Google to scrap Oracle systems for SAP - reports

Tech giant to move core financial systems to SAP in May

Google's parent Alphabet is planning to scrap the use of Oracle's financial software across its business in favour of SAP.

Alphabet will move over all of its core financial systems to SAP software this May, according to CNBC.

CNBC claims that the decision does not seem to be linked to a decade-long lawsuit between the two tech giants that came to a conclusion yesterday, with the Supreme Court ruling that Java code used in Google's Android operating system was copied over fairly.

The Supreme Court decision overturned a lower court's ruling that Google had infringed copywright.

Competition between Google and Oracle has been heating up recently as both vendors compete in the public cloud space, CNBC suggests, following suit with Amazon which also ditched Oracle several years ago in favour of its own cloud services.

The switch from Google comes amid a long and bitter history between Oracle and SAP.

Oracle chairman Larry Ellison recently trashed SAP as a competitor during its Q3 investor earnings call by listing 100 customers that had apparently moved their ERP systems from SAP to Oracle.

Oracle grew revenues by three per cent in Q3 to $10.1bn, with its cloud services and licence support business up by five per cent to $7.3bn. Cloud and on-premise licence sales grew by four per cent to $1.3bn.