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 »

Google Wave is the newest buzz in the technology world. Many of you already know what it’s all about but for those of you that don’t read on, you won’t be disappointed.

Think about the last time you worked on a document for work. You probably created it in Microsoft Word and then sent it out via email. If there were multiple contacts you sent the document to, more than likely, they read it, made edits, sent the updated document back to you – each individually.  Then you were stuck trying to compare your original version with their updated versions and making sure all the changes were incorporated into one final document. Inevitably, something would get missed along the way.

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