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Opportunities in the unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 1/3) | by Dawn Capital | Jan, 2024 | Medium

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ERP is one of the critical technology stacks for businesses, but there is a tension in today’s market. On the one hand, large core ERP providers enjoy massive product surface area, high barriers to entry, and deep moats in key product areas such as accounting. There seem to be strong financial incentives to purchase from the platform with a relatively high bar to buyers ‘double-paying’ for functionality, and considerable cost and complexity in maintaining integrations between multiple vendors and systems. On the other hand, ERP is such a sprawling category that large core vendors are spread extremely thin, maintaining a very wide set of product modules. Their business customers — diverse and complex — are finding it a challenge to map workflows to generalist vendors that can’t hope to cater to company and vertical specificities. The multitude of resulting pain-points felt by business users cannot be understated with many processes still taking place offline, with significant manual int

Opportunities in the unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 1/3) Dawn Capital 8 min read · Jan 23, 2024 -- 2 Listen Share By Dan Chaplin , Zoe Qin and Skye Fletcher The following post is part of a series: Part I: The unbundling of mid-market ERP Part II: Fintech opportunities: The General Ledger Part III: Fintech opportunities: Procurement and Treasury Introduction: the unbundling of mid-market ERP ERP is one of the critical technology stacks for businesses, but there is a tension in today’s market. On the one hand, large core ERP providers enjoy massive product surface area, high barriers to entr

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