An empire like Google is sure to find itself faced with many admirers, copy cats, and wannabes. Google’s creations are typically forward-thinking and revolutionary (for instance, Google Wave)—it’s only natural that someone would want to try to come up with a bigger, better version of the technology.

SAP (known for providing software such as Business Objects) is working on an application called “Constellation”. Constellation uses some of the principles of Wave to bring the real-time environment to business users for collaboration. One of the features being discussed is the ability to publish collaboration efforts to other platforms such as SharePoint, wikis, etc. Read the rest of this entry »