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Michael Connor commented on my last post

With respect to integration, it’s one of the biggest challeges today. It reminds me of high school sex, everyone’s talking about it but few people are really doing it.

Combine that with this excert from Phil on Loosely Coupled

Microsoft has learnt a lot from its multi-billion dollar acquisitions of business software vendors Great Plains and Navision, but it’s probably ready to write off that off to experience now. For Microsoft Business Solutions has signally failed to progress the componentization of its products under an oft-deferred plan codenamed Project Green. What I believe Microsoft has learned is that established business applications vendors are congenitally incapable of doing what’s necessary to adapt their applications to the requirements of standards-based services architectures. This valuable lesson has encouraged the vendor to concentrate on making sure that it protects its server products, while making sure that Windows and Office become the ‘smart client’ beneficiaries of the collapse not just of MBS but of every major business application vendor’s market share.

The market is really ripe for integration. I think Microsoft saw this. In logistics at least costs are going through the roof but providers are doing little or nothing to increase their efficiencies.

I think Phil’s analysis about MS Office is dead on. Thats basically what I’m doing next week is writing an MS Office plugin for our software. Documents and custom data come in from Word and Access. Thanks to Microsoft’s really superb effort as of late with respect to integration I anticipate I can do this very quickly.

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 17th, 2005 at 6:03 pm and is filed under Logistics.