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SAP continued its "Best of SAP World Tour" with a stop in Toronto Wednesday, where officials outlined the company's vision of a future where business strategies are more tightly aligned with the efforts of the IT department. To help get to that future, SAP is using the tour to spread the gospel of changing business processes more quickly than in the past.
By 2007, Hanover, Germany-based SAP expects to have its full mySAP suite running on an updated architecture, dubbed the Business Process Platform, which SAP hopes will allow customers to treat IT operations as configurable piecemeal processes. SAP has rebuilt its software around its integration-focused NetWeaver middleware and is aiming to have its full mySAP suite of ERP applications available on the new platform by the end of this year.
What the new architecture ultimately will achieve, according to keynote...