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Atlantic as an answer to Duet

SAP and IBM announced yesterday a new product codenamed Atlantic. In this world of coopetition Atlantic appears as an answer to Duet, previous software developed between SAP and Microsoft. Both software have the same goal: to create an easy connection between desktop environment and corporate databases to access from the desktop to processes, reporting and analytics. Duet is for Microsoft Exchange and Atlantic will be for Lotus Notes. It’s amazing to realize that despite to the large common customer base between SAP and Microsoft, they didn’t yet propose a collaboration tool developed together. Perhaps SAP was more “Microsoft oriented” during the last years… And perhaps an increased competition on ERP for small and medium companies between SAP and Microsoft has changed the game… Anyway you can remember that SAP has been founded by people coming from SAP… it was more that a couple of decade ago… It could be enough to re-launch some rumors between SAP and IBM!

  Posted by pnieuwbourg on January 21, 2008 11:54 PM |

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