{"id":41,"date":"2007-05-31T12:08:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T12:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=41"},"modified":"2015-12-11T22:23:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:23:44","slug":"business-apps-on-microsoft-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Business Apps on Microsoft Surface?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/resources\/micro0531flash.jpg\" align=\"top\" height=\"204\" width=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just had a quick google for &#8220;microsoft surface business application&#8221; and surprisingly enough the SAP Blogsphere has not jumped onto this one yet (well, <a href=\"http:\/\/craig.cmehil.com\/2007\/05\/surface-computer.html\">Craig has<\/a> &#8211; sort of).<\/p>\n<p>So let me join him&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>surface desks with (any) SAP UI on it <\/strong>&#8211; not a good idea from an ergonomical perspective. Might work if the desk is slightly tilted upwards, like those used by architects (probably way back!). Privacy could be an issue here, as your desk could be easily overlooked.<\/li>\n<li><strong>surface apps that work with RFID products<\/strong> &#8211; place the product on it or near it and all relevant SAP transactional and master data can be displayed for you &#8211; areas of application for this are endless  (POS, warehouse GI\/GR, manufacturing, etc)<\/li>\n<li><strong>graphics-based development modeling tools<\/strong> (valid for SAP or non-SAP)<\/li>\n<li><strong>SD\/ CRM \/ SRM doc flow<\/strong> (any doc flow app really): integration of document flow and archived docs &#8211; due to the increase of screen real estate, it would be possible for a customer service clerks to immediately have all order-relevant documents on display as the customer is getting in touch.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In general (and if you leave financial issues aside for a moment), I&#8217;d say that MS&#8217;s surface UI technology brings advantages  due to a)  more screen real estate and\/or b) through a new and sophisticated way of connecting  devices and products by simply placing them on the table. Privacy and ergonomics could be a concern in any area (business or consumer). And what about portability? Most people work on laptops these days. It would mean you still have your laptop (or similar) device in order to work whilst on the move.<\/p>\n<p>I personally want to see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PONG\">Pong <\/a>on it first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a quick google for &#8220;microsoft surface business application&#8221; and surprisingly enough the SAP Blogsphere has not jumped onto this one yet (well, Craig has &#8211; sort of). So let me join him&#8230; surface desks with (any) SAP UI on it &#8211; not a good idea from an ergonomical perspective. Might work if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sap-blogosphere","category-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}