Microsoft, SAP weave apps and plan for more
eWeek | at | by Mike
As SAP AG and Microsoft hammer out the 1.0 version of Mendocino, their combined development project to offer mySAP process functionality in Microsoft Office for a seamless working environment between the two platforms, they're also pounding out the second iteration.
Mendocino 1.0, expected in July of next year, will hone in on four scenariosbudget monitoring, time management, leave management, and organizational managementthat expose process logic and workflow from mySAP applications to Office. That means users can, for example, use the cost center management scenario to access employee files, see pay information and issue pay raises, using SAP workflow that is exposed in Office.