SAP is a german software vendor which helped to popularize ERP software. It is one of the largest ERP software companies in the world, with hundreds of thousands of customers. SAP provides multiple types of ERP software built for different sizes of businesses from small businesses to manufacturing companies, wholesale and distribution companies and more.
SAP provides ERP software solutions such as SAP Business One, SAP Business ByDesign and SAP S/4 HANA.
Oracle is one of the most popular ERP software companies and provides ERP solutions to companies around the world. Oracle is known as an ERP software company with its strengths in serving public sector, financial services and many other industries.
Microsoft is an ERP software company amongst its other offerings. Microsoft offers multiple ERP software solutions such as Dynamics 365 and Business Central.
Netsuite is a popular ERP software company for small and midsized businesses, having helped to popularise the concept of Cloud ERP in the early 2000's. Since then, Netsuite has been adopted by tens of thousands of SMB's and midmarket companies.
Odoo is an open-source ERP software company and one of the fastest-growing ERP software companies in recent times. Odoo specializes in providing ERP software which is flexible, low cost and quick to implement.
Epicor serves over 20,000 customers worldwide making it a popular ERP software company. Epicor specializes mainly in providing ERP software to companies in product centric industries such as manufacturing and distribution companies.
Infor has multiple ERP solutions and is a popular provider of ERP software.
Workday first came to market not as an ERP software company, but a provider of human resources management software, also known as HRIS. However since then, it has built more capabilities which arguably make it a strong ERP software company.
Acumatica is a fairly new kid on the block when it comes to ERP software companies. The American ERP software company was founded in 2008 and has quickly grown its user base, proving popular in the USA, Canada and quickly spreading into new territories.
Sage is a British ERP software company which provides accounting and enterprise resource planning solutions to small and medium-sized businesses.
ERP software vendors are the ERP software companies which develop ERP software. Typically these ERP companies mainly focus on developing the ERP product and bringing it to market, providing support and maintenance and hosting the software. But theey may also provide implementation services, training and more.
ERP resellers and implementation partners are companies that often act in partnership with ERP software vendors such as Netsuite, Microsoft and SAP to extend the sales and implementation footprint of these vendors. They may also develop their own industry or geography-specific intellectual property to extend ERP software capabilities. The core focus of these companies is to resell ERP software from vendors and provide ERP implementation and configuration services to organizations.
Let's review some of the ERP software in the Gartner ERP Magic Quadrant, as well as some ERP software that we independently analyze at ERP Research.
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Netsuite is a popular solution for small and medium-sized businesses looking for Cloud ERP software. Netsuite is using many industries from services to manufacturing and beyond.
SAP Business ByDesign is a popular ERP software that is included in Gartner's ERP Magic Quadrants. ByDesign was built for small businesses and medium-sized businesses and can be implemented at record speed and is sold as an annual subscription.
Sage Intacct has been featured in Gartner Magic Quadrants for Cloud accounting tools in the past and is a popular solution for small and medium-sized businesses.
Microsoft Dynamics is featured in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrants for ERP software and is a market leading ERP solution for both small, medium and large organizations in multiple industries.