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by David R. Brousell, MA Editorial Staff   As students of political science know, elections are won or lost well before Election Day itself. A long, difficult road of preparation precedes the casting of ballots. How successfully a political party organizes on the local, regional and national levels determines whether the ultimate prize of governing is won. In today's enterprise software market, the equivalent of a national, if not international, political campaign is underway to decide who governs the IT architectural model in the era of the Web. What's at stake is the definition of the relationship between software technology and the business, a governance model that will flow from the underlying IT infrastructure. SAP, the market leader in enterprise software, gets this -- in spades. Both strategically, with its top-down architectural message, and tactically, at the grass roots partnership level, SAP has been working feverishly to ensure its election to the top spot in the software infrastructure governance race. [Click to continue] |