SAP Solution Brief SAP StreamWork

SAP StreamWork

TRANSFORM THE WAY YOU WORK BY BRINGING METHOD TO THE MADNESS

The SAP StreamWork application supports collaborative decision making by bringing together the people, information, and proven business methods to drive fast, meaningful results. Try it for free and be up and running in minutes.

Getting things done quickly and effectively requires teamwork, and few things happen when you dont have the right people, information, or structure to drive teams toward results. The SAP StreamWork application empowers employees by providing a collaborative decision-making environment that brings together people, information, and business methods for collecting feedback, brainstorming, strategizing, and building consensus to drive results quickly. With SAP StreamWork your company can improve the quality, transparency, and repeatability of successful decisions.

e-mail, WebEx, and EVERNOTE, or develop your own business tools and integrations to support industry or line-of-business needs. Once the decision is made, create a corporate memory that records all participants, discussions, information, methods, and the final decision, all in a single place. Share or learn from prior decisions to make success repeatable.

How It Works
SAP StreamWork provides a cohesive online environment that enables teams to perform collective problem solving. Bring order to chaos when you invite people from inside or outside the company, get the team to commit to a cause, and keep everyone on the same page with notifications and action items. Bring structure to the process by selecting proven, interactive business tools from the built-in catalog to plan agendas, assign responsibilities, rank lists of items, brainstorm options, poll the team, or strategize. Upload and share the information to help ensure the team makes the best decisions based on the latest facts. Develop and analyze hypotheses using intuitive data exploration and visualization with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer software technology. Because SAP StreamWork has an open architecture, you can work with your existing applications such as

With SAP StreamWork your company can improve the quality, transparency, and repeatability of successful decisions.
Benefits
SAP StreamWork brings order to the chaos of working in teams, transforms teamwork into results, and helps ensure a collective view where every voice is heard. All discussions, feedback, information, analyses, and decisions are visible, so the team is committed to the outcome. Team productivity improves, decision making is faster and of higher quality, and you can learn from successful decisions. And because its userfriendly and on demand, you can be productive in minutes without a long, expensive technology project.

Learn More
To learn more about SAP StreamWork, please visit www.sapstreamwork.com.

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Summary The SAP StreamWork application supports collaborative decision making by bringing together the people, information, and business methods to drive fast, meaningful results. You can try it for free and be up and running in minutes. Business Challenges Difficulty working in teams, resulting in low productivity Inability to drive fast decision making or results when working in teams No visibility into how decisions are being made No record of decisions; inability to learn from successful decisions Challenged to capture work that falls outside of a typical process Lack of budget or IT resources Key Features Cohesive online working environment Unite people, information, and business methods Leveraged knowledge Stay in sync with notifications, activity streams, and action items Familiar applications Work with the applications you use today including e-mail, WebEx, and EVERNOTE Captured decisions Create a corporate memory of a decision by tracking all discussions, information, and analyses around it Proven, interactive business tools Gain structure with tools for planning, brainstorming, strategizing, building consensus, and driving decisions Current information Upload and share up-to-date information so the entire team is basing decisions on current facts Business Benefits Brings order to chaos and drives results quickly and effectively within teams Supports the best decision making possible by involving the right people, obtaining a collective view across the team, and basing decisions on the most current facts Improves individual and team productivity Provides complete visibility into how decisions are made to help ensure commitment to the outcome and follow-through Helps ensure that successful decisions can be reused or repeated by maintaining a record of all activities Offers immediate productivity because its easy to try and buy, doesnt require a long technology project, and works with your existing applications For More Information For more information, please visit www.sapstreamwork.com.

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