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"I don't know anyone who buys new softwares from Oracle." I do - I doubt that there are many organisations licensing just the Oracle database these days - I su
by arethuza 8y ago
"I don't know anyone who buys new softwares from Oracle."
I do - I doubt that there are many organisations licensing just the Oracle database these days - I suspect most of their sales are in the ERP/finance areas where there are relatively few competitors.
How many competitors are there for Hyperion FM/Planning?
Edit: Note that I'm definitely not defending Oracle, but the market for their products is quite complex and much wider than a relational database engine.
- toyg 8y agoDo I know you? :) As for competitors to hfm/epm: there are a few (onestream, tagetik, whatever sap is peddling...). But it doesn’t matter, all this thing about auditing will go away when every Oracle customer is forced at gunpoint to move to cloud versions - where they can be squeezed for more money at the touch of a button. Hfm licenses, for example, are basically not sold anymore unless you get special blessing from an Oracle VP; it’s FCCS or nothing.
- arethuza 8y agoIts been ~4 years since I was involved in that area - I know at that time Oracle was trying to recruit some of my colleagues for their cloud team. I don't think anyone took them up on the offer! I did a lot of integration work with HFM for my previous employer - I was actually rather proud of the reporting solution we built on top of HFM, infinitely better than the reporting tools that Oracle provided. I sometimes wish that we'd productized that and sold it!