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S4BT and the art of finishing the trip
Booking a room is the easy part. S4BT is assembling the technology that gets a business trip all the way through to a clean set of accounts.
Miles IT and the art of keeping work moving
A paperboard mill, a retiring developer, and a pile of envelopes reveal what this business technology company is really selling: fewer interruptions between an idea and a finished job.
Stridely Solutions makes the handoffs work
A building model, a factory invoice, an energy dashboard. Stridely Solutions works where useful software meets the messy business of getting things done.
ePS and the factory’s missing hours
A packaging plant can buy a faster press. Getting everyone to agree on what it should print next is harder. ePS sells software for that problem.
Advantive sweats the small stuff
A decimal place. A packing list. A part arriving in sequence. Advantive builds software around the details that decide whether a factory or distributor makes money.
Eleven systems. One way to work.
sa.global builds Microsoft-based software for businesses that sell time, expertise, and projects. Its most revealing customer story begins with the retirement of 11 separate systems.
Sage Intacct sells time back to finance.
The cloud accounting company found its opening in the days between a transaction and a useful answer. Its story is about getting those days back.
Himflax Group makes the boring bits work
An online checkout. A hard-to-fill role. A website that needs customers. Himflax Group sells the work between a business idea and a business that runs.
The company behind the SAP switch
ACS Systech Integrators built its business in the gap between buying SAP and making it work. Two acquisitions reveal what that expertise was worth - and why geography mattered as much as code.
The machine behind the machines
VitalEdge Technologies connects the parts counter, the service bay and the balance sheet. Its bet is that equipment dealers grow better when everyone can see the same business.
Savantis Solutions Makes the Back Office Part of the Show
A cinema ticket is the start of a surprisingly complicated chain. Savantis connects the customer-facing moment to the machinery behind it - and sells the expertise to keep that machinery running.
Datacor knows where the batch went
A chemical business runs on recipes, records and awkward little exceptions. Datacor has spent four decades turning those exceptions into software - and is now buying its way deeper into the plant.
TEAM Software turns the night shift into numbers that add up
A guard clocks in. An invoice goes out. TEAM Software by WorkWave connects the work between those moments - and makes a persuasive case for giving the spreadsheet a night off.
iRely and the expensive art of losing track
A stray item on a store shelf explains the appeal of iRely: software that connects the goods, the trades and the books before small discrepancies become expensive habits.
WADIC makes the software between the software
An order, an invoice, a warehouse, a customer: four versions of the same business. WADIC builds the connections that help them agree.
Spinnaker Support sells the right to wait
Your enterprise software may still work beautifully. Spinnaker Support makes a business of keeping it that way while you decide what deserves to replace it.
BatchMaster knows why a recipe is not an inventory list
A jar of cream and a drum of paint share an awkward secret: counting the ingredients is only the beginning. BatchMaster builds software for the formulas, tests and paper trails that make a batch fit to leave the factory.
DMSi and the secret life of a lumber order
A custom door, a shifting delivery date, a Monday morning report. DMSi has spent five decades making software for the awkward details that building suppliers live with every day.
Secure-24 and the Trouble With a Fast Report
When a business report finishes suspiciously quickly, someone may open a support ticket. Secure-24 built a business around the machinery behind such moments - and NTT bought the company to help run enterprise applications worldwide.
Centre Technologies and the Friday Night Test
An IT company reveals itself when the first fix makes things worse. Centre’s wager is that familiar people, shared responsibility and a broader bench can make the next move count.
SwankTek and the people who keep the machinery running
Oracle applications, cloud migrations, staffing - SwankTek works where enterprise software meets the people who must make it useful. Its most revealing perk once came with a set of car keys.
Vingstech and the art of filling the gap
A recruiter that also speaks the language of vehicle controllers and enterprise systems offers a useful lesson: the missing piece of a technology project is often a person.
The Invoice That Got Away
A customer should not have to discover your billing error. Datricks connects to enterprise systems and watches the financial process unfold, looking for the exceptions a periodic audit may miss.
ISB Global makes rubbish add up
A collection truck, a weighbridge and an invoice ought to tell the same story. ISB Global has spent decades building software to make that happen - and more than £15 million rebuilding it for bigger ambitions.
Tecman sells a better day in the warehouse
The Wolverhampton Microsoft partner turns stock, orders and factory data into one working system. Its most revealing offer puts a £45,000 price on a tightly defined slice of that ambition.
The Oracle Whisperers Who Named Themselves After a Bike Race
A Boston consultancy borrowed its name from cycling - the pack that shares the wind so no one rider burns out. Sixteen years later it is one of Oracle's go-to partners for the unglamorous, high-stakes work of moving a company's books to the cloud.
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.
SAP
The 54-year-old German software maker quietly runs the plumbing of global business - and it is betting its next chapter on AI it calls Joule.
Oracle
The 48-year-old database company reinvented itself as the landlord of the AI boom - and a half-trillion-dollar order book to prove it.
Experlogix
Experlogix helps you accelerate growth by removing bottlenecks in quoting and document generation.