Oracle helping SAP customers in Asia Pacific to get 'Off Sap'

Oracle announced it is offering SAP R/3 customers, who are faced with having to re-license and re-implement their applications in order to upgrade to mySAP ERP or mySAP Business Suite, an alternative to move to Oracle(r) E-Business Suite.

The availability of this new program, Oracle Fusion for SAP or "Off Sap", was formally announced in Asia Pacific by Oracle's President Charles Phillips, in Australia. Sydney, Australia is the first Asia Pacific stop in Oracle's Global Applications Strategy Tour, which Oracle executives have taken across the US and Europe.

Under the "Off Sap" program, Oracle will offer SAP R/3 customers up to a 100% licence credit, to switch from SAP to Oracle applications. Additionally, as part of "OFF SAP," Oracle Consulting is announcing a free SAP Migration Insight offer, which includes a discovery workshop for R/3 customers that results in an assessment of the customers' migration options.

With SAP Migration Insight, Oracle Consulting will provide customers with a clear understanding of the migration process and benefits. Oracle Financing will offer a two-year payment plan for the application licence and support fees, with no interest and no payments for six months, followed by six instalments.

Together, these programs will allow customers to quickly begin receiving value from their Oracle applications, mapping payments to benefits over two years[1].

SAP requires customers who choose to upgrade from SAP R/3 to mySAP ERP or mySAP Business Suite to re-license and re-implement the applications, which can cost customers significant amounts of time and money. "Oracle has evolved customers with us for nearly three decades across multiple generations of technology," said Phillips.

"94% of Oracle E-Business Suite customers are running on the latest applications - Release 11i. SAP, however, seems to be requiring customers to re-license their applications to upgrade to SAP's latest technology.

Only 6% of SAP's customers have upgraded to mySAP ERP, according to a leading analyst firm. Now they have a low cost alternative to stop paying for upgrades and get Off Sap." SAP customers are faced with complexity, fragmented data, difficult and expensive upgrade processes and managing the legacy ABAP language.

Over 40 customers have already switched from SAP to Oracle applications, and companies such as Group Voyagers (US) and Usina Nova America (Brazil) have moved from SAP to Oracle to take advantage of Oracle's standards-based applications and easy upgrades.