Magic Software's iBOLT Brings SOA To SAP Business One



SAP and Magic Software recently signed a partnership agreement for marketing cooperation around SAP's Business One. Business One is SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) software dedicated to the low end of the small and medium-size business (SMB) segment; it is currently based on a Microsoft client/server architecture. This agreement brings additional value to the current version of SAP Business One by providing workflow, integration, and composite application capabilities based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). At the same time, the agreement opens up a North American community of 800 SAP Business One partners for Magic Software — giving it the opportunity to grow significantly beyond its current base of 2,500 customers. Forrester expects to see an increase in similar win-win partnerships between large, diverse vendors and smaller integration vendors that will provide end-to-end integration capability across the supply chain for organizations of all sizes.