SAP and Oracle: Who’s Ready for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses?

June 2007 from Nucleus Research – “Who’s’ delivering the greatest value to the SMB market? An in-depth analysis of 56 customers showed significant differences between the value delivered by SMBs by Oracle and SAP today…”

180 View – If you read the article you will find that 44% of the Oracle respondents would recommend Oracle to their peers. If you think that’s bad, only 10% of SAP customers would recommend SAP. Is SAP getting a bad rap? Perhaps based on a limited survey base or because SAP’s midmarket systems were not included. I (Michael Burns) have used SAP at Ryerson University to demonstrate ERP concepts. I think SAP would overpower most SMB’s. SAP does offer All-in-One, which is preconfigured for a specific industry and would reduce the setup hit. Also SAP has two SMB solutions – SAP Business One and ByDesign.