Thursday, March 15, 2007
Microsoft creates 'Duet' for Dynamics | InfoWorld | News | 2007-03-12 | By China Martens, IDG News Service
Microsoft creates 'Duet' for Dynamics InfoWorld News 2007-03-12 By China Martens, IDG News Service: "Microsoft and SAP released the first version of Duet in June 2006. The integration software enables users to access data and processes from SAP's mySAP ERP applications via Microsoft's Office suite. It includes integration capabilities for different business scenarios such as time, leave and organization management.
Back in January, Dennis Moore, SAP's general manager of emerging solutions, said his company and Microsoft were on track to ship Duet 1.5 later this year along with development tools so that third parties will be able to customize and build on top of the Duet-enabled scenarios.
Rival ERP vendor Oracle claims it's had tight integration in place between its applications and Microsoft's Office for some time.
'Duet? We did all that five years ago,' John Wookey, senior vice president of applications at Oracle, said in a recent interview. 'PeopleSoft, Oracle and Siebel did it and we don't charge extra for it,' he added, describing Duet as 'the most uninspiring thing I've seen in the software industry.' "
Back in January, Dennis Moore, SAP's general manager of emerging solutions, said his company and Microsoft were on track to ship Duet 1.5 later this year along with development tools so that third parties will be able to customize and build on top of the Duet-enabled scenarios.
Rival ERP vendor Oracle claims it's had tight integration in place between its applications and Microsoft's Office for some time.
'Duet? We did all that five years ago,' John Wookey, senior vice president of applications at Oracle, said in a recent interview. 'PeopleSoft, Oracle and Siebel did it and we don't charge extra for it,' he added, describing Duet as 'the most uninspiring thing I've seen in the software industry.' "
