Wednesday, May 03, 2006
SAP aims Duet at largest customers, beta tester sees benefits
SAP aims Duet at largest customers, beta tester sees benefits: "Analysts have balked at the early version of Duet, citing the need for greater functionality beyond employee and manager tasks. But Agassi and Raikes said the goal of Duet was to link everyday SAP tasks with the Microsoft Office environment familiar to end users.
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'People are feeling a sense of information overload, and in some cases this leads to information underload,' Raikes said. 'SAP's leadership in the enterprise space is the thing we focused on jointly; in addition, we are each approaching how Office fits into the rest of our product lines.'
Early functionality in Duet has been 'quite thin,' said Paul Hamerman, vice president of enterprise applications at Forrester Research Inc. 'This announcement is more about revealing a strategy or roadmap moving forward.'"
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'People are feeling a sense of information overload, and in some cases this leads to information underload,' Raikes said. 'SAP's leadership in the enterprise space is the thing we focused on jointly; in addition, we are each approaching how Office fits into the rest of our product lines.'
Early functionality in Duet has been 'quite thin,' said Paul Hamerman, vice president of enterprise applications at Forrester Research Inc. 'This announcement is more about revealing a strategy or roadmap moving forward.'"
