In the end, SAP did come back with a counteroffer that was a very close, competitive counter, but we [had] already made our decision. They were not as competitive as they could have been in the initial rounds. |
It was a consensus vote from the selection team, and that selection team looked at functionality, ease of implementation and flexibility -- in addition to TCO. While functionality was very close between the two products, ease of implementation and flexibility was won fairly-handedly by Oracle. |
We certainly had an infrastructure with a lot of spaghetti code keeping it together, and now we have a desire for one fully integrated enterprise. |