Aberdeen Group:Acquisition-Mania Generates More Questions than Answers

Aberdeen Group:Acquisition-Mania Generates More Questions than Answers

A recent flurry of acquisitions has the top two ERP vendors locked in a battle for market share. Not satisfied with what has become the "run of the mill" acquisition of competitive ERP players and complementary applications, both SAP and Oracle have upped the ante and ventured outside the realm of the conventional acquisition. On October 7, 2007 SAP announced its planned acquisition of Business Objects, a leading supplier of Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions. Not to be out-done, Oracle followed five days later with its own move to acquire BEA Systems, a market leader in enterprise infrastructure software. And now, on October 17, 2007 SAP counters with yet another announcement that it will acquire YASU Technologies, a privately held provider of business rules management systems.