Small Business ERP Leaders
Microsoft has become the ERP darling for SMB (small and midsize business)
organizations. Since 2000, Microsoft has acquired Great Plains (who
previously acquired RealWorld and Solomon) and Navision (who previously
acquired Axapta). While Microsoft failed on the infamous Project Green
integration which was to merge these solutions into an ERP powerhouse,
the company does an impressive job at continuing to advance these
solutions independently. The Axapta and Navision products offer strong
distribution and manufacturing capabilities and are far more popular in
Europe than in North America. Great Plains remains a channel favorite
and offers the strongest financials among the MS product suites. Solomon
also has a loyal VAR channel, strong Financials and a competitively
strong project accounting and job cost suite. Great Plains and Solomon
have deeper channel resources and far more market share in the United
States than Navision and Axapta. Unfortunately, Solomon's maintenance
and evolvement is largely outsourced (back to some of the original
founders and software authors) so we're unsure how much longer this
product will survive.
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Middle Market ERP Leaders
Epicor offers strong ERP software functionality along with several impressive Industry solutions for Professional Services Automation (PSA), financial services, hospitality management, retail, distribution, manufacturing, pharma and not for profit. In a late 2007 analyst release report, Epicor was recognized by Aberdeen as achieving the lowest TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and total per user cost of software, services and maintenance for mid-size companies. In fact, the Epicor ERP solution came in at less than 50% of competing ERP products. We find the company's channel strategy questionable which may necessitate more review for international buyers.Infor is the mega company that surprising few ERP software buyers are aware of. Largely based on an aggressive acquisition and roll-up strategy, Infor is the third largest ERP manufacturer - behind only SAP and Oracle. Infor is a vertically oriented software publisher with several different ERP software systems and particularly strong distribution, supply chain management (SCM), lean manufacturing, complex manufacturing and process manufacturing solutions.
Click: Infor's GOLD partner in Malaysia - Infor SyteLine ERP.
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Fortune 2000 / Enterprise ERP Leaders
SAP is the largest and most recognized Fortune 1000, Global 5000 and enterprise market share leader. The company has achieved its success due to its extremely deep accounting and distribution software suites along with tightly integrated financials, manufacturing, human resource, payroll and customer relationship management software systems. While the company claims that its retains significant middle market share, its definition of 'middle market' is more in lines with other definition of the enterprise market.
Oracle is the world's second largest business applications maker - and is
clearly out to take the lead role from SAP. Bolstered by its
acquisitions of PeopleSoft (with JD Edwards) and Siebel Systems, Oracle
has collected an impressive customer list and portfolio of intellectual
property. Now the real work to keep those customers and integrate those
products (project Fusion) is underway with results expected very soon.
Expect several more acquisition and integration project announcements
from Oracle over the coming months.
Source: ERP Software 360
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