Individuals and teams can publish their near term goals (also called Objectives and Key Results or OKR), and then people in the company can comment, rate, and provide feedback on this individual's performance. This, of course, likely thrills Salesforce - which is a company which sees itself as a leader in Cloud applications and aspires to compete directly with Oracle and SAP in the coming years. Salesforce takes part in the "holy war" which is waging between Oracle and SAP for enterprise software. What is Rypple ? So we gave up and went back to paper. MORE >>

Following SAP's acquisition of SuccessFactors, this gives Oracle a tremendously powerful suite of products in the HR market, one of the fastest-growing markets for enterprise software. This move directly undermines SAP's strategy with SuccessFactors. So in many ways the Taleo team can now "be back together with their friends." SAP's integration with SuccessFactors is far more difficult, given the geographic and cultural distance between the two companies. By the way, the Sybase-SAP office is actually closer to Taleo than the Oracle building!). MORE >>

” Managing Team Members Across the World. SAP—an inter-enterprise software development and implementation company—needed to provide their project managers with a learning experience to address a specific challenge—managing teams whose members were scattered across the globe. With team members in Germany, Japan, America, and India, a SAP project manager must contend with issues such as cultural differences, time zones, disparate expectations, communication styles, and other issues a local team may not encounter. Check out the book! Games MORE >>

The Gamification Of SAP. Measuring And Evaluating Learning – The Top Skill For L&D Teams. On behalf of the entire Upside Learning team, I wish you a joyous and prosperous 2012. One week into the New Year it’s the right time to look back on the year gone by. So we thought it would be interesting take a journey down our blog for some of the most popular and noteworthy posts of 2011. We have pulled these up based on social signals (views, comments, twitter and more). Read them. Reflect on them. Debate them. Enjoy them! January. This LMS Has No Traps! February. March. MORE >>

This weekend I finished up a new tutorial which focuses upon SAP's new collaboration tool, 12Sprints. This free collaboration tool is openly a few weeks old, but our team from the Corporate Collaboration 2.0 Our same team did multiple evaluations of Google Wave from the vantage point of enterprise collaboration, and came away underwhelmed. Team inputs (i.e. You may also wish to visit SAP's site for some good additional  feature set tutorials. knowledge managment and collaboration. why did we like 12Springs ( get a free account )? MORE >>