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Rajiv Kumar
General Manager, Office Business -MSIDC

Rajiv Kumar is the General Manager for the Business and Office Team at MSIDC. He joined Microsoft Redmond office in the year 1992 as a SDE in Visual Basic Complier team. He has worked on several business and high profile products including Visual Basic, Ole Automation, Biztalk Server, Content Management Server and Commerce server in the Redmond office before relocating to MSIDC Hyderabad in the year 2004.

In the year 2001 Rajiv was appointed to drive the execution of acquisition and integration of nCompass Labs. This acquisition resulted in Microsoft getting into the Content Mangement Server space (CMS) and is believed to be very successful acquisition by Microsoft. Rajiv played a critical role in making the nCompass acquisition successful. These product releases were highly successful as it consistently beat the revenue goals.

Rajiv is credited with six patent awards and has filed four more patents recently.

On a personal facet, Rajiv received Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from University of Texas, Austin. In spare time, Rajiv enjoys traveling and loves to spend time with his 2 young daughters Eshita and Sneha and his wife Rekha.

Interested to know more about Rajiv? Here is link to the article published about Rajiv in Seattle Times, a USA publication.

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Overview

Make Microsoft Office the primary User Experience for "everyday" SAP process and data and make Duet the leading Business Application on the Office platform.

Duet enables the SAP business data and processes to get surfaced from within Microsoft Office, thereby enabling the Information Worker to remain within the confines of his daily collaborative and productivity usage of Microsoft Office. It makes complying with the business processes and viewing the business data a seamless activity and part of the user’s daily usage of the various Microsoft Office applications. That is the power of Duet.

Duet is a joint product between Microsoft and SAP. Besides the technical complexity of delivering on the vision of the product, the two teams work together across geographical boundaries, overcoming the differences in the software methodologies followed by the two companies, and delivering a product that has revolutionized the way Information Workers interact with Enterprise Applications.

"Duet offered a potential panacea to our problems. It just made life simple and easy"—says the Auckland Regional Council, explaining the value that Duet can bring to an enterprise customer.

The team at MSIDC is working on Duet platform since 2005. The team is responsible for complete product development across its multiple versions. We have a groundbreaking collaboration with SAP that is set to revolutionize how Information Workers interact with Enterprise Applications. With our knowledge of productivity applications and SAP’s expertise in enterprise applications and best practices, we have collaboratively developed a solution that increases corporate compliance, improves decision making, and helps organizations save time and money.

We Shipped

2008

  • Duet 1.5 release candidate

2006

  • Duet 1.0

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White Papers

Learn how the SAP and Microsoft strategic partnership helps you bridge your Microsoft and SAP platforms and applications with Duet, and other interoperable, integrated solutions.
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High Level Architecture

The Duet architecture consists of three elements: Duet client add-on for Microsoft Office, Duet server and SAP software add-on. This article explains the high level architecture, technology details and system requirements.
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Showcase

White Papers

Learn how the SAP and Microsoft strategic partnership helps you bridge your Microsoft and SAP platforms and applications with Duet, and other interoperable, integrated solutions.
Click to learn more


High Level Architecture

The Duet architecture consists of three elements: Duet client add-on for Microsoft Office, Duet server and SAP software add-on. This article explains the high level architecture, technology details and system requirements.
Click to learn more


Developer Resources

Start with the basics to develop an understanding of Duet’s functionality and architecture: Getting Started guide, Planning guide, Administration guide and Implementation – Architecture and Best Practices.
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Customer Success Story: Center Point Energy

Learn how leading SAP customers are using Duet software to extend the reach of SAP business applications and data to all employees in the organization through Microsoft Office. Gain insights into specific Duet software customer business cases, implementation and deployment best practices, and realized benefits in improved compliance, superior decision making, and increased ROI.
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Video: Auckland Regional Council Testimoial

Hear from executives as they explain the benefits of Duet at Auckland Regional Council in a video walk through.
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