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CIO: Beware Blind Love of Oracle Fusion

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“Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM apps might not be "top of mind" for all IT folks attending OpenWorld. But there is one indisputable fact about Microsoft's app lineup that Oracle can't claim right now with Fusion Apps: Live products customers are actually using.”

Microsoft to Customers: Beware Blind Love of Oracle Fusion: On the eve of Oracle OpenWorld, a Microsoft exec offers a bit of trash talk on Oracle's Fusion Apps and future ERP strategies. Is it bad of me to enjoy this?  :O)

And from Michael Parks spiel: If I were attending OpenWorld, and hoping to learn more about Fusion Applications, here are a few questions that would be top-of-mind for me. 

  • What are Fusion Applications going to do for me? Is Oracle offering me more of the same or something innovative and different to help address my business challenges?
  • What happens to the investments I have made in my technology assets [e.g. home-grown solutions, custom ISV solutions, etc.] if they’re not Oracle?
  • Will Oracle support any retraining I will need as we undertake a replatforming project to Fusion Applications? Will it distract from the everyday running of my business?
  • Is adopting Fusion Applications a choice, a mandate, is it designed to keep me on the cutting edge, or is Fusion really a way for Oracle to integrate their own application portfolio?
  • If I prefer a two-tier ERP implementation strategy, will Fusion Applications provide my divisions/subsidiaries/branches with the flexibility they need, while I’m replatforming my core system?

Have a great weekend peeps!