2. SAP – Systems Applications and Products
(ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning)
Comparative Analysis of SAP from three companies:
SAP Labs (Germany)
Oracle SAP
Microsoft Dynamics
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3. Technical Specification
SAP ORACLE MICROSOFT
Product Inception 1990 1992 1999
Architecture 3-tier 3-tier 2-tier or 3-tier
Programming
Language
C, C++, ABAP C, C++, Java X++ (similar to
Java)
Open Source Yes (Allows Code
modification)
No No
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USER PCsUSER PCs
Application
Server
Application
Server
Application
Server
Application
Server
Database
Server
4. Oracle SAP R/3 architecture
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9. Market share
As the diagram below shows, the report indicates that SAP
holds the largest market share of three vendors, with 22%
share. The market share difference between SAP and
everyone else is quite large.
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10. Selection rates
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Although SAP achieves the top spot in short lists, both Oracle and Microsoft are
more frequently chosen than SAP. As the survey report states: the study suggests
that after "assessing the available information, organizations are not easily
convinced that SAP is the best option." It is possible that SAP's reputation for
being expensive and complicated to implement scares potential buyers.
11. Implementation duration
According to the survey, Oracle projects show the largest gap between
planned and actual implementation durations, as the graph shows:
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