One
new Google solution allowing SAP users to collaborate via online ‘conversations’
to brainstorm and develop ideas.
Key
to the products initial ‘wow’ factor has been its ability to incorporate social
media functionality, such as instant messaging and communal white-boarding,
with traditional SAP tasks.
Google
Wave was showcased at the Enterprise 2.0 conference
in San Francisco
earlier this month. Part of the presentation was a demo of how the product
interacts with solutions, namely SAP.
The
collaborative, social media direction Google Wave is taking shows that software
developers are looking to these technologies for the next generation of IT
solutions.
This
solution offers a glimpse into the future of enterprise software, and provides
organisations who like being on the bleeding edge a taste of what to expect.
Available
uses for the tool might not be that far away either; SAP is already developing potential
uses for the technology.
One
of their first is a prototype called ‘Gravity’- a Business Process Modelling
tool developed by SAP Research in Brisbane.
Gravity
is an extension for the Google Wave Platform, which in the demonstration video
below allows users to discuss and develop a process model for home load approval.
Inside
the ‘wave’ users can discuss ideas and develop the model in real time. They can
they invite other users to the wave so they can add their input.
Because
the wave is real time, users who enter after the wave has started can ‘rewind’
the conversation and view each element as it is added to the wave.
To
make use of the information created, Gravity can then translated the data into
XML, before transferring it from Google Wave into the SAP Netweaver BPM
workbench.
