They both are part of SAP Social
Software. They both provide environments for enterprise collaboration between
workforce to drive cooperation while sharing data.
SuccessFactors
JAM
- Is social networking collaboration platform within enterprise from SAP.
Basically it is kind of “facebook” type of thing platform for enterprises. It
enables collaboration of employees between companies and their partner
companies while they all work on joint projects sharing applications, processes
etc. Features of the platform span from discussions, notifications, follow-ups,
creating (micro/blogging, wiki), and sharing content, organizing, tasking,
learning and all it is provided in “feed updates” like user interface. Main
goal is to engage workforce and boost their performance. The Jam platform
supports mobile devices in large extend. From its competitors point of view we
can say that JAM is like Microsoft’s Yammer. Jam got into SAP’s portfolio while
they acquire
SuccessFactors in 12/2011.
SAP
Streamwork – then there was Streamwork. It (was)/is solution homegrown
in SAP. We can say that it has broader scope then SuccessFactors JAM due to a
lot of integration to SAP’s backend systems like ERP, CRM, SRM, BW. And that’s one
of main powers of Streamwork – integration.
So guess what happened during
2012 while SAP was integration SuccessFactors as its daughter company. They integrated
both products into one as well. It is called SAP JAM as their platform for social software. The JAM’s
underlying platform seems was taken from SuccessFactors while a lot of features
from Streamwork were built into it.
PS: SAP started to evaluate
SAP Jam platform also for their Massive Open Online Course (MOOS) initiative
open.sap.com. The very first course utilizing Jam platform is rapid
implementation of Predictive Analytics with SAP HANA.
Useful links:
sapjam.com
Update
– 30.12.2015 –
Just updating few more
details how SAP started with SAP Streamwork. Initially it was called as collaboration
software previously known as 12sprints and/or Constellation. There was also Elements
application as next Enterprise 20 tool. All these finally merged into Streamwork.
Needless to say that all these initiatives were aiming as competition to Google‘s
Wawe. During its development the 12sprint (collaborative platform) was open to users
through a public beta. The 12sprint cloud-based service is designed to help
teams of internal and external users share information, collect feedback,
brainstorm or analyze across the group.
History knows it that Google
Wave was shouted down in August 2010. And SAP’s Streamwork was
ended on December 1, 2015 but replaced by SAP Jam.
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