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...]
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...]
Web 2.0 Presentation Tools from SAP – Integrate Twitter into PowerPoint!
In today’s web 2.0 world, sometimes the presenter on stage is the only one who doesn’t know what the audience is thinking – because everybody else is viewing the Twitter stream. These new prototypes fix that problem, allowing you to give presentations in web 2.0 style, with the comments from your audience appearing directly on the screen, in real time, during your presentation! Based on the SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius dashboarding technology,... [Read More...]
SAP and The 2.0 Adoption Council
As part of my role helping evangelize the use of social media within SAP , I am a proud member of the 2.0 Adoption Council, a group devoted to creating and sharing best practices in Enterprise 2.0 adoption (see the “Web 2.0 in SAP” section of this site for more information about internal Web 2.0 deployments at SAP). As explained on the council website at www.20adoptioncouncil.com, the council members are: …a collection of managers in large... [Read More...]
Integrating SAP and Google Wave, And The Context-Based Future of Business User Applications
Now that the Google Wave “sandbox” environment is widely available (see Starting with Google Wave if you need more background information), we’re starting to see some great examples of integrations between Google Wave and SAP systems. DJ Adams’ great post on SDN shows how he built a robot to intercept SAP-specific references in a Google Wave conversation, and use that information to automatically augment the conversation. In this case, 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...]
