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by David R. Brousell, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 5:41:17 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | The ERP leader will focus on products to help manage collaborative relationships and on service-oriented architecture technology.
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| Keywords: | SAP Sapphire, SAP new products |
ORLANDO — Based on a theme of “business beyond boundaries,” SAP AG today opened its 20th annual Sapphire user conference here, telling 15,000 attendees that their ability to construct and run “business networks” will define competitive advantage now and in the years to come.
“Business model change is more important than innovation,” said Henning Kagermann, chief executive of SAP, in a keynote address. He said the transformation to business network-based competition is being enabled by service-oriented architecture technology, which is now “in mass-adoption across all industries.”
The most important part of the business network trend, Kagermann noted, is an organization’s ability to collaborate with partners, suppliers, customers, and other constituencies.
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