The Enterprise Resource Planning Market size is estimated at USD 65.25 billion in 2024, and is expected to reach USD 103.95 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 9.76% during the forecast period (2024-2029).
ERP software aids in planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting an organization's financial results. The growing need for supplier-relationship management and customer-relationship management, due to a steep surge in the number of businesses worldwide and the requirement for cloud-based ERP platforms, is augmenting the market's growth rate.
The increasing adoption of innovative and advancing technologies, broadening the value of existing ERP systems, minimizing third-party dependencies, more highly secured resources, advancing financial systems, and other notable factors are driving the demand for ERP software, especially cloud-based.
The enterprise resource planning (ERP) industry is being driven in part by the growing need for a customer-centric strategy. Businesses are realizing more and more how crucial it is to put the customer at the heart of their operations in order to increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, and overall business success. ERP systems are essential to reaching this objective because they offer a full range of integrated applications that let businesses increase productivity, optimize workflows, and provide better customer service.
Demand for mobile-friendly ERP solutions has increased due to the widespread use of mobile devices. By enabling people to approve workflows, access vital company data, and make decisions while on the move, mobile ERP apps help improve operational agility. For instance, users of smartphones or tablets can access essential ERP capabilities with SAP ERP mobile apps. This facilitates real-time decision-making, improves teamwork, and increases adaptability to shifting company needs.
ERP systems that aren't flexible may find it difficult to evolve and adapt as businesses alter or expand. This restriction may make it more difficult for companies to introduce new product lines, enter new markets, or adapt to organizational structure changes. For instance, a business that is expanding quickly could find it difficult to scale its ERP system to handle higher transaction volumes, which could cause problems with performance and create bottlenecks in the business.
The rise of the" business online" concept in the post-COVID-19 era increases the demand for contactless transactions, making manufacturing SMEs struggle to compete. This has created the need for ERP for manufacturing companies to enable them to run all activities in real time.
Given the increasing digitization across all industry verticals, the ERP software market is semi-consolidated. Considering vendors’ market penetration and the ability to invest in new technologies, the competitive rivalry is expected to remain high. Some players include SAP SE, Intuit, Microsoft Corporation, and Constellation Software.
In June 2023, SAP and Bain partnered to help leaders drive cloud-enabled ERP transformation. The collaboration aimed to help executives maximize the impact of cloud-enabled ERP transformation. The partnership enables clients to reach their business goals faster and achieve their full ERP potential by combining solutions such as RISE with SAP and Bain's business-led transformation expertise.
In May 2023, Microsoft Corporation announced that Microsoft and SAP aim to deepen their longstanding partnership to help solve customers’ most fundamental business challenges. The companies aim to collaborate on integrating SAP SuccessFactors solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot for Microsoft Viva Learning, as well as Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, to access powerful language models that analyze and generate natural language. The integrations enable new experiences to improve how organizations attract, retain, and skill their people.
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