Microsoft recruits vendors to integrate apps into Office
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Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to get more independent software vendors to integrate Office front-ends with their own business applications.
There already exist a number of these Office-front-ended applications which Microsoft has christened Office Business Applications, or OBAs. Some are commercial applications, like the jointly developed Microsoft-SAP Duet. Others are custom-built proprietary applications, via which a company mashes up Office with its own line-of-business application, for in-house use.