ERP Supplier Comparison, 2009
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Created on: Oct 16, 2009 3:05 PM by Dennis Byron - Last Modified: Oct 16, 2009 4:16 PM by Dennis Byron
The following 2009 ERP Supplier Comparison was prepared by IT Business Edge contributor Dennis Byron. This was originally published on December 31, 2008.
| Infor | Microsoft | Oracle | SAP | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERP Functionality | Over 20 “brands” with widely diverse functionality | Four basic brands; all but AX with basic functionality | Four primary brands, two with deep functionality | Two brands, one with the deepest functionality available |
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| Market penetration/ activity, ERP | With its many brands, probably third largest but heavily maintenance- revenue- and AS/400-based | Would rank somewhere between Infor and Lawson | Gaining on SAP, especially in North America, but still significantly behind SAP in ERP market share | Holds wide lead in ERP market share (SAP is also gaining in middleware behind IBM, Microsoft and Oracle) | Sage and Intuit in particular have many more installations than Infor, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP but are aimed totally at small- and medium-size enterprises |
| Market penetration/ activity, standalone | Also has a widely diverse mix of standalone application brands | Leads based on Office; also actively pushing CRM capability as a service; will use the experience to market ERP as a service | Large lead over SAP in standalone applications market share, primarily through acquisition | SAP does not really compete in standalone applications market but has a few offerings | Thousands of examples |
| ERP Partnership strategy | Partners heavily with IBM and IBM distributors | Partners heavily with Microsoft developer community; looking for 100,000 | About 4500 middleware partnerships that should be transferable to applications | Has been trying unsuccessfully for 10 years to build a program; looking for over 1,000 | Tend to partner with IBM and Microsoft (but rarely both); many newer ERP suppliers partner within open source community |
| ERP Industry applications strategy | Wide span but primarily product supply chain | Covers breadth of the industry classification codes | A lot of standalone, unintegrated industry-centric point products | Integrated industry centricity of its ERP offering in 25 major codes is key to SAP success in ERP | Thousands of examples from companies such as Agresso, Compiere, HotWax, IFS, OpenBravo and XTuple mentioned in accompanying articles |
| ERP Platform | Heavily AS/400-based | .NET | Different platform under each brand | Solid modern middleware base for both brands | Primarily use IBM or Microsoft middleware or LAMP/WAMP stack |
| ERP/SaaS Strategy | Through partners | Trying to build into major delivery method | Not a major market goal of Oracle’s according to public statements; may be counting on NetSuite “off the books” | Will take another run at NetWeaver-based SaaS, probably under the BusinessOne brand (given the failure of the Business By Demand service). | Others have shied away from direct SaaS, most notably Lawson (whose CEO was not shy about it) |
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