The core financial management suites market is transitioning from traditional on-premises deployment to cloud services. Application leaders in midsize, large and global enterprises should use this Magic Quadrant to identify viable solutions for moving core finance processes to the cloud.

Gartner used several sources of input for the inclusion criteria, market definition and vendor evaluations in this report.

The primary sources of data include:

• Author interactions with over 400 end-user clients on their core financial management application strategy in 2015 and 2016.
  
• Online survey responses from 135 vendor-supplied references in January 2017.