ERP Vendor Analysis: Microsoft, Sage, Odoo, SAP, Oracle

This report provides a comparative analysis of five major Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors: Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, Odoo, SAP, and Oracle. The analysis covers various aspects, including financial positions, hardware and software infrastructure, software direction and currency, installation processes, evaluation methods, release strategies, backup and recovery strategies, service level agreements, and ERP modules for sales, procurement, production, customer services, corporate performance, and human resources. The report highlights key features, strengths, and weaknesses of each vendor, offering insights into their functionalities and service offerings. It also explores the involvement of users in upgrades and resource development. The report concludes with a bibliography of the sources used.

Short List of 5 ERP Vendors
Vendor
Name
Microsoft
Dynamics
Sage Odoo SAP Oracle
Financial
Position
$121 million £207.6
million
$10 to $25
million per
year
€3.618 billion US$37.04
billion
Hardware &
software
Infrastructur
e
It provides
platforms for
the systems
and integrate
different
software.
It provides
software
services to
the clients
require
online
services only.
Online
services,
SaaS cloud
services
Hardware
requires data
centre, disk
storage system,
network gear,
RAID
Online
database,
cloud services,
Oracle Exalogic
Elastic Cloud.
Direction
and currency
of software
Entity
mapping, Trial
software,
currency
change,
Synchronizatio
n
Installation,
Changing
system
currency and
date,
customer
and sales
Point of sale
multi-
currency
support,
Configurabl
e
parameters,
Set
customer
currency
rates, View
amount in
foreign
currency
Evaluation of
bids, Functional
evaluation,
Technical
evaluation,
Vendor-
detailed
demonstration
s, Contact
references,
Develop a total
cost of
ownership
Inverse
Method, No
Inverse
method,
Triangulation
method
Release
strategies
Online
services,
improving
mobile
functionality to
match Resco,
Improving Big
Data Analysis,
Social CRM.
Not-for-
profit
organisations
, process
theories,
globalisation,
organisationa
l policies and
decision-
making
Exporting
translations,
rename in a
backward
compatible
way
openerp,
fixing the
packaging,
fixing apps
installation,
fixing bugs
that will
discover
while
migrating
online
database.
Designated
users use
various
released codes.
The release
code is a two
character ID
allowing a
person to
release (clear,
or approve) a
purchase
requisition or
an external
purchasing
document.
Backup and
recovery
strategies, Up
gradation
strategies,
Zero
Downtime
Upgrade start
methods, In-
place Upgrade
start methods.
The
involvement
of users in
User
involvement is
high.
Working
support in
the company
The cost of
a service,
which
The up
gradation is
available in
Online services
has been
upgraded to

upgrades
and resource
development
Upgrading to
Microsoft
Dynamics GP
2010 R2,
customer can
technological
investments
for growing
business.
have
forefront the
success of
the products
and services
of the
company.
depends on
the
employee's
working
contract,
project
planning,
which
depends on
the work
pattern of
the project
contributors
,
the client
billing rate,
which
probably
depends on
the
employee's
job
function,
three phases to
the users. The
involvement of
the users have
helped in
technical up
gradation.
provide better
services and
security to the
data. The
involvement of
users have
helped in
maintaining
the providing
deliverables
for the project.
Service level
agreements
Case on hold
support, Auto
pause and
resume time
calculation,
Support for
success
actions,
Creation of
database and
report based
on SLA KPI
Instance entity
Sage next
InfoTech:
Virtual Server
Hosting Plans
and Virtual
Applications
Hosting Plans
Guarantee
of minimum
of 99.9%
uptime,
Data
centres are
Tier-III
certified
with N+1
redundancy
for power,
14 full
backups up
to 3
months.
Response time,
Operating time,
Downtime,
Availability and
solution time.
Data
Processing
agreement,
Oracle
Invoicing
Policy, oracle
public cloud
hosting and
delivery
policies, oracle
cloud services
agreement
documentation
.

ERP Modules from The Vendors
Function Microsoft
Dynamics
Sage Odoo SAP Oracle
Sales It has
supported
various
companies
with the sales
of the
services in the
market. It
continuously
upgrading its
version that is
helping in
increasing the
sales of the
company.
It is a
leading
supplier of
business
software to
millions of
business
worldwide.
Sales has
been
constantly
increasing in
the market.
Sap has
been
providing
software
services to
many
customers
with high
profit.
Cloud
services
provided by
Oracle,
risen by
66%
Upvalue.
Procuremen
t
Self-service
capabilities,
Self-service
vendor
capabilities,
Allowing
managers to
manage
overall
spending,
Establishing a
centralized
procurement
desk
Powerful
reporting,
Secured
cloud App,
Managing
business
rules,
Planning
purchase,
Purchase
Control.
Focused on
product
module,
Scheduled
modules,
rule sale
and service.
Requiremen
t and
Information
gathering,
Supplier
contact,
Background
review,
Negotiation,
Order
fulfilment
and
requisition.
Oracle
iprocureme
nt is a self-
service
requisition
application,
Streamline
employee
ordering,
Enforce
purchasing
policy.
Production It supports
business
information
system and
accounting
software.
Accounting
CRM,
£1,569.1
million
Provides
various
production
apps
Provides
various
applications
online with
a large
margin
scale.
It provides
online cloud
services all
over the
world.
Accounting
Distribution
Increase in
order
Multi-
quantity
Multiple
Analytic
Revenues
and sales
Revenue
Accounting,

accuracy to
98.5%, cut
order entry by
50%, Mange
cash budget,
account-level-
security.
unit
buy/sell
capability,
serialized
inventory,
multiple
costing
method,
flexible
pricing tools
distribution,
distributed
architecture
.
deduction,
profit center
accounting,
balance
sheet
accounting.
Deferred
revenue
accounting,
Unbilled AR
Customer
Services
Following
Service level
agreements,
prioritize and
distributed
cases,
Customer
scheduling
Sage One,
Sage Live,
Sage X3,
Sage people
Customer
service App,
feedbacks
and rating
loop.
SAP Hybris
service
cloud, Cloud
deployment
, SAP Hybris
service
engagement
centre, SAP
jam
collaboratio
n.
Oracle
premium
support,
Oracle
platinum
services,
oracle
advanced
customer
support,
Lifetime
support
policy
Corporate
performanc
e and
governance
The company
with proper
implementati
on of code of
ethics follows
the corporate
governance
laws.
Sage
governance
framework,
policy
framework,
manageme
nt
committees,
training
Odoo ERP,
Codent
Software
and e-vision
consulting
app
It comprises
the current
declaration
pursuant to
the German
Stock
Corporation
Act, section
161, certain
details of
our
corporate
governance
practices.
Code of
ethics,
Conflict of
interest
policies and
certificate
of
incorporatio
n and
bylaws.
Human
resources
Recruitment,
Staff
administratio
n, Mobile
working,
employee
self-service,
project
management
Integrates
employee
payroll,
Talent
developme
nt,
Recruiting,
Sage
Advice,
Employee
engagemen
t
Human
resource
applications
, Centralize
all HR
information.
Training,
awards,
employee
success
factors
employee
central,
Software for
core HR and
payroll.
Optimizing
organisatio
n, employee
engagemen
t, global HR
systems.
Miscellaneo
us
Miscellaneous
log entry,
Discrete
dynamics
Various
miscellaneo
SAP
miscellaneo
Cost
manageme

Community
Forum
us themes us codes,
tbilling
codes
nt,
Transaction
Unit cost

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