14th June 2001
There is an interesting article at infoworld, outlying the Keynote speech from SAP's SAPPHIRE users conference. Plattner, SAPs CEO, has laid out five key areas: enterprise portals, private marketplaces and exchanges, SCM (supply chain management), PLM (product life cycle management), and CRM (customer relationship management). There was also a tremendous amount of emphasis on 'openness' and playing nice with other applications. He also mentioned that the real effect of the Internet was distributed companies worldwide. Will it only be a matter of time before they embrace Free/Open software? Their database has already been released....
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