SAP RESEARCH - CURRENT PROTOTYPES

By exploring promising ideas through applied research, SAP Research brings you new and exciting software prototypes. Below is a list of our current prototypes available for download. Give them a try and let us know what you think! Send your comments directly to SAP Research Prototypes.

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The SAP Streamwork Plugin for the Seesmic Desktop delivers a social desktop experience for SAP StreamWork users so that they can keep-up-to-date without leaving their desktop. Instead of creating a dedicated desktop application, this plugin integrates into the popular Seesmic Desktop application and brings SAP Streamwork updates to the user in the same window as their updates from Twitter, Facebook and many other social networking tools.

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Measuring performance and analyzing the competition is a key to success in business and in the world of sports. The SAP BusinessObjects Experience mobile app for iPad provides instant insight into the winning strategies of your favorite athletes and professional sports teams. Combining the extreme speed of in-memory data exploration with engaging, interactive views, SAP BusinessObjects Experience empowers everyone to easily discover, explore, and share interactive views based on any information source.

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The Carbon Exploration prototype is a CO₂ calculation and profiling application to measure an individual or family's carbon footprint (expressed as kgCO₂ emitted each month) through a unique and engaging user interface.

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The Historic Audit Analysis Prototype allows you to create periodic historic reports in-memory without the need for a data warehouse. Users simply create a standard BusinessObjects query against a live data source, and then using the tool, they can generate reports for any point in the past. Historic Audit Analysis does this by unlocking the information stored in database change logs to rebuild historic state. This liberates users from having to create data warehouses, and it allows on-demand historical reporting in a way that is not currently supported.
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Segment your information into logical groups for better understanding of your information assets. Build these segments based on your existing SAP BusinessObjects universes. This prototype is a plug-in to the information design tool that allows you to create these "sets" , static or dynamic - all in the information design tool query panel.

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Text to image is a prototype for building an image repository using Yahoo Image Search services and then making this content available for consumption by SAP BusinessObjects BI tools. Within minutes you will be able to transform entire lists of values into a set of images directly usable in your reports.

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SAP BusinessObjects now provides a new connection type to SAP ERP systems that extends Web Intelligence's popular ad hoc query and reporting capabilities to SAP operational systems. Companies can now get better business intelligence from important transactional and operational data stored in SAP ERP that, in turn, extend the reach of BI to more users.

 Learn more on Web Intelligence Reporting for SAP ERP

The BI panel prototype provides Microsoft Outlook users with quick, easy access to business intelligence information right from within their Outlook environment. BI panel suggests useful reports based on the context of the email that the user is working with. Ultimately, this means that users have the trusted information they need at their fingertips when communicating with colleagues, customers and partners over email; all without ever having to leave the familiar Outlook environment that they are accustomed to.

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Extension points prototype that deepen customization capabilities for Reporting and Analysis workflows. This release supports the entire chain of ad-hoc workflows: from Query to Analysis to Reporting. Extension points are also applicable now to the Web Intelligence Rich Client released with BusinessObjects XI 3.1

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Metrics catalog prototype allows the publication of metrics stored in OLAP as a web service. Users without prior knowledge of the OLAP cube structure can then consume the data and build dashboards easily. Metrics catalog comes with an Xcelsius "Metrics catalog" component to consume the catalog.
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The report commenting prototype is easy-to-use and provides annotation functionality to the BusinessObjects XI platform. It behaves like an extra layer on top of the current BusinessObjects XI report viewer and keeps all the functionalities of the original viewer including its appearance. The report commenting prototype runs on top of the existing viewer transparently, allowing users to add comments to different types of objects from the BusinessObjects XI platform and manage comments among different users. Not only users can share reporting and analytic information but their feedback and discussions as well.

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The catalog browser for the iPhone & iPad allows you to remotely access your favorite business intelligence (BI) content from the Apple iPhone/iPad. Now, no matter where you are, you can browse, search and display the same BI content you work with every day on your desktop (Crystal Reports , Web Intelligence and Desktop Intelligence documents). The catalog browser also allows you to maintain a list of favorite documents, so that all the information you need is always at your fingertips.

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The Xcelsius publishing plugin allows multiple recipients to receive an Xcelsius dashboard that has been personalized so that it that contains only data that is relevant to a specific user.

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The text to query prototype helps business users get insight from a text by offering chart suggestions to illustrate it. The goal is to be able to capture underlying analysis intentions in order to produce the most adapted suggestions and representations. This way, end-users can get data illustrations directly while reading their emails or writing a PowerPoint presentation.

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Visual prompts enables quick and easy design of rich prompt interfaces for Web Intelligence. With visual prompt, you can replace the standard list of values interface with a custom flash interface, for example maps for country selection or image selectors.

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The take action prototype helps align business intelligence (BI) with operational systems. With take action, business users can leverage BI context to securely interact with their enterprise business processes. Take action is a framework for hosting service-oriented actions and delivering web services targeted to business users. With this new release, a non-developer IT user has the ability to design database actions as well as SAP Remote ABAP function actions. Then we make it easier for the business user to integrate the actions in business intelligence content. For example, Web Intelligence with Web Intelligence action form provides an easy way to attach an action to Web Intelligence reports using point and click metaphor.

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The linear view prototype is an interactive visualization that provides an efficient way to find documents in BusinessObjects XI 3.1 InfoView portal. While normal search results are displaying a maximum of 5 to 10 results, linear view can visualize many more documents by displaying a second analysis axis. This is a great way to improve user experience in document search.

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Exploration trees give you the big and small picture of your business in a single glance, while allowing you to analyze up, down, and across your information. With exploration trees, you can do a deep analysis of your data while keeping the high level context, quickly and in a visual way.

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