SAP ERP market share

Who’s taking ERP market share from SAP, Oracle?

With Oracle’s less than stellar earnings announcement this week, there’s been a lot of back-and-forth on whether Oracle is taking market share from SAP.

Figures from Gartner Research’s most recent North American ERP market share report — which ranks the vendors through 2008 — show that doesn’t seem to be the case.

SAP’s share of the North American ERP market decreased from 28.3% in 2007 to 26.8% in 2008. In turn, Oracle’s decreased from 12.9% in 2007 to 12.7% in 2008.

SAP and Oracle are still one and two, respectively, in the North American enterprise software market by a wide margin. But in looking at these numbers, the more interesting question is, who’s taking market share from them?

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