5 ERP Vendors

• SAP
• Oracle
• Microsoft
• Endasys
• Infor

SAP – Founded in 1972 by five former IBM engineers, SAP is the undisputed market leader in
the ERP space and is the third largest software company in the world. Its current version has
more than 30,000 relational database tables that allow it to handle extremely complex business
situations. While it is an undisputed number one in the Tier I ERP space, SAP has been criticized
at times for being too complex and difficult to handle. If you are a small or medium company,
this solution is probably more than what your company needs or could potentially handle.

Oracle – While Oracle was formerly best known for its relational database, it was for many
years the database of choice for SAP ERP applications. This cooperative situation had existed
since the late 70’s. However, sometime around 2004, Oracle began to look at building its own
ERP solutions and at the same time SAP began to offer its ERP solutions on the Microsoft SQL
Server database platform as well. The first Oracle ERP product was Oracle Financials which was
released into the market as early as in 1989. However, post 2004, Oracle began to become a
serious player in the ERP market and is now a well-established number 2 in the Tier I market.

Microsoft– Microsoft Dynamics is mostly focused on Tier II clients in the ERP space. It
provides solutions in a number of different business domains including in the Customer
Relationship Management domain. A great advantage of Microsoft products is its great ease of
use. This holds for its ERP products as well.

ENDASYS -The ERP vendors which have mentioned above only endasys is new. From what i know is endasys is a Singapore based Customized ERP vendor which has been in the market for 1 year.Currently endasys is concentrating Indian market, now they are moving to global market. From the information I have gathered endasys is providing customized rolebased cloud ERP system at a very affordable

Infor – Infor Global Solutions is a privately held company that has grown rapidly in the Tier II
vendor space since 2002. The company has taken an aggressive acquisition route to growth and
continues to follow this path even now with its acquisition of ENXSUITE in 2011. Infor has a
global presence to match the footprint of the top 3 and has clients in 194 countries. Infor has
solutions in as many as in 14 different domains and it has a very good presence in each of the
four specific domains that were previously discussed.