Manufacturing Industry
The fight over flexibility: Oracle's Fusion and SAP's NetWeaver initiatives pit vendors in quest for adaptable business processes.(Cover Story)
Manufacturing Business Technology, December, 2005 by Michel, Roberto
The battle lines are drawn in the market for enterprise software aimed at large and high-end midsize manufacturing enterprises. After a period of mergers & acquisitions, two big vendors remain: SAP and Oracle Corp. These multibillion-dollar software companies compete head-on when it comes to ERP and supply chain management, but they also compete on the basis of underlying integration infrastructure, known as middleware.
Oracle--which has been much more acquisitive than SAP in building its applications business--contends it has the leading middleware. SAP, for its part, says its focus is to enable adaptable business processes, rather than engage in a middleware race. Any way you slice it, meeting needs for flexible systems and offering middleware in...
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