Beijing time September 19: According to foreign media reports, the world's number one management software manufacturer, Germany, Tuesday announced that the company will launch a browser-based series of management software products in Wednesday. SAP became the first management software giant to enter the Internet application area.
It is well known that SAP, Oracle and Microsoft, the world's big Three management software giants, are now basically selling installed versions of software.
At the same time, Salesforce.com as the representative of the network application service providers have begun to serve a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises through the Internet.
It is reported that SAP will launch the "A1s" browser version of its management software at an event in New York in Wednesday and announce price information. According to this kind of software leasing mode, enterprise users will not need to install the application locally, only through the browser to access the site, all financial data will be stored in the service provider's server.
SAP is the world's largest management software vendor whose products involve finance, inventory management, logistics, sales and marketing. Earlier, the company has invited more than 100 companies to participate in the browser version of the software test. The company also said it would invest 500 million of dollars in the A1s project by the end of next year.
SAP will become a competitor for Salesforce.com and NetSuite, where NetSuite's big shareholder is Ellison, Oracle's boss. In addition, the company founder Duffield later launched a website called Workday, which provides online management software application services.
The browser-based Internet software application service is gaining recognition from Google, but so far, network applications have focused on personal and general business applications (mailboxes, online contacts, instant messaging), Salesforce.com become a solo show of "Lonely Master."