SAP’s New Software for the SMB Market- The Future Looks Bright
May 10th, 2007 by Satha
Speaking at the Software 2007 conference (in Santa Clara), SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner was enthusiastic about the new suite of office applications being designed for the SMB sector.
Although SAP is yet to go public with the name of this project, Plattner seemed keen to talk about the key features and some of the development concepts i.e.
- the solution is written in a completely new code base within the System Based Architecture (SOA) design principle
- it will be a hosted (on demand) solution and will include all the newer concepts like cloud computing, modular development and community based development
- the users will have many interface points (i.e.browser based, mobile phone or Blackberry etc…) without direct access to the underlying source code
- SAP has been forthcoming in saying that the solution has been in development for 3 years -this said, of course - the project still remains unnamed!!!
Some interesting reading on this subject:
Hass Plattner outline SAP’s vision - http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4908/
SAP’s Plattner gives early details on New Business Software Suite for SMB Market: http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/05/08/saps-plattner-gives-early-on-news-busines-software-suite-for-smb-market/