A new release of SAP Jam includes new features to make it easier for IT teams to more easily provision and maintain enterprise collaboration technology.
Among the new capabilities in SAP Jam Collaboration are customised company home pages, which can be created by IT administrators for context-specific groups of colleagues, allowing the solution to be used as an intranet supplement or replacement, as well as administrative area home pages.
SAP Jam Collaboration also enables IT to equip specific organisations and departments with the ability to manage their own collaboration area, by manually adding or removing users and information.
“Business units are demanding more from IT than ever before,” said Steve Hamrick, vice president, product management, collaboration software, SAP. “Often, lines of business opt to deviate from officially endorsed systems and solutions, leading to disparate and potentially vulnerable information systems. In this environment, streamlining business processes is critical to improving employee productivity and keeping up with the pace of the market. This ultimately helps IT deliver a more productive and secure collaboration infrastructure.”
A recent study by Forrester Consulting conducted on behalf of SAP found that SAP Jam customers were recording a significant reduction in time to access information and expertise, and that over three years, organisations can reduce the cost of license fess from multiple collaboration products by 20 per cent.
