There is a new ZDNet video interview with Shai Agassi, member of the management board and president of PTG (Product and Technology Group) at SAP. Although the written introduction mentions the competition with Oracle the video is not only about this competition. Topics they touch are:

• What’s the current mySAP customer base in comparison to R/3
• What is the good thing about Duet (the integration of SAP backend into Microsoft Office)
• Business Process Platform (BPP) - two parts: the technology platform NetWeaver and the semantic understanding and interfaces
• SAP Developer Network (SDN)
• Web Services
• Industry Value Networks and ES Community
• Differences between the offer to large, medium and small businesses (NetWeaver as a basis stays but the semantics of enterprise services change, i.e. less complex but not completly different processes for small companies - only a special “dialect” so that integration between large and small businesses along the value chain is still possible)
• The competition with Oracle (the growth rates were better for Oracle in the last quater but long term comparison is said to be more important)
• Importance of SOA (decision regarded as important as the decision e-mail or no e-mail)

Categories: SAP enterprise SOA