Wednesday, July 26, 2006
SAP sings Duet with Microsoft, but is it worth the hype?
SAP sings Duet with Microsoft, but is it worth the hype?: "SAP today announced its first new Duet customer. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC), operator of a 532-mile-long toll highway system with $580 million annual toll revenues and 2,300 employees, will deploy Duet. The PTC is a joint Microsoft-SAP customer. Duet connects SAP back-end systems with Microsoft front-end Office products, such as Outlook, and can be purchased from either SAP or Microsoft. But the software comes with some notable pre-requisites. Companies using Duet need to be running mySAP ERP 2005, NetWeaver, and Microsoft Exchange Server and Windows Server 2003. Fail to have any of those requirements and SAP's Kevin Fliess said 'it's a pretty long runway to get to Duet.' In this interview with SearchSAP.com, Fliess, SAP's vice president of product marketing for emerging solutions, speaks frankly about Duet, its benefits and challenges moving forward."
