SAP, Europe's largest software company, chose its recent customer conference in Berlin to announce several enhancements to its mySAP.com e-business solution, launched last October. Since then the company, which built its status as a supplier of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP software - mainly the ubiquitous R3, says it has amassed one million licensed users for mySAP.com.
Back in 1998, ERP software was the hottest thing in the business world. Companies like SAP, Baan and PeopleSoft were being hailed as the next Microsoft, but when the promised cost savings and efficiencies failed to pan out for many big clients, stock prices for these firms took a dive. ERP software was last...