In the world this market growths very slow (6-8%) but our domestic segment is growing at 50-60% annually that IT market growth.

Growth of ERP market

The main factors of growth of the market of ERP systems include the consolidation because holdings are expanded and tend to reduce management costs by streamlining and standardizing business subsidiaries. The second growth factor is the centralization that accompanied the introduction of powerful IT solutions for business management with IT infrastructure restructuring.

Another reason to think about the implementation of ERP systems is striving of organizations for transparency (access to open markets, external financing, increasing the capitalization). Constantly growing sector of small and medium-sized businesses accelerates the growth of the ERP also. It stimulates the growth of interest in such systems and develops software solutions and the growth of industry and customized ERP also.

Growth of the Western market for the most part provided thanks to absorption vendors of small business application developers. As the result the overall customer base increases and increase revenues from maintenance. In recent years the global ERP-vendors are looking for new niches to sell themselves own solutions and approaches to their advancement.

It is interesting that a significant portion of cost user’s accounts to support the existing ERP-systems. The development of integration platforms based on SOA which is supposed to slow down the interest of customers to a monolithic program leads to an increase in ERP market however. This happens in reason that opportunities for new sales are opened due to a combination of new software solutions with legacy, as well as through the sale of such solutions to customers of competitors.

Activity in ERP market

The main trend in the ERP market consolidation is allocated from developers and integrators of software solutions. The second feature of today ERP usage contradicts the underlying trend. There is a shift of customers' project objectives towards improved management company. Organization changes the approach to the selection of ERP systems: increasingly the choice of the system depends on the specific business challenges.

There is a tendency of companies to the individualization of ERP-project. Previously customers seek to implement the same ERP system as the other organizations. Today the choice is taken into account the specifics of organization which can be adapted to the needs of its business easily. Several years ago, customers wanted to choose a system of one particular vendor which was solved all their problems. Today problem is determined in the first time and then software solutions were chosen.

As a result, ERP-solutions that integrate with each other is implemented into organization sometimes.

Now customers don’t want to choose a good system for themselves but the best solution for their business. Therefore, wide range of software solutions will be a place in ERP market.