Process, Data, Content….and your People
2013 SAPPHIRE NOW / ASUG , SAPs flagship user conference was a big one for me and our Enterprise Social Software team at SAP. Exactly a year ago at this very event we unveiled SAPs strategy for social and collaborative software. In Madrid at the European version of this event later in the Fall, we showed real product. This year we showed more integrated social collaboration with business applications, analytics and as a service in the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, and shared some statistics on our business. Here’s a nice quote about the product from IDC’s Mike Fauscette’s blog post about the event:
SAP is making good progress on the cloud enterprise social network (ESN) front with Jam, which grew over 800% year over year. The key long term to ESN, I believe is to get them embedded inside all of the enterprise apps so that social collaboration becomes an integrated part of everyone’s work flow. SAP is one of the vendors that has real opportunity to do that across the enterprise.
(Thank you, Mike.)
A businesses ability to bring its expert networks of employees, customers and partners to collaborate around business processes, around real time data and analytics and content is what will drive not just the future of social software but how enterprise software will be built. I spoke to John Furrier of Silicon Angle about this at the event, here.
