ERP Market Share Statistics (2026): Vendor Share, Market Size and the ECC to S/4HANA Shift

No single source measures ERP market share cleanly. Vendor revenue rankings, analyst market sizes and user-group surveys use different scopes, years and populations, and they often disagree. This page collects the figures we could source from 2024 to 2026 publications, states the year and population for each, and flags where the numbers conflict.

Key takeaways

Vendor share: the rankings depend on scope

The most-cited vendor table comes from Apps Run The World, and its own numbers do not match the shares that many secondary sites repeat.

• The Enterprise Resource Planning applications market grew 11% to top $146 billion in 2025, according to Apps Run The World.
• In that 2025 table, Oracle holds 6.7% and SAP 6.6%, a gap of 0.1 percentage point. SAP's 2025 ERP apps revenue was $9,610M, up 11% from $8,688M in 2024.
• Some secondary sites instead report SAP at about 22%, Oracle at 12% and Microsoft Dynamics at 9%. One of them attributes that split to Apps Run The World data (SAP holds the largest share at about 22%, followed by Oracle at 12% and Microsoft Dynamics at 9%, based on Apps Run the World data). The difference is scope. Flectic calls the 22% figure a widely cited core-ERP share estimate, and Apps Run The World's broad-scope figures are much lower.
• ERP Research publishes its own estimates: SAP at roughly 23% of the global ERP market by revenue, with Oracle (including NetSuite) second at around 14% combined. The methodology is not detailed in the excerpt we reviewed, so treat these as vendor-style estimates.
• A 2025 blog built on the same revenue base reports that Oracle's market share by revenue is 6.63% of the $131 billion total ERP applications market, while SAP's market share by revenue is 6.57%. This is the origin of the claim that Oracle has overtaken SAP. It rests on a small gap and a different year's revenue base.
• HG Insights counts buyers rather than revenue. It reports that SAP has the largest customer base of any HCM vendor with nearly 106,000 buyers, and that in distribution management SAP is the largest vendor by customer base with approximately 42K buyers.

Source: Apps Run The World, 2025 revenue data. Bars use the largest value (6.7%) as 100%. The table includes non-ERP-core vendors such as Intuit.

Market size and cloud mix: the estimates diverge

Analyst estimates of total ERP spend differ by more than twofold for 2025. Scope, currency basis and inclusion of services all differ.

• Precedence Research, using the narrowest scope, puts 2025 at $59.42 billion.
• market.us values the Global ERP Software Market at USD 82.2 billion in 2025, with growth projected at a CAGR of 10.9% for 2026 to 2035.
• HG Insights reports that the total ERP market size will reach $147.7 billion in spending in 2025.
• Cloud share also varies by firm. Grand View Research reports cloud at 54.4% and Mordor Intelligence at 55.11% for 2025. Precedence Research puts on-premises at 72% for 2025, and Fortune Business Insights reports cloud and hybrid combined at 83.07% for 2026. Each firm defines its segments differently.

Source: HG Insights, 2025; Apps Run The World, 2025; market.us, 2026; Flectic, 2026 (citing Precedence Research). Different scopes; do not read the gap as a trend.

Source: Godlan compilation of firm-published shares, 2026. The bars mix cloud, on-premises and cloud-plus-hybrid definitions, so they are not directly comparable.

SAP's cloud business in Q3 2026

• Current cloud backlog reached €24.1 billion, up 28% and up 26% at constant currencies. SAP's own statement is the primary source for this figure.
• Cloud revenue reached €6,668 million in Q3 2026, against €5,290 million a year earlier, a 26% increase.
• Cloud ERP Suite revenue up 29% and up 28% at constant currencies, per the Q3 2026 statement.
• On the earnings call, management said Cloud ERP suite revenue rose 28% and accounted for 89% of total cloud revenue.
• SAP's statement also says constant currency current cloud backlog growth to slightly decelerate (2025: 25%). The company expects some slowing in 2026.
• Third-party compilations put SAP's reach at around 425,000 customers across more than 180 countries. This is not an SAP-published count; treat it as an estimate.

How far the ECC base has moved to S/4HANA

• Gartner's installed-base figures are the most-cited benchmark. At the end of 2024, only 39%, or about 14,000, of the 35,000 SAP ECC customers had migrated to S/4HANA, according to Gartner.
• At the current rate of migration, Gartner projects there will still be 17,000 holdouts, or nearly half of the ECC customer base, by 2027. More than a third of ECC customers, 13,000, will remain with the legacy ERP in 2030, the analyst firm projects.
• IDC's view is slightly more optimistic. She expects 40% to 45% of ECC users to remain with the older ERP through 2027.
• The 39% figure is worded inconsistently. One source describes the population as having licensed SAP S/4HANA, while Gartner's reported version refers to customers that had migrated. Quote it with the exact wording.
• The DSAG Investment Report 2026 surveyed German-speaking users in January 2026. SAP ECC or the older SAP Business Suite is used by 54 percent, down from 68 percent in 2024, per the German-language coverage of the report.
• A conflicting secondary figure exists. One blog reports that SAP ECC usage has plummeted to 51%, down from 68% just two years ago. We could not reconcile 51% with the 54% in the DSAG coverage, so we use 54% and flag the gap.
• A survey cited by DVW Analytics found that around 59% of surveyed SAP customers were fully or partially live on S/4HANA, up 13 points on the year before. The population and publisher are not fully stated in the excerpt, and the 59% and DSAG's 54% ECC figure measure different things across different populations.
• Historical: in the 2024 ASUG Pulse, 48% of respondents said moving to SAP S/4 HANA is a top focus area in 2024.

Deployment models and investment plans

DSAG's 2026 report shows that on-premises S/4HANA has overtaken ECC as the deployment base for the first time among its respondents.

Source: DSAG Investment Report 2026, Feb 26, 2026. Respondents could select more than one deployment, so shares do not sum to 100%. Survey fielded January 2026 among DSAG members.

• The DSAG report shows that S/4HANA Private Cloud rose to 17% (from 11%), while the Public Cloud holds at 5%.
• For 2026 investment, 42% plan high or medium spending on S/4HANA On-Premises, 22% on Private Cloud, and only 6% on Public Cloud.
• For SAP ECC, 10% plan high and medium investments.
• On migration timing, only 37% plan to migrate by end of 2027. Nearly half of remaining SAP ECC users plan to migrate to S/4HANA by end of 2030, entering paid extended maintenance.
• On the calendar, the end of standard SAP ECC maintenance on December 31, 2027 increases the pressure to migrate. Optional extended maintenance runs to end of 2030.
• S/4HANA on-premises maintenance commitments run until 2040, according to reporting on the DSAG position.
• An early-2026 ISG research summary reports that 34% of organizations chose brownfield, 18% greenfield, and nearly half opted for a bluefield hybrid. This is a secondary summary; we did not confirm the original ISG release.

Budgets, cost and project outcomes

• The ASUG 2026 Pulse surveyed 663 ASUG members in December 2025.
• Budget constraints are now the top challenge facing SAP customers, cited by 61% of respondents, seven percentage points higher than the prior year. Integration was cited by 48%.
• Panorama Consulting's 2026 ERP Report, released March 4, 2026, found that more than a quarter of organizations exceeded their project budgets, with additional technology needs cited as the leading cause. The report is based on responses from organizations across industries, organization sizes, and geographic locations.
• A 2025 survey cited by DVW Analytics found that 95% said building a positive return-on-investment case for S/4HANA is difficult or takes significant effort, and nine in ten were worried about rising and unpredictable subscription costs. The survey's publisher and sample size are not stated in the excerpt.
• At DSAG's 2026 congress, an IBM study was cited. It found that only 25 percent have generated the expected return on investment. This refers to AI investments broadly, not ERP projects specifically.
• Historical: in the 2024 ASUG Pulse, 29% of respondents said maintaining knowledgeable staff and turnover were significant challenges.

Source: ASUG, 2026 Pulse of the SAP Customer (survey of 663 members, Dec 2025). Percent of respondents naming each as a top challenge.

AI adoption in SAP and cloud ERP

• Gartner forecasts that 62% of cloud ERP spending on AI-enabled solutions by 2027, up from 14% in 2024. This is a forecast, not a measured outcome.
• Gartner also predicts that finance organizations using cloud ERP applications with embedded AI assistants will see a 30% faster financial close by 2028. This is a prediction, not an observed result.
• A February 2026 ASUG survey of 142 members found that 41% are actively piloting AI and 39% are building foundational knowledge, and only 24% have moved to active deployment.
• Microsoft dominates current AI tool adoption (72% of respondents use Copilot), according to the same ASUG research. Respondents said they expected to use SAP's embedded AI features and Joule agents, with more than half planning to do so.
• At Sapphire 2026, SAP announced selected AI scenarios for ECC and S/4HANA on-premises customers under RISE with SAP or GROW with SAP. DSAG called this a first step.

Source: MarketScreener, reprinting Gartner release, Feb 2026. Forecast; 2024 baseline was 14%.

Source: CIO, 2026 (ASUG 2026 SAP AI Research, 142 members, Feb 2026). Categories are not mutually exclusive in the source.

Gaps and what to watch

• Gartner no longer publishes a single ERP Magic Quadrant. It retired the one-size-fits-all ERP report and replaced it with a set of segmented Cloud ERP Magic Quadrants. Vendor-share comparisons from Gartner therefore need to be read by segment.
• Testing-specific benchmarks, such as defect rates or regression coverage, are absent from this roundup because we did not source them in this pass.
• The sharpest conflicts to resolve are the ECC share (54% from DSAG versus 51% from a secondary blog), the Gartner 39% definition, and the vendor share ranking (SAP at 6.6% versus about 22% in secondary sources).

What this means for your sign-off

• Ask which migration path the holdout population is on. Only a minority of ECC customers in the DSAG survey plan to finish by 2027. Your cutover and regression plan should assume extended maintenance is in play. See our ECC end of maintenance guide.
• Plan for cloud-cadence regression, not one-off testing. The shift toward cloud contracts changes the testing rhythm after go-live. Our RISE with SAP testing responsibilities piece covers who owns that work.
• Use the phase-by-phase migration test plan as the baseline. If your program is among the 61% of ECC customers the Gartner figures leave on ECC, start from our ECC to S/4HANA testing plan.
• Budget for the cost pressure the surveys describe. Budget is the top challenge in the ASUG 2026 Pulse, and over a quarter of Panorama's respondents exceeded budget. Fund the test function as a line item from day one, using the SAP Testing CoE operating model.
• Treat AI claims as pilots until you see deployment data. Only 24% of ASUG respondents report active AI deployment. Use our SAP AI for practitioners guide to scope what to test before you sign.
• Start from the templates. The template library includes an ECC to S/4HANA migration test plan and a go/no-go readiness checklist.

Frequently asked questions

Who is the largest ERP vendor by revenue?

It depends on the source. Apps Run The World's 2025 table shows Oracle at 6.7% and SAP at 6.6%, a gap of 0.1 point. Secondary sites that use a narrower core-ERP scope report SAP at about 22%.

How many SAP ECC customers were still on ECC at the end of 2024?

Gartner's estimate for the end of 2024 is that only 39%, or about 14,000, of the 35,000 SAP ECC customers had migrated to S/4HANA. Gartner's projection is that about 17,000 will still be on ECC in 2027.

How many SAP customers run ECC in 2026?

In the DSAG Investment Report 2026, SAP ECC or the older SAP Business Suite is used by 54 percent, down from 68 percent in 2024. This figure covers German-speaking DSAG members, not all SAP customers.

When does ECC mainstream maintenance end?

The end of standard SAP ECC maintenance on December 31, 2027 increases the pressure to migrate. Optional extended maintenance runs to end of 2030.

How big is the global ERP market?

Estimates for 2025 range from $59.42 billion (Precedence Research) to $147.7 billion in spending (HG Insights). Scope explains most of the gap.

How many organizations exceed their ERP project budgets?

Panorama Consulting's 2026 ERP Report found that more than a quarter of organizations exceeded their project budgets, with additional technology needs cited as the leading cause.

Sources

1. SAP Quarterly Statement Q3 2026, SAP SE, October 2026
2. Earnings call transcript: SAP Q3 2026, Investing.com, October 2026
3. Top 10 ERP Software Vendors, Market Size and Forecast 2025-2030, Apps Run The World, 2025 data
4. ERP Market Share, Size & Key Players in 2025, HG Insights, 2025
5. ERP Market Share 2026, ERP Research, 2026 (vendor-style estimates)
6. How Big is the ERP Market? (2025), Cargoson, 2025
7. ERP Market Share & Leaders 2026, Flectic, 2026
8. Global ERP Statistics 2026, Companieshistory, 2026 (secondary)
9. ERP Software Market Size, Statistics, market.us, 2026
10. ERP Market Size: 2026 Data, Godlan, 2026 (compiles Grand View, Mordor, Precedence and Fortune Business Insights)
11. SAP Statistics 2026, Quantumrun, 2026 (secondary)
12. Panorama Consulting Group Releases Latest Study of ERP Implementation Outcomes, Panorama Consulting Group, March 4, 2026
13. ASUG Research: 2026 Pulse of the SAP Customer Research, ASUG, March 2026
14. Nearly half of SAP ECC customers may stick with legacy ERP beyond 2027, CIO, 2025 (citing Gartner and IDC)
15. SAP customers say migration is eating their budgets—and AI is next in line, CIO, 2026 (citing ASUG 2026 research)
16. DSAG Investment Report 2026 press release, DSAG, February 26, 2026
17. DSAG: Mehr Budget, mehr S/4HANA, IT-Matchmaker, 2026 (German-language coverage of DSAG data)
18. SAP Investments 2026: Targeted Spending, Security Storage und Channel Germany, March 2026 (summarizes DSAG data)
19. SAP between AI vision and ERP reality, heise, October 12, 2026
20. DSAG Annual Congress 2026 press release, DSAG, 2026
21. DSAG Annual Congress 2026: AI between Gold Rush and Reality, Munich Enterprise, 2026
22. SAP ECC End of Support: The 2027 Deadline and Your Options, DVW Analytics, 2026 (secondary)
23. SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Migration, Software Modernization Services, 2026 (secondary; cites ISG)
24. Gartner Predicts Embedded AI in Cloud ERP Applications will Drive a 30% Faster Financial Close by 2028, MarketScreener reprint of Gartner release, February 2026
25. Gartner press release, cloud ERP and AI, Gartner, February 24, 2026
26. My View, My Voice: Assessing Four Seismic Shifts in Enterprise Technology, ASUG, 2025 (reports 2024 Pulse data; historical)
27. Gartner ERP Magic Quadrant 2026: How to Read It Correctly, ERP Research, July 2026 (secondary)

Last updated: November 4, 2026. Statistics are refreshed as new research is published.