08 August 2005
New Oracle Fusion for SAP Offering Attracts SAP R/3 Customers Looking to Move and Run their Businesses with an Open, Standards-based Application Solution

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Thirty days after Oracle introduced its Oracle Fusion for SAP-or "OFF SAP"-program, a pipeline of SAP R/3 customers looking to make the switch to Oracle applications is building, Oracle today announced.  Faced with the challenge of re-licensing and re-implementing their applications in order to upgrade from R/3 to mySAP ERP or mySAP Business Suite, more than 230 companies have registered in Oracle OFF SAP program and expressed their interest in migrating from legacy SAP to Oracle applications.

SAP customers show particular interest in leveraging the new Oracle program to help save money, reduce complexity and improve the quality of business information by migrating to Oracle's open, standards-based applications.  Only Oracle is building next-generation applications using the latest standards, such as Java (J2EE), enabling customers to operate in the most secure, scalable and low-cost environments.  Key areas of customer inquiry about "OFF SAP" include:
License credit - Oracle offers up to a 100% license credit for SAP R/3 customers that switch from SAP to Oracle applications.
 Ease of migration - Oracle Consulting created an INSIGHT for SAP Migration program that provides R/3 customers with a clear understanding of the migration process and benefits.
 Reduced upfront costs - Oracle Financing offers a two-year payment plan for the application license and support fees, with no interest and no payments for six months, followed by six installments.
 Information integration - Only Oracle's information architecture allows customers to run one global model and instance, which frees R/3 customers from the challenge of accessing and integrating fragmented data from legacy systems based in ABAP language. Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company.

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Press Release 2005