SAP's and Microsoft's Duet glue

21.08.2006
SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. www.duet.com

Product: Duet

Key developers: Dennis Moore, Udo Waibel and Nir Kol

Companies spend billions of dollars creating enterprise portals and integrating applications. With Duet for Microsoft Office and SAP software, some of that customization is no longer needed. Duet lets users access SAP applications from within an Office environment.

"It provides off-the- shelf integration between productivity/office suite tools and CRM and ERP enterprise applications, which obviates the need for custom integration by IT," says Mark Levitt, an analyst at IDC.

Formerly called Mendocino, Duet is a collaboration between Microsoft Corp.and SAP AG. According to Dennis Moore, executive vice president and general manager of emerging solutions at SAP, customers of both companies had been requesting better interoperability between the vendors' product lines.