SAP and Microsoft introduce Duet software, bringing together the worlds of productivity and enterprise applications.
The Microsoft spokesperson in the press release explains what the product is:
“Duet is a business mashup of Microsoft Office applications with SAP enterprise information and processes that can improve the quality and speed of decision making and workforce productivity. With Duet, SAP will be easier to access and more relevant for many more users who spend their workdays in the ‘Microsoft’ Office.”
This is a prime opportunity for SAP to extend its reach beyond R/3 users and the targeted segment of people that touch ERP systems. Everything happens in Excel and Outlook anyway. What's in it for Microsoft? It gets to maintain itself in the frontline, owning the business user...AND it gets to build on integration with enterprise applications which it can then leverage for its own apps products later.
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