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Advantage, GRC

The recent software buying spree by SAP and Oracle is changing the ERP landscape, threatening the existence of best of breed vendors and forcing others--such as IBM and Microsoft--to rethink BI strategies

By Beth Karlin | Updated on November 06, 2007

An observer to the mid-October business software consolidation games could get whiplash watching all the volleying back and forth as enterprise resource planning (ERP) giants SAP AG and Oracle Corp. battled for the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and business performance management (BPM) advantage.

No sooner did SAP announce an agreement to buy business performance management (BPM) software vendor Business Objects SA, in a somewhat tardy response to Oracle’s February purchase of Hyperion Solutions Corp., then Oracle bid for LogicalApps, a maker of automated applications control products for Sarbanes-Oxley management–a niche that SAP filledin April 2006 with the acquisition of Virsa Systems Inc. Not a week had elapsed before Oracle moved again, this time with an offer for BEA Systems Inc., which makes software that connects servers.

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