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| Written by RD | ||||||
| Thursday, 18 September 2008 | ||||||
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 The key points that one should note are the new licenses sale increased by 14%. Even though there is an increase in overall revenue, there is a marginal fall in the sale of Applications from $376 million to $331 million which includes Oracle Apps, PeopleSoft and other acquired applications. But the sale of database and middleware sale increased from $711 million to $906 million during the previous quarter. The Oracle.com has a page for acquisition and if you refer the last two years the number of acquisitions compared to this year’s acquisitions, they have already acquired 7 companies in 6 months where are they acquired 11 companies in 2007 with the biggest of them this year being BEA. According to Oracle’s President, Safra Catz, BEA contributed $84 million for this quarted, which is the major chunk in the increase that quarter. The performance of the previous quarter with the weakening of Dollar value is very encouraging one as it would have lost quite a bit from the foreign sales.  The discouraging thing is that the decline in Apps sales as a PeopleSoft user we should be worried. Oracle’s main competitor is SAP where they are in Apps market and the decline in the Apps is loosing the market share to other competitors like SAP, LAWSON and other Open Source ERPs. Of course the ERP market increases every year from $29 billion in 2006 to $36 billion in 2008. It is expected to rise to $48 billion in 2011. Even though SAP has the largest market shared compared to any other ERP vendors, the growth rate or Oracle is higher at 17% compared to SAP’s 11% in the application revenue sector. But there is one thing one should worry about is that the there are other less known companies like INFOR which are growing very high rate and LAWSON amongst the healthcare industry capturing the rest of the market and also the number of ERP vendors in the market are also increasing. As a PeopleSoft consultant or Employee or vendor one can feel comfortable that the percentage of share in the ERP market, 20% is the maintenance and implementation revenue. Another surprising statistics is that the growth rate in the Latin America is higher than North America and Europe in terms of ERP Application revenue growth, which is something useful for the global Consulting Companies to target and explore their marketing dollars in Latin America.  Add as favourites (0) |  Quote this article on your site | Views: 371 | Print
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