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...]

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...]

SAP Social Network Analyzer Prototype

[update -- there's now a v2 available] SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center has just unveiled a prototype of some great new Web 2.0 technology called Social Network Analyzer (SNA). It aggregates existing enterprise data to display and discover organizational relationships. It provides the missing link between social networking platforms and enterprise information systems, by letting organizations leveraging data available in corporate information... [Read More...]