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 match mapping, core SAP systems, SAP BusinessObjects analytics (Xcelsius), and the new 12Sprints collaboration environment, and the system uses collaborative techniques to rate and automatically prompt... [Read More...]
SAP Innovation: Social Networking at the Service of the French Public Sector
France has a plan to put the latest 2.0 technology at the service of its citizens called Le France Numérique 2012. It outlines how the government intends to: Provide everybody access to digital networks and services Develop and provide new digital services Grow the number and usage of digital services by companies, government departments, and individuals Modernize the governance of the digital economy As part of the plan, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet,... [Read More...]
Conversations: SAP Influencer Summit vs. Le Web
I’ve spent the last few days attending – virtually – the SAP Influencer Summit and the Le Web conference in Paris. The two events were very different, but I think there’s some interesting comparisons that can be drawn that point to the future direction of conferences. SAP Influencer Summit Let’s start with the SAP Influencer Summit. You can see the full list of recorded keynote sessions here (registration required). If you’re interested... [Read More...]
Auto-Tweet Directly from PowerPoint And Other Twitter Tool Updates
Another round of updates to the PowerPoint Twitter Tools, including: Auto-tweeting An additional feedback slide An option for secure internal use A customizable text-zooming tool The ability to set up values in advance (for example, to add the tools into a conference template) To access all these tools, please go to the main download page: http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/. Here’s some information about each of the new features: PowerPoint... [Read More...]
SAP’s 12sprints Collaborative Decision-Making Prototype
You can now sign up to be a beta participant of SAP’s 12sprints project, “a collaborative environment for people to make better decisions based on data” or a “people-connecting, data-sharing, decision-making tool that actually sets work in motion.” Early versions of the prototype were glimpsed during demonstrations by Léo Apotheker and Ian Kimbell at SAP SAPPHIRE in Berlin last year, and by Marge Breya at SAP TechEd in Vienna, and the... [Read More...]
SAP’s First Official iPhone Application
Not What You Might Think No, SAP’s first official iPhone application is NOT the BusinessObjects Explorer iPhone Application that Marge Breya demonstrated during the keynote of SAP TechEd Vienna, and which Alexis Naibo of the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center used to win the Demo Jam contest. That application isn’t quite yet available on iTunes (but will be shortly). For more information about this forthcoming application, check out the demonstration... [Read More...]
We’ve Come a Long Way — Summary of Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco 2009 Opening Keynotes
It’s a sunny Fall morning in San Francisco, and Steve Wylie of TechWeb kicked off the first San Francisco version of the E2.0 event, talking about the changes he’s seen over the last few years. In particular, he pointed to the the rich case studies, larger vendors, and dedicated service providers that are present at today’s event as evidence of the industry’s increasing maturity. Tammy Erickson, President of nGenera Innovation, started her... [Read More...]
Too Scared to Use the PowerPoint Twitter Tools? Moderation, Updating, New Options
I’ve posted a new set of tools to the PowerPoint Twitter Tools pages. The new features include: Moderated tweets New tool to tweet directly from PowerPoint New “mood meter” tool New voting pie chart tool Moderated Tweets and New Feedback Slide Options Are you scared of your audience? Me neither. But when I recently asked several senior executives if they were interested in using the PowerPoint Twitter Tools in their conference presentations,... [Read More...]
SAP’s Gravity Prototype: Business Collaboration Using Google Wave
Alexander Dreiling of SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia, has posted on a great prototype called Gravity that uses Google Wave to collaborate around business process. Gravity is a Google Wave “gadget” that can be added within the Google Wave client. It lets participants in a wave use the business process modeling functionality of SAP Business Process Management collaboratively, in near-real time. David Cook called it “the best business example... [Read More...]
PowerPoint Twitter Tools Update: Make Some Noise!
New versions of the PowerPoint Twitter Tools, built using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius, are now available. If you’re using the PowerPoint template with the embedded widgets from this web site, you will automatically get the new versions. To access the new tools, download the PowerPoint templates from the main page. More detailed instructions are available here. New tool: PowerPoint Crowd Meter When you want to take a break from using Twitter for... [Read More...]
