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Wellborn Cabinet, a leading manufacturer of kitchen and batch cabinetry in the United States, has selected SAP Business One for its dealer network. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE ’06.

Stanly Ezzell, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Wellborn Inc., said:

“We have invested in finding the very best possible solution available with a good cost/performance ratio. Our dealers are accepting it because they realize the potential and the support for their growth strategies it is providing. SAP Business One enables integration to provide high-level insight while easily drilling down to the low-level details for decision support services.”

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Last week a lot of news appeared about IBM’s new products IBM Workspace for SAP Software and IBM Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions. It has been said both are of an initiative dubbed “Project Harmony”. I’ve never heard Project Harmony. The question is what “Project Harmony” is.

I know that SAP and IBM have been working for a long time and IBM has an SAP competence center in its each location. It means that IBM even serves SAP consulting to SAP users. When I was working at I-BIMSA, joint-venture of Sabanci Holding and IBM Turkey, we were working with IBM employees closely. You can guess that IBM servers that include MS Windows, IBM AIX or even AS/400; and IBM DB2 database products make IBM works with SAP a lot. SAP –users- is a big customer for IBM. IBM is a big supporter for SAP. Put yourself instead of SAP, you would work with big brothers are Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP, etc. It is obvious that Microsoft and Oracle are kind of competitor of SAP. So you would be eager to work IBM or HP rather than others. Right?

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Jeff Nolan, runs SAP Apollo Group at SAP, pointed out there would be a bloggers corner at SAPPHIRE ‘06 almost one month ago. It is time to see what is going to happen at this corner.

I came across Staying Ahead of the Pack (SAP) by Dennis Howlett today and I found out that Jeff Nolan invited 10 independent enterprise bloggers which do not include me I believe independent bloggers mean that they don’t work for SAP.

• Jason Busch - Spend Matters
• Zoli Erdos - Zoli’s Blog
• Ismael Ghalimi - IT Redux
• Ross Mayfield - Ross Mayfield’s Weblog
• Vinne Mirchandani - Deal Architect
• Parashanth Rai - CIO-Weblog
• Ramana Rao - Information Flow
• Niel Robertson - Parallax
• Charlie Wood - Spanning Partner
• Jason Wood - The Ponderings of Woodrow

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SAPPHIRE ’06 Orlando scheduled for May 16 – 18, 2006 at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida.

I live in Atlanta and it means that I am quite near to Orlando even I can drive through Orlando for about 7 hours. But unfortunately I could not go to SAPPHIRE. I would wish be there but I am in a job of last two weeks. After two weeks I will start a new project search. It is going to be good change for me hopefully.

I have been intending to follow news and sessions online and publish some articles about SAPPHIRE. Especially I am wondering what bloggers write about it. See you!

It seems that a new SAP project starts in Soutco which located in Pennsylvania USA.

Questions came to my mind : Who is going to implement this project? Will SAP provide consulting directly to Southco or another consulting company?

Let me summarize Jeff Moad’s, MA Editorial Staff, article “SAP Bests Oracle at High Profile Mid-Market Account“.

Southco, which makes latches for automotive, high-tech, and other applications, selected the mySAP Business Suite over Oracle’s E-Business Suite following a six-month evaluation process. Southco has launched a two-year project to implement the SAP ERP software across its 15 worldwide plants, beginning with a facility in Sweden. Southco also plans to implement SAP’s CRM and data warehouse products following the ERP rollout.

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Eran Kampf has given the recording of the Duet Launch LiveMeeting was held on May 2nd, 2006 with Jeff Raikes, President Microsoft Business Division, and Shai Agassi, President Product and Technology Group; Executive Board Member in SAP.

Actually I couldn’t watch it all; you try to watch SAP and Microsoft Launch Mendocino - Duet.

Jeff Raikes has summarized the relationship between SAP and Microsoft. I like this kind of historical information, since it gives you to see whole perspective and trends.

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Eran Kampf, a software developer working at SAP Labs Israel as part of Duet team, published his first post of a series about Duet development. –I assume Eran is a gentleman- He said:

My name is Eran Kampf and I’m a software developer working at SAP Labs Israel as part of Duet team here. The group here in Israel is in charge of building SAP platform and tools to support the development of the different applications in Duettm.

Besides posting about .NET development, SAP and other technology matters I’ll try to post (and maybe get some of my coworkers to guest post) information regarding Duettm development.

The first post is “Duet behind the Scenes”. He is explaining the Duet architecture (drawn by an unknown artist). Look at this!

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Twelve months after first unveiling plans to create “Project Mendocino” — a joint product that enables people to interact quickly and easily with SAP business processes and data through Microsoft® Office applications — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Microsoft Corp. today announced that the two companies are scheduled to ship the product on time in June, 2006. The product is officially named Duet software for Microsoft Office and SAP.

According to dictionary.com Duet is

n.

1. Music.

a. A composition for two voices or two instruments.
b. A group of two singers or two instrumentalists.

2. A pair.

Two voices SAP and Microsoft produced their first product Duet. They will also market and sell Duet jointly. To do so they launched a new website for their pretty product: duet.com.

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Do you know that there is a song for SAP employees? I like it! It is really amazing! Morsekode made this rap song: “The ERP of This Century”. I came across John Pollar’s “The Power of Viral Marketing (or at least the power it had on SAP)” article and commented his article. Even he sent me a kindly thanks e-mail for my comment.

You can find Morsekode’s press link here: Morsekode Inducted into 2006 MarketingSherpa Hall of Fame.

John Pollard who Morsekode client strategist and composer of the song, says:

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