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At the recent SAP user conference in Sydney, Geraldine McBride, SAP Australia and New Zealand CEO and managing director, gave the audience an overview of the companies enterprise SOA efforts and unveiled Duet, its jointly developed software with Microsoft.
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"Henning Kagermann [SAP chief executive] talking about flexibility and adaptability is like [former French prime minister] Francois Mitterand talking about having a deep affection for American tourists. It's not true. Just because they say it's true doesn't make it true."
A recent thread of conversation across a couple of 2.0 blogs has been the subject of whether Web 2.0 is suited not only for implementation inside a corporate firewall, but by companies with a view to improving their relations with their customers.
Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.
The emergence of on-demand is apparently not the death knell for traditional licensing agreements.
PeopleSoft casts aspersions on the flexibility and adaptability of its competitor, SAP. The bombastic rhetoric is a side show, however. The issue for enterprises is which vendor can provide the most reliable, cost-effective solutions.
Financial organisations are slowly embracing the notion of unified communications, but significant organisational hurdles remain
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