One of the higher-profile co-innovation ventures in the FMCG / IT world right now is the SAP Colgate-Palmolive ”Imagineering Fellowship” story.
Colgate-Palmolive developers Ed Herrmann and Dan McWeeney, who generated some buzz back in Q1 with their demo of using a Wii remote as an alternative user-input device for a business application (a Ruby on Rails resource planner application running over SAP BW), have now been seconded off to SAP for 6 months to help the ERP vendor better understand the issues the large companies face when implementing and using SAP’s business intelligence solutions in the real world, and to together innovate improvements. See Dan’s post on the SAP Developer Network and Ed’s post on his blog.
Anyway, the two were recently interviewed on the experience at SAP’s SAPPHIRE 2007. This is worth a listen:
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