Country profile · 2025

Business software and digital adoption in Portugal

Portugal is below the series median on 6 of 8 indicators and clears it on ERP use (48.3%) and documented security policies (54.3%).

54.3%Security policy · 3rd of 33
48.3%ERP · 11th of 33
21.6%CRM · 20th of 33
2/8above the series median
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Portugal, figure by figure

8 indicators
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    38.7% of enterprises in Portugal buy paid cloud computing services, 9.3 points under the 48.0% median and 25th of 33. Next below: Slovakia (36.4%). Eurostat isoc_cicce_use, 2025 Verified

  2. 02

    Portugal is 22nd of 33 for AI use: 11.5%, which is 6.5 points below the median (18.0%). Bosnia and Herzegovina (10.8%) follows; Latvia (12.2%) is one place up. Eurostat isoc_eb_ai, 2025 Verified

  3. 03

    21.6% of enterprises in Portugal use CRM software: 2.7 points under the 24.3% median, 20th of 33, between Italy (21.7%) and Slovenia (21.5%). Eurostat isoc_eb_iip, 2025 Verified

  4. 04

    Portugal places 11th of 33 for ERP use with 48.3%, 7.3 points over the median (41.0%). Luxembourg (49.4%) is one place ahead, Malta (46.3%) one behind. Eurostat isoc_eb_iip, 2025 Verified

  5. 05

    For BI software use, Portugal records 13.0% and ranks 22nd of 33; the median is 15.9% and Germany (13.2%) is the next country up. Eurostat isoc_eb_iip, 2025 Verified

  6. 06

    Portugal ranks 23rd of 33 for online selling at 21.8%, 3.7 points short of the median (25.5%); Germany (23.1%) is one place above. Eurostat isoc_ec_esels, 2025 Verified

  7. 07

    Ranked 3rd of 33 for documented security policies: 54.3% of enterprises in Portugal hold a documented ICT security policy. Finland (59.4%) leads by 5.1 points; the series median is 34.4%. Eurostat isoc_cisce_ra, 2024 Verified

  8. 08

    The figure for hard-to-fill ICT vacancies is 3.7% in Portugal: 23rd of 32, between Albania (3.8%) and Bulgaria (3.7%), against a median of 4.9%. Eurostat isoc_ske_itrcrs, 2024 Verified

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How Portugal compares

Ordered by mean rank over all indicators, Portugal is 20th of 33 (18.6), directly between Montenegro (18.2) and Serbia (19.1).

The spread is wide, 22 places: 3rd for documented security policies (54.3%) against 25th for paid cloud use (38.7%).

ERP runs 26.7 points ahead of CRM (48.3% against 21.6%), a wider gap than the series median of 13.9.

Against the EU27 value instead of the median, Portugal is ahead on 2 of 8: furthest ahead on documented security policies (+18.8), furthest behind on paid cloud use (−14.0).

Highest rank firstPortugalRankvs median vs EU27Year
Security policy54.3%3/33+19.9+18.82024
ERP48.3%11/33+7.3+1.82025
CRM21.6%20/33−2.7−6.92025
AI11.5%22/33−6.5−8.42025
BI software13.0%22/33−2.9−3.32025
E-commerce sales21.8%23/33−3.7−1.82025
ICT vacancies3.7%23/32−1.2−1.82024
Paid cloud38.7%25/33−9.3−14.02025
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Software vendors based in Portugal

10 in the database

10 products from vendors headquartered in Portugal are listed in 11 of our 406 software categories. Where they are most numerous:

Also listed in: AI Code Review Tools.

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Portugal in our reports

Portugal is also named in the country rankings of these reports: security, point 39.

Enterprises with 10+ employees. Method and citation · previous: Poland · next: Romania