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SAP Delivers Portal Tool For Windows DevelopersSAP Delivers Portal Tool For Windows Developers
It's one of the first deliverables in a joint-development agreement reached last year by SAP and Microsoft.
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A new software development kit from SAP is designed to make it easier for programmers using Microsoft's Visual Studio development environment to write applications that work with SAP's Enterprise Portal.
The Portal Development Kit for Microsoft .Net is the result of a joint-development and patent-sharing agreement announced last May in which Microsoft and SAP promised to create technologies that facilitate interoperability between their products. "We're making good on those commitments," says Microsoft senior product manager Tim O'Brien.
The portal toolkit is available from SAP as an add-in for Visual Studio developers. The goal is to let Visual Studio developers use the tools and programming languages they already know to add capabilities such as single sign-on access to SAP-on-Windows software environments. Enterprise Portal is part of SAP's NetWeaver data-integration layer.
About two-thirds of new SAP deployments take place on Windows, according to Microsoft. Last quarter, Microsoft and SAP delivered the SAP .Net Connector 2.0, featuring improved programming-language support. Other technologies in development include joint support for Web services and Microsoft's "smart client" concept and interoperability between the SAP environment and Microsoft's BizTalk and Exchange Servers and SharePoint Services.
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