Enterprise Software Adoption in Portugal

CRM and ERP in Portugal, against the EU27

Growth has been slower than the bloc's: up 1.3 points from 6.4% in 2018, while the EU27 average gained 4.69. It was under the average in 2018 as well. Ranked on the 2018 figures it would have been ninth, so it has lost 5 places.

ERP is the stronger of the two measures: 11.42% of enterprises paid for ERP software as a cloud service in 2023, 3.72 points more than did so for CRM. That is 0.31 points below the EU27's 11.73% and eighth of 16, 6 places higher than on CRM. From 11.42% in 2021 that is a gain of 0 points, less than the EU27 average's 2.08. In the CRM ranking Portugal sits between Italy (7.84%) and France (7.42%).

Source: Eurostat, ICT usage in enterprises survey (isoc_cicce_use), fetched September 14, 2026. View the underlying table.

Vendors in our rankings headquartered in Portugal

Portugal is the headquarters given for 3 of the 3358 listings in our software rankings: 3 vendors in 3 of the 263 categories. No vendor appears in more than one. British Virgin Islands, International (open-source project), Not stated, South Korea and Turkey have the same number; 41 headquarters countries have more.

Portugal places higher on adoption than on supply: fourteenth of the 16 countries here by CRM cloud adoption, fifteenth by number of listings. No category group leads outright: AI software (1), IT & Collaboration (1) and Operations (1). There is none in Revenue & Growth, Finance, People or Vertical.

None of the 3 holds a top-three place. The highest is Xray, #5 in test management software. Pricing: Priced per Jira user through the Atlassian Marketplace for Cloud (Standard and Advanced editions) and Data Center; the 30-day trial is free and the live quote renders client-side.

Barred from places 1 to 3 as a dominant incumbent in a category: Xray. 1 of the 3 sell on quote only (33%), above the 25% across all 3358 listings.

Counted from our own vendor dataset. Places can be paid for: placement disclosure.