SAP and Microsoft Relationship

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Eran Kampf has given the recording of the Duet Launch LiveMeeting was held on May 2nd, 2006 with Jeff Raikes, President Microsoft Business Division, and Shai Agassi, President Product and Technology Group; Executive Board Member in SAP.

Actually I couldn’t watch it all; you try to watch SAP and Microsoft Launch Mendocino - Duet.

Jeff Raikes has summarized the relationship between SAP and Microsoft. I like this kind of historical information, since it gives you to see whole perspective and trends.

A Growing Relationship

• April 93 Agreement between Bill Gates and Hasso Plattner
• April 94 First R/3 Release on Windows NT
• July 95 Microsoft selects SAP for finance implementations
• Aug 95 MS SQL Server Support
• Jan 97 MS Exchange integration with R/3 3.1
• Oct 97 DCOM Component Connector availability
• Oct 99 / Feb 00 Microsoft and SAP partner for mySAP.com and Windows 2000 launch
• Mar 00 mySAP.com solutions on PocketPC
• Nov 01 Microsoft uses mySAP SCM to manufacture the Xbox
• Apr 03 Windows Server 2003 support
• May 04 SAP NetWeaer and .NET interoperability
• Apr 05 SAP and Microsoft announce joint Mendecino product

Maybe you may not know that but as you see that Microsoft is one of SAP users. I think Microsoft uses SAP for all ERP and enterprise needs. It is interesting that Microsoft did not choose Oracle Applications. The question is what the situation of Oracle in 1995, when Microsoft chose SAP. I guess Microsoft is going to be one of the first users of Duet.

Additional Resources from microsoft-sap.com:
Keynote SAPPHIRE 05: Steve Ballmer on Mendecion
Keynote from SAPPHIRE 04 featuring Henning Kagermann and Bill Gates
Learn about next decade of partnership between SAP and Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft .NET and SAP NetWeaver

Look at SAP Global Alliance Technology Team Blog for latest technical news about SAP and Microsoft relationship.

PS: This is irony that when I was just posting this entry about Microsoft; only a few milliseconds ago before to push publish button in Wordpress , Microsoft XP restarted itself. I thought I lost my all data, because I didn’t save the article locally. After restarting I saw all open windows gone, and a message which says “The system has recovered from a serious error.” What did you do Microsoft? It is one of the terrible things happened to me I / you lost my data, even I was trying to write something about you Microsoft! I know I know I must have saved the file, but I just was working on it for several minutes. Do I have to do everything all over again? I opened MS Word and luckily MS Word says “Word has recovered the following files. Save the ones wish to keep.”. Thank you Microsoft, you did a great job! :smile: Let me save this Word file before to post in Wordpress. I don’t want the same thing would happen again!