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...]
Did You Think You Were the Only One Not Doing It?
If you thought you were the only one not doing enterprise social networking, Mike Gotta of The Burton Group can reassure you. In a recently published study called “Social Networking Within the Enterprise” (registration required), he explains: Study participants felt that they were behind their competitors—or the market in general—when it came to their social networking initiatives. Based on the results of this field research project, Burton... [Read More...]
BI in Brussels (Against Economic Turmoil)
I’m just returning from Brussels (actually, the new SAP Lounge venue at Vilvoorde), where I was invited to give the keynote presentation at a “Reporting and Business Intelligence Session” for SAP customers, on the theme of “How to use Business Intelligence to Counter Economic Turmoil.” (Side note: This post was composed and uploaded over the free wifi while traveling at around 190 miles an hour – I’m proud to be European!) Apart... [Read More...]
Social Networking Analytics
SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center has just unveiled a great new prototype called Social Network Analyzer (SNA). It aggregates existing enterprise data, using business intelligence techniques to display and discover organizational relationships There have already been lots of products available to visualize public social networks such as Twitter. But up until now, there hasn’t been any technology designed from scratch to let people analyze corporate... [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...]
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