Workplace for SAP Software

People - an organization's most valued assets - are often not adequately equipped to respond to priorities established by their leadership. IBM® Workplace™ for SAP® Software leverages existing SAP investments to help improve people productivity by integrating SAP content with IBM leading collaboration and performance management technology. SAP and IBM capabilities are combined into role-based, high performance work environments.

• Unlocks the value of SAP applications NOW - Expands collaborative and process interactions across SAP applications and integrates SAP with other applications.
• Enhances people productivity - Enables information workers to participate directly in automated processes, such as forms management, within a single integrated, browser-based environment.
• Helps achieve business objectives - Measures business alignment and collaboration internally and externally to fix gaps in meeting objectives before they become a miss.
• Helps speed implementation - Facilitates development with prebuilt work environments and SOA components that speed customer time to value.
• Provides consistency - Bring a sustained user experience for current SAP applications over multiple upgrades of back-end systems.

IBM Workplace for SAP Software helps enhance user productivity by providing new tools to complement the application functionality from SAP and other applications. LOB Execs and CIOs who count on SAP and other applications to run their organizations will benefit in numerous ways:

For the business executive:

• Potential for enhanced business value through greater employee productivity.
• Faster deployment of new business functions using builders and templates.
• Flexibility and ease-of-use at the desktop (patented profiling technology, wizards).
• Dynamic interface adapts to user's context and situation using patented personalization and profiling technology.
• One view of multiple data sources for better decision making.
• Ability to create, deploy, and streamline forms-based processes integrating SAP and other source data within and outside the customer's organization.
• Attractive TCO through reuse of assets and better access to information.

For the IT executive:

• Various integration options for any SAP application.
• Direct integration and coexistence with SAP applications and middleware.
• Higher-level tooling and rapid application development environment for all applications.
• IBM Workplace Dashboard Framework tools, enabling rapid construction of roles-based dashboards with multiple data sources.
• Intelligent forms creation and management tools.
• Pre-built connectors, adapters, dashboards, and application components.
• Support for Open Source Technologies and SOA.
• Java-based run-time environment.
• Attractive TCO.

Included in the per-user price are specialized builders and accelerators for connecting to SAP and other non-SAP applications, within a SAP toolkit framework.