
<p>Recently SAP announced the expansion of its new social business platform, SAP Jam, developed andmarketed by SuccessFactors,a company it acquired in 2012. SAP Jam now has workflows that support a number of businessscenarios and adds social media tools that can help advance an organization's objectives.</p><p>As a longtime user of StreamWork, SAP's enterprise collaboration software, I was intrigued bythe apparent near-term strategy of letting the products sit on the shelves together. Nowthat SuccessFactors is firmly in control of the SAP cloud, the one- to two-year, post-mergerblending of product portfolios is in full motion.SAP Jam a step forward</p><p>StreamWork is like an old friend I used to trade baseball cards with as a kid. OK, it came outin 2010, but in the fast-changing social media world, three years is a long time. I have a lot ofdata on StreamWork because the free version from iCloud or Google Marketplace allows up to 250 MBof storage. As long as I keep it to business documents, limit the number of images in my librariesand open no more than five projects at a time, it works for me.</p><p>Enterprise users who buy expanded capabilities -- either in the SAPcloud or for private hosting -- prefer the simple organization and project flexibility.Projects can be organized around conversations among people who have been given access rights.</p><p><a href="http://searchsap.techtarget.com/feature/SAP-social-collaboration-strategy-grinds-forward-with-SAP-JAM">Keep reading...</a></p>