IBM and SAP to develop joint software
Services and software companies IBM and SAP, longtime technology partners, will bring out their first joint software product in the fourth quarter of this year, the two companies said on Monday. The product, codenamed Atlantic, will allow users to access SAP’s Business Suite applications for workflows, reporting and analytics through IBM’s Lotus Notes desktop software.
U.S.-based IBM and Germany’s SAP, which was founded by five former IBM employees, have collaborated for 35 years. IBM is the world’s largest integrator of SAP’s business-management software, SAP software is certified for IBM servers and SAP’s favored development database is an IBM one. The two companies, which have been the target of repeated merger speculation, said their thousands of mutual customers had asked for the functions that Atlantic software will supply.
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