SAP developed a unique code (ABAP / 4) - are not easy to expand, mostly in Germany, development, code, table notes in German.
Specific, complex, based on German usage of development tools.
No third-party manufacturers to use application software products are developed in ABAP tools, there is no non-SAP users to use ABAP.
Data indicate that the cost of employment in recent years, the developer broke the 25 percent rate of growth, leading many companies to the school to hire students who have not yet graduated to reduce costs.
In recent years, SAP has a growing number of modules use of non-ABAP language development. Such as sales configuration management module-Sales Configuration) with C and C + + development, to the R / 3 integration of old and new products brought some new problems.
ORACLE was open source and common development tools.
Open, secure and ease of understanding.
For enterprise modeling and development needs of the market-leading products.
More than 500,000 qualified certificates developers are using the developer.
Application is using Oracle Developer, Designer and several kinds of ORACLE database, the development of dedicated development tools to meet the advanced reporting tools to develop products that run on the industry's best performance of ORACLE database platform, the core technology will be the essence of ORACLE database to play to the limit, in the operation performance and speed are way ahead of SAP R / 3 product.
On the integrity of the product line
ORACLE offers from the core relational database (RDBMS), system development tools, application-level software products, applicable to the analysis of middle-level staff support tools (OLAP, OSA, OFA), provide business intelligence systems for leadership (BIS).
Oracle's customer relationship management (CRM), e-commerce (E-Business), specialized equipment management (MRO) solutions, and so on, the use of ICA, and Web Customers, Web Employees, and Web Suppliers such as software, Oracle is the only suppliers of such technology products, but also to meet different customer requirements.
SAP only application-level software products and dedicated ABAP4 development tools. Structural elements of the operational framework developed by third-party manufacturers, the concept of this structure is based on the promotion of R / 3 products and third-party collaborative software products concerned.
Implementation costs and complexity of the software is relatively
The cost and complexity of SAP is already well known, SAP has admitted its own products difficult to implement.
SAP inherently subject to unique limitations of language and interface, making customization and expansion is difficult. SAP standard effort has just begun, but also a few years to mature. This means that a customer now wants to expand and customize the system (almost all of the SAP customers should be a large number of customer-oriented), they have to hire expensive, hard to find and very proficient in SAP technology professionals.
The same as mentioned above, SAP's structure is very complex, SAP to promote a framework consisting of different subsystems, each with a different data model.
These systems typically require a separate server installed on the inside. This forced the client to split the system function, leading to:
Segmentation data model.
Inaccurate data: for example, a sales order in the CRM system, which, if entered, ERP systems can not be updated immediately.
Require high system performance: All the system needs to purchase and manage different client machines, an increase of operating costs.
Gartner report points out that SAP in the past two years restructuring effort is made even more complex: "SAP's users are finding SAP is becoming a more complex company, more complex product lines, making the user's SAP strategy and implementation are more difficult."
SAP's applications feature a large number of pre-set a good configuration, require complex rules and relationships are difficult to maintain and use. Customized dependent on the structure of the system is particularly difficult, as the general ledger and human resources. The same is true in the payroll area.
In general, as Gartner has said: "SAP's implementation of the high cost and a long time. SAP is basically the cost of the implementation of the initial 6 to 10 times the license fees. Takes 12 to 24 months to complete the implementation."
Comparatively speaking, ORACLE products developed allows a wide range of customization without the need to write code, and open architecture allows ORACLE applications and a large number of systems can be integrated. ORACLE has a unified architecture enables customers to implement on a platform inside the functional blocks needed, greatly reducing implementation complexity. ORACLE there are many reference to the successful implementation of customers ORACLE products, and in reducing cost of ownership has achieved great success.
From the easy to use point of view, ORACLE nature of the product easy to set up, use and maintenance. To put it simply, ORACLE applications as long as the specific steps through a simple set up. ORACLE's business users do not need to understand the relationship between the tables, procedures, and configuration steps to invoke business functions. They simply use the system, manage operations and from the system to facilitate access to management information.
For example, ORACLE can simply set the permissions, and from the general user maintenance. In addition, the work flow is embedded in the applications inside is better than developed by programmers or maintenance. ORACLE also provides the ability to accompanying documents, by clicking on the button, rather than the complex and time-consuming configurations, ORACLE user immediately aware of annexes.
Other advantages of ORACLE
Oracle applications provide substantial flexibility and scalability.
Oracle to provide customers with Desktop Integrator (Application Desktop Integrator, ADI), allowing users to integrate non-ERP systems, such as EXCEL, directly to the ORACLE application systems (general ledger, budget, and fixed assets). ADI allows a simple end-user to import general ledger, budget, or the conversion of master data and opening the data. SAP does not like ADI's products or tools.
Oracle also provides flexibility to describe the domain in all applications within the. ORACLE Flexfield can be described in any simple definition on the screen in any field, but without any written procedures for the work. Therefore, they can be tracked and reports statistics. Users can use the domain to a simple description of flexible track any additional information, rather than modify the ORACLE applications, as long as five minutes is enough. In the SAP inside users to search through the available fields, as far as possible hoping to find a field or label to meet the demand.
Oracle also offers some user-defined segments, such as chart of accounts. There is no restrictions on the use of paragraphs, and therefore there is no reporting restrictions. User-defined chart of accounts section and stored in a table, and thus change only in one place. In addition, the setting of any one segment to be able to be used as statements of dimensions, and can be combined with other paragraphs.
By contrast, SAP has a rigid chart of accounts, the user must be defined within a module available fields (company, business scope and subjects) value, while in another module definition cost centers and cost information is also another module the definition of budget data. Difficult to maintain the control relationship between the different modules, when to explain the relationship between end-users, they often have been complicated by the logic and flow of the knock.
Beyond the Oracle E-Business Suite SAP, through the key business processes which support the workflow, including procurement to the V section, order to cash and product design. Users can simply cutting systems to meet their needs, by simply expanding the workflow process, without programming, just using a simple drag and pull interface. While the SAP provided workflow technology, but few support the business process workflow.
Finally, ORACLE to provide the ability to adjust the search screen by using the folder tools to meet the individual's parameter settings, move the column on the screen, a simple call to query, sort data, export to EXCEL. |
