SAP Vs Oracle Applications Comparison

For all of you who are part of the initial calls , invariably a comparison is drawn wrt to SAP. It is a well known fact that SAP holds a higher market share in the ERP market and for most customers in India, ERP is SAP and SAP is ERP. Hence providing a overview of how different these products are, their approach etc will help tilting the customer mindset towards Oracle Apps. 

Couple of Salient points of Oracle Applications which we usually emphasize in our presentations includes

·         Oracle Apps in much better in Financials ( You can give the e.g and references of New SLA accounting in R12, Better reporting , Options of Multiple Ledgers and Ledgers sets, IFRS complainant, MOAC- Multi org Access Control)

·         Customer can only buy the modules he prefers to use currently and phase the implementation of other modules. Customer will only pay the ATS for the licensed modules. For a Services firm they can start with Financials (AP, AR, GL, FA and CM), Purchasing, and Order management first and do a go live. They can look at Projects, HR, Payroll, BI, EPM etc

·         Oracle is better in Project Management Modules  and provides seamless integration with Other modules

·         Oracle EBS is more suitable and scores better when it comes to price-performance with Self service modules.

·         Embedded BI in Apps. DBI (Daily business intelligence). It’s a separate licensed product and does not need a separate data warehouse. It provides role based prebuilt KPI’s, Dashboards and Reports for the Senior Management

·         No added cost for the database – acquisition and annual maintenance. Comes as part of the bundle. Limited license 

·         Need of a Database DBA from customer end only. He can be trained to do Apps DBA easily

·         Desktop Integration is provided with the product (called Web ADI). In SAP it is a separate licensed product called Duet.

·         Fusion Applications which will give the best of ERP, CRM, HRMS (EBS+Siebel+PSFT)

·         Web support: The Oracle Applications is built on a 3 tier Architecture. The middle tier – Application tier also has Apache Web server. Hence Oracle is a complete web enabled product. A customer needs a web browser only to work on oracle Apps. In R12 Most of the new forms in HTML format only. In SAP you need to buy licenses of Citrix or SAP Portal ( Need to validate)

Bottom-line: Oracle Applications TCO is far lower than SAP's


Comparison Sheet between SAP and Oracle Apps 

SAP Vs Oracle Apps