daughter and an engineer's daughter learned to translate factory-floor problems into stories. Now she is carrying that habit from Epicor's product roadmap to its global brand.
FinancialForce Put the Back Office Inside Salesforce - Then Outgrew Its Own Name
It began with a lonely cloud-accounting product and a blunt idea: stop making sales and finance argue over two databases. Seventeen years, a near-$1 billion buyout, and one overdue rebrand later, FinancialForce is now Certinia - and the original architectural bet still explains both its appeal and its limits.
Epicor Built a $1 Billion ERP Machine by Knowing Which Boring Details Matter
The Austin software company survived failed verticals, awkward mergers and decades of product baggage by learning one durable lesson: in industrial software, boring specificity beats broad ambition.
Lisa Vormittag Keeps One Eye on the Ledger and the Other on What Comes Next
For three decades at VAI, Lisa Vormittag has worked where finance meets marketing - turning customer signals, careful planning and a family company’s long memory into a practical operating system for change.
The 48-Year-Old ERP Company Teaching Warehouse Software to Answer Back
VAI grew up writing code for IBM machines and stayed close to the distributors that run on it. Now the Long Island family business is betting that industry detail - plus an AI assistant - can beat a shinier generic suite.
Zac Bookman’s Long Bet on the Boring Work of Government
He went from studying corruption in Mexico and advising a military task force in Kabul to spending fourteen years modernizing municipal budgets, permits, and procurement. OpenGov’s $1.8 billion deal was the visible result; the more revealing story is how Bookman learned to make persistence operational.
OpenGov’s $1.8 Billion Bet: Make City Hall Software Less Painful
OpenGov started by making municipal budgets readable. Fourteen years, ten acquisitions and a $1.8 billion deal later, it is trying to become the operating system behind the permit, purchase order and pothole.
The ERP Fork That Decides How Your Company Grows
Microsoft Business Central lets smaller companies buy finance software one user at a time. Workday sells a broader operating model - and the real choice is how much company you are ready to redesign.
The $99-a-Month On-Ramp to Enterprise Software
Jcurve built a business around the awkward moment when accounting software stops being enough. Its answer is an ERP ladder - start small, connect the moving parts, and keep climbing without ripping everything out again.
Priority Software Spent 40 Years Making ERP Boring - and Built an $800 Million Company
Founded in the mainframe era, the Israeli company sells one promise to roughly 75,000 businesses in 70 countries: enterprise software people can actually change themselves. In 2024, Blackstone paid about $800 million for the pitch.
SWK Technologies Wants to Make the Back Office Disappear
For growing companies stuck between QuickBooks and enterprise-scale complexity, SWK sells something more useful than another dashboard: a way to make finance, inventory, operations and IT behave like one system.
The Software Behind the Factory Floor Is Learning the Factory
Aptean built a large enterprise-software business by going where generic suites get awkward: recipes, lots, shop floors, fleets and regulated workflows. Now it is connecting that collection with AI - without pretending every factory works the same way.
Your ERP Is Quietly Choosing Your HR Software
Workday and SAP SuccessFactors sell similar HR outcomes, but their architectures ask companies to make very different bets. The real choice is between a unified cloud operating model and the pull of an existing SAP estate.
When Mercury Stops Being Enough
Mercury is the clean financial cockpit many founders need on day one. NetSuite enters when the company behind that cockpit becomes too complicated to run from bank feeds and spreadsheets.
NetSuite and Sage Intacct Solve Different Problems
Two cloud ERPs can look identical on a shortlist and behave nothing alike after go-live. The better choice starts with one question: does the business need a broad operating suite or a finance system built around dimensions, funds and projects?
Witbor Wants to Be the Human Layer in Your Enterprise Software Stack
The Fort Lauderdale consultancy makes Oracle and Zendesk fit the messy reality of operating across borders - then stays for the integrations, support desk and next round of change.
The ERP Company That Refuses to Charge for Every Pair of Hands
Acumatica sells the software that runs a growing company, but not with the usual tollbooth on every user. Its bet is that open architecture, industry depth and a partner-led model can turn ERP from a guarded back office into shared operational plumbing.
ECI Built an ERP Empire From a Failed Office-Supply Bet
A dot-com office-supply seller discovered its most valuable product was the software behind the store. Twenty-seven years and 57 acquisitions later, ECI runs the digital back rooms of 25,000 small and midsize businesses.
AccountMate Software Corporation
AccountMate has spent four decades betting that the awkward parts of a business should shape its software - not be sanded away by it. In a cloud-first ERP market, that old-fashioned flexibility looks unexpectedly current.
Workday
Workday is a Pleasanton, California cloud software company that runs the core people and money systems for large organizations. Founded in 2005 by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri after Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, Workday built a single-code-base, subscription-delivered platform for human capital management, financial management, planning, and analytics. It has grown into one of the largest enterprise SaaS vendors, serving thousands of organizations - including a large share of the Fortune 500 - and is now pushing agentic AI deep into HR and finance workflows.
Pankaj Goel
Pankaj Goel is the co-founder and CEO of Opkey, a no-code, AI-driven test automation platform used by more than 250 enterprises to keep cloud ERP systems - Oracle, Workday, SAP, Salesforce, Coupa - from breaking on every quarterly update. He founded Opkey in 2016 after spending a decade running Crestech Software Systems, and before that worked on the automation teams behind Adobe InDesign and Illustrator. In August 2024 Opkey raised a $47M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital.