New sap products adopt the. NET development platform

New sap products adopt the. NET development platform

SAP will release the first new product developed using software tools provided by Microsoft, which also means that sap will gradually develop its commercial software using Microsoft's technical tools in its technical cooperation with Microsoft.

The two companies announced on Wednesday that sap's portal development kit will use Microsoft's. NET Technology for the first time. ThereforeProgramYou can use Microsoft's Visual Studio. NET 2003 development tool to build background applications for SAP NetWeaver architecture. This development tool is integrated in Visual Studio as a plug-in.. NET 2003, SAP will start to recruit a large number of people familiar with this development tool. net programmers, and fully invested in SAP NetWeaver architecture application development. SAP NetWeaver is the next-generation service-based platform. It is similar to an infrastructure software or middleware. By using this architecture, SAP applications can be easily modified and integrated with other operating systems.

Prior to this, the two companies began to strengthen technical cooperation in last May and claimed to integrate their products using Web Services technology. At present, more than 40,000 customers use SAP applications based on Microsoft's Windows operating system. Just one month later, the two software giants revealed that they had begun to discuss matters related to the company's merger, but due to the potential complexity of some transactions, the negotiations are currently in a halt.

However, the portal development kit is only part of the Cooperative Development Plan of the two companies. Tim o'brien, Microsoft's senior product manager, revealed that the two companies will also develop a series of software tools to enable Microsoft's BizTalk, exchange, and Sharepoint to better integrate with SAP NetWeaver, it also includes SAP applications and Microsoft's Windows desktop operating system. He also believes that for SAP customers who are used to Windows operating systems, it is necessary to improve the coordination and interoperability of the two companies' products.

Listen to Tang's note: Ah, SAP needs to be moved. NET platform, I also planned to use. NET platform design and development of enterprise information platforms, and the use of web services to implement the RosettaNet standard, it seems that the pressure is getting bigger and bigger, it is time to mix it with sap! Depressed!