WFMI Findings Preview: WFM Consolidates Into TI-Led Leaders
WFMI: workforce management intelligence industry: For 20 years labor analytics reported by department, late and after the fact. AI now reads the schedule and the skill together, task by task, job by job. Labor analytics at the pace of work is what buyers pay up for.
Who Is Winning the AI Era: Findings from HR Tech 2026
What Work Tech deals, signals and three days on the HR Tech Executive Conference exhibitor expo hall vendor floor say about who is winning the AI era: retention is the outcome buyers pay for, context is the new battleground, and the AI revenue podium is still open.
Talent Acquisition in the AI Era: TA Market Map Rankings, Findings Preview of M&A and Investment Deal Trends and Options
Most Talent Acquisition Technology, TATech for Hiring eRecruiting, owners think they are valued on filling seats - cost-per-hire. Sponsors pay for retention outcomes: ~12x EV/revenue for a retention outcome vs. 1.4x for engagement alone. The analyst findings preview of TA market map rankings, deal trends and options.
Payroll in the AI Era: Payroll Market Map Rankings, Findings Preview of M&A and Investment Deal Trends and Options
Payroll is the moat. A preview of the payroll analyst briefing: the 2 deal drivers, the market math and a first look at the payroll rankings.
ERP in the AI Era: NetSuite Partner Ecosystem Market Map Rankings, Findings Preview of M&A and Investment Deal Trends and Options
Software is buying services, and services are buying software. A preview of the NetSuite partner ecosystem analyst briefing: the one finding, five drivers and a first look at the partner rankings.
Ahead of SuiteWorld 2026: Most NetSuite Services Partners Are Failing to Deliver Solutions. The 13% That Do Are Twice as Profitable and Worth Twice as Much
Most NetSuite services partners sell go-lives and hours. Only 13% of the solutions group own software they sell with services. What our partner map shows ahead of SuiteWorld 2026.
Ahead of HR Tech 2026: Where the Capital Is, and What the Agenda Covers
Investors back 32% to 73% of the firms in every HR tech category we measured, most heavily the AI-driven ones. Our finding, our take on the HR Tech agenda, and the categories we cover.
SuiteWorld Briefing
NetSuite ecosystem analyst finding pre SuiteWorld · Fall 2026 Software Buys Services, Services Buy Software
Ten Billion Dollars Spent, Still in Excel: The Office of the CFO Is Ready for Its Solution Era
A decade of capital went into the CFO's software stack… If you deliver FP&A, ERP or backoffice accounting CFO services: do you sell hours, or outcomes?
Payroll M&A 2026: The 2 Deal Drivers
Payroll is being bought into bigger stacks, and revenue quality sets the price. The 2 deal drivers behind 144 payroll deals in 2026, and what they mean for founders.
Workforce Compliance M&A 2026: The Next 5 Deal Drivers
100 Workforce Compliance deals. The main news is that strategics are building solutions, and identity/compliance is becoming the "beacon" every hire, payment and AI agent has to clear.
Work Tech M&A 2026: The 2 Deal Drivers
Work Tech is reorganizing around how work gets done, not around functions. Here are the 2 deal drivers behind 2026 pricing, from 2,672 deals tracked in DealNet.
FP&A in the AI Era: Office of the CFO Market Map Rankings, Findings of M&A and Investment Deal Trends and Options
A decade of venture capital went into FP&A software, and only two companies returned it at scale. Five findings on who gets paid in the Office of the CFO, and why the $1-50M services-plus-software firm is the open lane.
ERP in the AI Era: The Seven Findings Reshaping Backoffice Finance
Seven findings on how the 10 platforms that run backoffice finance, and the AI-native challengers founded since 2021, are reshaping partner ecosystems, product strategy and M&A.
Backoffice M&A 2026: The Next 5 Deal Drivers
Five findings from our backoffice analyst briefing, covering services, solutions, FP&A, FaaS and advisory, and what they mean for founders.
The Trust Layer: Why the Point Vendor Era Is Closing
100 deals across the broad Workforce Compliance category (background screening, employment identity verification, safety and regulatory compliance, pre0hire and post-hire compliance). After review, they show an industry reorganizing around one idea: strategics are building solutions.
The Backoffice Is Converging — and the Premium Goes to Whoever Owns the Controls
backoffice convergence dealtalk m&A transaction market trend based on ytd deals signals 20206
The Solution Premium — Q3 Analyst Coverage Recap
the SaaS apocalypse is over… the AI era solutions race has begun playbook for winning corporate development follows
The Solution Premium Playbook: Why Software + Services Is Converging Now
why Software + Services are combining into solutions business models: The S+S convergence for the solution premium AI era playbook