Oracle V/S SAP

Hi All,
My company is planning to go for Oracle Financials and currently in the process of getting proposals from various partners. Management is actually interested in Oralce, but one of the partners suggests that SAP is more professional and a better choice. They say that SAP is originally meant for ERP and oracle was made just for managing database and later they bought peoplesoft, this and that and made it suitable for ERP. Management is having a second thought now, hence I would like to know the advantages of Oracle over SAP which I can provide to the management and convince them for going with Oracle.
Thanks for the help.
cheers
Edited by: user11076992 on Dec 30, 2009 10:01 AM

Hi,
You can also see previous threads in this forum which cover the same topic.
I would suggest you contact an Oracle Sales representative, he/she should be able to help and provide you with the necessary documents which would help in taking your decision.
Regards,
Hussein

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