Bringing Forensic Transparency to B2B Software Procurement
Founded in 2017, CoreRing Systems is an independent enterprise software research publication dedicated to testing B2B SaaS tools under real production workloads.
Why We Built CoreRing Systems
Enterprise software buyers face an information asymmetry problem: vendor pricing pages hide mandatory onboarding fees, seat-bucket multipliers, and API rate limits behind "Contact Sales" forms, while legacy review directories auction off top category placements to the highest PPC bidder.
Our editorial team of former VPs of Revenue Operations, Certified Solutions Architects, and CPAs built CoreRing Systems to provide CFOs, CTOs, and operations leaders with unfiltered, quantitative software benchmarks.
Our Editorial Firewall
- Zero Paid Rankings: Software vendors cannot pay to alter a composite lab score, remove a listed limitation, or buy an "Editor's Choice" badge.
- Hands-On Sandbox Testing: We provision real trial and production environments, import standardized test datasets, and measure webhook latency, OCR accuracy, and UI responsiveness firsthand.
- 3-Year TCO Modeling: We evaluate software based on what it costs at 10, 25, and 100 seats over a 36-month contract—including implementation fees and renewal uplift clauses.
Meet Our Senior Analysts
Jonathan Blake
Principal CTO Analyst & Target™ Chair • Ex-VP Platform Engineering, AWS & Kubernetes Certified Architect
Jonathan chairs the Austin Technical Architecture lab. He evaluates B2B platforms on REST/GraphQL API ergonomics, webhook retry idempotency, multi-region data residency, and schema extensibility.
Tara Novak
Senior Distributed Systems & iPaaS Architect • M.S. Computer Science (UT Austin), Principal Integration Engineer
Tara conducts high-concurrency payload benchmarks across n8n, Make, Zapier, and CRM webhook pipelines—measuring p99 execution latency, queue backpressure, and custom JavaScript/Python worker sandboxes.
Liam Lin, CISSP
Enterprise Security, SOC2 & DevSecOps Analyst • CISSP, CCSP, Former Enterprise IAM & Zero-Trust Lead
Liam audits SAML 2.0/OIDC federation, SCIM 2.0 automated user lifecycle provisioning, RBAC granularity, audit log SIEM streaming, and SOC2 Type II / ISO 27001 controls.