Just how close this cooperation between SAP, IBIS and the University of Würzburg's Faculty for Business Administration and IT is, was illustrated recently. In commemoration of SAP CEO, Henning Kagermann's, 60th birthday, Prof. Dr. Rainer Thome, faculty chair, and Dr. Andreas Hufgard, member of the executive board at IBIS Prof. Thome, were asked to talk about some of their impressions as companions along their shared path.

• 2010: Usage Analysis in strategic collaboration
• 2010: SAP Business ByDesign Reseller
• 2007: Content Partner für SAP BI
• 2005: Official SAP Content Partner Worldwide for RBE Plus and the SAP Solution
• 2004: Joint Development of "Business Configuration" of the new SAP Solutions for Small to Medium Businesses Business ByDesign
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• 2004: Configuration Methods for Enterprise Service Architecture
• 2003: Improvement of Upgrade Projects
• 2001-2003: Joint Research and Development for the SAP Solution Architect (2001), Best Practices (2002) and the SAP Solution Manager (2003)
• 1998-2000: Development of SAP AG's Reverse Business Engineer
• 1996-2000: Collaborative Development of Customizing Tools (Business Configura- tion Sets) and SAP AG's Business Engineering Workbench
• 1995-1998: Industry-specific reference models

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