You no doubt saw all the announcements coming out of Sapphire last week. SAP had a series of announcements related to it’s growing ecosystem based on NetWeaver. I recently attended an Enterprise Partner Summit that SAP held in San Francisco where they impressively laid out their plans for partners including a clear roadmap of how to work with the company.

I have to say that I’ve been impressed with what I’ve seen. It’s clear that they are very serious about building an ecosystem. The enterprise application space is in the midst of a major transformation with the major players (SAP, Oracle, IBM and Microsoft) all vying for ownership of the new platform and the creation of a new class of applications based on web services integrated on these platforms. It’s an exciting time. It offers customers the opportunity to gain total cost of ownership (TCO) advantages through tighter application integration while realizing greater application flexibility.

I expect to see the major players continue to excel at core capabilities while providers like Kinaxis offer unique value add that complements their offerings. This is why we’re actively engaged with an supporting SAP’s NetWeaver environment through certified solutions that add value to the SAP solutions.

It will be interesting to watch this unfold over the next couple of years, but it looks like SAP is doing a lot of things right.

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