With this you can very quickly explore organizational (org unit, costcenter etc.) or geographical (Country, City, …) breakdowns of larger people groups, also one the last screenshot below is a sample breakdown by keywords, which can be very handy to find experts on certain topics quickly. (9) Browing through entire organizations or large lists of peopleĪnother really cool feature in People Finder is the ability to browse through large result sets of people and refine them as needed. Similar to (7) and as expected any eMail address can be clicked to open the iPhone mail app and send an eMail to the respective person. (8) Call a person directly from People FinderĪny phone numbers displayed in the app can be clicked to call or send an SMS message. In this case I copied Marilyn’s contact information, including her picture into the addressbook of the iPhone with just clicking the “Export to my iPhone address book” button: (7) Copy contact data to iPhone addressbook: Obviously very similar to screenshot (3) in this case however this is all other people on the same cost center as myself: In this case I was clicking on “my” cost center, to find all other people assigned to the same cost center, the “choose an action” popup comes up automatically to iniate the search: can be easily added by any users themselves through the regular browser based SNA/SAP People client.Īll the attributes of a person are at the same time “links” for further exploration, meaning they can be clicked on to forward navigate based on the respective attribute. Many of the attributes assigned to me come in this case from already existing enterprise sources, however additional information such as keywords/tags, IM account names etc. (4) Typical “People” screen with all kinds of information
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The default settings (when you download People Finder from the app store) are: Wanted to share that experience with some notes and screenshots: First of all here’s some basic functionality: In the past few weeks I had the chance to test the iPhone app running against our internal SNA prototype implementation (called SAP People) and found the app to be very useful. SAP internally we have an instance of the Social Network Analyzer Prototype that’s commonly known as SAP People, it’s availble for all ~50k employees through a direct link on our internal Portal homepage.īesides this Social Network Analyzer (SNA) prototype, the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center has also released an iPhone app, called People Finder, which connects directly to any SNA implementation. SAP BusinessObjects Social Intelligence Prototype V2 Launches.Timo Elliott has written two excellent blogs describing many of the core features:
In essence it’s a tool that gets fed with existing enterprise data of organizational relationships and “addressbook” type information and then exposes such information and relationships in a very intuitive & fast way. If you follow the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center ( ″ width=”16″/>) you might have heard of the Social Network Analyzer Prototype(SNA). BusinessObjects People Finder By SAP BusinessObjects