http://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/weblogs.sdn?blog=/pub/u/5154 SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs by Eric Wood © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP.com en-us http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/5768 I've started a new wiki page to track all the widget engines out there that are suitable for Enterprise use. Please take a look at this nascent wiki page and start sharing your experience with everyone else. <a href="https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/EmTech/Widget+Engines+for+Enterprise+Use" target="_top">Widget Engines for Enterprise Use</a> Eric Wood Emerging Technologies, Service-Oriented Architecture, JavaScript, SAP Developer Network, Widgets en-us 2007-02-02T14:24-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2007 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/5669 An update: Its been a while since we started publicly talking about the Enterprise Widget Foundation and based on the community’s input we've built it. So why can't you simply download it now? Also- a link to the Foundation wiki page. Eric Wood Emerging Technologies, Service-Oriented Architecture, JavaScript, Widgets en-us 2007-01-24T23:06-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2007 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/5225 The question of auto-updating individual widgets has been settled for some time now- a resounding YES! But what about the underlying service application residing on the client? The question bouncing around the team lately: To build in auto-update for the Enterprise Widget Foundation or not? Eric Wood Widgets en-us 2006-12-10T23:14-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2006 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/5075 Well it looks like we have a pretty stable build of the SAP Enterprise Widget Foundation. I'm looking for a few people who are interested in trying it out and giving us feedback. Details on Foundation and how to participate are in this post. Eric Wood Service-Oriented Architecture, JavaScript, PHP, Scripting Languages, Emerging Technologies, Widgets en-us 2006-11-25T22:30-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2006 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/5062 After working with enterprise widgets for some time I have observed that successful examples have all had at least one of the following attributes. Eric Wood Service-Oriented Architecture, Emerging Technologies, Widgets en-us 2006-11-24T00:39-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2006 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/5029 SAP is sponsoring a small conference about Web 2.0 in the Enterprise in Palo Alto on November 30 called "Challenge-The-Expert - Web 2.0: Where are the Opportunities in the Enterprise Space?." The idea is to bring together innovators in Web 2.0 and Enterprise software to discuss opportunities in the Enterprise space. I've been to a few of these events facilitated by the World Internet Center and they've been very interesting. If their past events are any indication, I suggest going. I have no idea why the event is called "Challenge-The-Expert" though. Eric Wood Beyond SAP, Service-Oriented Architecture, PHP, Ruby, Scripting Languages, Widgets en-us 2006-11-21T18:21-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2006 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/4671 So, I didn't start this post as a manifesto for Enterprise 2.0, but it started to resemble one once I finished. During the last few years, something has shifted in the Enterprise Software market that is turing 30 year old thinking on its head. And I'm proud to say, SAP is one of the movers. Eric Wood Beyond SAP, Composition Environment (CE), Service-Oriented Architecture, JavaScript, Ruby, SAP xApps, Widgets en-us 2006-10-11T14:13-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2006 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/4539 One of the first challenges I've been trying to tackle on the topic of widgets is the concept of "trust". If we have people publishing their own widgets (as I hope we do), then end-users and IT professionals alike will need some way of knowing whether or not to trust a widget before and during installation. Here's what I've been thinking so far. Let me know what you think about it. Eric Wood Beyond SAP, Service-Oriented Architecture, JavaScript, Scripting Languages, Emerging Technologies, Widgets en-us 2006-09-25T18:25-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2006 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/4449 This thing I like about widgets is how eminently hackable they are. Twenty four hours after the <a href="http://www.sapteched.com/usa/edu_sessions/widget.htm" target="_blank">TechEd Schedule Widget</a> was launched, someone had already ported it to Apple’s Dashboard. How’s that for community development? Eric Wood Emerging Technologies, JavaScript, SAP TechEd, Scripting Languages, Widgets en-us 2006-09-15T14:16-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2006 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/4415 Its Friday afternoon and you want to publish a small application to 10,000 desktops by Monday night. Oh, and all you have are a napkin sketch and two interns. Here’s the story of how we made the <a href="http://www.sapteched.com/usa/edu_sessions/widget.htm" target="_blank">TechEd Schedule widget</a> that Shai mentioned in his keynote at TechEd ’06 Las Vegas. Eric Wood Beginner, Beyond SAP, Composition Environment (CE), Consumer Products, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Portal (EP), Service-Oriented Architecture, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SAP TechEd, Scripting Languages, Community Day, Standards, Widgets en-us 2006-09-15T13:08-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2006 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP