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 Position on On-Demand, Social Networking, and Cloud Computing

The last few months has seen a lot of coverage of SAP’s directions on Web 2.0 technology including on-demand applications, social networking, and cloud computing. Here are some highlights, in the words of the leaders of these initiatives at SAP. On-Demand Phil Wainewright reported on SAP executive VP John Wookey’s presentation at the OnDemand Europe Conference in June: “On demand is the next stage in the evolution of application development... [Read More...]

SAP CTO Shares Web 2.0 Vision

In a recent interview with SearchSAP.com’s news editor Courtney Bjorlin, SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka explained that mobile applications, the cloud and virtualization will be key technologies in SAP’s product roadmap. Here are some key excerpts from the article: Entire economies going mobile in the next several years and companies running almost exclusively on mobile environments. So the way in which people access and support those applications... [Read More...]