This year many guesses and bets are being made. Some usual names inhabit the Top ERP 2025 list. Some new names try to reshuffle the order too. Apart from BigTech names like SAP HANA and Business One, Microsoft Dynamics and Oracle NetSuite; there are other players like Epicor, Acumatica, Azentio, Home-grown Ramco, and also Tally, apart from Infor, IFS, Iyro and Sage in these lists. Some work as horizontal and full-stack products and some are granular enough to address specific verticals and regions. Many on the second-half side of the Top ERP 2025 list lean heavily towards the need for mid-market alternatives and SaaS options. What’s interesting to note in many Top ERP 2025 lists, is the recurring note of how AI-embedding capabilities, SaaS, API integration, built-in enterprise performance management, verticalization and automation have been reshaping the ERP space. So are factors like sovereignty, compliance, sustainability, data security and control.

There is also a remarkable preference for industry-Clouds and cloud-first options. Plus, the average project timeline seems to have slid from 15.5 months to nine months- thanks to the shift towards SaaS. HG Insights has predicted companies could spend $147.7 billion on ERP software in 2025. And IDC augurs that by 2027, 75 per cent of global businesses would have started the process of incrementally decoupling monolithic Enterprise Apps via the ‘Strangler Pattern’ to continue the path of future-proofing their organisations. Also, driven by AI and Autonomous Agents, in 2027, 40 per cent of G2000 would tap their ERP Systems as Value Engines, using them for decision support to contextual insights. By Mid-2027, 55 per cent of global organisations will also utilise their ERP Systems as a primary hub for ESG-Related efforts for better incorporation and measurement of sustainable practices throughout their operations

It’s true that the flavour of AI and automation has been put in a sharp spotlight this year than ever before. But as a popular Buffetism goes ‘Predicting rain doesn’t count, building Arks does.’ All that intelligence and speed would count only if an enterprise is able to use them for its specific goals and create value that counts well in its calculators. Just getting AI in a glitzy ERP is nothing more than a new bell and a different whistle. It takes a well-crafted, and expert-led, ERP to make sure that AI is a feature and not just another frill.

Think about how Staqo’s Presence 360 does it. It’s not a product. It’s a solution that has been helping verticals of all shades- BFSI, Education, Government, Agriculture, Retail and Smart Cities in their transformation journeys. It also covers the entire spectrum – from HRMS, to Sales & Distribution to Financials, to Supply Chain to CRM. Presence 360 sits strongly at any table just across the Top ERP 2025 list because it has been able to translate all the AI muscle into actual value-propositions and solvers for many enterprises. With its customisation ease, user-friendly emphasis and process-intelligence, this is more than ERP- this is a multi-pronged solution to many business issues and aspirations.

Presence 360 is of consistent interest and a top favourite for its customers because it packs:

• A good grip on unique processes and scale of an enterprise
• Diagnosis-based approach and features
• Intuitive, easy to use, and affordable
• Intelligent re-engineering and deployment style
• Smart on SoR, third-party integration and data cleansing
• Strong migration reliability
• Minimal disruption, maximum uptime
• A sharp eye for redundancies and oversights
• Control on security and data integrity
• Smooth go-live performance- always

No matter who you like and who you ignore in any Top ERP 2025 list, any year; do remember that ERP is no more the stuff that sits in an IT backyard. It has become strategic, critical, AI-led and forward-facing – just the way Presence 360 crafts and runs it.