The business environment world has changed more over the past decade than it did over the last 50 years. The key forces in this new business world are customer, competition and change. The pace of change continues to accelerate and enterprises around the world seek to undergo business process reengineering (BPR). BPR is a radical change that a business has to make in order to keep pace with today's ever-changing global markets. Two of the most prominent tools used to make this radical change are PeopleSoft and SAP. Majority of successful corporations are using these two client-server applications to make informed business decisions, which in return enabled these companies to accomplish their business goals and utilize the information gathered to create competitive advantage.
             PeopleSoft was founded in 1987 and is one of the leading providers of enterprise wide client/server business solution for Fortune 1,000 companies. More than 4,700 organizations in 107 countries use PeopleSoft software. PeopleSoft develops, markets and supports organization-wide software solutions to handle core business functions including human resources management, treasury management, performance measurement and supply chain management. It also provides industry specific enterprise solutions to customers in select markets such as telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, retail, transportation and utilities. In addition, company also offers PeopleSoft Select, a complete packaged solution including software, hardware and services to address the needs of medium-sized organizations (Montgomery Research, 1998b).
             In order to improve customer's efficiency and increase it market share PeopleSoft announced in May, 2003 that they will support direct integration with the SAP's business applications using PeopleSoft's AppConnect integration technology. This should help or
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