Above blog reports on the SAP Influencer Summit held last week in Boston. At this summit, the mid-term future directions of SAP as IT and solutions company where presented to the audience of 275 analysts and IT influencers.
Noticable in the context of SAP / Microsoft interoperability are the following observations:
- Silverlight was formally named as the user interface surface of choice over Adobe’s Flex, and Sharepoint & Office interoperability is clearly seen as the path forward over that horizon. The dev environment is similarly on the .net side of the ocean.
- Excel and Crystal Reports (and SAP’s Xcelsius) are similarly foundational components to analytics reporting and dashboarding.
Makes me wonder: is SAP finally making a renewed stand on the integration and interoperability of the SAP and Microsoft platforms + products? The fact that noise and attention from SAP on the recently by Microsoft announced DUET Enterprise is yet effectively non-present, is at least confusing with the messages made at the summit. I guess we'll still have to wait and see whether and in which direction(s) the 2 companies will interoperate and partner.
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