SAP and Sybase combine forces to unwire companies
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SAP and Sybase came together for the first time, yesterday, to share the strategy and joint product direction for their newly combined companies.
Since announcing its decision to acquire Sybase back in May, the two firms have evidently been working hard on product road maps and innovations.
First, SAP has now confirmed that Sybase will be run as a separate, independent unit – and that investments in Sybase products will be supported.
That said, SAP and Sybase also unveiled strategic product directions and planned co-innovations in three key areas: enterprise mobility, business analytics and enterprise information management (EIM).
SAP Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe say that within the next nine months, the companies will bring together technologies to deliver "a leading mobile platform for business that is based on open standards, runs on all major mobile operating systems and manages and supports all major device types".
Users and partners will, they said, be able to build new mobile experiences on top of existing applications, such as SAP® Business Suite software. In addition, SAP will showcase mobile experiences for all products, including SAP Business Suite and SAP® Business ByDesign, matching mobile sales for its CRM today.
"The combination of SAP and Sybase is a significant game changer in the industry. Less than three months after this bold acquisition was announced, we are highlighting the first joint products that will transform the way people and businesses work," says McDermott.
"The product roadmap and go-forward strategy we are sharing today positions SAP to be the only company enabled to deliver a full suite of enterprise software and next-generation business intelligence on any device at any time," adds Hagemann Snabe.
