ERP is the software a company changes least often and fears changing most, so these are large, long-lived products sold to companies of every size, from a global manufacturer to a shop with three staff. India is one of the main places where they are built. SAP, Infor, Epicor, Sage and Deltek build their suites in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, UiPath and Automation Anywhere run much of their engineering from Bengaluru, Appian has a large centre in Chennai, and Docusign's Bengaluru centre is its largest outside the United States. The automation side is also one of the most Indian parts of the collection, with process-mining pioneers like Skan AI and Soroco, Newgen Software, India's oldest workflow company, document-reading companies like Nanonets and Infrrd, and young agent companies founded almost entirely in India.
For an engineer, this is enterprise application work on a large scale. Java and .NET carry much of it, cloud engineers run the products as services, and ERP and integration developers configure and connect them. AI work is a far larger part of hiring here than across product companies, because these companies are putting agents on top of the systems a business already runs, and GenAI engineers are among the largest groups hired.
ERP and business automation is one of the Industry Verticals of
The Market Segments start from the system of record, move out to the connections and the automated work around it, take in the documents, and end with the agents now sold to do the work.
Suites for large companies, ERP for particular industries and the accounting software of small businesses come from companies like SAP, Infor, Epicor, Deltek and Vyapar.
The platforms that connect a company's applications, and the software that moves its files and runs its batch jobs, come from companies like Boomi, Workato, Celigo, Axway and Redwood Software.
Software robots, the tools that map how work really flows, and the platforms that build workflow applications come from companies like UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Celonis, Appian and Pegasystems.
Reading documents with AI, storing them and getting them signed are the work of companies like Nanonets, ABBYY, OpenText, Hyland and Docusign.
AI agents sold as a worker for a role or a team come from companies like Ema, C3 AI and Wand AI.
What ERP and business automation companies hire software engineers for, and which roles they hire, is on