REGIONAL STRENGTHS AND NEEDS

Each SAP Labs organization concentrates on strengths and priority needs in its own regional market:

• Java in Bulgaria: SAP Labs Sofia has experts in Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), which work on the next round of SAP NetWeaver development in collaboration with Walldorf colleagues.
• Master data management: SAP Labs Montreal developed the technical foundation for SAP Master Data Management, which helps customers consolidate, harmonize, and integrate vast amounts of data across systems into useful insight.
• Enterprise portal for mySAP CRM: The Montreal SAP Labs team developed a new enterprise portal for mySAP Customer Relationship Management, improving the day-to-day productivity of thousands of customer-facing users around the world.
• Mobility in mySAP CRM: SAP Labs Montreal has also added critical mobility functions to mySAP Customer Relationship Management, so that field sales and service personnel can send and receive assignments, quotations orders, and other information from anywhere, at any time.
• Pervasive security: SAP Labs France lead the way in research into pervasive security. This area covers end-to-end security concepts that, for example, enable secure communication between mobile devices and company servers. In addition, SAP Labs play an active role in the development of solutions for the public sector (public services). They are working on portal technology, particularly the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) protocol, to develop a kind of yellow pages for Web services.