Microsoft and SAP point to growing demand for Duet, ERP to Microsoft Office links   27th November 2006 Microsoft and SAP, say that they have sold over 200,000 licensed seats of Duet, a joint product that enables people to interact quickly and easily with SAP business processes and data through Microsoft Office applications, since it was announced in May. SAP says that additional ‘Value packs', effectively pre-canned functionality for specific business processes will be made available over the next 12 months that include support for 2007 Microsoft Office system, as well as additional business scenarios, such as travel management and demand planning. Duet provides a unified link between a company's structured business processes and information in mySAP ERP and the end user's Microsoft Office environment, enabling improved decision making and greater compliance with company policies. “Increasingly, users are demanding greater integration between the productivity software and the business processes they use every day,” said Yvonne Genovese, research vice president, Gartner, Inc. “Tools that allow for the configuring and customizing of those processes will best answer this call by putting users in the centre of an environment that meets their varied needs in a flexible and dynamic way.” An early adopter of Duet is AEPEX Business Consultants, headquartered in the Netherlands , which has started a rollout of Duet across its entire organisation. For AEPEX's business consultants, efficient time entry is a critical business function to ensure on-time and accurate billing cycles and customer satisfaction. With Duet, AEPEX employees report time in their Microsoft Outlook calendar and it will automatically be synched with the corresponding SAP software on the back end. As a result of this new business functionality, AEPEX expects to save time and money by reducing hours and resources spent on data entry, and improving accuracy and billing efficiencies to drive enhanced customer loyalty. “We have chosen to deploy Duet as it will allow us to re-use existing information within Microsoft Office and seamlessly integrate that with our crucial back-end process for time-entry and customer billing, which is in SAP,” said Wouter van der Veen, managing partner, AEPEX Business Consultants. “With no need for time-consuming and costly training, we expect our employees to begin utilizing this new tool to achieve immediate new business efficiencies.” Over the next 12 months, SAP and Microsoft will offer several value packs for Duet, providing support for 2007 Office system, enhanced platform capabilities and language support. These new scenarios include; Travel Management for simplifying travel planning and expense approval via Outlook and Demand Planning for simplifying supply chain demand planning via Microsoft Excel .
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