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Who is dominating the Corporate Performance Management space? Will SAP or Hyperion/Oracle prevail?

Posted by: Alan Hunt 5 Jan 10 - 12:43PM  | Alan Hunt
Interesting to see that PwC are growing their CPM practice in the UK via the acquisition of Paragon Consulting, which has a Hyperion partnership. With the battle over control of the database space and the transaction / process area being fought out for many years it seems the real battle is now over who controls the intelligence and information tools that corporations use for their decision making.

There has been plenty of M&A activity in this area over the last couple of years with both SAP and Oracle involved. Any insight into which product is being deployed and which is winning evaluations would be very interesting; as would case studies where both are being used and why.
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Still think that the majority of the largest SAP sites are running on an oracle platform. This means that outside the solution and technology the Oracle / Hyperion folks have a commercial and business relationship as well as strong technology foothold. This means they have great access from which to do business! still want to hear about some head to heads between the two in this space and to hear who won and why!!
Posted by: alan hunt, Date 01 February 2010, 06:44PM
Definitely SAP ERP is a great platform to support SAP strategy. People sometimes say: ‘remember, database is Oracle’. However, consultants, from ERP or BI, don't get a lot of database. It runs behind the ERP and we don’t care, most of the times, if is SQL or Oracle there. It is Basis issue. SAP is trying to even get a piece of Oracle cake. BO, via Universe, can connect direct to database and create reports and queries. It is a nice battle to watch (and participate).
Posted by: Gilson Teixeira, Date 01 February 2010, 05:11PM
I have now heard of another Hyperion partner being acquired and also noted recently that one of the main advocates for SAP BI in the USA (David Dixon) has joined Hyperion. Still very interested to get any insight into any head to heads between SAP and Oracle/Hyperion in this area and to hear who is winning and why? especially when it is an account using SAP for ERP rather than Oracle.
Posted by: alan hunt, Date 30 January 2010, 03:24PM
Hi Alan, Nice topic! As SAP BW, SEM-BSC and Visual Composer consultant I agree with you: there are a lot of activities going on around this topic. SAP is trying to clarify more its strategy within SAP Business Objects CPM. SAP is also trying to separete SAP BW from SAP 'BI' once BO tools are more related with top layer than DW structure. We could spend hours talking about all this. Keep going! Regards, Gilson
Posted by: Gilson Teixeira, Date 29 January 2010, 01:05PM

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