Harmony for IBM and SAP, Duet for Microsoft and SAP
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
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?
