Mendocino Review

Outside of the specific integration capabilities that OLE has historically made possible, SAP and Microsoft have worked together more recently to provide another level of integration. Called Mendocino, it’s the first real joint product between the two giant software companies. Leveraging the openness of .NET-enabled Web Services and the capabilities of Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), Mendocino enables Microsoft Office 2003 to extend and manage SAP-derived business process functions and the data traversing them.

Mendocino was announced in April 2005, made available in the final quarter of the year, and hailed as the “next big thing” for SAP/Microsoft integration. Its open interface enables independent software vendors ...

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