SAP Bolsters NetWeaver's MDM Capabilities
Part One: Event Summary
P.J. Jakovljevic - December 1, 2004

Event Summary

To anyone even remotely following SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), the leading provider of enterprise applications and the market's bellwether, it should be crystal clear that, for the last couple of years, SAP's aggressively promoted application and integration platform, SAP NetWeaver, has become the main pillar of the vendor's strategy to remake itself into a platform vendor too. In addition to its broadest suite of enterprise applications in the market, mySAP Business Suite, SAP will sell possibly everything from application servers via middleware to Web services (envisioned, in SAP's case, to orchestrate business processes by means of packaged composite applications across or atop existing systems)...