SAP

SAP is the enterprise software that sits under finance, procurement, manufacturing, and HR in a lot of large companies. By our assessment, its big strength is that it organizes core business processes in one system rather than leaving them scattered across disconnected tools. The trade-off is that SAP can be complex to set up and heavy to run, especially once a company bends it to fit old workflows. In practice it is the kind of software that matters most to administrators and operations teams, not to casual end users. Against lighter cloud apps, SAP is more powerful and more demanding. SAP is a German company, and that reputation for process discipline fits what it does.