1. S. Difference
No
1 Current Version Ecc 6.0 Oracle Business Suite Release 12.1.2
2 Known for Major Implementation Solutions to Major Implementations done in Services Industries, BFSI etc
the Discrete Manufacturing Industries
3 Open / Proprietary SAP is based on ABAP (current Oracle follows Open standards. Java. There are lot many
standards version mix of ABAP and Java). It is resources available who know java than ABAP. Hence the
difficult to Get /Maintain and Retain TCO is lower here
a ABAP resource
4 Product Architecture There is a architectural changes in There is only one version available to all the customers. Its
R/3, Business One and All in one. Oracle ebusiness Suite .
The upgradation from either of the
above versions is not possible. In
case of migration the customer needs
to buy new licenses and Reimplement
again
5 Product Upgrades Upgrade from 4.7 to 6.0 is not free. Product upgrades are free. They are covered in the 22% ATS
Customers need pay for the license fees paid to Oracle. Split- 15 % Updates and 7% Upgrades.
and implementation. The ATS is 22% Customer needs to pay only for the upgrades ( Consultant fees
of the License amount only)
6 Licensing SAP offers multiple options wrt to Oracle only offer Named user type licenses. Oracle offers the
the licensing: licenses in bundled form( CAS- Custom Application Suite) or A
1. Professional Users la carta ( Component Licensing)
2. Limited Prof Users
3. Employee User
4. Developer user
The licenses are of Named User
metrics and not concurrent type
7 Product Bundling Only core modules are offered. Oracle 11g database comes bundled with the Oracle apps
Database would be extra Licenses.
8 Database Support SAP supports Oracle, DB2, Max-DB, Oracle works on Oracle database and to some extent on
MS SQL and other database versions Microsoft SQL
9 Middleware Its middleware is called as Netweaver The middleware is called as fusion Middleware

2. 10 Accelerators: Fasten SAP offers A1FS (All in One Fast Oracle Offers Oracle Business Accelerators (OBA). It easy-to-
the Implementation Start). It’s a subset of SAP A1 and is use rapid implementation solutions developed by Oracle for
and reduce timelines developed by partners. most of the Industry Verticals
and Effort
11 Costing of product Not available to end customers. The www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/applications-price-
QT tool is available only to partners. list.pdf
12 BI SAP offers Business Objects and Oracle offers DBI( Daily Business Intelligence), OBIEE, BI
SAP AP NetWeaver Business apps and oracle Hyperion
Intelligence
13 Future Product Oracle Fusion
Launch