ERP Vendors

Who Are the Top Enterprise Resource Planning Vendors?

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors can be ranked by several means.  For example, you could rank them based on which ERP provides the most functionality, which ERP vendor provides has the most user friendly ERP, who provides the cheapest ERP, etc.  For this article, we are going to discuss the top ERP vendors in terms of market share.

It’s not big secret that SAP controls the ERP industry.  According to Gartner’s profiles, SAP controlled 30.33 percent of the ERP market share in 2005.  Oracle controlled 21.38 percent of the market share that same year.  The Sage Group took 17.44 percent of the market share, Microsoft Dynamics got 14.25 percent of the market share, and SSA Global Technologies took 7.22 percent of the ERP market share.

Over the past 5 years (since 2005) Oracle and SAP have been playing a tennis match.  They are constantly taking turns earning market share percentages.  It’s like a great battle with two equally matched opponents.  However, it does seem like SAP is losing some market share in the North America territory.  According to Gartner’s research, SAP took 28.3 percent of the North American ERP market share in 2007.  Then in 2008 SAP only took 26.8 percent of the North American ERP market share.

Sage’s Enterprise Resource Planning solution seems to be growing in popularity.  According to Gartner’s research their ERP market share was 7.2 percent in 2007 and 7.9 percent in 2008.  With Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, open source applications, and all the new ERP vendors popping up, it will be interesting to see what will happen to the ERP market in the future.  Will Oracle and SAP continue to control and play games in the Enterprise Resource Planning market?  Who knows.  If this down economy continues, we will most likely see a growth in the SaaS and open source market.  SaaS is a much more inexpensive solution when compared with on-site implementations.  When there isn’t much money to go around, organizations typically gravitate to less expensive solutions.  Open source is free, which makes it very appealing.  The Chinese government just implemented an open source solution and they rave about it.

The ERP market has been affected by this down economy.  In 2008 the Enterprise Resource Planning software market only experienced a 5.5 percent growth.  This 5.5 percent growth equates to 21.4 billion dollars in total software revenue.

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kristine H