May 9 – SAP community network homepages have been updated with content widgets that provide members with greater access to immediate information, trusted resources, and true co-innovation. This powerful addition allows more real-time content feeds from many different sources – including blogs, forum posts, wikis, articles, and other news sources.

Members benefit from the addition of the new technology through increased flexibility to link content from multiple sources, as content can now come from outside the SAP community network. Automatic updates from sources to forum posts speed up the availability of information by eliminating the need for manual updates.

In addition, content widgets enable forum updates, blogs, and other updates to become viral much more quickly. Any of the more than 1.5 million community members can simply and easily add these content widgets to their own personal blogs or company Web sites to get real-time feeds of the same stories and information. Pointing links back to the SAP community network then increases visibility, traffic, and engagement for members while the community network continues to serve as the destination for aggregated information about SAP for developers, IT professionals, business process experts, report-designers, and others.

SAP offers four distinct communities with more than 1.5 million members in over 200 countries and territories. Members have access to a library of thousands of articles and whitepapers, more than 6,000 daily discussion forum posts, the collective insight of 4,800 bloggers, and much more. With over 600,000 unique visitors monthly – and one million topic threads – the SAP communities provide fast and high-quality responses to queries, rich resources on a wide range of technology and best-run business topics, and the active engagement of the global SAP ecosystem of partners, customers, employees, and other thought leaders.