New Roadmap for Duet

Plans to release a pair of value packs (free releases with updated features) for the SAP-Microsoft Duet product in 2006 have been dropped. Duet provides self-service access to the mySAP suite of business applications via Microsoft Office. The value packs have been pushed into 2007 but some features originally planned for them will be deferred to an incremental upgrade, Duet 1.5, scheduled for the summer of 2007. Among other features, the new release will make it easier for customers to configure and customize existing Duet applications, but it will not allow partners to create new Duet applications.

What Is Duet?

Duet is a joint Microsoft-SAP product that uses Office 2003 applications (mainly Outlook) as the front end to mySAP, the successor to SAP’s R/3 ERP applications. MySAP includes standard ERP functionality—such as financial management, human resources, supply chain management, and warehouse and distribution applications—as well as customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities.