Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations vs. SAP vs. Oracle – Which ERP is Right for You?

The ERP you choose often depends on the type (and size) of your business. While smaller businesses can do just as fine without one, medium businesses and large enterprises can benefit a great deal with a robust ERP in place. And as far as big corporates are concerned, having an ERP system is rather inevitable. However, with so many ERP players in the market (and the ERP market touted to be worth more than $49.50 billion by 2020), choosing the right one is often a daunting task. How do you make the decision? What factors should you consider? What trends should you watch out for? How do you ensure the ERP you choose is the best for your business? 

The Battle of the ERPs 

Let’s do a quick comparison of the top three players in the ERP market - Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, SAP, and Oracle – to help you make the right choice for your business.

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NEWS: Oracle's Booming Cloud Business Could Rip And Replace SAP As #1 In Apps

CLOUD WARS – Cloud computing, which has already triggered massive disruptions across industries in business models and traditional pecking-orders, is giving Oracle Corp. a once-in-a-generation chance to displace arch-enemy SAP as the world leader in enterprise applications.

For decades, SAP has been the world leader in enterprise applications and Oracle has been the front-runner in enterprise databases, with both companies retaining their leadership positions in spite of the seismic shifts in the industry caused by the moves from mainframes to minicomputers to client-server to the Internet.

Oracle's recent surge in cloud-applications revenue - it sold $1 billion in SaaS apps during the quarter ended May 31 and $3.4 billion for the year give it a legitimate chance to overtake SAP as the world's #1 provider of enterprise applications, particularly in the massive cloud ERP market.

In the combined category of on-premise apps plus cloud apps, it's still not very close as SAP's revenue for that category doubles that of Oracle for the corresponding set of products and services:

• Oracle: For the 3 months ending May 31, it reported combined applications revenue of $2.86 billion: $964 million for SaaS apps and $1.9 billion for on-premise (see full details on page 10 of the Oracle press release).
• SAP: For the 3 months ending June 30, it reported combined applications revenue for cloud plus on-premise of $5.61 billion (see full details on page 7 of the SAP press release).

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SAP Second Quarter Earnings Shrug Off Brexit - InformationWeek

SAP Second Quarter Earnings Shrug Off Brexit - InformationWeek: "SAP second quarter earnings showed no sign of weakness from the recent Brexit vote in the UK. Instead, the company's revenue and earnings grew as SAP added new customers, particularly for its S/4 HANA platform. 10 ERP Players Shaping The Market (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) SAP's second-quarter results, announced Wednesday, were a welcome development for the German-based enterprise applications company. Like other tech giants such as Oracle, IBM, and HPE, SAP has been struggling with the growing pains of transitioning to cloud-based workloads and business models over the last few years. The company's CEO Bill McDermott told analysts during an earnings conference call (audio) that the company experienced double-digit growth in software, cloud, and operating income. Despite widespread concern, SAP executives said during the earnings call that the company had experienced no negative effects so far from the Brexit vote in the UK, which happened at the end of the quarter."

Should ERP vendors enter adjacencies?

There is a tendency these days to advise that people and companies ‘focus’, and not try to do too much. Should companies stay with one set of products, or broaden out into other related areas or ‘adjacencies’? Recently an analyst I follow on Twitter commented that SAP has spend $50billion over the years to acquire […]


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