SAP

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SAP Microsoft
Its more than software - its a
strategic solution !
SAP R/3 Windows NT SQL Server
Partners
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How it began...

• April 1993Joint agreement between Bill Gates
  and Dr. Plattner

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Why A Partnership?

• Combination of expertise of two market leaders
• SAP business process software
• Microsoft technology and productivity tools
• Goals
• A scalable, very performant, and highly-available
  solution
• Easy and fast implementation, easy to use
• Tight integration between Microsoft tools and
  R/3
• Strong relationship with hardware and
  implementation partners

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The Shared Vision
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Bill GatesChairman and CEO, Microsoft

• "SAP has more influence on our product strategy
  and the design of certain features than any other
  software vendor we cooperate with."

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SAP and Microsoft Highlights
April '94 First R/3 release on Windows NT
Aug. '94 First customer goes live on Windows NT
Dec. '94 Bosch signs contract for 15,000 users on
Windows NT

• April '93
• Agreement between Bill Gates and Hasso Plattner

July '95 Microsoft selects SAP for its global
finance implementations
Aug. '95 MS SQL server support
Jan. '96 OLE Automation Server for R/3
Sept. '97 COM/DCOM announce-ment
Jan. '97 Exchange integration with R/3 Release 3.1
March '96 Internet announce-ment
Dec. '96 2000 R/3 installations on Windows NT
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Market Share R/3 NT Status 08/98

• gt5,000 R/3 NT Installations WW
• gt 30 of all R/3 Installations
• gt 50 of all new R/3 Installations
• gt 1000 R/3 NT Installations on SQL Server

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R/3 Port To SQL Server In The U.S.
Microsoft/SAP Competence Center in Redmond
SAP Lab in Foster City
SQL Server started shipping for R/3 in September
1995. The joint team continues work on future
releases to ensure a highly reliable and scalable
database platform
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Microsoft/SAP Competence CenterIn Walldorf (SAP
HQ)

• Coordination for Microsoft BackOffice and
  desktop integration projects
• Contact point for other Competence Centers in
  Walldorf (hardware partners, iXOS, logo partners,
  etc.) and SAP internal groups for know-how
  transfer about products and technologies, joint
  sales and marketing activities, etc.

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Microsoft/SAP Competence CenterIn Redmond
(Microsoft HQ)

• The Lab
• Testing of new product releases
• Strong involvement of hardware partners
• Integration/development work
• Hosting ISVs with backup/high-availability
  solutions for R/3-Windows NT integration work
• Close communication with Microsoft development
  groups
• The Executive Briefing RoomCustomers are invited
  to hear about
• the Microsoft/SAP relationship
• technology projects
• R/3-Windows NT customers

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SAP and Microsoft
The Future
Its more than software - its a strategic
solution
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Short Term Developments

• Intel Merced with 64-Bit support
• Wizard Technologies / SBS
• RRR/Special bundles with Internet/Cluster etc
• Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 5.0
• Microsoft Cluster Server Phase 2
• Microsoft Transaction Server
• Microsoft Message Queue Server

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Future Directions - an Outside View
There will be a winnowing down in the market
through 2000 in technology choices user
interfaces, except Windows, will be replaced by
browsers the number of Unix dialects will be
decreased significantly and between 30 percent
to 50 percent of new technology/functionality
initiatives will be deployed on only a Windows NT
platform (0.7 probability). SAPs database
focus will follow trends with high focus on
Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle and less so on
IBMs DBS and Informix.
Gartner Group, September 1997 ERP Vendor Guide
1997 SAP - R/3
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SAP goes Microsoft

• Microsoft Cluster Server (Wolfpack)
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Internet Transaction Server
• Ready-to-Run-R/3
• DCOM Component Connector
• Business Information Warehouse (NT/SQL/Excel)
• Active Excel, Word/Excel, Session Manager, OLE In
  Place Activation, ActiveX (e.g. SAP Script)
• Availability-to-Promise (ATP) Server
• Supply Chain Optimization Planning Engine (SCOPE)
• R/3 4.0 ships on NT first

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Business Framework and COM
Enterprises should expect an increasingly
componentized and message-based product to be
delivered by SAP. This will ultimately be
delivered via SAP's Business Framework, which is
more of a Microsoft-centric vision - due to the
use of the Common Object Model (COM), the
Distributed COM and other Microsoft
technologies.
Gartner Group, September 1997 ERP Vendor Guide
1997 SAP - R/3
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Portfolio Assembly
Core apps including financials, HR, and basic
manufacturing ? SAP R/3 An application platform
that incorporates de facto standard interfaces ?
SAP/Microsoft Plug-in component appsthat
deliver industry-specific competitive
advantage. ? SAP Industry solutions Portfolio
assemblers that pre-integrate, sell, implement,
and support pre-selected sets of apps ? SAP
Customer management apps
Application platform
Internet commerce apps
Supply chain apps
Core apps
Industry-specific apps
Implementation and support services
Source Forrester Report, Portfolio Assembly,
October 1997
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A Strategic Solution - Conclusion

• Windows NT is the biggest and fastest growing
  platform for R/3, covering 95 of the market
  needs
• SQL Server is 2 and fastest growing platform
• SAP and Microsoft have developed integration
  between R/3 and Microsoft products and
  techno-logies and will continue to improve these
  solutions
• Analysts see Microsoft as the most important
  partner for SAP
• Analysts say that SAP and Microsoft will be the
  business platform of the next century