The largest partners of Oracle and SAP in Europe

According to two researches published by Gartner in January, 2012, the largest and strongest service provider Oracle in Europe is the Accenture company. The same company is called the leader in the European market of SAP consulting.

Analysts Gartner distributed the largest European partners of Oracle and SAP on four categories within the traditional research Magic Quadrant. During the research the largest were selected European * the players rendering services in consulting, implementation and support of all line of Oracle applications (Oracle Fusion Applications Oracle E-Business Suite PeopleSoft Siebel JD Edwards and other systems) and a complete line of SAP solutions.

Partners of Oracle

Magic square for Oracle service providers in Europe

Source: Gartner, December, 2011

In this Gartner market carried such companies as Accenture, Capgemini, IBM, Infosys to number of leaders. According to analysts, they have the clearest market strategy and strengthen competence for deduction of leader positions in the market.

To number of chellendzher, i.e. applicant players who have good premises to become leaders in the future, Atos, CSC, HP, Logica and TCS are carried. The visionary calls the only company - Wipro. Fujitsu is carried to number of niche players.

Market development is based generally around solution of the problem of costs, the study says. On average implementation projects in Europe last about three years, is more rare – up to 5 years. Before crisis more long-term projects prevailed at the same time. Buyers of Oracle even more often demand during projects of achievement of certain business results though in practice dynamics of operating expenses remains the main criterion of efficiency still.

During the research Gartner noted also a set of positive trends in the European market of consulting and support of Oracle. So, the annual average growth of business of partners who participated in a research is 10%.

About 40% of world turnovers of global participants of a research are the share of the European business. 55% of this revenue are the share of projects, 30% - of long-term contracts. The largest regional markets are Great Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. The greatest profit is made at the same time by service in such vertical industries as bank, financial services and insurance, production, the public sector and communications.

Partners of SAP

Magic square for SAP service providers in Europe

Source: Gartner, December, 2011

As for the market of consulting and implementations on the SAP platform, here in leaders there were also Accenture and IBM, Capgemini, Logica and Siemens IT Solutions. T-Systems, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, CSC, Atos Origin, HP are called applicants (chellendzher) for leadership. By niche players of Gartner considered Ciber, Mahindra Satyam and Fujitsu, and visionaries of Wipro and HCL Axon.

Characteristic of the market

By Gartner estimates, the market of professional services in Europe for the end of 2011 made of $215.4 billion. Despite economic problems, the market showed a small gain. It includes all markets of professional service, including service of applications, infrastructure and networks. 41% of the European market of integration services are the share of applications at the same time.

After SAP Oracle applications are the second in number of implementations in Europe. So most system integrators anyway invest in development of competence of Oracle. For some companies the business connected with Oracle many times is less than business of SAP. Some service providers in Europe, on the contrary, are engaged in support only of the systems of Oracle. Anyway, the choice of Oracle service provider is much more limited in comparison with SAP, analysts of Gartner note.

• Europe:

The following countries treat the region Europe in terminology of Gartner: Austria, Albania, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia. Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and Great Britain.