SAP vs ORACLE vs MICROSOFT DYNAMICS: A Comparative Study of Strengths, Weaknesses, and Tradeoffs

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SAP vs ORACLE vs MICROSOFT DYNAMICS
A Comparative study of Strengths Weakness Tradeoffs
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ABSTRACT
This report will help in better understanding of the Enterprise Resource Planning commonly
known as ERP. This is done by analyzing all the strengths, weakness with the tradeoffs of
leading ERP providers like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics. This report will help in
neutralizing the appeal of these ERP Systems.
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Table of Contents
ABSTRACT....................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
FINDINGS.......................................................................................................................................7
DISCUSSION................................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
List of figure:
Figure 1: ERP Modules...................................................................................................................4
Figure 2: SAP vision........................................................................................................................5
Figure 3: ERP Market share..........................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
With the rise of the dynamic business condition, the market is in demand for Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) because all the organizations want all of their business activities under one
Infrastructure (Lim, Pan & Tan, 2005). Nowadays, most of the big corporations are turning
towards ERP to handle every aspect of their business. This report will focus on finding what the
main advantages, disadvantages, tradeoffs are. Further, these factors will be applied to the three
leading ERP software provider namely SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics. The rate of Selection
among the users, Duration of the software usage, Implementation cost with the benefits that are
gained by the ERP vendors are analyzed. The report can help in establishing the Level of
business Dominance and the Market value of each ERP vendors. Also, this research is done in on
the current scenario of all the ERP providers.
Figure 1: ERP Modules
(Source: Johnson, Dhiraj& columnists, 2018)
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