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From the SelectedWorks of Yogendra Sisodia
February 2010
Oracle Peoplesof Takeover
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Oracle’s Takeover of Peoplesoft
Yogendra Sisodia
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Snapshot
• On December 13, 2004, PeopleSoft (Secondlargest ERP maker) succumbed to a $10.3billion bid from Oracle.
• The announcement followed a tender offer inwhich more than 97% PeopleSoftshareholders tendered their stock.
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Post-merger, Oracle emerged as the secondlargest manufacturer of Business ApplicationSoftware in the world, next to SAP.
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Introduction
• June 6, 2003 when Oracle first made a hostileattempt to acquire PeopleSoft.
• In July 2003, PeopleSoft acquired JD Edwards.
DISCUSSION
• Oracle’s acquisition of PeopleSoft materializedafter 18 months of struggle.
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Oracle products
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Peoplesoft products
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ERP & Related Product Lines
• Financial Accounting
Regulatory ‘books of record’
• Controlling
Internal cost/management accounting
• Asset ManagementTracking, valuing assets
• Human Resources
Payroll Management
• Quality ManagementPlanning, Execution, Inspections & Certificates
(Key Players - SAP, Oracle, The Sage Group, Microsoft Dynamics)
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ERP Explained
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Oracle’s Strategy
Oracle to replace IBM DB2,MS SQL Server, SAP maxDB and others.
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Views of Parties involved
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Analyst’s Rationale Behind the
Acquisition
• The acquisition would enable Oracle to capture theEnterprise Application software business, used by largecompanies
• Oracle is a newer entrant, but the organization hasinvested heavily in R&D.
• PeopleSoft would provide Oracle’s customers with aone-stop global shop for databases, applications andother technologies.
• The acquisition would represent a horizontal merger inthe ERP industry and would have created a legitimaterival to SAP, the market leader.
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Oracle’s View
• Product integration using Oracle RDBMS.
• Procurement of innovations (PeopleSoft’s
knowledge system which will result in the
design of Enterprise software)
• Challenging market leader SAP for No 1.
position.
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Oracle’s View
• Oracle had the largestapplication customer base inNorth America, and after the
acquisition, its combinedapplication would be in opensource Java.
• In contrast, SAP application
was based on a proprietarylanguage - ABAP, and aproprietary set of applications.
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Peoplesoft Management’s View
Upon hearing of the offer Conway started to fight the takeover in
a number of ways including:
• The adoption of a poison pill provision in the articles,
accelerating board member re-elections.
• Lobbying customers to write to the DOJ and complain of
antitrust concerns. The DOJ and EC antitrust groups have
both filed suit blocking the acquisition from going forward.
• Accelerating the re-election of the board to deny Oracle
sufficient time to lobby the shareholders.
• Adopting an aggressive 200-500% license fee rebate if
PeopleSoft were to discontinue support(Customer Assurance
program).
C di i b M
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Contradiction between Management
and Shareholders
• The management also installed a legal action
“Customer Assurance program” (CAP) to protect
PeopleSoft’s product lines from being terminated.
• The shareholders believed that CAP would reduceshare price gains as a result of the takeover bid.
• PeopleSoft made attempts to convince its
shareholders that the value offered by Oracle wasless than the real value.
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Customers Concerns
• Oracle wanted to target PeopleSoft’scustomers who were using databases of IBMand Microsoft and sell them its own database
products.• They believed that the takeover would result
in reduced support, and finally migration intoOracle’s platform.
• Oracle can discontinue PeopleSoft and JDEdwards abruptly.
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Fragmented Systems
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Integration & Workflow
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Integration & Orchestration (Fusion
Middleware)
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Gartner – Integration Leader (2005)
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Legal Issues
• Against Oracle - Customers not liked being
forced into an upgrade and enlisted the DOJ to
block the Oracle offer on grounds that it
would be anti-competitive.
• Against Peoplesoft - A group of shareholders
filed a lawsuit accusing the management of
intransigence and acting against the interestof the shareholders by offering CAP.
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Pre Merger Oracle
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Pre Merger Peoplesoft
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Pre Merger Price Movement
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Shareholding Pattern of Peoplesoft
• Individual investors held about 20% of the
PeopleSoft’s Stocks.
• PeopleSoft investors held 10%
• Institutional investors held the remaining 70%.
(California Employees’ Retirement System,
Capital Guardian Trust company)
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Final Bid
• A majority of PeopleSoft shareholders metOracle's deadline and agreed to tender theirshares (97% shares tendered).
• Dec. 13 2004: PeopleSoft relents and acceptsOracle's sweetened offer.
• Total amount of $10.3 billion
• $26.50 per share.
•
Premier Support , Extended Support andSustaining Support
• Oracle E-Business Suite
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SAP’s Response
• The result of the hostile resistance of
PeopleSoft meant that these two defocused
companies spent 18 months fighting not the
good fight about technology direction andapplications excellence but a down-and-dirty
legal and public relations battle.
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Post Merger Performance (SAP v/s
Oracle)
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Current Scenario (SAP v/s Oracle)
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Lessons Learned
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Lessons Learned
• By stating that Oracle would discontinue PeopleSoftERP products, it was also implying that most of theemployees would have less job security.
• Customers don’t want to hear that they will be forced
to change systems.
• From the shareholders point of view, anothertroublesome area is the 42.5m that PeopleSoft hadspent on legal fees.
• The legal battle currently cost over 8c/share eatinginto profits and contributing to the downward slide ofshare prices of Peoplesoft.
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