Participants were asked which software packages they currently use. Exhibit 2 shows that a total of 63 different packages were cited and no one package was dominant. Because participants were asked to fill out the survey for each type of software used, 97 responses were tabulated. QuickBooks, SAP, PeopleSoft, and Oracle were cited most frequently, followed by ADP, Great Plains, JD Edwards, and Peachtree. The remaining 50 packages were used by two or fewer respondents.
Exhibit 2 also shows that the various accounting packages used by each company were fully integrated in 65% of the cases. The most common operating system platform was Windows(84%) followed by Unix(9%).