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To: divvie who wrote (67676)	9/26/1998 5:09:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

divvie, Well IT ownership of dept-level midrange servers... I dont know, you may be right IT will remain in control. But one thing is for certain, the ERP apps are breaking up and becoming smaller. And once that happens, there is the potential to move away from centralized data sources (of course there still is the data warehouse). Heres an excerpt from a recent Sap PR: Beyond breaking up its tightly integrated package of applications--designed to automate corporate functions such as general ledger, order entry management, and inventory management--the German software giant it is now preaching that integration is no longer even important. So what is important now? According to SAP, happy users and "pretty looking" applications. SAP is launching a two-pronged campaign to change its image and make its applications easier to use and to understand. The move comes on the heels of SAP's stretch into new territory--that of front-office applications, whose end users are unlikely to tolerate gray screen applications and complex user instructions.