IDC's Europe, Middle East and Africa Semiannual Enterprise Resource Management Applications Tracker® monitors vendors' business performance by delivering semiannual updates to vendor shares and forecasts across the ERM software market. This tracker provides an understanding of which vendors are gaining or losing share across mature and emerging countries, which are business critical for enterprise resource management (ERM) application vendors, supply chain partners, vendors looking to acquire ERM application companies, and the investment community.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas. Measurement for this tracker is total software revenue, which includes license plus maintenance plus SaaS and other subscription revenue.

Enterprise resource management applications

• Financial accounting applications
• Payroll accounting
• Order management
• Project and portfolio management (PPM)
• Financial performance and strategy management applications
• Human capital management
• Procurement
• Enterprise asset management

Segmentations

• Company size (4 employee size classes)
• Vertical markets (8 verticals)
• Type of license

Geographic Scope

• Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Rest of CEE)
• Middle East and Africa (Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, UAE, Rest of MEA)
• Western Europe (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K.)

Forecast Coverage

Annual five-year market forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include five-year annual market projections. Forecasts are available at regional and country levels. Examples of the segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:

• Markets
• Regions
• Countries

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a semiannual basis via an Excel-based tool with an online Web query component. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• November (first half of 2012 data)
• May (second half of 2012 data)