New Augmented Corporate Reality BI Prototype

Based on a blog post and proof-of-concept application earlier this year, I have been championing a SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center project to build an “augmented corporate reality” prototype. The idea stemmed from one of the key themes of my... 

New Evernote Trunk Features SAP StreamWork Decision Collaboration

Evernote is a great Web 2.0 application that is focused on “helping the world remember everything”. It lets you grab information on the fly, such as notes, web pages links, photos, etc. from a variety of different devices (PC, Blackberry, etc.) and... 

Video: SAP Business ByDesign Made Simple

Here’s a short video that gives a quick, irreverent overview of the brand-new cloud-based, software-as-a-service ERP offering from SAP.    Read More →

Introducing SAP StreamWork: New Decision Collaboration

It’s now official: SAP has released its brand-new Web 2.0 product called StreamWork. The project was initially called “Constellation” within SAP, and was first exposed to beta customers on the web site 12sprints.com, as covered in earlier postings... 

SAP and Web 2.0 in a Nutshell, Summarized and Explained

I believe SAP is an under-appreciated leader in the Web 2.0 space, and this blog attempts to explain why. First, I should first point out that there are three distinct categories you can talk about SAP interacting with Web 2.0 technology: Web 2.0 by... 

SAP Augmented Corporate Reality Proof of Concept

[UPDATE: See this post for the soon-to-be released prototype from the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center] Here’s an example of “augmented corporate reality” based on the Layar platform and the SAP BusinessObjects ondemand.com platform, running... 

Some Examples of How to Use 12sprints, The New SAP Collaborative Decision-Making Application

SAP’s decision-focused collaboration project, 12sprints, is now in “open beta”, so that anybody can sign up. Here’s the blurb from the web site explaining what it is: Bring order to chaos and transform teamwork into results quickly. Collaborative... 

SAP Supply Chain Augmented Reality

SAP TV gives us a great example of supply chain augmented reality, with “SiWear”    Read More →

SAP Innovation: Enterprise Mashup Prototype, Rooftop Marketplace

Here’s a video explaining the new Rooftop Marketplace Prototype from SAP Research in Switzerland. It shows how you can easily wire together the outputs and inputs of different mashup widgets to create an application workflow. You can easily mix and...