SAP Remains Vital Amid Ailing Market And Internal Adjustments
Part 2: Continued Analysis and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic - February 26, 2002

Market Impact (continued)

<font color="#336699">This continues a discussion of recent announcements from SAP, including Financials.<br> For the <b>Announcements</b> see <a href="/Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/02/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_02_25_02_1.asp" target="_blank"><b>Part One</b></a>.</font><br>&nbsp; <br> Today, companies are striving to shore up the existing technology and applications inside their organizations first, and only then to extend them outward to trading partners. SAP seems to be positioned well to achieve this. SAP has been pursing the right avenues to technologically prop up its product. Its recently unveiled Internet-based product architecture roadmap that includes Web services, portals, exchanges and Web Application Server (WAS), bundled with its knowledge of business processes bodes well to promoting it into one of the few vendors able to provide an applications infrastructure foundation...