Latest Web 2.0 Prototypes at SAP Inside Track Palo Alto

SAP Inside Track Palo Alto 2009 will be held this week on May 29. It’s a day of community organized sessions for people in SAP technical and functional roles. The sessions are lead by SAP staff and Mentors living in the Bay Area – check out the list of sessions. We’re strong believers in collaboration, and your participation will make this event exceptional. Please share your passion, your latest project/discovery or pet peeve in or around... [Read More...]

Social Network Analyzer Extensions using the API

Ted Ueda, a Senior Engineer with SAP BusinessObjects Technical Customer Assurance, has posted a great piece explaining how to use the SAP BusinessObjects Social Network Analyzer Web Services API to extend functionality and integrate with other applications. I’ve posted the screen shots and a one-line description below. For more explanation and the code samples, checkout Ted’s blog posting. Java Desktop App Integrating SNA with Google Maps: Display... [Read More...]

SAP and Open Social at the Google I/O Developer Conference

John Mayerhofer and Laurent Bride will be talking about SAP’s use of Open Social APIs during the Google I/O Developer Conference, on Thursday May 28th, 12pm – 1pm, as part of a discussion on “OpenSocial in the Enterprise”: In the year and half since OpenSocial’s public launch, there are now over 700 million end users of OpenSocial applications across numerous social sites (containers) around the world. With OpenSocial’s proven... [Read More...]

SAPPHIRE 09 Virtual Event

This is the part of a series of posts looking at Web 2.0 technology in conjunction with last week’s SAPPHIRE ‘09 event in Orlando, Florida. This post looks at using the latest technologies to expand the reach of SAPPHIRE far beyond just the people physically attending. In the last six months, SAP has extensively tested virtual meetings inside the company, for example using the inXpo platform for over 10,000 employees in place of the traditional... [Read More...]

Jonathan Becher’s SAPPHIRE 09 Blog

Jonathan Becher, SVP Marketing for SAP (and my boss), wrote a series of blog postings about the recent SAPPHIRE event. Since these were part of the “Insights at SAPPHIRE” event on the inXpo platform, and the event is now closed, they are no longer accessible. This didn’t strike me a very Web 2.0 result (indeed, I believe this is one big downside of the closed InXpo approach), and we are in the process of figuring out what it would take to get... [Read More...]