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Critical Infrastructure Protection - Air Transportation
During critical infrastructure outages, we realize that no matter who owns the asset or industry Government must respond. Anthony McKinney in Aerospace and Defense, Co-Innovation Lab, Defense, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Public Sector, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Research, Security [Nov. 19, 2009 08:44 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Competitive Pressures and Value Propositions, Is Lean the Answer?
The latest kick is Lean and Six Sigma but in most cases that will not make the difference in addressing competitive pressures or your value proposition. Focus on business drivers for your SAP implementation before the project, throughout the project, and after go-live to see real benefit. Bill Wood in Analytics, Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, ERP, SAP Developer Network, SAP Research [Nov. 18, 2009 07:13 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

An unconventional use of SAP Text Analysis
SAP Research has recently released the first ever iPhone SAP application in the AppStore. The application demonstrates the power of SAP BusinessObjects Text Analysis in a very surprising scenario. Read more to find out what the application does and how to get it (it's free of charge!). Dr. Marek Kowalkiewicz in Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Consumer Products, SAP Research, SAP TechEd, Search, Widgets [Nov. 11, 2009 06:51 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Fighting crime and terrorism with a prototype of advanced integrated analytics capabilities for police agencies
SAP Research France demonstrates in this blog entry how combining latest social network analysis technologies from the SAP Business Objects Innovation Center together with the Investigation Case Management system helps police organizations to speed up their investigation processes. Cedric Ulmer in Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Defense, Emerging Technologies, Public Sector, Security, SAP Research [Nov. 06, 2009 02:24 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

What's your role in the "Clean Tech Revolution"
Energy Efficiency has the potential to build whole new industries and create millions of new jobs. Learn what the leaders from SAP, PG&E and the US EPA discussed as Innovations and Opportunities in this space at a recent Churchill Club and GABA event hosted by and at SAP. Christine Puccio in Business Process Expert, Co-Innovation Lab, Emerging Technologies, SAP Research, Sustainability [Nov. 04, 2009 05:17 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Community-focused BPM: Lessons Learned from SAP’s Enterprise Services Community
This blog continues my exploration of Social BPM and focuses on the problems associated with BPM communities as well as suggests a possible basis for successful BPM work in this context based on the experience gained in the SAP's Enterprise Services Community. Richard Hirsch in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Service Community, Ranting, SAP Research, Standards [Oct. 22, 2009 08:33 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Trust Architecture for Securely Shared Services: The TAS3 project
Towards a Trusted Internet ! Citizens must be empowered to manage their personal data, understand who and how it is being used, and moreover know that they won't be lost or exploited by any unauthorised and untrusted party. In this blog entry, we present the TAS3 project addressing this topic. Magali Seguran in Security, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP Research [Oct. 13, 2009 10:27 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Using SAP to improve Revenue and Profitability
ROI from SAP - part of a series defining how to use the SAP application suite for delivering real ROI and business beneft. Top IT priorities in the last few year's from CIO surveys have shown that partnering in business growth are key areas for future SAP work. SAP focus is being directed to revenue and profitability, customer retention and acquisition, and a whole host of business centered success measures as key application objectives. SAP CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs are now looking to see SAP deliver real ROI and real business benefit. The SAP application suite is more than capable with the right approach and the right people. This series explores some of those techniques. Bill Wood in Analytics, Ranting, ERP, Enterprise Performance Management, CRM, Business Solutions, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Business Intelligence (BI), Beyond SAP, SAP Research [Oct. 05, 2009 07:44 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Opportunities for INNOVATION - SAP, HELLO?
What if there were some really, really great ideas on how to dramatically change the SAP ERP application for far greater success in the marketplace? What if it would make a significant change in the usefulness of the application?What if it could be done with almost completely pre-existing functions, functionality, and code that SAP already has but has not done a good job themselves of integrating? A low cost, high benefit, game changing scenario in the ERP application space. What if these changes demonstrated enough benefit to create a compelling case for version upgrades without expiring support as the reason? Bill Wood in ABAP, SAP Developer Network, Ranting, Organizational Change Management, ERP, Co-Innovation Lab, Business Solutions, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Beyond SAP, SAP Research [Oct. 05, 2009 07:26 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Model-driven Runtime Monitoring of Service-Oriented Architectures – The MASTER Project Part II
In this blog entry, we continue our presentation of the benefits that the EU MASTER project brings to companies in the area of compliance. In particular, we explain the methodology and translation process from constraints and control objectives that are defined at an high-level of abstraction towards languages used to configure runtime components in the MASTER architecture. Theodoor SCHOLTE in Business Process Management, Governance, Risk and Compliance, SAP Research, Security, Service-Oriented Architecture [Oct. 03, 2009 09:43 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

[Visitors Day] Future Factory offers two more visitors days in October and November 2009
This article contains an invitation to two more visitors days in the Future Factory Lab of SAP Research Center Dresden. Antje Boehm-Peters in Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, SAP Research [Oct. 03, 2009 09:41 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Usage Report (1): Google Wave Gadget 'Gravity' - Process Design and a New Collaboration Style
This blog describes my first impressions after using the Google Wave process design gadget. I talk about the new collaborative style in this environment as it relates to process design and suggest some ideas for process-related Google Wave robots. Richard Hirsch in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Modeling, Emerging Technologies, Ranting, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Research, SAP TechEd [Oct. 01, 2009 06:20 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Some Reasons SAP Projects are Over Budget and Over Time
You're doing everything right. You've got executive support and sponsorship, a solid budget, you've been through a grueling vendor selection process, your scope is reasonable, you're using Solution Manager or following the ASAP methodology, but somehow your project is always in chaos. You're still doing lots of design work as you are ready to start integration testing. Something is wrong and you know it. Where is the problem and why are you headed for a blown budget and timeline? Bill Wood in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Solutions, CRM, ERP, Organizational Change Management, Professional Services, Ranting, SAP Research [Sep. 30, 2009 08:17 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Why SAP Projects Fail to Deliver ROI (and how to change it)
Achieving and realizing ROI with SAP by changing the way implementations or upgrades are currently done. Part of a series on strategy based SAP implementations and the requirements for defining strategy-based success criteria. Bill Wood in Analytics, Organizational Change Management, Knowledge Management (KM), ERP, Enterprise Performance Management, Business Solutions, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Business Objects, Business Intelligence (BI), Beyond SAP, SAP Research [Sep. 24, 2009 11:53 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

The UA positive feedback loop
The UA Program is a means to create a positive feedback loop that enables universities, industry and students to make ever greater enhancements to their teaching, learning and research experience. Martin Gollogly in Beginner, SAP Research, SAP Developer Network, Public Sector, Integration and Certification, Business Process Expert, Beyond SAP, University Alliances Message Board, Manufacturing, Knowledge Management (KM), Higher Education, ERP, Community Projects, Community Day, Co-Innovation Lab, Sustainability [Sep. 18, 2009 12:32 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Model-driven Runtime Monitoring of Service-Oriented Architectures - The MASTER Project Part I
In this blog entry, we continue our presentation on the benefits that the EU MASTER project brings to companies in the area of compliance. In particular, we explain the specific needs from companies, the way these needs can be addressed, and a particular research topic related to the configuration of compliance management tools for Service-Oriented Architectures. Theodoor SCHOLTE in Security, Business Process Management, Governance, Risk and Compliance, SAP Research, Service-Oriented Architecture [Sep. 17, 2009 11:55 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Enjoy NetWeaver BPM - Part 2: A Gravity Wave Comes to Galaxy
The blog posting provides you with some background information and a sneak preview onto "Gravity", a collaborative business process modeling platform, based on Google Wave. Soeren Balko in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Composition Environment (CE), Eclipse, SAP Research, SAP TechEd, Service-Oriented Architecture [Sep. 04, 2009 08:01 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Gravity – Collaborative Business Process Modelling within Google Wave
Gravity is a prototype developed by SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia and SAP NetWeaver Development providing real-time, cloud-based collaborative business process modelling within Google Wave. Google Wave is Google's new real-time collaboration platform that combines features of e-mail, social networking, wikis and instant messaging in one integrated browser-based client. Alexander Dreiling in Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Composition Environment (CE), Consumer Products, Enterprise Service Community, Insurance, Interoperability, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Research, Business Process Expert [Sep. 02, 2009 11:56 PM | 38 Comments | Audio Download Media | Permalink]

Best Paper Award at SecurWare'09
SAP Research Sophia Antipolis (France) is proud to announce that Paul El-Khoury, Gomez Laurent, Dr. Laube Annett and Alessandro Sorniotti won the Best Paper Award at the SecurWare conference for their paper: “A Security Pattern for Untraceable Secret Handshakes“. This paper is the result of a joint work between two European research project Serenity and WASP. Laurent Gomez in SAP Research, Security [Jul. 23, 2009 09:32 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Inter-organizational Disaster Process Management
Over the last years we have seen a rise in disasters, let it be natural disasters or man-made disasters, such as hurricane Katrina or terrorism. The situation after a disaster is by definition chaotic and requires a rigorous approach to manage the chaos. Public security organizations have developed various methods for implementing such an approach. Although disaster process management is an important part of this, it has only recently received attention. We write about our research on inter-organizational disaster process management, which has not been addressed by research yet. Joern FRANKE in Aerospace and Defense, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Defense, Emerging Technologies, Public Sector, SAP Research [Jul. 23, 2009 07:04 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Rise of the ‘Unreasonable’ Man: Wal-Mart and Sustainability
Wal-Mart's decision to measure social and environmental impact of all products it sells in collaboration with the just announced Sustainability Consortium is a bold and audacious step by the $400+ Billion retailer into the complexity of global sustainability practices. Mohamed Amer in SAP Research, Wholesale Distribution, Sustainability, Standards, Service-Oriented Architecture, Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Consumer Products, ERP, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Mobile, Organizational Change Management, Public Sector, Retail, RFID, SAP Process Integration (PI), Travel and Logistics Services [Jul. 20, 2009 09:08 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Unit of Measurement for Assignments in OM - Part II
Unit of Measurement - Limitations for measuring more dynamic assignments in OM Vinod Jose in SAP Research [Jul. 16, 2009 08:00 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Technical Innovation for Peace and Prosperity
SAP CTO Vishal Sikka shares some thoughts on the role of technology and the unique ability to create value that is durable and leads to a sustainable society. Vishal Sikka in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network, SAP Research, Sustainability, University Alliances Message Board [Jul. 13, 2009 03:30 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Worldwide Sensor Data Monitoring
In order to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating sensor nodes with SAP technology, SAP Research France stepped up to build a demo dashboard based on technologies (Event Driven Business Intelligent, and Xcelsius® software ) that integrates IP-based sensor nodes across all types of global physical networks, including IPv6 and IPv4. Laurent Gomez in Business Objects, Interoperability, Standards, SAP Research [Jul. 08, 2009 02:56 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Unit of Measurement for Assignments in OM
Unit of measurement for assignments for a Person (Object P) in Organization Management (OM). Vinod Jose in SAP Research [Jun. 30, 2009 08:53 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Accelerating ABAP Development with Power of Scripts, Templates, Cockpits, Code Generators & Runtime Engines - Part I
The SAP software development involves implementation of increasingly complex applications. The standard programming techniques that use 3GL languages like ABAP are a little help in making the development process faster and developed applications smaller and easier to maintain. This document describes how to accelerate ABAP development by at least an order of magnitude with power of 4GL scripts, templates, cockpits, code generators and/or runtime engines. The same techniques apply to other development environments and languages; e.g., Java, C/C++. Adam Baryla in ABAP, Emerging Technologies, ERP, SAP Research, Scripting Languages, Widgets [Jun. 29, 2009 07:41 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

What's the SAP Green IT Community Up to?
The SAP Green IT Community is working on the identification and clarification of customer requirements around Green IT, on the generation of a shared map of solutions and services for Green IT from SAP and partners, and on identifying opportunities within the community for co-innovation, co-development and standardization. These are some notes and observations of mine as I participated in the third session. Christine Puccio in Business Process Expert, Community Projects, Enterprise Service Community, SAP Research, Sustainability [Jun. 29, 2009 07:32 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

On Building Trust in Automation of IT Systems Management (Pt. 1)
There are many known advantages of automating IT system management. However, there still seem to be many inhibitors for various organisations adopting 'full automation', in spite of the measurable benefits. This blog discusses some views on why these inhibitors exist and proposes a set of principles for addressing them. Subsequent blogs will expand on these principles. Philip Robinson in SAP Research [Jun. 11, 2009 10:16 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Rural Merchants Go Mobile
Thanks to the Collaboration@Rural project, SAP enables small grocers in rural South Africa to sell the goods, their customers actually need - through a mobile delivery system. Jason Lax in Sustainability, Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, Mobile, Retail, SAP Research, Wholesale Distribution [Jun. 08, 2009 07:37 AM | 2 Comments | Audio Download Media | Permalink]

Mixing Jack and Coke Good, Mixing Production and Non-Production Systems - Not Good
Brown-Forman partners with Sun Microsystems and adopts a virtualization strategy for SAP CRM - taking consolidation to the limit. Savings on space, energy and operational costs are achieved. Christine Puccio in Business Suite 7, SAP SAPPHIRE, SAP Research, SAP Developer Network, Retail, Open Source, Manufacturing, ERP, Enterprise Service Community, CRM, Sustainability [Jun. 08, 2009 05:56 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Enforcing Security in Smart Homes using Security Patterns
Tenants' top priority is the feeling of living safely and securely in their traditional as well as smart homes. While walls provided the right for privacy in traditional homes, providing privacy in smart homes need to be addressed on a stronger footing! In this blog entry we present a socio-technical security solution, captured as security pattern, for providing privacy in smart homes as part of a telemedicine prototype presented at the Information Communication Technology and published in the International Journal on Smart Homes. Paul EL KHOURY in Healthcare, Interoperability, SAP Research, Security, Service-Oriented Architecture [May. 25, 2009 01:13 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

MASTER project - Compliance Facilitator
SOA brings flexibility and agility to the business in order to address new market opportunities. In the cloudiness of those new business processes, entrepreneurs, in addition to prove their businesses are lucrative, will have to prove that their businesses are sustainable. MASTER will facilitate this demonstration. Emmanuel Pigout in Banking, Service-Oriented Architecture, Security, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Research, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Public Sector, International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), Identity Management, Healthcare, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Sustainability [May. 19, 2009 07:19 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Hands-on mobile apps with “Ajax weaver” and Red Hat at SAPPHIRE
The Ajax composition platform "Ajax weaver" will be available for you at SAPPHIRE on Red Hat booth. Come and do some hands-on application composition, and run it on your smart phone's browser! Nolwen Mahe in Emerging Technologies, JavaScript, Mobile, SAP Research, SAP SAPPHIRE, Scripting Languages [May. 11, 2009 12:58 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Employment related Scenario to illustrate issues with combining web services with privacy policies
We present a scenario that looks at the problem of composing web services that contain privacy policies. Stuart SHORT in SAP Research [May. 08, 2009 05:12 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Internet of Services + Internet of Things? Internet of Objects!
Let us see where we can go if we want to merge Internet of Things and Internet of Services. Let us be bolder than the current trend of exposing sensors and applications as services. We scratch here the surface of what it would mean to enable the accessibility of any object (virtual or physical) via the internet through universally adopted web technologies. Cedric Ulmer in Beyond SAP, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP Research, Ruby, Public Sector, Mobile, Interoperability, Enterprise Service Community, Emerging Technologies, Business Objects, Standards [May. 08, 2009 05:09 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Inside Track Palo Alto
The SAP Inside Track (formerly known as: SDN Meets Lab, SDN Day, Community Day) are mostly community organized local events. We have now our own site to organize our events: http://sapinsidetrack.org.
The next one is on Friday May 29 at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. It is shaping up to be a really great one. The best thing is, it is free and open to the public. Sign up now! Mark Finnern in Community Day, Emerging Technologies, SAP Research [May. 08, 2009 04:49 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

WWW 20
With little fanfare, the World Wide Web recently celebrated its 20th anniversary! I found out about this while listening to... Jason Lax in Business Process Expert, Open Source, SAP Developer Network, SAP Research [Apr. 30, 2009 01:23 AM | 0 Comments | Audio Download Media | Permalink]

What are they thinking!?! Part 2 about Sustainability
What’s on the minds of the CIO’s of the worlds biggest chemical companies? This blog is about the CEAC, the Chemical Executive Advisory Council which includes companies like BASF, Bayer, Dow, Dupont, AkzoNobel and SAP. In Part One, we talked about the importance of TCO for chemical companies and about eSOA. Here in Part Two we talk about how sustainability is affecting chemical companies. Franz Hero in Business Process Expert, Chemicals, Sustainability, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Manufacturing, Mining and Metal, Oil and Gas, SAP Research [Apr. 14, 2009 11:53 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Certification Survey Results - Data Matters
I was really excited to get my hands on the survey results collected by Michael Koch (@pixelbase on Twitter), who conducted a survey of 130 SAP contractors and freelancers. I’m hoping to do a podcast with Michael soon to delve further into his results, which were compiled with the help of other SAP Mentors like Nigel James and presented at SAP Inside Track London on March 4, 2009. Jon Reed in SAP Research, Business Process Expert [Apr. 09, 2009 08:21 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Enterprise Microblogging SAP Research Result
The other week Dirk Rhiele from SAP Research together with Oliver Guenther from the Humboldt University Berlin presented their preliminary research results into Enterprise Microblogging. Mark Finnern in SAP Research, Beyond SAP [Apr. 07, 2009 02:07 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

PrimeLife project: Bringing Sustainable Privacy and Identity Management to Future Networks and Services
Primelife, which we present in this blog entry, will resolve the core privacy and trust issues pertaining to these challenges Slim TRABELSI in SAP Research, Identity Management, Community Projects, Business Process Management [Apr. 06, 2009 10:16 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Sensor Data Processing Based on an Ontological Middleware for Healthcare Application
In the area of healthcare, we present today a novel approach for sensor data processing in order to derive abstract level information (such as health condition) based on patient's physiological data (e.g. pulse, temperature). Laurent Gomez in Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Emerging Technologies, Healthcare, Mobile, SAP Research [Mar. 31, 2009 08:42 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

New from SAP Research: Blue Ruby - a Ruby VM in ABAP
Blue Ruby is a (experimental) Ruby VM that runs inside the NetWeaver Application Server ABAP. This research project demonstrates how ABAP and Ruby can run side by side within one session context. Juergen Schmerder in Emerging Technologies, Ruby, SAP Research, Scripting Languages [Mar. 25, 2009 10:04 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Web Object Oriented Programming
Although we don't communicate too much externally about it, we have research activities related to web technologies at SAP Research France. We're investigating where the REST concept could take us, that is, beyond the enablement of RESTFul Services. We look at a mix between REST and WSDL to enable Object Oriented Programing on the web. This is what we call WebOO for Web Object Orientation. Cedric Ulmer in SAP Research, Service-Oriented Architecture, Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, Interoperability [Mar. 11, 2009 08:35 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

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