{"id":12002,"date":"2009-02-17T20:46:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapweb20.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-02-17T20:46:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:46:57","slug":"social_networking_at_sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/social_networking_at_sap.html","title":{"rendered":"Social Networking @ SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2007, SAP announced at the Sapphire event that it was getting serious about Web 2.0 within SAP, using new technologies to help \u201cshift 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attendees were impressed. For example, Jerry Bowles noted a blog post called SAP to Enterprise 2.0 Community: We Get It<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving spent a lot of time talking with a number of SAP executives at SAPPHIRE in Atlanta earlier this week, I\u2019m delighted to report that SAP is one of those forward-looking giants that get it.\u00a0 Big time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shortly after Sapphire, Steve Mann, who leads Social Media Strategy for SAP, posted a document on his AbleBrains blog<\/a> authored by the Social Media Today<\/a>: \u201cSAP: A Company Transforms Itself Through Social Media<\/a>\u201d, which outlined the success of SAP\u2019s community efforts such as SDN<\/a> and BPX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Everybody in Harmony<\/h2>\n

One of the first initiatives was a self-developed internal service called \u201cHarmony<\/a>\u201d. Designed as a \u201cFacebook for the Enterprise\u201d, it has been running as a pilot since April 2007. It includes user profiles and skill sets, and lets users build ad-hoc groups with discussion forums. It has more than accomplished its goals of bringing people together around a number of topics, both personal and professional.<\/p>\n

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Preparing for the Future with a Unified Approach<\/h2>\n

Harmony has been very successful, with over 7,000 members. But there are also other Web 2.0 platforms internally, such as wikis on the corporate internal portal using Confluence<\/a> software. In addition, SAP has a strong partnership with Adobe<\/a> and provides Adobe Connect<\/a> collaboration rooms for employees. In order to be sure of getting the right platform for the future, and taking into account the explosion of enterprise social networking vendors in recent years, SAP decided to implement a formal process for choosing a unified approach for the company.<\/p>\n

A series of internal surveys and meetings were used to create a request for proposal (RFP) to the major software vendors in the space. This was then topped up with Twitter announcements that generated another 11 other submissions. \"image\"<\/a> \"image\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a vendor, and haven\u2019t already submitted, I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s too late. As soon as we have more public news of what platform has been chosen (and Harmony is still one of the options), I\u2019ll let you know\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Sapphire two years ago, SAP talked a lot about Web 2.0 and the new “Harmony” internal social networking tool. Where is SAP today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[565,911,991,1136],"class_list":["post-12002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web20_in_sap","tag-harmony","tag-sap","tag-social-networking","tag-web-2-0"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/harmonyscreenshots-1.jpg?fit=690%2C247&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-37A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}