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Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 10 February 2009 09:52
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Even the customer quotes seem to damn with faint praise: "With all components of SAP Business Suite on the same release cycle, the costs associated with implementation and testing of new functionality are greatly reduced," said Ed Toben, SVP, GIT & Business Services, Colgate-Palmolive. One aspect that does deserve attention is the inclusion of "select analytics capabilities of the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio".
Analytics are of growing importance to many companies, and making them a part of the core product seems a sensible way to go.
And if SOA is your thing, Business Suite 7 provides more than 2800 services.
But you can't help feeling cynical when the people most excited about the launch are those that make money from installation projects - companies such as Atos Origin, IBM Global Business Services, and Wipro.
If your company is a SAP site and you can see something useful and innovative in Business Suite 7 (as opposed to fixing old mistakes), please share the good news in the forum.
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