Oracle`s database for the NT operating system is now available for the SAP Ready-to-Run R/3 solution, which is specially tailored to the requirements of small to mid-sized companies. Now, with this recent effort from the two companies, SAP Ready-to-Run R/3customers can benefit from Oracle`s industry-leading database and the fast-start implementation and easy configuration of SAP Ready-to-Run R/3
The Ready-to-Run R/3on Oracle start-up package is a pre-configured system designed to reduce the installation and implementation phase of 15 to 200-user systems while minimising the administrative and maintenance efforts.
Typical technical customer requirements are pre-configured and all elementary SAPR/3database and network components are pre-installed. Customers receive tool-supported on-line help and troubleshooting which reduces administrative and complicated technical configuration work.
First customer installations have been successfully completed and customer response has been positive. Michael Verner, head of Information Management at WEGU Synthetics Plant in Kassel, Germany, has found his expectations concerning the simplified systems administration greatly surpassed. "The administration (of Oracle`s database and R/3) is very well thought-out," he said.
Both the German metal processing company Johannes Steiner GmbH Co. KG and the renowned textile producer Girmes are first-time users who have been pleased and impressed with the solution. According to each company`s data processing managers, the installations took place quickly and without complications in all instances. They attested to the high suitability of Ready-to-Run R/3on Oracle for everyday purposes.
The Oracle and SAP components have been optimised to work together, and with special configuration files and database procedures, operation of the Oracle database is largely automated. Customers can further take advantage of advanced features such as Oracle Fail Safe the Oracle failover solution for NT clusters, along with Oracle Enterprise Manager for central administration of the database.
According to Gartner Group, Oracle is the 1997 market leader in the R/3marketplace, with 65 percent of the total R/3NT market. With 78.5 percent of the Unix installations for R/3 this gives Oracle an overall market leadership of 75 percent, which is almost eight fold more than the nearest competitor. In addition, Oracle has been the database server market share leader on Windows NT since 1996, according to published reports from Dataquest.
In 1997 Oracle led the market with 41.5 percent share on the NT platform while Microsoft continued to trail with a 38.8 percent share. Overall, the huge growth of Windows NT servers during the last year saw databases make their strongest showings in the NT area, resulting in a 1997 NT sales increase of 91 percent.
"Oracle and SAP have worked together for years, and we have always focused on making systems easier for the customer to use," said John Hall, vice president of Global Alliances at Oracle.
"With this system, customers have an easy growth path, along with Oracle8 `s unbeaten price-performance, best availability, highest reliability, scalability and Ready-to-RunR/3is distributed by SAP` s hardware partners, including Bull, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corp., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NCR and Siemens-Nixdorf, along with SAP` s Certified Solution Providers, or resellers. In addition, Sun has a Unix solution that is based on Ready-to-Run R/3."
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