Business Operations Infrastructure
Europe has a deep bench of business operations software, led by SAP (Germany) as the world’s largest ERP vendor, alongside mid-market players like Exact, AFAS, Unit4 (all Netherlands), and Forterro for manufacturing SMEs. The EU’s mandatory B2B e-invoicing rollout is accelerating adoption of European invoicing platforms like Basware (Finland) and Pagero (Sweden), which are built around European compliance standards from the ground up. European business operations tools tend to ship with country-specific tax, payroll, and regulatory modules that US-built alternatives treat as afterthoughts.