Leading ERP vendors in the Netherlands 2018 and 2019

As of 2019, approximately 30 percent of the companies using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) used the software from SAP, which is a German multinational software corporation. Microsoft ERP software was installed by roughly 18 percent of the companies. Observing the penetration rate or ERP software by industry, over 93 percent was used by the manufacturing industry in 2019, whereas the wholesale & retail, and construction industries had a penetration rate of 92.1 and 87.2 percent, respectively.

Usage of ERP software within business segments

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an integrated management system (software) that gives the company a continuous updated view of business processes like cash, raw materials, production capacity etc. The main vendors that were used by companies within the medium sized business segment were Microsoft, Exact, and SAP. Microsoft was used by 23 percent of the companies in 2019, whereas roughly 17 and 16 percent of the medium sized businesses were using Exact and SAP ERP software in the same year. Within the national enterprise segment, Microsoft had a penetration rate of 29 percent and was the leading vendor within this segment in 2019.

Software usage by big data companies

Just over 48 percent of the company’s home in big data were using ERP software in the Netherlands in 2017. This is more or less the same as the CRM system software, which was used by 48 percent of the big data companies in the Netherlands.