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SAP now stronger than ever in BPM , Middleware , Mobile and Events Processing Technologies.

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By Jayaprakash Kannoth on May 13, 2010 2:50 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

German Software giant SAP makes a strategic move buying well known database company Sybase for $5.8 Billion. For the last four years, SAP has quietly moved itself away from ERP Software and more towards strategic software Infrastructure for the enterprise. It has been missing two important pieces, Mobile Infrastructure and Events Processing technologies. With this acquisition of Sybase, SAP is now a direct competitor to Oracle's full stack of enterprise technologies. As we all know, Sybase is known for the database, but a few years it invested heavily in Mobile Infrastructure and Complex Events Processing technologies with the recent acquisition of Aleri. SAP has been quietly increasing its presence in Business Intelligence, Operational Intelligence and promoting its BPM capabilities.

So what's next for SAP? Before SAP makes its next acquisition (my wild guess will be either Novell or Redhat), SAP has to do two things right away. Publish a road map for existing Sybase customers on how this acquisition will help as well as enhance their SAP portfolio and vice versa. It also has to open up its relationship with other middleware technology companies. I have one question for SAP. What will happen to good old PowerBuilder? They have been struggling a lot lately after losing its market to Microsoft Visual Basic/VB.Net. Will PowerBuilder get a new life or will this be its end? As we wait for the next acquisition news, let me know your thoughts on this one right here.

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Jayaprakash Kannoth

Jayaprakash Kannoth is Software Engineer at TechTarget. His areas of interest include business process management, enterprise architecture, business intelligence , cloud/infrastructure computing and technology in business.
The opinions expressed herein are my own and do not represent my employer’s views in any way.

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