SAP is a familiar name in almost every organization—AP and finance professionals have been working with the SAP database in their daily business activity for decades, and many companies rely heavily on both the ERP and its native business process solutions. However, these companies often don’t know about the easy and inexpensive availability of cloud P2P for SAP’s ERP.

SAP is known for a variety of valuable reporting, management and customer relations applications, and for the many acquisitions and partnerships they have made with other technology companies to enhance their own products.

However, most SAP users are all too familiar with the enormity and inflexibility of the SAP system—a system that requires an intense and expensive level of maintenance to customize and update. Despite SAP’s impressive product package and strong hold on the market, their native applications often leave their clients less than satisfied.

Fortunately, P2P automation is expanding and transforming to make room for powerful, versatile software innovation.  PayStream has seen a consistent rise of cloud-based technology in the financial automation market.  By leveraging these “non- native” solutions—that is, those not directly maintained by SAP—businesses can achieve more value, scalability, and functionality than with SAP’s in-house applications.

In our newest research release, the 2014 SAP Report, we show our readers how leveraging the cloud with their existing SAP ERPs can create value and competitive advantage. This report includes survey results that 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. Also included are best practices for leveraging third-party solutions with SAP, as well as profiles of leading cloud-based solution providers with advanced SAP integration capabilities.

The research in this report is valuable for anyone trying to navigate extensive and clunky ERPs, but it is also the next step in P2P and business innovation. The migration from in-house to SaaS financial systems is picking up speed in the business sphere—organizations that stay ahead of this movement with preparation and process optimization will come out as leaders in their industries. Download the free PayStream 2014 Sap Report today.