Friday, July 19, 2002

InfoWorld: SAP CEO details new breed of apps "SAP will replace all user interfaces for existing and future applications and will provide the "technology cornerstone and Web services foundation" for the company, Plattner added. It will provide a design-time environment that allows developers to model and create browser-based user interfaces as well as a standards based run-time environment that is device agnostic and bridges the gap between J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition), ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming), and Microsoft .Net." A little more info on the scope of their change to Web Dynpro for building web interfaces to their applications. "SAP also announced the first shipment of its Web Application Server, which will include the Web Dynpro run time for J2EE and ABAP. The server hosts business applications written as Web services through native platform-independent Web technologies and is the foundation for SAP new cross applications (xApps)." Good to find some more leverage for our J2EE efforts. comment []  4:11:33 PM

InfoWorld: SAP details CRM interface "The company unveiled Web Dynpro at the conference, a new presentation layer in SAP's Web Application Server that will eventually front all SAP enterprise applications." Woa. Look for some information on SAP CRM and see what comes up. A pretty critical piece of inforamtion about SAP's direction in the web-sphere. comment []  4:04:58 PM

Traction Adds E-mail and Documents to the Weblog Mix Jon Udell reviews Traction, which, according to Jon, is "best described as an enterprise Weblog system." [Scripting News] Easily enables posting of emails and documents to your weblog, it says. Those are definite sources (email being key to providing weblog-ish info and notifying corporate email-beings like myself of new weblog entries). comment []  2:39:51 PM