Comments on: Duet is Nice but Duos are Better http://itredux.com/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/ New Rules for a New IT World Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:35:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: IT|Redux http://itredux.com/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/comment-page-1/#comment-35839 IT|Redux Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:50:22 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/#comment-35839 [...] Last but not least, Office 2.0 applications, because they were designed for the Web from the get go, tend to be easier to integrate with back office systems than their 1.0 counterparts—the Duet team at SAP might disagree, but we’ll leave this to another post. And when it comes to building new business processes on top of existing IT systems, getting the right end-user interface is at least as critical as getting the back-end connectivity to work. [...] […] Last but not least, Office 2.0 applications, because they were designed for the Web from the get go, tend to be easier to integrate with back office systems than their 1.0 counterparts—the Duet team at SAP might disagree, but we’ll leave this to another post. And when it comes to building new business processes on top of existing IT systems, getting the right end-user interface is at least as critical as getting the back-end connectivity to work. […]

]]> By: IT|Redux http://itredux.com/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/comment-page-1/#comment-13497 IT|Redux Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:50:40 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/#comment-13497 [...] Back then, I wrote about SAP’s Business Process Platform, explained why SAP should Open Source NetWeaver, and advocated for duos in complement to Duet. Today, through Shai Agassi’s keynote and a couple of executive briefings, I got a nice update on what SAP is up to these days. Before getting into details, all I can say is that it’s not your father’s SAP anymore. The market for enterprise software is undergoing one of the major transformations it’s going through every ten years or so, and SAP is embracing these changes better than many other vendors I could think of. Here is what SAP is getting right, and here is where it could do an even better job. [...] […] Back then, I wrote about SAP’s Business Process Platform, explained why SAP should Open Source NetWeaver, and advocated for duos in complement to Duet. Today, through Shai Agassi’s keynote and a couple of executive briefings, I got a nice update on what SAP is up to these days. Before getting into details, all I can say is that it’s not your father’s SAP anymore. The market for enterprise software is undergoing one of the major transformations it’s going through every ten years or so, and SAP is embracing these changes better than many other vendors I could think of. Here is what SAP is getting right, and here is where it could do an even better job. […]

]]> By: IT|Redux http://itredux.com/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/comment-page-1/#comment-8098 IT|Redux Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:41:01 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/#comment-8098 [...] Second, I would like to see how SAP plans to integrate some Office 2.0 technologies within its offering. As said before, Duet is nice but duos are better. Zoho has been invited to participate in the Web 2.0 in the Enterprise think-tank session organized by SAP, and I am very curious to learn more about SAP’s plan in this area, especially following Edwin’s comments to this post. [...] […] Second, I would like to see how SAP plans to integrate some Office 2.0 technologies within its offering. As said before, Duet is nice but duos are better. Zoho has been invited to participate in the Web 2.0 in the Enterprise think-tank session organized by SAP, and I am very curious to learn more about SAP’s plan in this area, especially following Edwin’s comments to this post. […]

]]> By: Sangeeta Patni http://itredux.com/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/comment-page-1/#comment-2632 Sangeeta Patni Fri, 26 May 2006 04:46:24 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/#comment-2632 SAP and Microsoft think that the lure of Duet would make customers upgrade. Time will tell! Cost of upgrades are non-trivial, and I seriously doubt that customers would shift their upgrade cycles and budgets for Duet. Providing legacy support to SAP and Office would be critical, I think, in Duet adoption. Customers would rather go with folks with us, who not only provide legacy MS Office and SAP, but also provide extensibility by building it in top of SOA based middleware, that enables users to connect to lot more data sources other than SAP. - Sangeeta Patni, Extensio Software www.extensio.com SAP and Microsoft think that the lure of Duet would make customers upgrade. Time will tell! Cost of upgrades are non-trivial, and I seriously doubt that customers would shift their upgrade cycles and budgets for Duet.

Providing legacy support to SAP and Office would be critical, I think, in Duet adoption. Customers would rather go with folks with us, who not only provide legacy MS Office and SAP, but also provide extensibility by building it in top of SOA based middleware, that enables users to connect to lot more data sources other than SAP.

- Sangeeta Patni,
Extensio Software
 http://www.extensio.com

]]> By: Dennis D. McDonald http://itredux.com/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/comment-page-1/#comment-2523 Dennis D. McDonald Tue, 23 May 2006 18:59:47 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/#comment-2523 Socialtext's Ross Mayfield also wrote about SAPPHIRE, which I review <a href="http://www.ddmcd.com/mayfield.html">here</a>. I think my concluding paragraph fits in well with what you're saying here, Ismael, about mySAP Business Suite 2005 and Microsoft Office 2007. Socialtext’s Ross Mayfield also wrote about SAPPHIRE, which I review here. I think my concluding paragraph fits in well with what you’re saying here, Ismael, about mySAP Business Suite 2005 and Microsoft Office 2007.

]]> By: Zoli's Blog http://itredux.com/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/comment-page-1/#comment-2466 Zoli's Blog Tue, 23 May 2006 00:17:37 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/05/19/duet-is-nice-but-duos-are-better/#comment-2466 <strong>SAP Without SAP - Duet...</strong> More than a decade ago as Project Manager implementing SAP solutions I could not understand why the Client's PM showed absolutely no interest in getting SAP-trained, or even attempting to log on to the SAP system.  The only software product he... SAP Without SAP - Duet…

More than a decade ago as Project Manager implementing SAP solutions I could not understand why the Client’s PM showed absolutely no interest in getting SAP-trained, or even attempting to log on to the SAP system.  The only software product he…

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