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...]
Web 2.0 Performance Appraisal (Cartoon)
Collaborative Web 2.0 Innovation With SAP
There’s increasing awareness that collaboration with customers, partners, and other experts is essential in order to build the right products in the future. To do this, SAP has built a community ecosystem for innovation. In addition to the community sites for individuals to share information about industry expertise, business processes, SAP development, and SAP BusinessObjects, there are two technology lab organizations dedicated to getting input... [Read More...]
Twittermania? (Cartoon)
The Web 2.0 Manager (Cartoon)
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...]
Digital Native Test
If the image below automatically sets your teeth on edge, you’re probably a baby boomer. If it takes you some time to work out, you’re probably Gen X. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, congratulations, you may well be a digital native! If you see the problem here, you're probably NOT a digital native... Image credit: photoshop disasters blog Read More →
SAP’s New Cloud Platform
SAP has purchased a cloud computing company, Coghead, a “next generation platform for building web applications.” The vendor was struggling in the current economic climate, SAP Ventures had previously invested in the company, and the company already offered integration with SAP environments. “SAP is one of the premier tech companies in the world and we’re really happy this transaction took place,” said Coghead CEO Paul McNamara... [Read More...]
Social Networking @ SAP
In 2007, SAP announced at the Sapphire event that it was getting serious about Web 2.0 within SAP, using new technologies to help “shift from a top-down, technically rigid structure to a more fluid, informal way of thinking with a certain trust in that people can find workable solutions to their problems.” Attendees were impressed. For example, Jerry Bowles noted a blog post called SAP to Enterprise 2.0 Community: We Get It: “Having spent a... [Read More...]
