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SAP, provider of business software, has announced multiple projects coming out of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, located at the SAP campus in Palo Alto, California.

According to a press release, among the projects that are being created and developed in the lab are a private online collaboration workspace, support for enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) management, a disaster recovery solution, a real-time reporting solution for manufacturers, and solutions that help companies improve business performance.

In an effort to address the growing need of the governance and access to the business communication, SAP Co-Innovation Lab, which is the collaboration workspace from SAP aims to provide Web 2.0 infrastructure such as blogs, wikis and online forums – with built-in governance for all companies to participate and collaborate in real time within a secure business network community.

This collaboration workspace from SAP provides a secure online environment to collaborate and foster virtual interaction, while protecting intellectual property assets and tightly managing access levels and authorized information sharing to its customers, system integrators, technology partners and independent software partners.

“The collaboration workspace from SAP is a powerful, new tool and has brought an important additional dimension to Procter & Gamble’s engagement in SAP’s ecosystem,” said Dietmar Giljohann, initiative manager, Order Acquisition, Procter & Gamble.

As per the company, the collaboration workspace is enabling 13 different programs at SAP to be more effective and efficient, bringing together more than 3,700 expert users from more than 275 companies, participating in more than 200 unique workspaces. Users include partners and customers participating in SAP’s communities of innovation, including the Enterprise Services Community, the Business Process Expert community and the SAP Co-Innovation Lab itself.

SAP customers benefit from the visibility and control they achieve by managing the runtime aspects of their composite SOA applications. Among the first technology firms supporting SOA management projects in the lab are AmberPoint and Sonoa Systems, both backed by SAP Ventures and SOA Software.

With a goal of addressing the disaster recovery needs of the business, SAP teamed with VMware and NetApp in the SAP Co-Innovation Lab to work together on an automated and cost-effective disaster recovery offering for SAP implementations.

The SAP Co-Innovation Lab supports other collaboration-rich activities. The lab hosts a series of seminars and Webinars, thought leadership forums, and onsite and online collaborations with SAP and other industry leaders. The lab offers high-impact demonstrations and solution showcases with onsite and online access, providing a rich customer experience. The lab also helps to lower the cost of innovation by enabling close cooperation with partners and customers, and by providing a simulated heterogeneous and full-featured data center.