3. Oracle is clearly beating their rival these days. Oracle is 2X this size of SAP
Measure by either market Cap or Revenue an is growing faster
SAP:
Market Cap: 55 B
Revenue : 14.49 B
Revenue Growth: 12.30%
Profit Margin 18%
Total Cash: 5.45 B
Total Debts: 2.59 B
ORACLE:
Market Cap: 121 B
Revenue : 26.82 B
Revenue Growth: 32.50%
Profit Margin 22.8%
Total Cash: 18.47 B
Total Debts: 14.66 B
4. 1) Strong vertical integration - Oracle owns the
technology stack from Hardware to Database to
Applications. This enables the company to offer more
aggressive pricing to win wallet share and thus market
share with customers. There is a chance that customers
can grow concerned about concentration but switching
costs are very high.
2) Open architecture - Oracle has built a hot-pluggable
architecture based on open industry standards. This
makes it easy to integrate and customize the
architecture stack for customers, something SAP
customers cannot do nearly as easily.
5. Oracle E Business Suite is a Software Package, It is knows on the market by
Various name like Oracle ERP, Oracle Apps, Oracle Application, Oracle
Financials, E-Biz, but real name called Oracle E Business Suite.
Product Families
The Product Offering in E Business Suite is Organized into Product Families.
Financial
Procurement
Customer Relationship Management(CRM)
Project Management
Supply Chain Planning & Management
Process Manufacturing
Order Management
Human Resource Management
17. Shared entities in R12 E-Business Suite enable one-
time definition of an object and the use of that
object across several products.
Shared entities are “owned” by a single product for
table purposes only.
28. A flexfield is a configurable field that opens in a window from a
regular Oracle Applications Window. Defining flexfields enables
you to tailor Oracle Applications to your own business
environment. You can easily define flexfields to modify or extend
Oracle Applications without programming.
Benefits
Configuration of application to support your accounting.
Configuration of application to capture additional data.
Construction Intelligent key.
45. ◦ Multiple structures
◦ Resources available
◦ Qualifiers required
◦ Dynamic inserts
◦ Cross validation
◦ Shorthand aliases
◦ Value checking
◦ Value security
46. ◦ Save after freezing to automatically compile the flexfield
definition.
◦ Freeze and compile after making any changes to the
definition. Changes take place immediately.
◦ You can see your changes immediately. Other users
must exit the system or change responsibilities before
they can see the effected changes.
49. ◦ Save after freezing to automatically compile the flexfield
definition.
◦ Freeze and compile after making any changes to the
definition. Changes take place immediately.
◦ You can see your changes immediately. Other users
must exit the system or change responsibilities before
they can see the effected changes.
52. ◦ Multi-Org is a server-side (applications and database)
enhancement that enables single installation of Oracle
Applications.
◦ Multi-Org keeps transaction data and some setup data
separate and secure by different lines of business.
53. The Multi-Org enhancement provides features that enable
you to:
◦ Support multiple business units even if they use different
ledgers
◦ Secure access to data on a single instance by line of
business
◦ Define different organizational models
◦ Sell and ship from different legal entities
◦ Procure and receive from different legal entities
◦ Produce reports across entities or within a single entity
60. An accounting setup is based on several factors,
such as:
◦ legal environment
◦ number of legal entities maintained in the same primary
ledger
◦ business needs
◦ transaction processing needs