ERP Without Tradeoffs

1. Traditional ERPs

Legacy systems like SAP were designed for manufacturing and on-premise environments. While powerful, they were never built for SaaS. Every significant change requires armies of consultants and months of projects, making them costly, slow, and rigid. High-growth companies can’t afford the slow pace and extensive customization these systems demand.

2. Horizontal Cloud ERPs

Cloud-based platforms like NetSuite and Intacct brought accessibility and scalability to ERP, allowing smaller companies to move off QuickBooks or Xero and run software through a browser without heavy infrastructure.

But these systems are horizontal solutions - broad, generalized platforms built to serve many industries, not the hardest problems in any one. They handle the basics well, but quickly break down on SaaS-specific workflows like usage-based billing, ASC 606/IFRS 15 revenue recognition, or complex quote-to-cash cycles. Finance teams often find themselves reconciling across multiple systems, slowing month-end closes and obscuring performance.

At that point, customers face a difficult choice: build a third-party ecosystem to fill the gaps, or purchase NetSuite add-ons that are not truly native. Both options introduce the same problems: operational inefficiencies, data silos, and rising costs. In practice, it is often a choice between bad and worse.

Next-Gen ERPs

Many newer Next-Gen ERPs take the horizontal model even further. They start with a lightweight general ledger and outsource nearly every complex process (i.e., subscription billing, revenue recognition, cloud cost tracking, headcount planning, and more) to third-party applications.

This may feel easy and flexible in Year 1, but by Years 2 to 4, the cracks appear: integrations multiply, data fragments, and the system becomes a liability rather than an enabler. Despite modern interfaces, the architecture still forces companies into a fragmented ecosystem. Customers face a familiar tradeoff: manage a growing web of third-party integrations, or accept limited native functionality. Either way, the result is operational inefficiencies, data silos, and rising costs - a choice between bad and worse.

AI is Changing the Game

AI is transforming business at an unprecedented pace. Companies that cannot adapt risk falling behind. In ERP, the potential efficiency gains are enormous, but only if AI has access to clean, consolidated, and trustworthy data. Fragmented systems, whether horizontal cloud ERPs or many Next-Gen platforms, undermine AI’s potential, limiting its utility for decision-making across finance and operations.

Everest’s Approach

Everest was built to solve the hardest problems in growing SaaS and AI businesses. Where horizontal and next-gen ERPs outsource complexity, Everest builds it in. Complex subscription contracts, revenue allocations, usage-based billing, and multi-entity workflows are native. No stitching together third-party tools or costly customization.

Everest scales with your business, combining enterprise-grade capability with built-in adaptability. Operations grow seamlessly as complexity and speed of change increase.

Everest’s Native AI Advantage

AI is core to Everest:

• Custom Eves: With unified data, users create custom AI agents that generate reliable insights on a repeatable basis, consistently informing financial and operational health.

• Live Sandbox: One-click test environments let AI model scenarios (adding entities, product lines, currencies, and more). Approved changes can be tested and pushed to production instantly, speeding decisions and reducing risk.

• AiSpecify: Empowers business users to generate comprehensive application specifications using natural language. By transforming high-level concepts into structured, production-grade code, AiSpecify accelerates development cycles and ensures alignment with business objectives.

Experience an ERP that adapts as fast as your business. Try Everest today