SAP and Microsoft have released Mendacino, a project that will bring the scope of SAP products to the desktop in a Microsoft Office environment.
Speaking earlier today in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the opening of Sapphire, SAP's annual customer and partner conference, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Group VP of information worker business, explained that Mendacino was jointly designed and developed by Microsoft and SAP, and will be jointly marketed.
"This will extend the reach of SAP products into the hands of information workers," he said. "Four hundred million Office users around the world can now access and understand SAP. This will raise the value of organisational and individual business productivity. Office has been transformed so that you can use everyday business processes to build solutions.'"
In his keynote address at the start of the conference, Henning Kagermann, SAP AG CEO, set the scene for the announcement of Mendacino's release by pointing out that the supply chains of the future won't necessarily span only one enterprise.
"Value chains will be built on service level agreements, not on being a legal entity," he said. "Companies need to be successful more than ever, and they need good, empowered people linked by flexible, end-to-end business processes."
He added that to improve the productivity of people, processes need to be automated and waste needs to be eliminated, and corporate infrastructures need to be managed by exceptions, alerts and resolutions, and be entirely flexible.
Kagermann also stated that by next year, SAP Netweaver will evolve into a business integration platform.
"This will shift the focus to business driven by business," he said. "This will help to educate enterprises that IT is a strategic weapon. At the end, we will deliver enterprise services architecture for big and small companies and deliver it in the right way so that it can be adopted by frontrunners and late adopters."
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