SAP + MSFT = TLA?
The closer relationship between SAP and Microsoft is interesting to contemplate. It really makes sense because of the way people work - they spend their whole day in Office and it is the defacto desktop of the enterprise. Probably the real loser in the alliance they are talking about here is Adobe - SAP already emphasizes integration with Adobe forms. Although they have a slightly different target (e.g. Adobe for self-service human resources apps vs. Excel for data collection and analysis), both of these integration paths overlap to a certain extent and customers don't like to do the same work twice.