Category: Web 2.0 by SAP

  • SAP’s Position on On-Demand, Social Networking, and Cloud Computing

    SAP’s Position on On-Demand, Social Networking, and Cloud Computing

    Here are some highlights of SAP’s directions in on-demand applications, social networking, and cloud computing, in the words of the leaders of these initiatives at SAP

  • SAP Business By Design Adds Third-Party Web Services

    SAP Business By Design Adds Third-Party Web Services

    SAP today announced new collaboration agreements that allow SAP Business ByDesign users to more easily leverage web services from third-party providers

  • Social BI: Jive Chooses SAP’s On-Demand BI Platform

    Social BI: Jive Chooses SAP’s On-Demand BI Platform

    At the Enterprise 2.0 2009 event in Boston, Jive and SAP announced that Jive is going to be a reseller of SAP’s on-demand BI solutions, providing “social BI” to their customers. Here’s why BI is essential for Enterprise 2.0 initiatives.

  • SAP Acquires SkyData for Agility and Mobility

    SAP Acquires SkyData for Agility and Mobility

    On May 25th 2009, SAP acquired innovative startup Skydata, a new type of business mobile “mashup” application that provides fast and easy access to all your business data on RIM, Windows Mobile and Apple iPhone devices, as part of SAP’s long-term strategy to support the new “business users” who need to access information from multiple…

  • What are SAP, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce.com doing with OpenSocial in the Enterprise?

    What are SAP, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce.com doing with OpenSocial in the Enterprise?

    At the recent Google I/O 2009 developer’s conference, SAP, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce.com and Atlassian gave quick demonstrations of how they are leveraging social networking technologies such as OpenSocial within organizations.

  • Latest Web 2.0 Prototypes at SAP Inside Track Palo Alto

    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,…

  • Social Network Analyzer Extensions using the API

    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…

  • SAP and Open Social at the Google I/O Developer Conference

    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…

  • SAP Social Network Analyzer Prototype

    SAP Social Network Analyzer Prototype

    SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center has just unveiled an Social Network Analyzer prototype. It aggregates existing enterprise data to display and discover organizational relationships and provides the missing link between social networking platforms and enterprise information systems. It provides social networking collaboration that will be a key feature of the future generation of “business user” applications.

  • Collaborative Web 2.0 Innovation With SAP

    SAP has a network of communities to help collaboratively develop future solutions. In particular, there are two technology Labs that are working on Web 2.0 technology by leveraging Web 2.0 collaborative techniques.