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This article shows you the difference between SAP ERP and Oracle ERP. The content is concise and easy to understand. It will definitely brighten your eyes. I hope you can get something through the detailed introduction of this article.

Comparison of SAP and ORACLE products:

1: the maturity of software products

§SAP: after nearly 30 years of cooperation with users of large enterprises around the world, SAP system has accumulated a large number of business management processes of advanced enterprises. For users, it is only necessary to select the appropriate business process in the system and configure it in the software. However, the workload of the secondary development of the software is very small, which ensures that users can spend their main energy on the optimization of enterprise business processes, and really play the role of a set of systems and management to improve a level.

§Oracle: due to the lack of sufficient business process templates and software functions, Oracle software is often found to be unable to meet the requirements of enterprise management in implementation. For example, batch management, quality management and equipment maintenance management are necessary in large pharmaceutical enterprises, but Oracle software does not have such modules at all. Although Oracle has repeatedly exaggerated to tell customers that the secondary development technology of its software is very flexible, it is actually telling users that the software is not functional enough and users have to write their own programs.

§SAP: adhering to the rigorous culture of German enterprises, all released products have undergone strict testing and quality certification, and will not be released to users until the software products are really complete.

§Oracle is an enterprise that pays great attention to market effect, and often declares the completion of the product as soon as it has a concept, and then quickly promotes it to the market. However, the loopholes and defects of software products cause great pain to its users to implement and use. From January to March 2002, Oracle sent more than 5000 fix packs to users of new products, which was undoubtedly a nightmare for users.

§SAP: as an important part of the ERP system, SAP spent 2 years on Sinicization and localization in accordance with the personnel management requirements of the Chinese government, so that Chinese users of SAP can not only use international advanced software, but also meet the requirements of localization.

§Oracle: insufficient attention has been paid to the localization of ERP software products. Up to now, Oracle users in China do not have a human resource management module that can use Oracle software.

Different product quality and marketing strategies create different user groups.

SAP in China

The difference in the company's business philosophy will eventually be reflected in the implementation effect of its user group. Take China as an example, the successful implementation of SAP by large enterprises can be found everywhere in the user group of SAP. These enterprises have spread their successful experience to the society one after another. Articles publicizing the successful implementation of SAP in the newspaper media can be seen from time to time, such as:

From 2001 to 2002, China's largest mining group-Yanzhou Mining Group, China Petrochemical Group, one of the four major domestic communication equipment manufacturers-Datang Telecom Group, Guangzhou Daily Group, the most dynamic newspaper group in China, and super-large enterprises of Pudong Development Bank have joined the user group of SAP.

Oracle in China

In sharp contrast to the extensive success of SAP, Oracle relies on low prices to get customers, but the implementation results are mixed, and it is rare to announce their own successful implementation of ERP in the media; especially in the implementation of large enterprise groups, there are few successful customers. Especially in some large-scale projects, the adverse consequences caused by its market strategy for quick success and quick profit have begun to appear.

§China Mobile Communications: the implementation of the Oracle system in Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang is paralyzed due to the congenital deficiency of software and the lack of experience in the implementation power. In July 2001, China Mobile made up its mind to re-tender the ERP project in 13 other provinces where Oracle had not yet been implemented, and the invitation was sent to SAP. As the parent company of China Mobile, China Telecom, draw lessons from the former, carefully evaluate and implement. Beijing Telecom and Shanghai Telecom have begun to implement SAP.

Shanghai Baosteel: the products can not meet the complex management needs of large enterprises and give up halfway. Now Baosteel has completely abandoned the use of the system.

§CAAC: the implementation strength is weak, in the case of the pilot implementation effect is not ideal, CAAC is in a dilemma, not only have no confidence to promote to the whole country, but also can not give up.

GE Shida computer: Hamp, the largest implementation partner of Oracle in China, its implementation ability was unbearable by the leadership of Shida, so it had to "invite" Hamp's consulting team out of Shida. Oracle has to switch to other partners, but it is impossible to predict when the implementation will be completed.

Jiangsu Shagang Group: since 1997, it began to implement Oracle ERP. After a long process of implementation and huge secondary development work, it finally gave up the Oracle software and turned to SAP in May 2002.

The above cases are enough to illustrate the two fatal weaknesses of Oracle: the lack of software functions and the weak implementation strength, and the success of its program in large-scale collectivized enterprises is very difficult. These congenital obstacles have caused great hidden pain to the informationization and even enterprise management of these large-scale collectivized enterprises.

2. The advanced nature of technology

The 11i version of Oracle application system is really based on the Internet INTERNET architecture and is written in open JAVA language and technical standards. The openness of this technology makes the 11i version of Oracle application system have more and more vitality (open standard means that the application system software is not affected by hardware platform, enterprise size, geographical restrictions and other factors). While the main part of SAP software is written entirely in its private ABAP language, it is difficult to learn and use and is not compatible with INTERNET or network application WEB technology (JAVA has become the application development standard of global INTERNET application system, and very few developers understand ABAP language). Although SAP is also trying to turn to JAVA standard, because its current system is too complex and huge, complete transformation is almost impossible. The application system based on non-INTERNET structure is basically based on the client / server structure, which is an outdated or obsolete technology in the current INTERNET era. It will limit the size of the application system and the number of concurrent users, and it is impossible to be used in a global management system-that is, it is impossible for large multinational or regional enterprises to apply a database management system. This will not only bring huge system investment costs and system maintenance costs to these enterprises that choose the Cramp S system, but also make it impossible for enterprises to continue to use the information systems that have been put into use in the future development. that is, it is impossible to gradually realize enterprise informatization by adding new functions / systems to the original system.

Although on the surface, end-users do not seem to feel the changes brought about by the software technology architecture, in fact, whether to choose a technology direction in line with the development trend will greatly affect the vitality of software manufacturers and their application customers. In history, there are many large software manufacturers that decline rapidly because they fail to choose the technology that conforms to the trend. (SSA, which once led the trend in the field of ERP, declined rapidly because it could not transfer the system to the open UNIX platform in time.) at the same time, it also brings great risk to the customers who choose the products of these manufacturers.

The ORACLE application system fully adopts the advanced technology on the database, and realizes some system functions in the database, rather than by programming, so the program is greatly simplified and the efficiency is improved. In order to support a variety of databases, the SAP system can not use database technology to achieve the function of the database side, but only use the database to store data. There are two reasons: one is that SAP is not a database technology company and does not focus on database technology, and the other is that SAP is unwilling to bundle its own products on a database, but this practice sacrifices the interests of customers.

ORACLE system has a powerful query function, in its input data interface, any input data can be used as its query condition. SAP needs to specifically define the query interface.

ORACLE e-commerce suite has broken away from the traditional ERP software model and provides new functions such as integrated business intelligence, personalized management interface, workflow and alarm. In traditional ERP software, users need to enter layers of menus and run queries or reports in order to get business data. With ORACLE, users can freely define the required intelligent reports in the personalized enterprise portal web page, and they can quickly understand the implementation of the enterprise and related business. The system can also alarm the abnormal business automatically. ORACLE system is people-oriented and helps managers of enterprises to make full use of the business data of ERP and manage enterprises more efficiently.

3. Innovation, vitality and development in emerging application fields

Due to the inherent technical advantages of ORACLE over SAP, ORACLE can rapidly expand its products to a variety of new application fields according to the development trend of various industries. For example, ORACLE is ahead of SAP in various emerging fields such as customer relationship management, e-commerce, product collaborative development and so on, showing ORACLE's excellent innovation ability and stronger and stronger vitality. Because of the complexity of its own system and the closeness of technology, SAP has made slow progress in a variety of new application products. For example, although SAP already has a large customer base in the manufacturing industry, it has been mediocre in the field of customer relationship management, and in B2B e-commerce, it has to rely on the cooperation with Commerce One. It was not until 2001 that it lifted the cooperation with Commerce One and launched its own products.

4. Sharing and analysis of business data

With the continuous expansion of the field of enterprise application management, the scope of enterprise application system is becoming more and more extensive, from traditional manufacturing, finance, human resource system management, it begins to extend to customer relationship management, supply chain management, e-commerce and other directions, in this case, data consistency and data exchange between systems become very important. The whole system of ORACLE 11i is based on a unified database and shares a unified data model. All users in the enterprise can analyze the data in the system in different dimensions according to their roles and permissions. However, SAP's ERP, supply chain, customer relationship management, data mining and other application systems are built on different databases, and the data models between different systems are also different, which makes the data sharing between different systems very difficult or impossible.

5. Comparison of software functions.

SAP embodies the German management style: strict and perfect; ORACLE embodies the American management style: realistic and practical.

SAP

The SAP function is complex and comprehensive, especially in the traditional ERP function, the system function design is more meticulous. SAP realizes each function through complex parameter table and layer by layer definition. The system can adjust the business process of the software through 6000 "switches" settings. SAP parameter setting is very complex. For example, for the management of the purchase order delivery process, SAP needs to be pre-defined: first define the order signature, and then define the corresponding features (such as amount greater than 100yuan), classification, delivery group (Release group), release code (Release codes), release flag (Release indicator), release policy (Release strategy), workflow flag, etc., and then through a series of rules table value setting In order to achieve the purchase order approval process. If you need to modify the delivery process, you must start with the order signature.

The parameter setting of SAP actually includes the underlying data structure of the software, which has strong function, but the implementation is very complex and not flexible enough. If the business of an enterprise needs to be adjusted, it will involve a lot of underlying data settings, parameters and rule adjustments, and may even affect existing business data.

SAP has lagged far behind ORACLE in CRM (customer relationship management) and E-Business (e-commerce).

ORACLE

The business process control structure of ORACLE software is very flexible, and makes full use of the function of workflow to control the business process of the software. Therefore, the business process of the software can be adjusted flexibly. For example, similarly for the process of issuing purchase orders, ORACLE uses the data of purchase orders (no characteristic parameters need to be set) to automatically check the data of purchase orders, such as amount, purchasers, suppliers, etc., through the workflow engine, and judges according to the conditions to realize the process of issuing different purchase order approval. If the business process needs to be changed, there is no need to change the characteristic parameters, only the judgment rules or control rules need to be changed.

The control parameter setting of ORACLE does not need to modify the data structure, but adjusts the logic of the program by using different control parameters. This is because ORACLE uses a common data model, and the program makes full use of existing business data to achieve flexible business processes through flexible rule settings.

ORACLE has an advantage in new business functions. Such as mixed-flow production, CRM, e-commerce collaboration, etc., are developed according to the latest business model and the actual business processes of well-known customers.

Conclusion

Because of the diversity and complexity of the enterprise, it is impossible for any ERP software to cover all aspects of the enterprise. ORACLE can adapt to the personalization of enterprise business and is easy to adjust, while SAP adapts to stable and standard business processes and is difficult to change. This is why SAP emphasizes that SAP represents advanced business processes and requires enterprises to adapt to software.

6. The openness and integration of software

SAP

Each module of SAP software adopts the mode of traditional application software, that is, the mode of including header function and subroutine is used in the program. When exchanging data with third-party software, this mode can only be realized by writing interface programs. The application layer of SAP software is a program written in ABAP language. ABAP is a complex language and is only used by SAP software, which is difficult to master. Because it can only be used in SAP software, there are few people who master it. The enthusiasm of IT professionals to learn it is not high. When exchanging data with the outside world, the interface program of the SAP system is also required to be written in ABAP language. Specifically, the functions in ABAP language are used to import data into the system. The format of the data is also very high, and the required data must be a text file with dividers. Because of these practices, SAP's software system lags far behind ORACLE in integrating with third-party software, and these practices also hinder the further development of its own software, which is one of the reasons why SAP's ERP and CRM can not be fully integrated.

ORACLE

ORACLE company relies on its global leading advantage in database, its application software adopts an advanced mode in the system construction of modules, and the exchange of data between each module and with the outside world must be completed through the interface table. The specific method is that when the data is to enter each module, it must first go to each module's own interface table (each module has its own interface table). Then through concurrency and other ways to import the module, this mode is very easy to integrate the third-party software into the ORACLE system, the user is very convenient to use, it feels like a set of software, because when exchanging data, the third-party software and ORACLE product modules exchange data in the same mode, at the same time, users can use their familiar database language (VB,PL/SQL, etc.) to write applications and ORACLE system integration.

Relying on the advantages of its software system, ORACLE integrates its ERP, CRM,SCM,EB and other systems into a whole to form today's e-commerce suite.

Conclusion

Any ERP software can not cover all aspects of the diversity and complexity of the enterprise, for the special requirements of the enterprise, users can carry out the necessary secondary development, and can be easily integrated with other application software, which requires that the software provided by the supplier has a strong openness. ORACLE's open and flexible architecture is more conducive to the future expansion of enterprise information systems.

7. Implementation complexity and return on Investment of Software

The implementation process of SAP project is very expensive and complicated. Moreover, because of the complexity and closed integration of its software, it is difficult to change once implemented. In addition, in the process of project implementation, SAP often expects customers to change their business operation model to adapt to their software, but sometimes, blindly accommodating the software process is likely to bring negative results to customers. Some super-large enterprises can invest a lot of money in software customization, but for medium-sized enterprises, complex project implementation often drag customers into an endless quagmire. The cumulative investment of domestic FAW-Volkswagen SAP ERP has exceeded 100 million yuan, but the implementation effect is not ideal. After that, FAW chose the CRM supplier SIEBEL software "matching" SAP's ERP, and its CRM system has been implemented for several years, but it has not been online so far. The application products of Oracle have strong flexibility, and many business processes can be easily changed through workflow technology. At the same time, the openness of Oracle system itself makes the integration of Oracle system with other systems relatively simple.

Implementation issues:

1. My enterprise management process is different from your software, what should I do?

2. I heard that the implementation of ERP is very difficult and the success rate is low. What do you think?

SAP

SAP has complete solutions for all industries, and our experts will help you choose the best model; if your existing business process is different from the SAP system, it is recommended to adjust your business process.

First of all, this statement is not very accurate, and the success of SAP in famous multinational corporations shows the problem; secondly, the key problem is that customers, especially many Chinese customers, do not have a good understanding of enterprise informatization and have a low level of basic management.

SAP system has high requirements for consultants and users, especially in SAP system, many functions need to be set in the background first, and then through the writing of special ABAP language programs to achieve. In this case, consultants and users are often required to not only understand the application, but also have a certain knowledge of development, because ABAP developers generally do not understand the background application system settings, while application implementation consultants often do not know this kind of system settings related to development. This situation will be encountered in SAP's own implementation team.

SAP is too complex, and many functions that are not suitable for Chinese enterprises are mixed together. There are 6-7, 000 parameters to be set, which is very difficult for users to master. It is also difficult to train suitable technicians with a large amount of money. However, even if some technicians are trained, once they change jobs, the system will face paralysis.

ORACLE

First of all, the system is flexible and open, with the system interface of almost all processes / modules. The excellent business model and standard processes and functions developed on the basis of rich industry experience can meet the needs of customers and can also be used for reference by customers. Secondly, if the customer is not satisfied with the existing processes and functions, the most widely used ORACLE development tools in the IT industry will easily enable users to customize development according to their requirements to meet the needs of the enterprise.

First of all, this is true; second, implementation is the common cause of software vendors and customers, and it is possible to succeed only by choosing appropriate strategies and giving adequate support.

The ORACLE system provides a clear business process, which can help enterprises to straighten out the business process while implementing it. The business process of ORACLE can be flexibly adjusted according to the actual situation of the enterprise, which is more suitable for the personalized management of the enterprise.

ORACLE data structure is clear and rigorous, and the development tools use the most commonly used language in the world's IT industry, such as: JAVA, the only real INTERNET computer language, is easy to develop, and the developed system is the real application system on INTERNET.

ORACEL is more suitable for enterprises with complex business and personalized management. The difficulty and complexity, cost and risk of ORACLE software implementation are much lower than those of SAP. Because of the characteristics of its system, the implementation cost and implementation cycle of SAP is much larger than that of ORACLE.

The above is the difference between SAP ERP and Oracle ERP. Have you learned any knowledge or skills? If you want to learn more skills or enrich your knowledge reserve, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel.

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