
Enterprise software maker SAP displayed the first examples of the business applications being developed through its technology integration partnership with Microsoft. Presenting at the business software specialist's Sapphire customer conference, Shai Agassi, a member of SAP's executive board and one of its chief technologists, offered a peek at some of the benefits the enterprise applications giant will derive through its effort with Microsoft, <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5714342.html?tag=zdnn.alert">a tie-up that has been code-named Mendocino.</A> The first glimpse of the jointly developed technology came in the form of a customized version of Microsoft's dominant Outlook email software that has been linked with SAP's enterprise resource planning, or ERP, applications.