Social BI: Jive Chooses SAP’s On-Demand BI Platform
We’re used to seeing IT industry megavendors such as SAP augment their solutions with web 2.0 technology from smaller vendors, but now one of the leading enterprise 2.0 companies is turning to SAP for a cloud computing offers to extend new capabilities to customers. At the Enterprise 2.0 2009 event in Boston, Jive and SAP announced that Jive is going to be a reseller of SAP’s on-demand BI solutions, providing “social BI” to their customers. SAP... [Read More...]
Enterprise 2.0 Must be Aligned with Business Process
Only hours before the first day of the Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston, two of France’s leading software companies announced today that they would be combining social software with traditional business process to create “social innovation”, and help organizations succeed in Enterprise 2.0. BlueKiwi was created in 2006, and is already the leading European provider of enterprise social software, with an on-demand platform that allows organizations... [Read More...]
SAP @ Enterprise 2.0 2009
SAP is a Gold Sponsor of this year’s Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston. Unfortunately, I’m not able to attend this year – here’s what I’ll be missing (least until the online versions are available): Connect. Collaborate. Transform Your Business. Forward looking businesses are using web 2.0 and social tools to achieve new levels of productivity and efficiency in a tough economy. Attend the leading event for business and IT professionals challenging... [Read More...]
SAP Acquires SkyData for Agility and Mobility
On May 25th 2009, SAP acquired innovative startup Skydata, a new type of business mobile “mashup” application that provides fast and easy access to all your business data on RIM, Windows Mobile and Apple iPhone devices. The company is part of SAP’s long-term strategy to support the new “business users” who need to access information from multiple systems easily and intuitively. As SkyData company founder and CEO, Kevin Nix, puts... [Read More...]
What are SAP, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce.com doing with OpenSocial in the Enterprise?
Google has posted videos of all the sessions at the recent Google I/O 2009 developer’s conference. SAP attended as part of the session on “OpenSocial in the Enterprise”). Overall, the session was a little disorganized and meandering, but it did end up giving an overview of what companies like IBM, Oracle, SalesForce.com, and Atlassian are doing to leverage social networking technologies such as OpenSocial within organizations: Mark Weitzel... [Read More...]
