That began last spring, when SAP opened its annual North America user conference with the announcement of a joint venture with Commerce One, Pleasanton, Calif., to build solutions for Internet-based trading exchanges. But few people believed SAP was serious about open systems until it began working openly with other vendors on joint solutions. To support this collaboration, you almost have to look at a best-of-breed approach, because you need to provide connections for the various solutions that are used within different enterprises.”īowker says SAP started down this open-platform road roughly two years ago, when it launched its mySAP Workplace enterprise portal solution. Now, Bowker says, “companies are interested primarily in collaborative business processes that, in effect, break down the walls between enterprises.
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That was when SAP’s R/3 enterprise resources planning (ERP) package-the big monolithic system-began gaining a dominant position in the business software market. “Ten years ago, companies were clamoring for systems that would allow them to integrate various functional areas,” says Kyle Bowker, an SAP vice president and general manager, manufacturing. The change is a response to shifts in the overall business software market, which is now dominated by solutions that support e-Business. Instead, SAP now speaks of having an open infrastructure that accommodates the assembling of various software components-including applications from other vendors-to solve specific business problems. No longer does SAP market itself as the provider of a monolithic software package that manages every aspect of a business.
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