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(XML + mySAP.com) Spin = Status Quo

by A. Turner ... XML will continue to evolve. Tapping SAP's resources may provide users a worthwhile library for XML/SAP related connectivity solutions. http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2000/05/news_analysis/NA_EC_ADT_05_16_00_1.asp - 10k - 2000-05-16 Summary: SAP announced its involvement in XML-based Internet content standards initiatives, detailing its involvement with standards committees, acceptance of XML, integration with their products, the creation of an XML interface repository and a partner certification program. What does it amount to?

SAP's New Level of e-Commerce: mySAP.com

by A. Turner ... Customers are linked to customers using sell-side solutions based on mySAP.com and other vendors leveraging the XML-based SAP Business Connector. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2000/01/news_analysis/NA_EC_ADT_01_07_00_2.asp - 7k - 2000-01-07 Summary: SAP adds functionality to its role-based workplace portals.

SAP Becoming a (Legal) Polygamist

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Common Business Library (xCBL), an industry-standard set of XML building blocks ... the companies will extend xCBL to incorporate the SAP Business Application ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/07/news_analysis/NA_BA_PJ_07_21_00_1.asp - 11k - 2000-07-21 Summary: SAPMarkets, the US dot-com spin-off of German ERP leader SAP AG, is partnering with Commerce One to build and sell software for online trading exchanges. This announcement comes only a month after its partnership with Nortel Networks for CRM product offering. SAP, owing to this alliance, has a chance to

'Collaborative Commerce': ERP, CRM, e-Proc, and SCM Unite! A ...

by Randy Garland ... Beneath the covers, the systems would be linked at the application layer through XML, SAP's own Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPI's), XML ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Crm/2001/09/research_notes/TN_CR_RGG_09_22_01_1.asp - 26k - 2001-09-22 Summary: SAP AG has seemingly crossed a strategy chasm, from a strict, stodgy, Not-Invented-Here (NIH) approach to software development and delivery, to a seemingly quite open approach of broad development alliances, company acquisitions, Internet portals development, and a deep, new relationship with IBM for bot

SAP Opens The Miss Congeniality Contest

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... technology, but the provision of XML interfaces and publishing applications as Web services should ease the integration effort for SAP customers notwithstanding ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2001/12/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_12_04_01_1.asp - 20k - 2001-12-04 Summary: While SAP s determination to become enterprise applications Web Esperanto evangelist is of paramount importance to its customers and for the general market direction, one should by no means expect short-term tectonic moves.

SoftBrands to Institute Fourth Shift for SAP Business One ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... leading manufacturing software product Fourth Shift with SAP Business One. ... and for inputting data using extensible markup language (XML) messages generated by ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/05/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_05_08_04_1.asp - 13k - 2004-05-08 Summary: As for the lower-end of the market, SAP has designed SAP Business One to meet the core management needs of dynamically growing small and midsize businesses, and is moving to better address the specific needs of small manufacturers through a planned strategic solution relationship with SoftBrands whereby

Has SAP Nailed Plant Level Leadership with Lighthammer?

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... business logic capabilities that take advantage of Web services in SAP NetWeaver to ... like the ISA-95 standard, Java, extensible markup language (XML), and SOA. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2006/02/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_02_06_06_1.asp - 28k - 2006-02-06 Summary: The acquisition of the formerly loyal composite applications partner Lighthammer bolsters SAP's capabilities of connectivity and visibility into manufacturing plant performance. However, it does not, at this stage, provide much added industry-specific shop-floor functionality per se.

SAP Gives Up, Declares Victory. Again.

by D. Geller ... Commerce One. As part of this integration SAP will teach its own application interfaces to speak Commerce One's version of XML. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2000/07/news_analysis/NA_EC_DPG_07_05_00_1.asp - 10k - 2000-07-05 Summary: Commerce One and SAP announced that Commerce One will supply the marketplace infrastructure behind the mySAP portal.

SAP Weaves Microsoft .NET And IBM WebSphere Into Its ESA Tapestry

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... for internal and external process integration, based on XML messaging; ... However, while SAP acknowledges the need for heterogeneous functional application modules ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/03/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_03_05_03_1.asp - 19k - 2003-03-05 Summary: While SAP s determination to become service-oriented architecture applications Lingua Franca evangelist should be of vital importance to its customers and for the general market direction, one should in the short-term expect tremors rather than tectonic moves and a speedy extinction of many pre-histori

SAP - A Leader Under Reconstruction

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... com Selling Solution and its "Internet Sales component" links buyers and sellers via the "SAP Business Connector". The connector leverages XML to transmit ... http:/.../researchhighlights/businessapplications/2000/08/research_notes/vn_ba_pj_08_14_00_1.asp - 41k - 2000-08-14 Summary: SAP is responding to the changing Internet marketplace by restructuring to develop flexibility and forming key partnerships and alliances to put content behind its extensive advertising campaign for mySAP. com