On Message with Ben Gross

Notes and Workplace for SAP

May 12th, 2006

IBM announced that it would ship two products, Workplace for SAP, and IBM Lotus Notes access for SAP, on May 30.

IBM Workplace for SAP will cost cost from $149 to $399 per user, and consists of SAP application development tools for Workplace, and pre-built applications for content management, messaging, and presence. IBM also plans to offer additional applications for employee and contractor management.

IBM Lotus Notes access for SAP will be made available at no charge to all Notes customers, also includes development tools and pre-built applications such as report generation, contract management, and workflow/approval processes for a administrative tasks.

Together, these products should help join what have been unnecessarily disparate systems by providing a Notes front end to SAP applications. More coverage at the weblogs of Ed Brill, and Ferris Research.

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