In 2024, the global ERP software market grew to $135.9 billion, marking a 9.4% year-over-year increase. The top 10 vendors accounted for 26.5% of the total market. Oracle led the pack with a 6.5% market share, followed by SAP, Intuit, Constellation Software, and Microsoft.
Through our forecast period, the ERP applications market size is expected to reach $179.8 billion by 2029, compared with $136 billion in 2024 at a compound annual growth rate of 5.7%.
ERP Financial Management software covers finance-specific business processes such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, and fixed asset accounting, as well as online functions such as invoicing, factoring, electronic payments and financial reporting. FM applications revenues represent a major contributor to the Enterprise Resource Planning market as part of our market sizing exercise.
ERP Services and Operations Management covers integrated applications suites designed to automate a range of business processes from back-office operations to financial management and from sales order capture to customer information management. Currently ERP also covers functions not being addressed by other functional markets. Examples include Environment and Health and Safety, Governance, Risk and Compliance, as well as industry-specific applications for 21 verticals.
Top 10 ERP Software Vendors in 2024 and their Market Shares
Source: Apps Run The World, July 2025
Other ERP software providers included in the report are: ACI Worldwide, Acumatica, Adobe, Allscripts, Amadeus, Aptean, Asseco Group, athenahealth, Avalara, Blackbaud, BlackLine, Bottomline Technologies, Capita Software, CDK Global, Cegid, CGI Group Inc., Cision, CompuGroup, CoStar Group, Cox Automotive, CSG Systems International, DATEV, Ellucian, Epic Systems, Epicor, Ericsson, Exact Holding BV, Exela Technologies, FICO, FinancialForce, Finastra, GE Digital, Greenway Health, Guidewire, HealthStream, IBM, IFS, Jack Henry & Associates, Blue Yonder, Kingdee, LexisNexis, MYOB, NextGen Healthcare, OBIC Co. Ltd., RealPage, Reynolds and Reynolds, Roper Technologies, SABRE Corp, Salesforce, Sapiens, Sopra Steria Group, SS&C Technologies, Temenos Group AG, TietoEVRY, TOTVS, Trimble, Tyler Technologies, UNIT4, Visma, Wolters Kluwer, Workday, Xero, Yardi, Yonyou, Zoho Corp., Zuora, and many others.
Vendor Snapshot: ERP Market Leaders
Oracle
Oracle is redefining ERP through embedded agentic AI, with over 50 domain-specific agents now available across Oracle Cloud ERP and Oracle NetSuite ERP. These agents execute predictive forecasting, automate sustainability compliance, and streamline content generation, procurement, and close processes—all without additional licensing. New features include Generative AI for business reports, smart invoice matching, and supply chain risk sensing. Oracle’s investment in sovereign cloud and its distributed cloud regions underscores its intent to deliver AI-native ERP at global scale. The go-to-market strategy focuses on embedding autonomous workflows as standard offerings, not bolt-ons, ensuring that AI agents become the operational backbone of enterprise decision-making.
SAP
SAP’s ERP innovation, centered on SAP S/4HANA, Business ByDesign, and Business One, leverages its federated AI Core and Business Technology Platform (BTP) to orchestrate Joule—its enterprise copilot—and a growing ecosystem of modular agents. These agents automate master-data enrichment, supplier onboarding, audit trail validation, and complex scenario modeling across finance and operations. The SAP Build portfolio enables low-code extension of agents across vertical processes, while the AI Foundation governs autonomy thresholds. SAP’s roadmap aligns with making AI an embedded fabric of the Intelligent Enterprise, integrating vertical workflows with agentic execution.
Intuit
Intuit QuickBooks Online is evolving into an intelligent, autonomous finance platform for small and medium businesses. With native generative AI functionality, QuickBooks delivers real-time cash flow projections, auto-matches bank transactions, and streamlines end-of-month reconciliation. Intuit’s GenOS foundation and its proprietary LLMs power end-to-end conversational interactions, including autonomous setup of tax codes and invoice templates. Its latest Smart Insights upgrade uses agents to flag business health anomalies and recommend budget adjustments. Intuit is driving ERP-like capability in microbusiness markets through embedded, task-specific agents with minimal user friction.
Constellation Software
Constellation Software continues to expand through targeted acquisitions across its Harris, Volaris, Vela, and Jonas subsidiaries. These vertical ERP units are integrating lightweight AI agents to optimize billing accuracy, compliance monitoring, and customer onboarding. Though disruptive AI transformation is rare in its model, the steady deployment of pre-trained domain agents within public sector, healthcare, and hospitality software reflects a gradual AI assimilation strategy. Constellation’s focus remains on extending the value of legacy ERP platforms via incremental automation rather than replatforming.
Microsoft
Microsoft’s ERP strategy for Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations and Business Central now includes Copilot Studio for building and customizing AI agents using natural language. These agents automate journal entries, detect vendor risks, and guide forecasting decisions in real time. Microsoft’s embedded AI is powered by Azure OpenAI and Fabric, allowing seamless cross-solution orchestration and enterprise data lake integration. Its push toward composable ERP positions Dynamics as an intelligent operating layer, with Copilot Agents acting as autonomous co-workers across supply chain, finance, and service operations.
FIS Global
FIS is integrating agentic automation within core offerings like FIS Core Banking and FIS GETPAID. AI agents now handle payment exception resolution, credit scoring, and collections prioritization. The Digital One platform is being rebuilt into a modular, AI-native environment with embedded conversational flows and anomaly detection models. FIS is targeting regulated verticals such as treasury, receivables, and trade finance with pre-configured agents capable of adapting to jurisdiction-specific rules and generating audit trails automatically. Its roadmap merges ERP and core banking into a compliance-first automation platform.
IQVIA
IQVIA is advancing its Clinical Trial Financial Suite with autonomous budgeting agents, protocol deviation analytics, and intelligent variance analysis. Its AI stack merges structured ERP records with unstructured medical and operational data to enable CROs and sponsors to manage financial operations with real-time granularity. Agents are trained on life sciences-specific taxonomies, delivering high accuracy for monitoring clinical burn rates, budgeting mid-trial amendments, and financial reconciliation. IQVIA’s ERP evolution reflects an AI-first redesign of trial finance as a continuously adapting operational layer.
Roper Technologies
Roper’s portfolio companies—Deltek (CostPoint), Aderant (Expert), and Vertafore (AMS360)—are being equipped with modular AI agents that streamline billing approvals, legal compliance, and insurance case handling. Roper’s enterprise data lab centralizes algorithmic training for shared deployment across its independent brands, ensuring standardization in agent behavior. These agents serve as task-level copilots, enabling domain-specific automation without requiring full system migration. Roper’s playbook focuses on accelerating ROI via targeted feature deployment in its mature ERP assets.
Sage
Sage’s AI push is centered on Sage Intacct and Business Cloud X3, where agents now handle ledger reconciliation, payroll auditing, and AP/AR optimization. The latest product cycle introduced interactive scenario modeling tools for CFOs and an embedded cash flow AI advisor. With Sage Copilot, users can ask natural language questions about financial health and trigger actions across modules. Sage emphasizes self-service configuration, aligning its midmarket ERP roadmap around conversational automation and role-based autonomy.
Infor
Infor is embedding automation into Infor CloudSuite and Infor LN with industry-specific agent packs. These pre-built agents optimize material requirements planning, vendor selection, and production line monitoring. Infor’s Nexus and Coleman AI platforms provide the orchestration layer for these agents, enabling real-time analytics, natural language interaction, and predictive workflows. Its manufacturing and distribution customers are adopting AI agents to shrink decision windows and replace static dashboards with dynamic, conversational reporting. Infor’s vision is ERP as a sector-specific, low-latency AI fabric.
ARTW Technographics Platform:Â ERP customer wins
Since 2010, our research team has been studying the patterns of the ERP software purchases, analyzing customer behavior and vendor performance through continuous win/loss analysis. Updated quarterly, the ARTW Technographics Platform provides deep insights into thousands of ERP customer wins and losses, helping users monitor competitive shifts, evaluate vendor momentum, and make informed go-to-market decisions.
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Source: ARTW Buyer Insights Technographic Database
Custom data cuts related to the ERP Applications market are available:
- Top 900+ ERP Applications Vendors and Market Forecast 2024-2029
- 2024 ERP Applications Market By Industry (21 Verticals)
- 2024 ERP Applications Market By ERP Segments and Categories
- 2024 ERP Applications Market By Country (USA + 45 countries)
- 2024 ERP Applications Market By Region (Americas, EMEA, APAC)
- 2024 ERP Applications Market By Revenue Type (License, Services, Hardware, Support and Maintenance, Cloud)
- 2024 ERP Applications Market By Customer Size (revenue, employee count, asset)
- 2024 ERP Applications Market By Channel (Direct vs Indirect)
- 2024 ERP Applications Market By Product
Worldwide Enterprise Application Market
Exhibit 3 provides a forecast of the worldwide enterprise application market from 2024 to 2029, highlighting market sizes, year-over-year growth, and compound annual growth rates across various functional segments. The data shows strong growth in emerging areas like Content Management, eCommerce, Human Capital Management, and IT Service Management, while traditional segments like ERP and CRM continue to dominate in market size.
Exhibit 3: Worldwide Enterprise Application Market Forecast 2024-2029 by Functional Market, $M
Source: Apps Run The World, July 2025
Exhibit 4 shows the enterprise applications market by functional area. The highest growth functional markets revolve around smaller segments like Analytics and BI, eCommerce, Enterprise Performance Management, where first movers remain less established than those that for decades have been entrenched in functional areas like ERP, HCM, CRM and PLM.
More Enterprise Applications Research Findings
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Research Methodology
Each year our global team of researchers conduct an annual survey of thousands of enterprise software vendors by contacting them directly on their latest quarterly and annual revenues by country, functional area, and vertical market.
We supplement their written responses with our own primary research to determine quarterly and yearly growth rates, In addition to customer wins to ascertain whether these are net new purchases or expansions of existing implementations.
Another dimension of our proactive research process is through continuous improvement of our customer database, which stores more than one million records on the enterprise software landscape of over 2 million organizations around the world.
The database provides customer insight and contextual information on what types of enterprise software systems and other relevant technologies are they running and their propensity to invest further with their current or new suppliers as part of their overall IT transformation projects to stay competitive, fend off threats from disruptive forces, or comply with internal mandates to improve overall enterprise efficiency.
The result is a combination of supply-side data and demand-generation customer insight that allows our clients to better position themselves in anticipation of the next wave that will reshape the enterprise software marketplace for years to come.
- Hitachi Systems, a Japan based Professional Services organization with 282743 Employees
- Medtronic Plc, a United States based Manufacturing company with 95000 Employees
- SAP, a Germany based Professional Services organization with 108187 Employees
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