De Meern, 16 juni 2005 – Oracle biedt SAP-klanten, die een nieuwe licentie of implementatie moeten aanvragen voor hun applicaties om mySAP ERP of mySAP Business Suite te upgraden, het alternatief om over te stappen naar Oracle E-Business Suite.
Oracle Consulting biedt gratis SAP Migration Insight aan, inclusief een workshop voor R/3-klanten van waaruit een overzichtelijk migratieplan opgesteld wordt. Met SAP Migration Insight komt Oracle Consulting met een duidelijk overzicht van het migratieproces en de voordelen ervan voor de gebruikers. Daarnaast verzorgt Oracle Financing een tweejarig financieringsplan voor de licentie- en supportkosten.
Hieronder volgt het volledige persbericht
Oracle Helping SAP Customers to get “OFF SAP”
Oracle® Fusion for SAP, or “OFF SAP,” Gives SAP R/3 Customers the Opportunity to Move to Oracle’s Standards-based Applications
Oracle to SAP customers: it’s time to get “OFF SAP.” And to help with that, Oracle today announced it is offering SAP R/3 customers, who are faced with having to re-license and re-implement their applications in order to upgrade to mySAP ERP or mySAP Business Suite, an alternative to move to Oracle® E-Business Suite.
Under the new program, Oracle Fusion for SAP or “OFF SAP,” Oracle will offer SAP R/3 customers up to a 100% license credit, to switch from SAP to Oracle applications. Additionally, as part of “OFF SAP,” Oracle Consulting is announcing a free SAP Migration Insight offer, which includes a discovery workshop for R/3 customers that results in an assessment of the customers’ specific migration plan. With SAP Migration Insight, Oracle Consulting will provide customers with a clear understanding of the migration process and benefits. Oracle Financing will offer a two-year payment plan for the application license and support fees, with no interest and no payments for six months, followed by six installments. Together, these programs will allow customers to quickly begin receiving value from their Oracle applications, mapping payments to benefits over two years.
SAP requires customers who choose to upgrade from SAP R/3 to mySAP ERP or mySAP Business Suite to re-license and re-implement the applications, which can cost customers significant amounts of time and money.
“Oracle has evolved customers with us for nearly three decades across multiple generations of technology,” said Charles Phillips, president, Oracle. “94% of Oracle E-Business Suite customers are running on the latest applications - Release 11i. SAP, however, seems to be requiring customers to re-license their applications to upgrade to SAP’s latest technology. Only 6% of SAP’s customers have upgraded to mySAP ERP, according to a leading analyst firm. Now they have a low cost alternative to stop paying for upgrades and get OFF SAP.”
SAP customers are faced with complexity, fragmented data, difficult and expensive upgrade processes and managing the legacy ABAP language. Over 40 customers have already switched from SAP to Oracle applications, and companies such as Group Voyagers (US) and Usina Nova America (Brazil) have moved from SAP to Oracle to take advantage of Oracle’s standards-based applications and easy upgrades.
Oracle applications provide customers with technical advantages that deliver business value:
- Information all in one place: only Oracle offers an information architecture that allows customers to run on one global model and instance.
- Business process flexibility: only Oracle has built configuration right into the system. This allows customers to rapidly adapt their business processes to ever changing business drivers.
- Open, standards-based environment: only Oracle has built its applications using the latest standards, such as Java (J2EE), enabling our customers to operate in the most secure, scalable and low-cost environments.
“We want customers to be able to breathe easily, knowing that they’ve got the best products available to maintain and gain their competitive advantage while ensuring their business runs as smoothly as possible – without the headaches of re-licensing software when a new version of the product is developed. Additionally, Oracle provides transparent pricing, which is available on our website, so there are no surprises,” continued Phillips.
Customers can take advantage of the “OFF SAP” program by calling Oracle directly at 1-800-ORACLE-1.
Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. The payment terms specified herein are available solely to qualified customers upon credit and documentation approval from Oracle Financing, and may not be available in all markets.
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