While SAP’s first products pertained to the electronic archiving and storage of accounting information, SAP has broadened its offerings to include a variety of business management and processing tools. However, despite SAP’s expansive system and strong hold on the market, their native P2P applications often leave their clients less than satisfied. The SAP ERP is a valuable business tool, but the enormity and inflexibility of the SAP system causes their in-house solutions to require an intense and expensive level of maintenance to customize and update.

PayStream Advisors’ 2014 P2P for SAP report will explore the landscape of AP and financial applications as seen by SAP and other ERP users. Results from a survey of financial professionals across several industries reveal market trends in the use of AP automation by users of different ERPs, as well as the major pains for SAP users compared to those of non-SAP users. In addition, this research shows how the prominent functionalities in today’s cloud-based financial software compare with SAP’s native business process applications. This report also includes best practices for companies wishing to leverage third-party solutions with their SAP ERP, as well as profiles of leading cloud-based solution providers.