However, companies must expect to supplement these suites with best-of-breed marketing automation and analysis vendors, as well as custom enterprise integration to back-office SAP, Baan, Oracle, and PeopleSoft systems.
It is therefore particularly worrying when we hear people justifying their new ROI religion on the basis that they spent lots of money on things like Y2K and enterprise resource planning (ERP) and have yet to see a clear financial return.
Shai Agassi, SAP NetWeaver development, mySAP SRM, SAP xApps Karl-Heinz Hess, SAP NetWeaver Klaus Kreplin, technology platform, SAP NetWeaver SAP NetWeaver - to integrate all applications, including non-SAP software
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Virsa is also a third-party developer for SAP's NetWeaver, which is middleware designed to connect SAP data to other applications. Under that agreement, Virsa's core product, Compliance Calibrator, has been resold as an add-on to mySAP ERP.
It includes the NetWeaver infrastructure software, Java-based tools for creating services, and a set of sample applications. All the packages will work with MySAP ERP 2005, the core set of automated business processes in SAP that the company plans...