I read this interesting article in Computer Weekly today, headlined SAP puts collaboration at heart of business strategy I was quite excited. Reading through the article I found the following:
'Apotheker said SAP would be focussing future development of its business suite of products and Netweaver integration middleware at meeting business needs to develop and maintain collaborative networks.
"Business is becoming much more customer-centric, collaborative and relationship-driven, where there is shared risk enabled by business networks," he said.'
This seems to indicate that the 'Collaboration' SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker is articulating is one of better and wider integration. Nothing wrong with this of course but it seems to miss the people aspect of collaboration which to me is critically important.
