For Application Development & Program Management Professionals (Length: 19 pages)

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As enterprise customers demand business agility in their new applications software, vendors are responding by embracing service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM). The result will be enterprise apps unlike any previous generation. The two largest vendors of enterprise apps are pursuing different paths to their next generation of apps, giving prospective customers a real choice. The differences are stark. Oracle will continue to build through acquisition; SAP will rely more on internal development and partnerships. Oracle's next-generation apps will run only on its own database; SAP's applications will run only on its own middleware. SAP promises to ship its next-generation business application suite in 2007, Oracle in 2008. The two competitors will battle over master data management (MDM), analytics, and repository architectures. SAP has stronger market momentum, better articulated value for next-generation apps, and a better partnership strategy than Oracle. But Oracle's strong middleware platform and greater support of standards make it a better choice than SAP for customers who will rely on custom development as well as packaged apps.

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