BlogWell 2010: SAP’s Social Media Strategy
[Post adapted from an article written by Jerry Janda] On Tuesday, November 9, SAP hosted an event for social media in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. A sold-out crowd of corporate social media leaders packed the auditorium for “BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media.” The BlogWell conference featured eight case studies on the best social media programs at large corporations. GasPedal, a consulting company specializing in “word-of-mouth”... [Read More...]
SAP TechEd Berlin 2010 – Vishal Sikka Keynote Highlights
In true Web 2.0 fashion, I’m attending the SAP TechEd event in Berlin by watching the virtual TechEd stream, with live coverage of the main keynotes and interviews in key areas. You can watch a replay yourself on the Virtual TechEd site. The session started off with the new (excellent) “run better” SAP ad, featuring a wide selection of SAP customers: Mark Yolton then stepped up on stage to welcome the crowd and members of the SAP Community... [Read More...]
Why Go To The Office Anyway?
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 BI future directions presentations: that for the first time in centuries, new technology comes from the consumer world, not from governments and businesses, and so we need to adapt and adopt these technologies... [Read More...]
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 let you store them in your Evernote account. Everything you upload is automatically processed, indexed, and made searchable (for example, if you take a picture of some text, Evernote automatically... [Read More...]
Video: SAP Business ByDesign Made Simple
[UPDATED]. Apologies. This used to be a quick, irreverent overview of the brand-new cloud-based, software-as-a-service ERP offering from SAP, featuring the graphics you can see above. But the video was declared off-brand, and has been deleted from YouTube by SAP. The following video is offered instead, with all of the original humor deleted. 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 on this site. Why the name? It’s a variant on “workstream”, which according to Wikipedia is: “A flow of output, the activities and transactions, that a worker produces as they go about their... [Read More...]
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 – Web 2.0 products and services SAP provides to customers Web 2.0 with SAP – how SAP uses Web 2.0 techniques to interact with our customers and partners Web 2.0 at SAP – how SAP uses Web 2.0... [Read More...]
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 on a Google Nexus One Android phone. These are all screenshots taken from a working proof of concept, shown as an example of the type of functionality business users might have access to in the future... [Read More...]
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 decision-making brings together: People – Get everyone on the same page Information – Share documents and data all in plain view Methods – Provide structure with business... [Read More...]
