1. SAP Solution Brief
SAP StreamWork SAP® StreamWork™
TRANSFORM THE WAY YOU WORK BY
BRINGING METHOD TO THE MADNESS
The SAP® StreamWork™
application supports collab-
orative decision making by
bringing together the people,
information, and proven busi-
ness methods to drive fast, Getting things done quickly and effec- e-mail, WebEx, and EVERNOTE,
tively requires teamwork, and few things or develop your own business tools
meaningful results. Try it for happen when you don’t have the right and integrations to support industry
free and be up and running people, information, or structure to or line-of-business needs. Once the
drive teams toward results. The SAP® decision is made, create a corporate
in minutes. StreamWork™ application empowers memory that records all participants,
employees by providing a collaborative discussions, information, methods,
decision-making environment that and the final decision, all in a single
brings together people, information, place. Share or learn from prior deci-
and business methods for collecting sions to make success repeatable.
feedback, brainstorming, strategizing,
and building consensus to drive results
quickly. With SAP StreamWork your With SAP StreamWork your
company can improve the quality,
transparency, and repeatability of
company can improve the
successful decisions. quality, transparency, and
How It Works
repeatability of successful
decisions.
SAP StreamWork provides a cohesive
online environment that enables teams
to perform collective problem solving. Benefits
Bring order to chaos when you invite
people from inside or outside the com- SAP StreamWork brings order to the
pany, get the team to commit to a chaos of working in teams, transforms
cause, and keep everyone on the same teamwork into results, and helps ensure
page with notifications and action items. a collective view where every voice is
Bring structure to the process by select- heard. All discussions, feedback, infor-
ing proven, interactive business tools mation, analyses, and decisions are
from the built-in catalog to plan agen- visible, so the team is committed to the
das, assign responsibilities, rank lists outcome. Team productivity improves,
of items, brainstorm options, poll the decision making is faster and of higher
team, or strategize. Upload and share quality, and you can learn from success-
the information to help ensure the ful decisions. And because it’s user-
team makes the best decisions based friendly and on demand, you can be
on the latest facts. Develop and ana- productive in minutes without a long,
lyze hypotheses using intuitive data expensive technology project.
exploration and visualization with SAP
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technology. Because SAP StreamWork
has an open architecture, you can work To learn more about SAP StreamWork,
with your existing applications such as 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 50 099 194 (10/04)
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• Helps ensure that successful decisions can be reused or repeated by maintaining a SAP, R/3, SAP NetWeaver, Duet, PartnerEdge, ByDesign,
Clear Enterprise, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and other SAP
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• Offers immediate productivity because it’s easy to try and buy, doesn’t require a long logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in
Germany and other countries.
technology project, and works with your existing applications
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