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… Fortune 500 have used to run their vital operations over the past couple of decades.”
True. Oracle receives 55% of its profits from its database business.
Oracle Is the Gold Standard?
“People say a lot of stuff about Oracle, but its database remains the gold standard,” said Gartner (IT, -1.09%) managing vice president Charles Eschinger. As a result, the shift of that business from Oracle databases running on customer servers to operating on Oracle’s cloud is a critical transition for the company.”
True. However, Oracle’s database business is being eroded by open source databases. This is …

… in competition with competing demands such as transitioning to a data-driven enterprise, meeting new compliance requirements such as general data protection regulation (GDPR) or implementing Internet of Things (IoT)-based technologies. We would argue that these are more likely to be priorities than upgrading your ledger systems. 60% of DSAG (German speaking user group) users see adopting to the digital economy as the first priority.
Bravo. Spot on. SAP is trying to emphasize ERP, but the fact is that ERP systems never provided the ROI that Gartner or SAP said that they did, which is covered in the book