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General

Q - What is Duet Enterprise?
Duet® Enterprise, a product developed jointly by SAP and Microsoft, helps IT serve the business more effectively and enables users to boost their personal and their team’s productivity. The software provides the foundation for technical interoperability between SAP applications and Microsoft SharePoint as well as tools and business content to rapidly compose solutions blending process and collaborative work. Duet Enterprise provides ready-to-use capabilities with quick time to value for people to interact with and collaborate around SAP information, participate in SAP workflows, access SAP reports, and use SharePoint ‘MySite’ enriched with human resources information from SAP applications.
Q - Who are the target customers for Duet Enterprise?
Organizations who run SAP applications and are utilizing Microsoft SharePoint can realize significant value with Duet Enterprise.
Q - What are the capabilities of Duet Enterprise?
Duet Enterprise provides the following capabilities:

  • Foundation for the interoperability between SAP and Microsoft SharePoint. Key focus areas are: system management, single sign on, authorization and user management, life cycle management, data models mapping, traceability and supportability.
  • Tools and Business Content to compose solutions that blend the worlds of process and collaboration. Duet Enterprise takes advantage of the respective tools of Microsoft and SAP to reduce IT training. These tools are enriched to support end-to-end solution development between SAP and Microsoft. In order to accelerate development of Duet Enterprise composites, configurable templates and building blocks are included.
  • Ready-to-Use capabilities with quick time to value for people to interact with and collaborate around SAP information, participate in SAP workflows, access SAP reports, and browse SharePoint ‘MySite’ profiles enriched with HR information from SAP applications.
Duet Enterprise utilizes the Microsoft SharePoint capability to extend to Microsoft Office and Mobile.
Q - How do customers benefit from this new product?
Many customers have already invested in SAP and Microsoft SharePoint and Office and are looking to generate more value from those investments while increasing IT efficiency. Duet Enterprise increases the reach of SAP to more users and expands the scope of SharePoint to drive incremental business value for these customers. Duet Enterprise is a highly efficient interoperability solution as it utilizes the SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platforms enabling customers to reuse existing IT skills, systems and development tools. Duet Enterprise reduces the barrier to creating solutions that blend SAP and SharePoint 2010 and helps IT to address business needs in a timely and effective manner. Moreover, Duet Enterprise can be used to enable business units to create solutions in their SharePoint environment while keeping IT control and governance of SAP applications.
Q - How do end users benefit from this new product?
Employees expect business solutions to be delivered in familiar environments, to be intuitive and hide complexities. They also have a growing need to enable team collaboration, gain business insight and drive business results. Microsoft SharePoint and Office have been widely adopted as end user work environments while SAP applications run their business critical processes. Duet Enterprise blends SAP with Microsoft SharePoint and Office 2010 combining collaboration and productivity with business data and processes. Business users can benefit from a unified and simplified access to the data and actions they need and as a result, increase their personal and team productivity. Duet Enterprise delivers ready-to-use capabilities with quick time to value for users to collaborate around SAP data, participate in SAP workflows, access SAP reports, and browse SharePoint ‘MySite’ profiles enriched with HR information from SAP applications.
Q - When will the product be available?
Duet Enterprise is now Generally Available. Click here for the announcement.
Q - What are the Tools utilized by Duet Enterprise?
Duet Enterprise follows an architecture design utilizing the respective tools of Microsoft and SAP to minimize IT training and reuse the existing customer skill set. These tools are enriched with generators and add-ons to optimize interoperability and support end-to-end solution development between Microsoft and SAP. For the composition of solutions, for example, Duet Enterprise interoperates with declarative tools, such as SharePoint designer for the Business Analyst , Visual studio for the professional .NET developer and ABAP workbench for the SAP professional developer. Duet Enterprise significantly lowers the barrier for composing solutions based on SAP and SharePoint and provides templates and building blocks to accelerate the development of Duet Enterprise solutions. Duet Enterprise provides end-to-end management supportability leveraging the standard tools of the respective platforms: System Center (SCOM) from Microsoft and Solution Manager from SAP.
Q - How does Duet Enterprise fit into the overall SAP-Microsoft relationship?
Duet Enterprise is a joint product from SAP and Microsoft which underscores the companies' continued commitment to their partnership, ensuring that the customers of both organizations continue to benefit from the relationship and realize extended value.
Q - Where can I gain additional information on Duet Enterprise?
Contact your SAP or MSFT account manager or account teams. Additional information is also available by visiting sap.com/duetenterprise, microsoft.com/duet or here on duet.com.

Partnering

Q - I would like to partner to sell services related to Duet Enterprise or to develop solutions on Duet Enterprise. Who should I contact?
SAP and Microsoft have Duet Enterprise partner programs to enable partners to sell and service Duet Enterprise. For further information about the Duet partner program please refer to:

SAP-MICROSOFT Unite Partner Connection : http://ecohub.sap.com/unite/
Microsoft Partner Site: https://partner.microsoft.com/duet
SAP: https://service.sap.com/partnerportal
Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/duet
Q - Can I partner with both SAP and Microsoft for Services & Solutions related to Duet Enterprise?
Yes, to provide optimal support for partners both companies enable the program through their existing partner programs.

Training

Q - Do you offer training for Duet Enterprise and where can find more information about upcoming Duet Enterprise trainings?
Yes, Duet Enterprise training is available globally to customers and partners. Visit the Duet Enterprise Training page on this website for latest information.