ERP Statistics 2026
By Axis Intelligence Research
Co-author: Elena Rodriguez (SaaS & Business Software) | Last updated: September 23, 2026 | License: CC BY 4.0
SAP’s cloud revenue now runs at 2.58 times its on-premise support revenue, up from 1.94 times a year earlier, according to Axis Intelligence Research’s analysis of SAP’s Q2 2026 filing. With 464 days left before SAP Business Suite 7 exits mainstream maintenance on December 31, 2027, the largest ERP installed base in the world is on a fixed clock.
Quick Answer
The ERP market in 2026 is defined by one migration. SAP’s Cloud ERP Suite revenue grew 25% to €5.5 billion in Q2 2026 while its legacy support revenue fell 8% (SAP Q2 2026 statement). In Europe, 46.45% of enterprises with 10+ employees used ERP software in 2025 (Eurostat). Axis Intelligence Research estimates roughly 819,000 EU firms still run without one.
Key Findings
- Axis Intelligence Research’s ERP Migration Velocity Spread (EMVS) reads 33 percentage points for SAP (Q2 2026) versus 13 points for Oracle (Q1 FY27), meaning SAP’s installed base is leaving on-premise more than twice as fast.
- Cloud ERP Suite accounted for 55.9% of SAP’s total revenue in Q2 2026, up from 49.0% in Q2 2025, per Axis Intelligence Research calculations from SAP’s quarterly statement.
- SAP’s software support revenue shrank by €495 million year over year in the first half of 2026, falling from €5.40 billion to €4.91 billion (SAP, July 23, 2026).
- Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 revenue growth slowed to 13% in the June 2026 quarter from 22% in the March quarter, the sharpest deceleration of its fiscal year (Microsoft 8-K filings).
- Axis Intelligence Research estimates about 819,000 EU enterprises with 10 or more employees operate without ERP software, based on Eurostat’s 2025 adoption rate of 46.45% across 1.53 million enterprises.
How Big Is the ERP Market in 2026?
There is no single audited “ERP market” number, and any page that quotes one to the dollar is quoting a model. What can be measured is the revenue the largest ERP vendors report in their filings, and the spending envelope that analysts forecast around them.
Gartner’s July 2026 forecast puts worldwide software spending at $1.468 trillion in 2026, up 15.5% (Gartner, July 27, 2026). ERP sits inside that line; Gartner does not break it out in the public release. For the wider picture of that software envelope, see our enterprise software spending statistics.
ERP Vendor Revenue Snapshot, Latest Reported Quarter
| Vendor | Metric | Latest value | YoY growth | Period ended | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAP | Cloud ERP Suite revenue | €5,525M | +25% | Jun 30, 2026 | SAP Q2 2026 statement (6-K) |
| SAP | Current cloud backlog | €22,929M | +27% (+26% cc) | Jun 30, 2026 | SAP Q2 2026 statement (6-K) |
| Oracle | Cloud applications (SaaS) revenue | $4.2B | +10% | Aug 31, 2026 | Oracle Q1 FY27 press release |
| Oracle | Software (license + support) revenue | $5,550M | −3% | Aug 31, 2026 | Oracle Q1 FY27 financial tables |
| Microsoft | Dynamics 365 revenue | not disclosed in $ | +13% (+12% cc) | Jun 30, 2026 | Microsoft FY26 Q4 8-K |
| Workday | Subscription revenue | $2.471B | +13.9% | Jul 31, 2026 | Workday FY27 Q2 press release |
Currencies are left as reported. Fiscal calendars differ: Oracle’s quarter ends August 31, Workday’s July 31.
Elena Rodriguez’s read: The table looks like four growth stories. It is really two. SAP and Oracle are converting a paying installed base from maintenance contracts to subscriptions, so their cloud lines grow partly by cannibalizing their own support lines. Workday was born in the cloud and has nothing to convert. When a CFO compares vendor growth rates in a selection deck, that distinction decides whether the number means new customers or the same customers paying on a new invoice.
How Fast Are Companies Moving From On-Premise ERP to Cloud ERP?
This is the question the vendor press releases answer least directly, so Axis Intelligence Research built a metric for it.
The ERP Migration Velocity Spread (EMVS)
The ERP Migration Velocity Spread (EMVS) measures how quickly a vendor’s revenue base is shifting from on-premise to cloud. It is the year-over-year growth of the vendor’s cloud ERP or SaaS revenue line minus the year-over-year growth of its legacy on-premise line (support or license-and-support), in percentage points, in reported currency.
EMVS = cloud ERP revenue growth (%) − legacy on-premise revenue growth (%)
A spread near zero means both lines move together: customers add cloud without leaving on-premise. A wide spread means cloud is rising while the legacy base drains. The formula uses only figures the vendors publish, so anyone can recompute it from the filings linked below.
| Vendor | Period | Cloud line growth | Legacy line growth | EMVS | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAP | Q1 2026 | Cloud ERP Suite +23% | Software support −11% | 34 pp | SAP Q1 2026 statement |
| SAP | Q2 2026 | Cloud ERP Suite +25% | Software support −8% | 33 pp | SAP Q2 2026 statement |
| Oracle | Q1 FY27 | SaaS +10% | Software −3% | 13 pp | Oracle Q1 FY27 press release |
Microsoft and Workday have no EMVS reading. Microsoft’s quarterly release reports Dynamics 365 growth without a separate on-premise Dynamics line; Workday has no on-premise business. Oracle’s reading uses its total software and SaaS lines, which include database and non-ERP applications, so it measures Oracle’s whole application-and-license base rather than ERP alone.
According to Axis Intelligence Research, SAP’s 33-point spread is more than 2.5 times Oracle’s 13 points. SAP’s own guidance points the same direction: the company expects its software support decline rate to accelerate in coming years as more customers move to the cloud (SAP Q2 2026 statement).
SAP Cloud Revenue vs. Support Revenue by Quarter
| Quarter | Cloud revenue (€M) | Software support (€M) | Cloud-to-support multiple (Axis) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 2025 | 5,130 | 2,642 | 1.94× | SAP Q2 2026 statement |
| Q1 2026 | 5,962 | 2,469 | 2.41× | SAP Q1 2026 statement |
| Q2 2026 | 6,281 | 2,439 | 2.58× | SAP Q2 2026 statement |
Elena Rodriguez’s read: Support revenue is the annuity SAP’s business was built on, and in Q2 2026 it was €203 million smaller than a year earlier. SAP is fine with that, because every euro of maintenance that converts into RISE or GROW subscriptions comes back larger and stickier. For the customer, the math is different. A maintenance contract you already depreciated is being swapped for a subscription you pay every year, and the migration project sits on top. The ROI deck that sells you the move rarely prices those two costs in the same column.
What Share of SAP’s Revenue Comes From Cloud ERP?
Cloud ERP is no longer a segment of SAP. It is most of SAP.
- Cloud ERP Suite = 88.0% of SAP’s cloud revenue in Q2 2026 (€5,525M of €6,281M), per Axis Intelligence Research calculations.
- Cloud ERP Suite = 55.9% of SAP’s total revenue in Q2 2026 (€5,525M of €9,878M), up from 49.0% in Q2 2025.
- Software license revenue fell 32% to €131 million in Q2 2026, a line that was once SAP’s core product sale.
SAP guides full-year 2026 cloud revenue of €25.8–26.2 billion at constant currencies, against €21.02 billion in 2025 (SAP Q2 2026 statement).
SAP Cloud Revenue Growth by Region, Q2 2026
| Region | Q2 2026 (€M) | Q2 2025 (€M) | Growth (actual currency) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMEA | 2,737 | 2,163 | +27% | SAP Q2 2026 statement |
| Americas | 2,631 | 2,215 | +19% | SAP Q2 2026 statement |
| APJ | 913 | 753 | +21% | SAP Q2 2026 statement |
EMEA has been SAP’s largest cloud region in both quarters of 2026 so far, after trailing the Americas in Q2 2025 (€2,163M vs €2,215M). EMEA is also SAP’s home market, where much of the ECC installed base still sits.
When Does SAP ECC Support End?
SAP provides mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 core applications, which include SAP ERP 6.0 (ECC), until the end of 2027, followed by optional extended maintenance until the end of 2030 (SAP Support).
| Milestone | Date | Days remaining (from Sep 23, 2026) | Cost to customer | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| End of mainstream maintenance | Dec 31, 2027 | 464 | Included in current maintenance | SAP Support |
| End of optional extended maintenance | Dec 31, 2030 | 1,560 | +2 percentage points on maintenance basis | SAP Support |
| After extended maintenance | 2031 onward | — | Customer-specific maintenance | SAP Support |
Extended maintenance carries a premium of two percentage points on the maintenance basis for the Business Suite 7 scope, and customers who do not opt in move to customer-specific maintenance (SAP Support).
Elena Rodriguez’s read: Two percentage points sounds small. On a large maintenance bill it is a line item a procurement team will notice, and it buys time, not new functionality. The more useful number is 464. A mid-sized S/4HANA conversion that starts after the budget cycle closes in Q1 2027 has well under a year to hit production before mainstream support ends. That is why the SAP backlog figure matters more than the revenue figure: the backlog is the queue of customers who already signed.
How Fast Is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Growing?
Microsoft does not disclose Dynamics 365 revenue in dollars, only its growth rate. Across fiscal 2026 that rate climbed, then fell sharply.
| Quarter (Microsoft FY26) | Quarter ended | Dynamics 365 revenue growth YoY | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Sep 30, 2025 | +18% | Microsoft FY26 Q1 segment results |
| Q2 | Dec 31, 2025 | +19% | Microsoft FY26 Q2 8-K |
| Q3 | Mar 31, 2026 | +22% | Microsoft FY26 Q3 8-K |
| Q4 | Jun 30, 2026 | +13% (+12% cc) | Microsoft FY26 Q4 8-K |
A nine-point drop in one quarter is large for a business application suite with multi-year contracts. Microsoft’s release does not explain it. Readers should treat the Q4 figure as a single data point until the September 2026 quarter confirms or reverses it.
How Is Workday Growing in 2026?
Workday, which sells finance and HR applications to the same buyers as SAP and Oracle, reported subscription revenue of $2.471 billion, up 13.9%, for the quarter ended July 31, 2026 (Workday). Its 12-month subscription backlog was $9.034 billion, up 14.2%, and total subscription backlog reached $27.403 billion.
Two AI datapoints stand out in the same release. Workday said AI drove more than 25% of its new annual contract value and that more than 5,500 customers use at least one of its agents. Workday counts more than 11,500 customer organizations, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500.
Elena Rodriguez’s read: “AI drove 25% of new ACV” is a company-reported attribution, not an audited revenue split. It tells you AI is in the sales conversation. It does not tell you what the agents replaced on the customer’s payroll. The backlog number is harder evidence: a 12-month backlog growing slightly faster than revenue says next year is already partly booked.
What Percentage of Companies Use ERP Software?
The most rigorous public measure of ERP adoption comes from Eurostat’s annual survey of 157,000 EU enterprises. In 2025, 46.45% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees used ERP software, up 3.07 percentage points from 2023 (Eurostat). For comparison, 28.51% used CRM software; our CRM statistics page covers that category.
ERP Adoption by Company Size, EU, 2025
| Enterprise size | Share using ERP | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Small (10–49 employees) | 41.08% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iip) |
| Medium (50–249 employees) | 69.93% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iip) |
| Large (250+ employees) | 88.71% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iip) |
| All enterprises | 46.45% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iip) |
The gap between large and small firms is 47.63 percentage points, according to Axis Intelligence Research’s calculation from Eurostat data. Small firms make up about 83% of the 1.53 million enterprises in scope, which is why the overall rate sits much closer to the small-firm figure than the large-firm one.
How Many Companies Still Don’t Use ERP?
Axis Intelligence Research estimates roughly 819,000 EU enterprises with 10+ employees ran without ERP software in 2025.
Method: 1,530,000 enterprises × (1 − 0.4645) = 819,315, rounded. A size-weighted cross-check (83% small, 14% medium, 3% large, each multiplied by its non-adoption rate) gives about 818,000, which confirms the estimate. Roughly nine in ten of these non-adopters are small firms. That population is the addressable market that SAP’s GROW, Oracle NetSuite and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central are all selling into.
ERP Adoption by Industry, EU, 2025
| Sector | Share using ERP | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Information and communication | 61.28% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iipn2) |
| Manufacturing | 57.62% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iipn2) |
| Electricity, gas, water and remediation | 54.99% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iipn2) |
| Wholesale and retail trade | 53.77% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iipn2) |
| Real estate | 50.76% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iipn2) |
| Accommodation and food services | 26.69% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iipn2) |
Manufacturing’s 57.62% matters because MRP, bill-of-materials and shop-floor scheduling are where ERP was born. For the plant-side view, see our AI in manufacturing statistics.
ERP Adoption by Country, EU, 2025
| Country | Share using ERP | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 66.25% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iip) |
| Belgium | 62.45% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iip) |
| Spain | 60.38% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iip) |
| EU average | 46.45% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iip) |
| Croatia | 21.89% | Eurostat (isoc_eb_iip) |
Elena Rodriguez’s read: Spain at 60% and Germany absent from the top three surprises people who assume ERP adoption tracks industrial weight. The data suggests it tracks something else: how many small firms run integrated finance software at all, since small firms dominate the denominator. Our working hypothesis, which the Eurostat data alone cannot prove, is that structured e-invoicing and digital tax-reporting rules pull small firms onto ERP faster than vendor marketing does.
What Happens When an ERP Implementation Goes Wrong?
Vendor filings report bookings, not failures. The clearest public record of an ERP overrun in 2026 comes from the public sector, where costs must be disclosed.
Birmingham City Council’s SAP-to-Oracle Fusion programme carries a total forecast cost of £144.4 million through the 2027/28 financial year, against an initial estimate of £19 million, according to a council written response reported by The Register in January 2026. By Axis Intelligence Research’s calculation, that is a 7.6× multiple of the original budget. The council’s figure covers the original implementation, support of the live system, and a full reimplementation.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Original budget estimate | £19M (plus £1M contingency) | Birmingham City Council, via The Register |
| Forecast cost to 2027/28 | £144.4M | Birmingham City Council, via The Register |
| Cost multiple (Axis) | 7.6× | Axis Intelligence Research calculation |
Elena Rodriguez’s read: Birmingham chose “out of the box” Oracle, then customized it anyway, including bank reconciliation. That is the pattern worth pricing into any 2027 S/4HANA plan: the license is the smallest number in the business case, and the custom code migrated from a 20-year-old ECC system is the largest risk. Clean-core is not a slogan; it is the budget line that keeps a 1× project from becoming a 7× one.
Methodology
Collection. Axis Intelligence Research collected every figure in this article from documents fetched on September 23, 2026: SEC filings (SAP Form 6-K exhibits, Microsoft Form 8-K exhibits), company investor-relations releases (Oracle, Workday, Microsoft), SAP’s official support-strategy page, Gartner’s July 2026 IT spending forecast, and Eurostat’s 2025 ICT-usage survey. Each figure appears as a row in the CSV with its source URL and retrieval date.
Synthesized figures and formulas.
- EMVS = YoY growth of cloud ERP/SaaS revenue − YoY growth of legacy on-premise revenue, in percentage points, reported currency. SAP uses Cloud ERP Suite and software support; Oracle uses SaaS and software revenue.
- Cloud-to-support multiple = SAP cloud revenue ÷ SAP software support revenue, same quarter.
- Cloud ERP share of revenue = SAP Cloud ERP Suite revenue ÷ SAP total (or cloud) revenue.
- Days to deadline = SAP maintenance end date − September 23, 2026.
- EU enterprises without ERP = 1,530,000 × (1 − 0.4645); cross-checked with Eurostat size weights.
- Birmingham cost multiple = £144.4M ÷ £19M.
What the data does and does not cover. Vendor figures are company-reported and follow each vendor’s own segment definitions; SAP’s Cloud ERP Suite includes more than core finance. Oracle stopped disclosing separate Fusion ERP and NetSuite revenue lines in its press release; the 14% Fusion applications growth figure comes from Oracle’s Q1 FY27 earnings call. Eurostat covers EU enterprises with at least 10 employees in NACE sections C–J, L–N and group 95.1, so micro-firms and the public sector are excluded. The Birmingham figures come from a council response reported by The Register rather than a document Axis retrieved directly.
About This Dataset
The dataset behind this article contains 107 rows covering SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Workday ERP-related metrics, EU ERP adoption by size, sector and country (2025), the SAP Business Suite 7 maintenance timeline, and the EMVS readings. Each row carries source_org, source_document, source_url, retrieved_date, is_primary and axis_calculated columns.
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APA: Axis Intelligence Research, & Rodriguez, E. (2026, September 23). ERP statistics 2026: Cloud ERP revenue, adoption rates and the SAP 2027 deadline. Axis Intelligence. https://axis-intelligence.com/erp-statistics/
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ERP Questions Buyers and Analysts Are Asking in 2026
Does SAP ECC stop working after 2027?
No. SAP ECC keeps running after December 31, 2027; what ends is mainstream maintenance. Customers can buy extended maintenance through December 31, 2030, at a premium of two percentage points on their maintenance basis, or move to customer-specific maintenance (SAP Support).
How many days are left before SAP Business Suite 7 mainstream maintenance ends?
As of September 23, 2026, 464 days remain until December 31, 2027, and 1,560 days until extended maintenance ends on December 31, 2030, according to Axis Intelligence Research calculations from SAP’s published dates.
What is the ERP Migration Velocity Spread (EMVS)?
The ERP Migration Velocity Spread (EMVS) is an Axis Intelligence Research metric: a vendor’s cloud ERP revenue growth minus its on-premise legacy revenue growth, in percentage points. SAP read 33 points in Q2 2026; Oracle read 13 points in Q1 FY27.
Is SAP’s on-premise support business shrinking?
Yes. SAP’s software support revenue fell 8% to €2.44 billion in Q2 2026 and fell by €495 million year over year across the first half of 2026. SAP expects the decline rate to accelerate as customers move to the cloud (SAP Q2 2026 statement).
How much of SAP’s cloud business is ERP?
About 88%. SAP’s Cloud ERP Suite generated €5,525 million of its €6,281 million cloud revenue in Q2 2026, according to Axis Intelligence Research calculations from SAP’s quarterly statement.
Which industries use ERP software the most?
In the EU in 2025, ERP adoption was highest in information and communication (61.28%) and manufacturing (57.62%), and lowest in accommodation and food services (26.69%), according to Eurostat’s ICT-usage survey of enterprises with 10+ employees.
Do small businesses use ERP?
Fewer than half do. Eurostat found 41.08% of small EU enterprises (10–49 employees) used ERP in 2025, against 88.71% of large enterprises. Axis Intelligence Research estimates about 819,000 EU enterprises in scope had no ERP.
Is Oracle’s cloud ERP growing faster than SAP’s?
Not on disclosed figures. Oracle said Fusion applications grew 14% in the quarter ended August 31, 2026, and total SaaS grew 10%. SAP’s Cloud ERP Suite grew 25% in the quarter ended June 30, 2026. Scopes and fiscal calendars differ.
Why did Microsoft Dynamics 365 growth slow in 2026?
Microsoft reported Dynamics 365 revenue growth of 13% for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, down from 22% the prior quarter, without explaining the change in its release. One quarter is not yet a trend; the next filing will show whether it persists.