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SAP and Oracle can be considered as the leading ERP providers that have been dominating the market past few decades. Many reputed organizations have been benefited from SAP and Oracle ERP implementation and both of them has undisputable international recognition in aiding business growth. In spite of these, both SAP and Oracle do have their areas of strengths and weaknesses. Both these ERP providers are suitable for large organizations with business units located in different locations across the globe. The cost and time required to implement SAP and Oracle are quite high and are not suitable for medium and small sized organizations. SAP and Oracle offers higher levels off complexity in their features compared to Microsoft Dynamics. The features of SAP and Oracle can meet a number of business requirements and provides strong technical support, higher risk tolerance and better scalability.

Improved technological features: Based on advance software systems, Oracle provides better integration facilities compared to SAP. The out of the box solutions of Oracle provides better flexibility and improved work efficiency often followed by a certain level of uncertainty. Consequently, this calls for higher level of expertise to deal with the advanced features. SAP ERP constitutes of core features and maintains a unidirectional path.

Organization size: The higher cost and longer implementation time of SAP and Oracle makes it suitable for large organizations with different units beyond the geographical borders. Small and medium sized organizations prefer Dynamics as the low cost option.

Flexible features: SAP is the pioneer in ERP market that has gained immense success since 1970’s. SAP is also reputed for providing training to the buyers. The rigid ERP structure of SAP is perhaps the biggest disadvantage as the buyers have to orient their business processes according to the SAP ERP system, which may not fulfill the business requirements. Oracle is notable for its strong database system and the flexibility of integration with other software models. It offers a higher level of customizations that often poses problems for the organization to follow the core processes. Oracle is said to have better ROI compared to SAP. Microsoft Dynamics also offers better scalability and customization facilities devoid of complexities, suitable for the current IT system.

User satisfaction: Microsoft Dynamics again is a better choice than SAP and Oracle when it comes to user satisfaction. The UI of Dynamics is simple like Microsoft and easy to adapt. Oracle has the highest number of customer satisfaction for its flexibility and easy integration features, whereas SAP bears the reputation for providing better business. Dynamics, on the other hand, has the competitive edge because of its low cost solutions.

Implementation time, cost and risk tolerance:

SAP and Oracle involves huge cost and takes long time for implementation, but both have higher levels of risk tolerance. Dynamics involves much lower cost, takes lesser time for implementation but is less tolerant to risks. Sometimes, the implementation time of Dynamics may be unusually high and often the performance is below the expected level.

All three ERP systems can well support international systems efficiently handling international requirements and offering better scalability.

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