Software rivals pen deal
business intelligence (BI) software, but they are cooperating to help customers move that intelligence to the cloud, reports The Wall Street Journal.
SAP says it will allow application developers to write applications for SAP software using Microsoft's '.NET' development tools.
Until now, Microsoft developers had to translate applications into Java, a programming format owned by Oracle, or into SAP's own development language if they wanted to access SAP software.
The change is aimed at making data inside SAP accounting and management software available for use in a wider variety of collaboration software, cloud-computing applications and mobile devices.
As businesses become more mobile, they want their data to become mobile as well. The market for such performance solutions is projected to reach $3.2 billion by 2012, according to Forrester Research, and both Microsoft and SAP are scrambling to capture a share of the business.
According to IT News, Ted Kummert senior VP, business platform division, Microsoft said: “Microsoft and SAP also plan to provide integration between SAP's landscape management software, Microsoft System Centre and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V technology, bringing greater agility to cloud management and deployments.”
According to ZDNet, there is no timetable as to when SAP and Microsoft plan to deliver any of this private or public cloud management/integration.
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