ERP Software

Everyone Wants a Piece of SAP and SAP Wants A Piece of Everyone

SAP, a worldwide Enterprise Software Company, has been slow to enter the SaaS (software as a service) ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) game.  However, even though they may sometimes move at a turtles pace, most customers will wait as long as it takes to get a piece of SAP’s SaaS ERP solution.  A survey taken in the UK and in Ireland showed that over half of the people surveyed are interested in acquiring SAP’s SaaS ERP solution.  Although, these folks that were surveyed also said that they thought SAP needed to pick up the pace on the release of their SaaS ERP solution.  Because SAP moved at a turtles pace, sixteen percent of these potential SAP SaaS Enterprise Resource Planning customers ended up going with another SaaS vendor.  Too bad for SAP, but don’t shed a tear because SAP is quite a successful vendor and the largest Enterprise Software Company in the world.  I guess the slow and steady turtle doesn’t always win the race.  In an economy where technology evolves quickly and customers are foaming at the mouth to implement the latest and greatest, Enterprise Software Companies must perform more like the rabbit or lose the race altogether.

While customers in the UK and Ireland sat around and waited for a piece of SAP, SAP was conjuring a plan for a potential acquisition.  Yes, SAP along with Microsoft is rumored to takeover Sage.  Enterprise Software Companies seem to want Sage thanks to their robust and quite successful Enterprise Resource Planning solutions.  The rumor is that SAP is going to present Sage with a five billion dollar all cash offer.  By purchasing Sage, SAP could take advantage of Sage’s SaaS accounting software.

It seems that whenever a competitor comes along for Enterprise Software Company giants like SAP and Oracle, these two brutes take them out by acquiring them.  One notable acquisition was Oracle’s hostile takeover of PeopleSoft.  Perhaps SAP is learning from Oracle because in the past SAP has been known to build their solutions from the ground up.  If you can’t beat the competition, you buy the competition.  We sure have seen a lot of this lately thanks to the troubled economy.  Smaller Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management vendors can’t survive and are purchased by the larger vendors. 

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kristine H