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SAP and Microsoft Relationship

SAP - Microsoft RelationshipEran 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.

A Growing Relationship

  • April 93 Agreement between Bill Gates and Hasso Plattner
  • April 94 First R/3 Release on Windows NT
  • July 95 Microsoft selects SAP for finance implementations
  • Aug 95 MS SQL Server Support
  • Jan 97 MS Exchange integration with R/3 3.1
  • Oct 97 DCOM Component Connector availability
  • Oct 99 / Feb 00 Microsoft and SAP partner for mySAP.com and Windows 2000 launch
  • Mar 00 mySAP.com solutions on PocketPC
  • Nov 01 Microsoft uses mySAP SCM to manufacture the Xbox
  • Apr 03 Windows Server 2003 support
  • May 04 SAP NetWeaer and .NET interoperability
  • Apr 05 SAP and Microsoft announce joint Mendecino product

Maybe you may not know that but as you see that Microsoft is one of SAP users. I think Microsoft uses SAP for all ERP and enterprise needs. It is interesting that Microsoft did not choose Oracle Applications. The question is what the situation of Oracle in 1995, when Microsoft chose SAP. I guess Microsoft is going to be one of the first users of Duet.

Additional Resources from microsoft-sap.com:
Keynote SAPPHIRE 05: Steve Ballmer on Mendecion
Keynote from SAPPHIRE 04 featuring Henning Kagermann and Bill Gates
Learn about next decade of partnership between SAP and Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft .NET and SAP NetWeaver

Look at SAP Global Alliance Technology Team Blog for latest technical news about SAP and Microsoft relationship.

PS: This is irony that when I was just posting this entry about Microsoft; only a few milliseconds ago before to push publish button in Wordpress , Microsoft XP restarted itself. I thought I lost my all data, because I didn’t save the article locally. After restarting I saw all open windows gone, and a message which says “The system has recovered from a serious error.” What did you do Microsoft? It is one of the terrible things happened to me I / you lost my data, even I was trying to write something about you Microsoft! I know I know I must have saved the file, but I just was working on it for several minutes. Do I have to do everything all over again? I opened MS Word and luckily MS Word says “Word has recovered the following files. Save the ones wish to keep.”. Thank you Microsoft, you did a great job! :) Let me save this Word file before to post in Wordpress. I don’t want the same thing would happen again!

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2 Responses to “SAP and Microsoft Relationship”

  1. ajay Says:
    August 7th, 2006 at 12:30 am

    Why is microsoft going with SAP i cant understand. SAP products are like 100 kg of cell phone.

  2. Tuncay Karaca Says:
    August 7th, 2006 at 11:41 am

    Ajay,

    Microsoft is working with SAP to serve the customers, because SAP is the leader on its own area. Working with SAP for Microsoft means getting more customers, increasing market share, and so on. The same thing also for SAP.

    Microsoft is the competitor of SAP in recent years with its Dynamics ERP products, but in only SMB markets. Microsoft can’t compete with SAP in Enterprise markets yet. Maybe Microsoft’s goal is to be a big competitor in Enterprise Market like Oracle, but not yet.

    The question is: Why does the #1 software makers use SAP?

    Microsoft is the #1 software maker in all over the world. It has very big business operations and business. They had to use a software to manage their those operations. Since they are #1 software makers, should they have produced their own software internally for this purpose. Maybe. But is is not a good strategy. So Microsoft chose SAP to manage their internal operations in 1995. They could choose Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and even Baan in 1995. But they did not choose other. They chose the SAP, because SAP is the #1 software makers on Enterprise Applications. I think SAP also uses lots of Microsoft products internally.

    Look at this article: SAP Announces Implementation of SAP’s Human Resources Solution. They explained why they chose SAP.

    Microsoft originally selected R/3 in 1995 to support its worldwide financial and procurement operations. The ability of R/3’s client/server architecture to run on Microsoft technology, as well as the breadth of its global business functionality, led to Microsoft’s decision. Because of the integration with financial data, extending the system to include employee data provides additional business value as well as a base from which to continue functional expansion, such as activity-tracking related to costs.

    With the successful implementation of R/3 for its financial and procurement operations, Microsoft has a stable system infrastructure to build on. Worldwide users connect to the central R/3 database running on Microsoft SQL Server 6.5. This central database is located on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. Remote sites communicate with the system in Redmond using Microsoft’s worldwide wide area network. The current R/3 System supports 2,000 users - 400 concurrent - and has simplified the worldwide financial systems considerably.

    The benefits of implementing an enterprise solution with R/3 for Microsoft’s human resources business are significant. The human resource implementation replaces a dozen HR systems and 18 separate personnel tracking databases around the world. It centralizes support while providing a localized solution for each site. Microsoft continues to assess other functional areas of the business that could fit into its SAP solution.

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