Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Why Mendocino/Duet from SAP and Microsoft

Who needs Duet (Formerly called Mendocino) anyway?

Can't be business users. Can't imagine them getting excited about automating their leave application process. Which is what the current implementation does. But extend the possibilites of working with enterprise application within MS Office, the user interface of choice by business users, and it begins to make perfect sense.

Makes sense only when one "extends" the possibilities of connecting Office beyond leave applications, beyond budget management and beyond SAP. Extends the desktop interface to interact with all enterprise applictions, the internet and the intranet. In a manner that is secure. And which does need one to throw away what one has and buy another piece of software.

None of this is what Duet does. Duet connects to only SAP, only a few transactions, only on Outlook, only on Office 2003 or Office 12, only for mySAP ERP 2004...

Its the ONLY that begs that question - Why do Duet, if it gives back so little for so much?

Why listen to a Duet, when you need to listen to full bodied symphony, with mutliple singers, multiple voices and multiple instruments?

- Sangeeta

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Duet indeed is a song of these two, and it would be interesting to see if they would allow others to come in their band-of-two, otherwise it is soon going to get very bring with just clickity-clack. It indeed is a reqmt to be able to support multiple systems, and multiple interfaces.

Anonymous said...

Duet indeed is a song of these two, and it would be interesting to see if they would allow others to come in their band-of-two, otherwise it is soon going to get very bring with just clickity-clack. It indeed is a reqmt to be able to support multiple systems, and multiple interfaces.

Anonymous said...

I have seen it. It is the hopeless product. It takes 10 min for a simple screen to pop up. It is again one of the SAP gimick to fool the customer. I have seen some freeware 1000 times better than these... It takes 3 days to install it. It is consultant friendly (who want to charge 80$ per hour) and not customer friend (who will curse entire life for wrong decision). keep away