ERP ASSIGNMENT

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• SAP

• QAD
• PEOPLESOFT

• BAAN

• ORACLE

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ERP (ENTERPRISE RESOURSE

PLANNING)

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an integrated computer-based system used to

manage internal and external resources including tangible assets, financial resources,
materials, and human resources. It is a software architecture whose purpose is to facilitate the
flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the organization
and manage the connections to outside stakeholders. Built on a centralized database and
normally utilizing a common computing platform, ERP systems consolidate all business
operations into a uniform and enterprise wide system environment
An ERP system can either reside on a centralized server or be distributed across modular
hardware and software units that provide "services" and communicate on a local area
network. The distributed design allows a business to assemble modules from different
vendors without the need for the placement of multiple copies of complex, expensive
computer systems in areas which will not use their full capacity

To implement ERP systems, companies often seek the help of an ERP vendor or of third-
party consulting companies. These firms typically provide three areas of professional
services: consulting; customization; and support. The client organization can also employ
independent program management, business analysis, change management, and UAT
specialists to ensure their business requirements remain a priority during implementation.

HERE ARE SOME ERP VENDORS :

 SAP
SAP is a multinational software development and consulting corporation, which provides
enterprise software applications and support to businesses of all sizes globally. Headquartered
in Walldorf, Germany, with regional offices around the world.
SAP is the largest software enterprise in Europe and the fourth largest software enterprise in
the world as of 2009.
The company's best known product is its SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP ERP)
software.

History
SAP was founded in 1972 as ("System Analysis and Program Development")
by five former IBM engineers in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg (Dietmar Hopp, Hans-
Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus E. Tschira, and Claus Wellenreuther).
As part of the Xerox exit strategy from the computer industry, Xerox retained IBM to migrate
their business systems to IBM technology. As part of IBM's compensation for the migration,
IBM acquired the SDS/SAPE software, reportedly for a contract credit of $80,000. The SAPE
software was given by IBM to the founding ex-IBM employees in exchange for founding
stock provided to IBM, reportedly 8%. Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was SAP's first
ever customer in 1972

The acronym was later changed to stand for("Systems, Applications and Products in Data
Processing").
1976, "SAP GmbH" was founded and the following year, it moved its headquarters to
Walldorf. SAP AG became the company's official name after the 2005 annual general
meeting (AG is short for Aktiengesellschaft).
Henning Kagermann became the sole CEO of SAP in 2003.In February 2007, his contract
was extended until 2009. In April 2008, along with the announcement of Apotheker as co-
CEO, the SAP supervisory board also appointed three new members to the SAP Executive
Board, effective 1 July 2008: Corporate Officers Erwin Gunst, Bill McDermott, and Jim
Hagemann Snabe. With the retirement of Kagermann in May 2009, Apotheker took over as
the sole CEO. He was replaced by new co-CEOs Bill McDermott, head of field organization,
and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development, effective Feb 7, 2010

Milestones technical solutions

In 1973, the SAP R/1 solution was launched.
Six years later, in 1979, SAP launched SAP R/2.
In 1981, SAP brought a completely re-designed solution to market. With the change from R/2
to R/3 in 1992, SAP followed the trend from mainframe computing to client-server
architectures. The development of SAP’s internet strategy with mySAP.com redesigned the
concept of business processes (integration via Internet).
SAP was awarded Industry Week’s Best Managed Companies in 1999.

Business and markets

SAP is the world's largest business software company and the third-largest independent
software provider in terms of revenues (as of 2007).It operates in three geographic regions –
EMEA, which represents Europe, Middle East and Africa; the Americas (SAP America,
headquartered in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania), which represents both North America and
Latin America; and Asia Pacific Japan (APJ), which represents Japan, Australia, India and
parts of Asia. In addition, SAP operates a network of 115 subsidiaries, and has R&D facilities
around the globe in Germany, Turkey, Canada, China, Hungary, India, Israel, Bulgaria, and
North America.
SAP focuses on six industry sectors: process industries, discrete industries, consumer
industries, service industries, financial services, and public services.It offers more than 25
industry solution portfolios for large enterprises and more than 550 micro-vertical solutions
for midsize companies and small businesses.

Products
SAP's products focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The company's main product
is SAP ECC. The current version is SAP ECC 6.0 and is part of the SAP Business Suite. Its
previous name was R/3. The "R" of SAP R/3 stood for realtime - even though it is not a
realtime solution. The number 3 related to the 3-tier architecture: database, application server
and client (SAPgui). R/2, which ran on a Mainframe architecture, was the predecessor of R/3.
Before R/2 came System RF, later dubbed R/1.
SAP ECC is one of five enterprise applications in SAP's Business Suite. The other four
applications are:
• customer relationship management (CRM) - helps companies acquire and retain
customers, gain marketing and customer insight
• product lifecycle management (PLM) - helps manufacturers with product-related
information
 • supply chain management (SCM) - helps companies with the process of resourcing its
manufacturing and service processes
• supplier relationship management (SRM) - enables companies to procure from
suppliers
Other major product offerings :
On 19 September 2007 SAP announced a new product named SAP Business By Design.
SAP Business By Design is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, and provides a fully
integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution,
On Demand. SAP Business By Design was previously known under the code name "A1S". In
October 2007 SAP AG announced the friendly merger and acquisition of Business Objects.
This acquisition has expanded SAP's Product Suite of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions
and expanded the customer installed base to 89,000.(50) (SAP Press releases).
SAP officials say there are over 100,600 SAP installations serving more than 41,200
companies in more than 25 industries in more than 120 countries.

Partnership
Partnerships are core to SAP’s strategy and in its 35 years of history the network of software
solution providers, value-added resellers, distributors, technology and services partners has
developed into a broad ecosystem that is among the industry's largest.
SAP partners include Global Services Partners with cross-industry multinational consulting
capabilities, Global Technology Partners providing user companies with a wide range of
products to support SAP technology, including vendors of hardware, database, storage
systems, networks, and mobile computing technology
SAP partners with [Wipro,[Seal Infotech]], CSC, Capgemini, Ernst & Young, Cognizant
Technology Solutions, Deloitte, IBM, Fujitsu,PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hewlett-Packard,
Newgen Software Techonolgies Ltd., Siemens IT Solutions and Services, ITC Infotech and
Accenture in offering services, including assessment, government and architecture for R3.

SAP Partner Edge

SAP solutions for small businesses and midsize companies are delivered through its global
partner network. In 2008, SAP signed SAP Global Service partnership with HCL
Technologies, a $4.9 b technology service provider, headquartered in India.. The SAP
PartnerEdge program, SAP's partner program, offers a set of business enablement resources
and program benefits to help partners including value added resellers (VARs) and
independent software vendors (ISVs) be profitable and successful in implementing, selling,
marketing, developing and delivering SAP solutions to a broad range of customers.

Communities
SAP Developer Network (SDN) is a community of developers, consultants, integrators, and
business analysts gaining and sharing knowledge about ABAP, Java, .NET, SOA, and other
technologies via expert blogs, discussion forums, exclusive downloads and code samples,
training materials, and a technical library. The Business Process Expert (BPX) Community is
a collaborative environment for business process experts to share information, experiences
and best practices to leverage enterprise SOA in order to increase business agility and IT
value. The SAP Enterprise Services Community serves as a platform for members from
customers, industry experts and partners working collaboratively to define enterprise
services. Industry Value Networks (IVN) bring together customers, partners and SAP to co-
innovate and develop solutions to solve industry-specific customer challenges. There are
currently eleven active IVNs (e.g. Banking, Chemicals, Consumer Products, High Tech,
Public Sector, Retail).

SAP Labs Centers

SAP Labs is the research and development organization of the parent company. SAP has its
development organization spread across the globe. Many, but not all, labs locations are
hosting SAP Research groups.

Green SAP Labs

SAP opened in June, 2009 its new SAP Labs campus in Brazil, representing the first SAP
Labs Center in Latin America and the eighth worldwide. The facility is located in Sao
Leopoldo in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and employs 375 people. Of particular note are
the building’s structure and interior, which are composed entirely of environmentally friendly
materials. Since these materials were not available in Brazil, constructing the facility did not
come cheap for SAP. However, Erwin Rezelman – director of SAP Labs Brazil – emphasizes
that the project was an effort not only to create a “green house” in Latin America, but also to
design offices with a pleasant work atmosphere.
SAP Labs Brazil has just received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
Gold certification for the building.

User groups
User Groups are independent, not-for-profit organizations of SAP customer companies and
partners within the direction, exchange best practices, and provide insight into the market
needs. Examples of User Groups are the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG),[37] the
German speaking SAP User Group (DSAGSAP Ecosystem that provide education to their
members, influence SAP product releases and

List of SAP products

Enterprise Applications
• SAP
 • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

SAP ERP
The SAP ERP application is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software
manufactured by SAP AG that targets business software requirements of midsize and large
organizations in all industries and sectors. It allows for open communication within and
between all company functions.

Overview
SAP stands for Systems, Applications and Products (Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in
der Datenverarbeitung, in the original German) in Data Processing. It uses the concept of
modules ("individual programs that can be purchased, installed, and run separately, but that
all extract data from the common database").SAP AG, the company that provides the
enterprise resource planning solution has upgraded the package and launched it as SAP ECC
6.0 in 2005. ECC stands for ERP Central Component. The purpose of positioning it as ECC
is to enable SAP to build and develop an environment of other products that can function
upon the foundation of the central component.
SAP's ERP solution includes several modules that support key functional areas - some of
them are -
• SAP ERP Financials
• SAP ERP Logistics
• SAP ERP Human Resource Management

The evolution of mySAP ERP

SAP R/3 through version 4.6c consisted of various applications on top of SAP Basis, SAP's
set of middleware programs and tools.
When SAP R/3 Enterprise was launched in 2002, all applications were built on top of
the SAP Web Application Server. Extension sets were used to deliver new features and
kept the core as stable as possible. The Web Application Server contained all the
capabilities of SAP Basis.
As a result of marketing changes and changes in the industry, other versions of SAP have
been released that address these changes. The first edition of mySAP ERP was launched in
2003 and bundled previously separate products, including SAP R/3 Enterprise, SAP Strategic
Enterprise Management (SEM) and extension sets. The SAP Web Application Server was
wrapped into NetWeaver, which was also introduced in 2003.
A complete architecture change took place with the introduction of mySAP ERP edition
2004. R/3 Enterprise was replaced with the introduction of ERP Central Component (SAP
ECC). The SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Strategic Enterprise Management and Internet
Transaction Server were also merged into SAP ECC, allowing users to run them under one
instance. Architectural changes were also made to support an enterprise services architecture
to transition customers to a services-oriented architecture.

Deployment and maintenance costs

SAP ERP systems effectively implemented can have cost benefits. Integration is the key in
this process. "Generally, a company's level of data integration is highest when the company
uses one vendor to supply all of its modules." An out-of-box software package has some level
of integration but it depends on the expertise of the company to install the system and how
the package allows the users to integrate the different modules.
It is estimated that "for a Fortune 500 company, software, hardware, and consulting costs can
easily exceed $100 million (around $50 million to $500 million). Large companies can also
spend $50 million to $100 million on upgrades. Full implementation of all modules can take
years," which also adds to the end price. Midsized companies (fewer than 1,000 employees)
are more likely to spend around $10 million to $20 million at most, and small companies are
not likely to have the need for a fully integrated SAP ERP system unless they have the
likelihood of becoming midsized and then the same data applies as would a midsized
company. Independent studies have shown that deployment and maintenance costs of a SAP
solution can greatly vary depending on the organization. For example, some point out that
because of the rigid model proposed by the SAP tools, a lot of customization code to adapt to
the business process may have to be developed and maintained.Some others pointed out that
a return on investment could only be obtained when there was both a sufficient number of
users and sufficient frequency of use.
Deploying SAP itself can also involve a lot of time and resources.

Advantages and disadvantages of SAP ERP

Advantages:
• ERP allows easier global integration (Barriers of currency exchange rates, language,
and culture can be bridged automatically)
• Updates only need to be done once to be implemented company wide
• Provides real-time information, reducing the possibility of redundancy errors
• Creates a more efficient work environment making it easier for employees to do their
job which leads to effectiveness
• Vendors have past knowledge and expertise on how to best build and implement a
system
• No hardware purchase or maintenance costs
• No developer training costs and the vendor will train the users
Disadvantages:
• Locked into relationship by contract and manageability with vendor - a contract can
hold a company to the vendor until it expires and it can be unprofitable to switch
vendors if switching costs are too high
• Inflexibility- vendor packages may not fit a company's business model exactly and
customization can be very expensive
• Return on Investment may take too long to be profitable
• SAP ERP implementations have a risk of project failure

IMPLEMENTATION
SAP Implementation is the whole of processes that defines a complete method to implement
the Enterprise Resource Planning SAP ERP software in an organization. The SAP
implementation method described in this entry is a generic method and not a specific
implementation method as such. It is based on best practices and case studies from various
literature sources and presents a collection of processes and products that make up a complete
implementation method to allow any organization to plan and execute the implementation of
SAP software.

• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
[ Business Solutions
• SAP Business Objects Suite (BOBJ)
• SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO)
• SAP Analytics
• SAP Apparel and Footwear Solution (AFS)
• SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW)
• SAP Business Intelligence (BI)
• SAP Catalog Content Management (CCM)
• SAP Enterprise Buyer Professional (EBP)
• SAP Enterprise Learning
• SAP Portal (EP)
• SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI) (From release 7.0 onwards, SAP XI has been
renamed as SAP

Industry Solutions
• SAP for Retail (ISR)

Solutions for Small and Midsize Enterprises

• SAP Business One (6.2, 6.5, 2004, 2005, 7.x)
• SAP Business ByDesign[1]
• SAP Business All-in-One :

MySAP All-in-One
SAP All-in-One is SAP's business software for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
It is a version of SAP that includes a range of products like SAP Customer Relationship
Management, SAP ERP, SAP Product Lifecycle Management, SAP Supply Chain
Management, SAP Supplier Relationship Management, SAP Human Resources and SAP
Financial Management.
Competitors
SAP All-in-One competes with Microsoft Dynamics (which is replacing Microsoft Business
Solutions), Oracle Corporation and SSA Global Technologies globally, and with a variety of
national packages such as those sold by Sage in many countries around the world.
Recently new competitors with online offerings have emerged in the marketplace. Companies
such as NetSuite and Salesforce.com offers similar functionality in web based applications.

Platforms and frameworks

• SAP Enterprise Services Architecture
• SAP NetWeaver Platform
• SAP NetWeaver Portal (formerly SAP Enterprise Portal)
• SAP NetWeaver BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver BI-To remove confusion, the
term BI is now associated only with the solutions from the SAP
BusinessObjects portfolio.)
Legacy Platforms
• SAP R/2
• SAP R/3

Others
• SAP CCMS, monitoring program
• SAPgui
• eCATT
• SAP Central Process Scheduling, process automation and job scheduler
• SAP Solution Manager

SAP and Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture

Service-oriented architecture moves the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) landscape
toward software-based and web services-based business activities. This move increases
adaptability, flexibility, openness and efficiency. The move towards E-SOA helps companies
reuse software components and not have to rely as much on in-house ERP hardware
technologies which helps make ERP adoption more attractive for small- or mid-sized
companies.
According to a press fact sheet from SAP, "SAP is the only enterprise applications software
vendor that is both building service-orientation directly into its solutions and providing a
technology platform SAP NetWeaver and guidance to support companies in the development
of their own service-oriented architectures spanning both SAP and non-
SAP solutions." [20]

SAP E-SOA Authentication

SAP E-SOA, client certificate-based authentication is the only authentication method
(besides username/password) and the only Single Sign-On method to be supported across all
SAP technologies. Kerberos and logon tickets, for example, are not compatible with SAP
service-oriented architecture.

Competitive landscape
SAP competitors are primarily in the Enterprise Resource Planning Software industry. SAP
also competes in the Customer Relationship Management, Marketing & Sales Software,
Manufacturing, Warehousing & Industrial Software, and Supply Chain Management &
Logistics Software sectors.[43]
Oracle Corporation, SAP's major competitor, filed a case against SAP for malpractice and
unfair competition in the California courts on 22 March 2007. The complaint alleged that a
Texas subsidiary, SAP TN (formerly TomorrowNow before being purchased by SAP), which
provides discount support for legacy Oracle product lines, used the accounts of former Oracle
customers to systematically download patches and support documents from Oracle's website
and appropriate them for SAP's use.
Later SAP admitted wrong-doing on smaller scale than Oracle claimed in the lawsuit.
SAP has admitted to inappropriate downloads; however the company denies the theft of any
intellectual property.
SAP claims to grow organically in contrast to its main rival, Oracle, which has been spending
US$20 billion since 2004 acquiring 30 smaller competitors. SAP was able to increase its
annual profits by 370% since 2002.
In something of a departure from its usual organic growth, on 7 October 2007, SAP
announced that it would acquire Business Objects, the market leader in business intelligence
software, for $6.8B.
SAP provoked controversy and frustration among its users in 2008 by raising the cost of its
maintenance contracts. The issue was the subject of intense discussion among user groups
The resulting pressure saw SAP and SUGEN (SAP User Group Executive Network) agree to
a major benchmarking exercise to prove the value of the new support pricing policy to
customers. In December 2009, SAP delayed its Enterprise Support price rises until agreement
had been reached on the benchmarks and KPIs
In January 2010 SAP did a U-turn on Enterprise Support and reintroduced its standard
support package for customers, saying the move was “a demonstration of its commitment to
customer satisfaction”. The move to reinstate standard support – at 18 percent of annual
license fees, “will enable all customers to choose the option that best meets their
requirements,” the company said. SAP has also announced that it is freezing prices for
existing SAP Enterprise Support contracts at 2009 levels
QAD Inc

Founded Carpinteria, California (1979)

Headquarters : Santa Barbara, California 93108

Key people : Pamela Meyer Lopker (Chairman of the Board and President)
Karl F. Lopker (CEO)
Gordon Fleming (CMO)
Murray Ray (Chief People Officer)
Kara Bellamy (CAO)
Daniel Lender (CFO)

Industry Computer software

Products ERP, QAD APM Medical, QAD Configurator, QAD Customer Releationship
Management, QAD Customer Self Service, QAD Demand Management, QAD
Enterprise Asset Management, QAD Field Service Scheduler, QAD JIT
Sequencing, QAD Mobile Field Service, QAD Multi-Level Pegging, QAD
Planner, QAD Production Scheduler, QAD QSYNC-CP, QAD Sales and Use
Tax, QAD Trade Management, QAD Warehousing, QAD Business Intelligence
Employees
1,400 (December 23, 2009)
Website www.qad.com
QAD provides Enterprise Resource Planning software to manufacturing companies around
the world. QAD sells its products and services to companies in six main industries:
automotive, consumer products, high technology, food and beverage, industrial equipment
and life sciences. As of December 2009, QAD software was in use at 6,000 manufacturing
sites in more than 90 countries.
QAD's main product suite is called QAD Enterprise Applications (prior to 2007 the main
suite name was MFG/PRO).

About QAD
QAD was founded 1979 to develop software for manufacturing companies. Early in the
company’s evolution QAD embraced the emergence of open systems, which today form the
foundation of most companies’ applications architecture. Over 60 percent of revenue is
derived outside the United States.

History

QAD was originally formed in 1979 by Pam Lopker, who remains QAD's President and
Chairman today. QAD initially developed bespoke software applications for companies in
Southern California. In 1984 QAD launched its flagship product MFG/PRO. MFG/PRO was
built using the Progress Software Corporation's Fourth Generation Language (4GL) and
relational database. MFG/PRO was one of the first software applications built for
manufacturers following the principles of the American Production & Inventory Control
Society (APICS). MFG.PRO was also one of the first applications to support closed loop
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II), as well as operating in the newly emerging open
systems arena.
In 2004 QAD Support achieved the Help Desk Institute, Support Center Global Certification.
(Help Desk Institute Website)
In 2006 QAD launched its next generation user interface called .NET UI.
In 2007 QAD renamed its core product suite from MFG/PRO to QAD Enterprise
Applications. With the launch of QAD Enterprise Applications 2007 QAD pioneered hybrid
deployment, with the ability to deploy the application either On Premise, On Appliance or On
Demand.
In 2008, QAD launched a significant enhancement to its core suite with the release of the
Enterprise Edition of QAD Enterprise Applications.
Enterprise Edition of QAD Enterprise
Applications.
QAD MFG/Pro (now QAD Enterprise Applications 2009 ) is a complete suite of products
with functionality that addresses the needs of single-site and multinational organizations.
QAD MFG/Pro Applications support shared services, cross-border trade, multi-site
manufacturing and multi-entity accounting.

QAD MFG/Pro Applications are built on a deep, foundational understanding of

manufacturing. Designed to streamline the management of manufacturing operations, supply
chains, financials, customers, technology, and business performance, QAD solutions provide
manufacturers easy access to the time-sensitive information they need to plan for the future as
they continue to meet daily manufacturing targets.

Features--
Consolidation
The Shared Services capability of QAD Enterprise Applications allows multi-entity
consolidations and eliminations to be performed across multiple general ledgers. The
sophisticated chart of account mapping capabilities allow for different charts of account to be
consolidated, and full traceability to originating transactions can be maintained, which are
critical for audit ability.
Consolidation of the financial results of entities in different domains, with different base
currencies and charts of account, can be achieved without the need to export and import the
data. QAD's solutions support multiple or proportional consolidation and enable hierarchical
reporting.

Multi Currency
QAD Enterprise Applications support multiple currencies. Accounting transactions can be
recorded in any currency and reported either in the transaction currency or converted to the
operation's base currency at the prevailing exchange rate. Currency reporting options allow
general ledger reporting to reflect the latest exchange rate. QAD Enterprise Applications
enables companies to update and maintain exchange rates at any time. All capabilities for
profit and loss on foreign exchange are accommodated within QAD General Ledger
reporting. Support is provided for multiple bank accounts in separate currencies.
Users can maintain and support a virtually unlimited number of currencies, and the
application supports full currency dependent rounding to allow simultaneous support of
different currencies. Multiple base currencies within a single database are supported by the
Domain concept, and QAD General Ledger consolidation can accommodate operations
running in different base currencies.
System Controls and Security

QAD has developed security and control functionality to meet strict security procedures —
those required by internal corporate policies as well as mandated by governing bodies —
such as the requirements of the SEC, IFRS, as well as the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration 21 CFR Part 11.
• Define and enforce security policies on password management
• Define the threshold of failed log-in attempts that will indicate a security violation
• Provide log-in access control and access restrictions to menu functions
• Control password complexity and aging with configurable parameters
• Allow administrators to force some or all users to change their password at next log-in
• Provide enhanced intrusion detection including the ability to record all or failed log-in
attempts
• Control password composition, frequency of change and rules for reuse
• Log all log-in events and lock accounts after a prescribed number of failed attempts
• Provide a flexible report for investigating log-in attempts
• Meet the requirements of 21 CFR Part 11

Multi-National Capabilities

QAD Enterprise Applications provide single-site companies and multinational organizations

with a fully integrated enterprise solution that sets new standards for connectivity,
functionality and ease-of-use. QAD Enterprise Applications operate factories and supply
chains, manage and secure data, and provide corporate governance compliance at more than
5,500 sites in 90 countries.
QAD Enterprise Applications are available in 27 languages and can handle an unlimited
number of currencies. For both single-site manufacturers with customers and suppliers in
many locations around the world, and global enterprises with factories and plants in dozens
of countries, QAD can provide the solutions and support to operate multi-national businesses
in the most efficient and profitable manner.
MFG/PRO is an industry-leading manufacturing, financial, distribution and customer service
management application from QAD. MFG/PRO is one of the world's top manufacturing and
distribution packages.
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft

Fate : Merger

Successor : Oracle Corporation

Founded : 1985

Defunct : 2005

Headquarters : Pleasanton, California, USA

Key people : David Duffield, Ken Morris

PeopleSoft, Inc.
was a company that provided human resource management systems (HRMS) and customer
relationship management (CRM) software, as well as software solutions for manufacturing,
financials, enterprise performance management, and student administration to large
corporations, governments, and organizations. It existed as an independent corporation until
its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2005. The PeopleSoft name and product line are now
marketed by Oracle.
History

Founded in 1987 by David Duffield and Ken Morris, PeopleSoft was originally
headquartered in Walnut Creek, California before moving to Pleasanton, California. Duffield
envisaged a client-server version of Integral Systems' popular mainframe HRMS package.
The company's sole venture backing came from Norwest Venture Partners ("NVP") George J.
Still, Jr. from NVP joined the Board of Directors.
PeopleSoft version 1, released in the late 1980s, was the first fully-integrated, robust client-
server HRMS application suite.
PeopleSoft expanded its product range to include a financials module in 1992, distribution in
1994, and manufacturing in 1996 after the acquisition of Red Pepper.

Product design
Applications
PeopleSoft's product suite was initially based on a client-server approach with a dedicated
client. With the release of version 8, the entire suite moved to a web-centric design called
Pure Internet Architecture (PIA). The new format allowed all of a company's business
functions to be accessed and run on a web browser. Originally, a small number of security
and system setup functions still needed to be performed on a fat client machine; however, this
is no longer the case.

Development platform
The architecture is built around PeopleSoft’s proprietary PeopleTools technology.
PeopleTools includes many different components used to create web-based applications: a
scripting language known as PeopleCode, design tools to define various types of metadata,
standard security structure, batch processing tools, and the ability to interface with an SQL
database. The metadata describes data for user interfaces, tables, messages, security,
navigation, portals, etc. This set of tools allows the PeopleSoft suite to be platform
independent.

J.D. Edwards
In 2003, PeopleSoft performed a friendly merger with smaller rival J.D. Edwards. The latter's
similar product line, World and OneWorld, targeted mid-sized companies too small to benefit
from PeopleSoft's applications. J.D. Edwards' software used the Configurable Network
Architecture, which shielded applications from both the operating system and the database
back-end.
Oracle Corporation

June 2003, Oracle made a $7 billion bid in a hostile corporate takeover attempt. In February
2004, Oracle increased their bid to approximately $9.4 billion, a 33% increase; this offer was
also rejected forthwith by PeopleSoft's board of directors. Later that month, the U.S.
Department of Justice filed suit to block Oracle, on the grounds that the acquisition would
break anti-trust laws. In September 2004, the suit was rejected by a U.S. Federal judge, who
found that the Justice Department had not proven its anti-trust case. In October, the same
decision was handed down by the European Commission. Though Oracle had reduced its
offer to $7.7 billion in May, it again raised its bid in November to $9.4 billion, marking a
14% increase.
In December 2004, Oracle announced that it had signed a definitive merger agreement to
acquire PeopleSoft for approximately $10.3 billion. The following January, Oracle
announced plans to cut approximately 9% of the 55,000 staff of the combined companies,
maintaining at least 90% of PeopleSoft's product development and support staff.[2]
Oracle moved to capitalize on the perceived strong brand loyalty within the JD Edwards user
community by rebranding former JD Edwards products. Thus PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne
became JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and PeopleSoft World became JD Edwards World.
Oracle has announced that a new product, Fusion, is to be released in the near future. Oracle
says Fusion will take the best aspects of the PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Oracle Applications
and merge them into a new product suite. PeopleSoft timeline
•
• 1988: PeopleSoft HRMS released.
• 1991: Begins opening international offices.
• 1994: Public distribution of Distribution and Financials modules.
• 1995: Launch of Student Administration System.
• 1996: Releases Manufacturing and PeopleSoft 6, their first ERP package.
• 1997: PeopleSoft 7 is released within upgraded ERP modules.
• 1997: Peoplesoft Inc is sued for $510 million by the state of Cleveland for fraud,
breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation.
• 1998: PeopleSoft 7.5 is released with improved client/server technology. Acquired
Intrepid Systems.
• 1999: Craig Conway named new CEO; release products to enable Internet
transactions.
• 2000: Acquired Vantive Corporation.
• 2000: Deliver PeopleSoft 8 with an in-house application service provider.
• 2003: Acquired J.D. Edwards
• 2004: Dave Duffield returns as CEO, replacing Craig Conway.[3]
• 2005: Acquired by Oracle Corporation.
• 2007: PeopleSoft FMS 9.0 is released.
• 2007: PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 is released.(December 2007)
• 2009: PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 is released.(October 2009)
• 2009: PeopleSoft FMS 9.1 is released.(November 2009
 PEOPLE SOFT ERP
People Soft ERP is software that helps organizations to handle their H.R. functions easily.
PeopleSoft ERP has helped companies in achieving path breaking practices and highly
acclaimed professional way of managing human resources. Apart from all it has reduced
costs and time take.

Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise applications are designed to address the most complex
business requirements. They provide comprehensive business and industry solutions,
enabling organizations to:
• Increase Productivity
• Accelerate Business Performance
Lower Cost of Ownership

PEOPLE CODE
PeopleCode is an (ool) object-oriented proprietary (case-insensitive) language used to
express business logic for PeopleSoft applications. In its fundamentals, PeopleCode syntax
resembles other programming languages. Some aspects of the PeopleCode language,
however, are specifically related to the PeopleTools environment. However, the basic
fundamentals of objects and classes are the same as in Java language. Definition name
references, for example, enable you to refer to PeopleTools definitions, such as record
definitions or pages, without using hard-coded string literals. Other language features, such as
PeopleCode data types and metastrings, reflect the close interaction of PeopleTools and
Structured Query Language (SQL). Dot notation, classes and methods in PeopleCode are
similar to other object oriented languages, like Java.

Supported Functions
PeopleCode supports the following types of functions:
Built-in: The standard set of PeopleCode functions. These can be called without being
declared.
Internal: Functions that are defined (using the Function statement) within the PeopleCode
program in which they are called.
External PeopleCode: PeopleCode functions defined outside the calling program. These are
generally contained in record definitions that serve as function libraries.
External non-PeopleCode: Functions stored in external (C-callable) libraries.
In addition, PeopleCode supports methods. The main differences between a built-in function
and a method are:
-A built-in function, in your code, is on a line by itself, and does not (generally) have any
dependencies.
-You do not have to instantiate an object before you can use the function.
-A method can only be executed by an object (using dot notation).
-You must instantiate the object first.
Executing SQL in PeopleCode
• Where a SQLExec(built-in function) only delivers a single row, using the SQL class
you can retrieve and process multiple rows.
• Instantiate a SQL object with the CreateSQL built-in function.

PeopleTools
PeopleTools is the proprietary software development environment that was created by the
PeopleSoft Corporation. The PeopleTools consist of Application Designer, Application
Engine, Data Mover, PeopleCode and various other developer tools.

Application Designer
The Application designer is the core application used to create and customize PeopleSoft
applications.

Current and Future releases

Since Oracle Corporation acquired PeopleSoft, Oracle has significantly increased its
development of the PeopleSoft tools with Version 8.50 as the current "latest and greatest"
version of PeopleTools.
At Oracle's October 2006 trade show convention, Oracle stated that PeopleTools V8.49 has
more man hours of development than any other version of PeopleTools ever released.
Issues revolving around People Soft and ERP
People soft continues be to the ERP software demanded highly in the market for H.R.
operations. The collusion between people soft and oracle has given rise to many issues.
Some of them are as follows

Controversies
The acquisition of People soft by Oracle has given rise to lots of controversies in the market.
At one end customers are now convinced that they are able to make use of both facilities at an
imaginable price. On the other hand it has sent shock waves to Oracle customers who are
now questioning the ethics behind allowing People soft ERP customers to use the features
and as well enjoy the benefits of oracle ERP software programs. They allege that the merger
has brought more benefits to the later than the former. This is not to deny the additional
facilities offered in PeopleSoft ERP solutions and Product Offerings.

Another challenging task lies for the personnel from people soft. They have to answer an
important question. How is the product going to be projected in the market? Is it going to
have the tag of people soft or will it be sold under the banner of both or will it be a mix of the
two. Another issue is that other big players in the market are also launching on a war footing
to purchase the remaining applications in People soft. Infact some of them have already
started to do them.

The customers of Oracle have to be convinced at any cost so that it does not reflect on the
internal elements. This is imperative as a large number of them have expressed dissatisfaction
either directly or indirectly. The company needs to exercise enough caution in seeing to that it
does not snowball into a clamor which would otherwise defeat the purpose of this long tem
plan. One possible alternative will be to charge people soft customers for using the services
of Oracle. Now this will add to the agony of People soft customers. Oracle cannot afford to
ignore by saying that their applications have been purchased and that they have no other
choice. Some step should be taken to draw a line to make both ends meet. Whatsoever is the
plan of action it will cost heavily on the company and they must be prepared to face them
without any crunches.

It is not possible to sell the products under any other tag other than peoplesoftoracle. This
will also clarify the answers to the earlier question but in a different angle. Oracle must
develop core competencies by making use of the already purchased ERP applications so that
they can solve all the three troubles not excluding facing the competitor and the acquisition of
people soft products by business rivals. This is not a trivial task and the times will definitely
get tougher for oracle in balancing these issues in a subtle manner.
Should companies change the way of doing business
This is purely at the discretion of the company and the related factors (as usual). However
companies first need to analyze their state of business before and after the people soft Oracle
juggle. Companies need to have a look at the internal factors if they are convinced that the
deal does not have any impact on them. On the other hand the companies should look at
external factors if the deal is reported to have a considerable influence on them. If companies
are able to analyze on this basis it will help them in deciding if they should go for a change or
not. Such changes have to be made or rejected after considering the nuances of PeopleSoft
ERP solutions and Product Offerings.
ORACLE'S stand
They are keen on purchasing the people soft customers in addition to the software. The
efforts taken in this context are indeed laudable. They have been trying to impress on the fact
that they are prepared to satisfy all the customers of People soft. This deserves appreciation
because they have boldly taken up this step which no others will think twice before
executing. The reason is that they care for all the customers irrespective of the size and
volume of the business. PeopleSoft ERP solutions and Product Offerings are designed to
meet these requirements.
Other alternatives
Companies that are currently using PeopleSoft ERP can customize their operations and make
it Oracle friendly too. This would seem to be a good option for them when compared with the
procedure of revamping the configuration and making way for the whole system to be under
the influence of oracle. The former will require more manipulation and lesser monetary
investments. The later will require lots of money in addition to introducing changes in
handling software and rewriting programs and source codes. Besides it is bound to consume
lot of time and efforts. While both alternatives have their own merits and setbacks it is also
important to understand that any choice made will reflect on the performance of the
company. Hence they company should exercise maximum care in dealing with this

Oracle
Oracle’s acquisition of Peoplesoft has sparked a lot of controversy in the ERP marketplace in
the early days. Some Oracle customers have felt that were getting the short end of the stick
when the acquisition happened as Peoplesoft customers now had access to Oracles features
and benefits that the former had paid dearly for prior to the collaboration. However, the dust
seems to have settled and PeopleSoft continues to grow its market share in the HR enterprise
resource planning sector.
IIM Shillong will be the first centrally funded technical universities to complete and ERP
implementation with Oracle and PeopleSoft. While they are not new to Universities and
campuses across the globe with 800 implementations in campuses world wide, this is the first
one in one of India’s centrally funded institutions. In today’s dynamic and ever changing
environment, IIM Shillong has implemented the PeopleSoft solution to further its mission to
raise the educational bar and standards in India by reducing expensive and time consuming
manual processes, and providing the campus administrators, faculty and students access to
real time information.
The enterprise solutions will free up administrator and faculty resources to focus on
delivering higher quality education by enabling students to better focus on the quality of their
studies and learnings. The decision to implement the ERP technology will put the institution
in the front of the technology adoption initiative that is a key initiative for the Indian
Government in its higher education program for the country.
Also known as Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, IIM Shillong has completed the
integration and deployment of the world’s leading student enterprise management system and
alumni management system for higher education. The institution has successfully deployed
numerous modules from Oracle’s Peoplesoft suite of solutions specifically focused on higher
education campuses and universities. Oracles has worked in partnership with Citagus India
Private Ltd, a premier IT solutions and technology integration services firm specializing in
large scale PeopleSoft applications.
 Baan Market Analysis

INTRODUCTION:
Baan is a software package that supports the concept of erp which in turn helps the company
to organize and optimize its processes.finally to achieve better performance and profits.
This package contains many modules like finance ,human resource ,manafacturing

Baan Corporation was created by Jan Baan in 1978 in Barneveld, Netherlands, to provide
financial and administrative consulting services. With the development of his first software
package, Jan Baan and his brother Paul Baan entered what was to become the ERP industry.
The Baan company focused on the creation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
(Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a term usually used in conjunction with ERP software or an ERP system which is
intended to manage all the information and functions of a business or company from shared data stores.)

It is a pure-breed client-server company whose products were available only in the Unix
platform for many years. Today BaaN products run on multiple hardware and software
platforms. The focused development of BaaN has led to several technological strengths for
BaaN products. Very few companies commit and deliver software products, whose code
length decreases with the new release of their product. BaaN is definitely one of them. Their
software is exceptionally strong in manufacturing. The software is much less complex, far
easy to master, for less expensive to implement and permits a faster implementation. Another
dimension of BaaN's innovation is their tool Dynamic Enterprise Modeler (DEM) which
permits a model-based implementation of the BaaN IV product. BaaN can run under modest
computing resources suiting the SME sector very well.

Jan Baan developed his first computer program on Durango F-85 computers in BASIC
language. In the early '80s, Baan Company began to develop application on Unix computers
with C and self-developed Baan-C language, which syntax was very similar to BASIC
language[1].
Baan gained its popularity in the early nineties. Baan software is famous for its Dynamic
Enterprise Modeler (DEM), technical architecture and its 4GL language. Baan 4GL and
Tools nowadays is still considered to be one of the most efficient and productive database
application development platforms. Baan became a real threat to market leader SAP after
winning a large Boeing deal in 1994. It went IPO in 1995 and became a public listed
company in Amsterdam and US Nasdaq. Several large consulting firms throughout the world
partnered to implement Baan IV for multi-national companies. It acquired several other
software companies to enrich its product porfolio, including Aurum, Berclain, Coda and Caps
Logistics. Sales growth rate was once claimed to reach 91% per year.
However the fall of the Baan Company began in 1998. The management exaggerated
company revenue by booking "sales" of software licenses that were actually transferred to a
related distributor. The discovery of this "creative" revenue manipulation led to a sharp
decline of Baan's stock price at the end of 1998.

Like the other enterprise resource planning vendors, Baan was once a darling of Wall Street
with a 70 percent yearly growth rate. But Baan and its competitors suffered in 1998 as
demand of Erp software had declined. Baan posted a total 1998 net loss of $315 million or
$1.59 per share.

But in 1998-
Business software firm Baan today unveiled new Web-based procurement software, marking
its official entry into the growing market of software that allows companies to communicate
with suppliers over the Internet.

The market for procurement software is one that has attracted the attention of traditional
enterprise resource planning (ERP) software makers. Baan rivals Oracle and SAP have
already entered the market with products of their own, treading turf formerly held solely by
Ariba and CommerceOne.

The new software, first introduced in April as part of Baan's e-commerce application suite
called E-Enterprise, enables businesses to delegate routine purchases within the company.

According to the company, the E-Procurement software can be easily installed alongside a
firm's existing IT system, as it is based on Microsoft's distributed internetwork applications
(DNA) architecture, which helps build and link information systems based on Microsoft
operating systems and products.-

In June 2000,
facing worsening financial difficulties, law suits and reporting seven consecutive quarterly
losses and bleak prospects, Baan was sold at a price of US$700 million to Invensys,[3] a UK
automation, controls, and process solutions group to become a unit of its Software and
Services Division.

In June 2003, after Allen Yurko stepped down, Invensys sold its Baan unit to SSA Global
Technologies for US$ 135 million.

Upon acquiring the Baan software, SSA renamed Baan as SSA ERP Ln. In August 2005,
SSA Global released a new version of Baan, named SSA ERP LN 6.1. In May 2006, SSA
was acquired by Infor Global Solutions of Atlanta, which was a major ERP consolidator in
the market.

Today Baan ERP software is still used by thousands of mid-range companies in the world,
the majority on version BaanIVc4 and ERP LN.

Baan's
Server Platform:

Windows Server, Linux, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris,HP Unix, AS400(Obsolete),OS390

(Obsolete)

Database:

Oracle, DB2, Informix, MS SQL Server, MySQL (version 6.1 only), Bisam (Obsolete)
[edit] Standard Modules

What are the special features of BaaN?

BaaN Company is driven by innovation. It is a pure-breed client-server company whose

products were available only in the Unix platform for many years. Today BaaN products run
on multiple hardware and software platforms. The focused development of BaaN has led to
several technological strengths for BaaN products. Very few companies commit and deliver
software products, whose code length decreases with the new release of their product. BaaN
is definitely one of them. Their software is exceptionally strong in manufacturing. The
software is much less complex, far easy to master, for less expensive to implement and
permits a faster implementation. Another dimension of BaaN's innovation is their tool
Dynamic Enterprise Modeler (DEM) which permits a model-based implementation of the
BaaN IV product. BaaN can run under modest computing resources suiting the SME sector
very well. The recent announcements from BaaN about the use of component based software
engineering tools (using Microsoft DCOM technology), tight integration with Microsoft
BackOffice, component based licensing through its innovative BaaN Series product scheme
etc show great promise.

Competitiors:
This includes SAP with their flagship product R/3, Oracle with their Oracle Applications and
the world-class ERP Product Marshall from the rising Indian star Ramco Systems. The other
major player in the global ERP Market, namely, PeopleSoft has entered the Indian market
only very recently. Yet another leading product MFG/ PRO from QAD has been present for a
while (the two customers Hindustan Lever & Godrej have been using it for over two years).
SAP has been exceptionally successful in India with nearly two-thirds of the Indian market
share. The major industrial houses Tata, Reliance, Essar, Mahindra & Kirloskar have
embraced SAP. BaaN has been very successful in major manufacturing companies such as
TVS. Oracle has been a playing a dominant role in the telecom centre with a stronghold
among all cellular phone companies. Ramco Marshall has a good client base among the
process industry in the south and a few public sector undertakings.
Conclusion

This paper describes the Baan Company as a visionary company, and discusses in particular
the timeless aspects. Baan's immutable values, principles, and preconditions relate to the
work ethic, stewardship, pioneering, the industrial approach, entering into strategic
cooperative relationships, client-orientation, an open, informal organisation and serving
leadership. Stability in this area has allowed Baan to be a great innovator in other areas.
ORACLE
Oracle Corporation was Founded in California, USA (1977)
Founder(s) Larry Ellison Headquarters Redwood City, California,
United States Area served Worldwide Key people
Larry Ellison (CEO)
Jeffrey O. Henley (Chairman)
Safra A. Catz (President)
Charles Phillips (President) Industry Computer software
Computer database Products Oracle Database
Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oracle Applications
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Oracle Financials Revenue ▲ US$ 23.252 billion (2009)[ Website Oracle.com

Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in
developing and marketing enterprise software products — particularly database management
systems. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States, Oracle employs more
than 101,950 people worldwide as of 2009[update]. It has enlarged its share of the software
market through organic growth and through a number of high-profile acquisitions. By 2007
Oracle had the third-largest software revenue, after Microsoft and IBM.
The corporation has arguably become best-known due to association with its flagship
product, the Oracle Database. The company also builds tools for database development and
systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer
relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software.
As of 2010 Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle Corporation, has served as Oracle's CEO
throughout its history. Ellison also served as the Chairman of the Board until his replacement
by Jeffrey O. Henley in 2004. Ellison retains his role as CEO.
History
Ellison took inspiration from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database
management systems (RDBMS) named "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data
Banks". He had heard about the IBM System R database from an article in the IBM Research
Journal provided by Ed Oates (a future co-founder of Oracle Corporation). System R also
derived from Codd's theories, and Ellison wanted to make his Oracle product compatible with
System R, but IBM stopped this by keeping the error codes for their DBMS secret. Ellison
co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 under the name Software Development
Laboratories (SDL). In 1979 SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc. (RSI). In
1982, RSI renamed itself as Oracle Systems to align itself more closely with its flagship
product Oracle Database. At this stage Robert Miner served as the company's senior
programmer.
[Overall timeline
• June 16, 1977: Oracle Corporation incorporated in Redwood Shores, California as
Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed
Oates.
• December 13, 2004: After a long battle over the control of PeopleSoft, Oracle
announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for $26.50 per share
(approximately $10.3 billion).
• April 20, 2009: Oracle announces its intention to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4
billion ($9.50 per share)
• January 27, 2010: Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems
• Technology timeline
• 1979: offers the first commercial SQL RDBMS
• 1983: offers a VAX-mode database
• 1984: offers the first database with read-consistency
• 1986: offers a client-server DBMS
• 1987: introduces UNIX-based Oracle applications
• 1988: introduces PL/SQL
• 1992: offers full applications implementation methodology
• 1995: offers the first 64-bit RDBMS
• 1996: moves towards an open standards-based, web-enabled architecture
• 1999: offers its first DBMS with XML support
• 2001: becomes the first to complete 3 terabyte TPC-H world record
• 2002: offers the first database to pass 15 industry standard security evaluations
• 2003: introduces what it calls "Enterprise Grid Computing" with Oracle10g
• 2005: releases its first free database, Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (XE)
• 2008: smart scans in software improve query-response in HP Oracle Database
Machine / Exadata storage
Application products
Besides databases, Oracle also sells a suite of business applications. The Oracle E-Business
Suite includes software to perform financial- (Oracle Financials), manufacturing-, enterprise
resource planning and HR- (Human Resource Management Systems) -related functions
(Oracle HR). Users can access these facilities through a browser interface over the Internet or
via a corporate intranet.
Following a number of high-value acquisitions beginning in 2003, especially in the area of
applications, Oracle Corporation currently[update] maintains a number of product lines

Oracle E-Business Suite

Within the overall rubric of Oracle Applications, Oracle Corporation's E-Business Suite
("EB-Suite" or "EBS") consists of a collection of enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM) computer
applications either developed by or acquired by Oracle. The software utilizes Oracle's core
Oracle relational database management system technology. The E-Business Suite (current
version: 12.1)contains several product lines, including:
• Oracle CRM (Siebel)
• enterprise resourse planning
• Oracle Financials (Siebel Analytics)
• Oracle HRMS (PeopleSoft)
• * Oracle Mobile Supply chain Applications
• Oracle Order Management
• Oracle Project Portfolio Management
• Oracle Quotes
• Oracle Transportation Management
• Oracle Warehouse Management Systems
Each product comprises several modules, each separately licensed.
Significant technologies incorporated into the applications include the Oracle database
technologies, (engines for RDBMS, PL/SQL, Java, .NET, HTML and XML), the "technology
stack" (Oracle Forms Server, Oracle Reports Server, Apache Web Server, Oracle Discoverer,
Jinitiator and Sun's Java).

• Enterprise resource planning

•
 • Financial Management
• Human Capital Management
• Project Portfolio Management
• Procurement
• Oracle Advanced Procurement
• Oracle Sourcing
• Product Life-cycle Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Supply Chain Planning
• Logistics & Transportation Management
• Order Management
• Price Management
• Manufacturing
Oracle Accelerate
Oracle Corporation launched a set of applications for mid-size businesses in 2007 called
Oracle Accelerate. Accelerate provides access to Oracle's ERP products through a local
partner-network and packages the products to meet vertical industry requirements.

WHY ORACLE
Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise performance management enables organizations to achieve
world-class performance by aligning the right information and resources to strategic
objectives. PeopleSoft Enterprise performance management offers performance management
solutions for every budget and every phase of the management cycle, helping managers
formulate strategies for profitable growth, align strategies with operational plans, and actively
monitor day-to-day operations.
• Reduce month-end close from weeks to days to achieve best-in-class status against
industry standards
• Consolidate the financials from thousands of groups worldwide and report the
numbers to Wall Street
• Consolidate direct and indirect spend from PeopleSoft, legacy, and SAP systems to
save millions of dollars
• Capture millions of customer instruments monthly for profitability and risk analysis

Marketing
Sales practices
In 1990 Oracle laid off 10% (about 400 people) of its work force because of a mismatch
between cash and revenues. This crisis, which almost resulted in Oracle's bankruptcy[ came
about because of Oracle's "up-front" marketing strategy, in which sales people urged
potential customers to buy the largest possible amount of software all at once. The sales
people then booked the value of future license sales in the current quarter, thereby increasing
their bonuses. This became a problem when the future sales subsequently failed to
materialize. Oracle eventually had to restate its earnings twice, and also settled (out of court)
class-action lawsuits arising from its having overstated its earnings. Ellison stated in 1992
that Oracle had made "an incredible business mistake".

Competition
Although IBM dominated the mainframe relational-database market with its DB2 and
SQL/DS database products, it delayed entering the market for a relational database on UNIX
and Windows operating systems. This left the door open for Sybase, Oracle, and Informix
(and eventually Microsoft) to dominate mid-range and microcomputers.
Around this time Oracle technology started to lag technically behind that of Sybase.
In 1990–1993 Sybase became the fastest-growing database company and the database
industry's darling vendor but soon fell victim to its merger mania and to technical issues with
System X.[ Sybase's 1993 merger with PowerSoft resulted in its losing its focus on its core
database technology. In 1993, Sybase sold the rights to its database software running under
the Windows operating system to Microsoft Corporation, which now markets it under the
name "SQL Server."
In 1994 Informix Software overtook Sybase and became Oracle's most important rival. The
intense war between Informix CEO Phil White and Ellison made front-page news in Silicon
Valley for three years. Ultimately, Oracle defeated Informix in 1997. In November 2005 a
book detailing the war between Oracle and Informix appeared,providing a detailed
chronology of the battle of Informix against Oracle, and how Informix Software's CEO Phil
White landed in jail because of his obsession with overtaking Ellison.
Once it had overcome Informix and Sybase, Oracle Corporation enjoyed years of dominance
in the database market until use of Microsoft SQL Server became widespread in the late
1990s and IBM acquired Informix Software in 2000 (to complement its DB2 database).
Today[update] Oracle competes for new database licenses on UNIX, Linux, and Windows
operating systems primarily against IBM's DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server (which only runs
on Windows). IBM's DB2 still dominates the mainframe database market.
In 2004 Oracle's sales grew at a rate of 14.5% to $6.2 billion, giving it 41.3% and the top
share of the relational-database market (InformationWeek - March, 2005), with market share
estimated at up to 44.6% in 2005 by some sources. Oracle Corporation's main competitors in
the database arena remain IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server, and to a lesser extent Sybase
and Teradata , with open-source databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL also having a
significant share of the market. EnterpriseDB, based on PostgreSQL, has recentlymade
inroads by proclaiming that its product delivers Oracle compatibility features at a much
lower price-point.
In the software-applications market, Oracle Corporation primarily competes against SAP. On
March 22, 2007 Oracle sued SAP, accusing them of fraud and unfair competition.
Due to the expanding market for business-intelligence software, many other software
companies — small and large — have successfully competed in quality with Oracle and SAP
products. Some commentators expect that more products and business intelligence services
will appear within the next 10 years

Oracle and SAP

From 1988 Oracle Corporation and the German company SAP AG had a decade-long history
of cooperation, beginning with the integration of SAP's R/3 enterprise application suite with
Oracle's relational database products. The marketplace regarded the two firms' products as
complementing one another, rather than as substitutes. Despite the current SAP partnership
with Microsoft, and the increasing integration of SAP applications with Microsoft products
(such as Microsoft SQL Server, a competitor to Oracle Database), Oracle and SAP continue
their cooperation. According to Oracle Corporation, the majority of SAP's customers use
Oracle databases.
In recent years, however, competition between Oracle and SAP has increased, and as a result,
the rivalry between the two companies has grown, even developing into a feud between the
co-founders of the two companies, where one party would frequently voice strong negative
comments about the other company.
In 2004 Oracle began to increase its interest in the enterprise-applications market (in 1989,
Oracle had already released Oracle Financials). A series of acquisitions by Oracle
Corporation began, most notably those of PeopleSoft, Siebel and Hyperion.
SAP recognized that Oracle had started to become a competitor in a market where SAP had
the leadership, and saw an opportunity to lure in customers from those companies that Oracle
Corporation had acquired. SAP would offer those customers special discounts on the licenses
for its enterprise applications.Oracle Corporation would resort to a similar strategy, by
advising SAP customers to get "OFF SAP" (a play on the words of the acronym for its
middleware platform "Oracle Fusion for SAP"),and also by providing special discounts on
licenses and services to SAP customers who chose Oracle Corporation products.
CurrentlyOracle and SAP also compete in the third-party enterprise-software maintenance
and support market (the latter through its recently acquired subsidiary TomorrowNow). On
March 22, 2007, Oracle filed a suit against SAP. The complaint alleged that TomorrowNow,
which provides discount support for legacy Oracle product lines, used the accounts of former
Oracle customers to systematically download patches and support documents from Oracle's
website and to appropriate them for SAP's use. Some analysts have suggested the suit could
form part of a strategy by Oracle Corporation to decrease competition with SAP in the market
for third-party enterprise software maintenance and support
On July 3, 2007, SAP admitted that TomorrowNow employees had made "inappropriate
downloads" from the Oracle support web site. However, it claims that SAP personnel and
SAP customers had no access to Oracle intellectual property via TomorrowNow. SAP's CEO

MARKET ANALYSIS
QAD Inc.(NasdaqGS: QADI)
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