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The SAP Design Guild at the Turn of the Millennium

By Christine Wiegand & Gerd Waloszek, SAP Design Guild Team – December 22, 2000

Just in time for Christmas, the SAP Design Guild offers a lot of Christmas presents for its members and visitors. Let's start with our biggest present: we proudly present the second edition of the SAP Design Guild featuring the topic "Reporting - Turning Data into Information." Read all about the new edition on the Innovation home page and a leading article which provides an overview of this topic. Be aware that some updates to this edition will come in January. So, it might be a good idea to visit the Innovation section again soon.

Our second present comes in on a regular basis, so it may not be a such big surprise. We have a new Opinion section ready for Christmas, which features two design tidbit articles, one continuing the series on selections, the other one presenting a short overview of the Web and its buzz words — it's a "Web for beginners" article.

Our third present can be viewed in the Construction section: It's a new version of the SAP R/3 style guide. This latest version offers the long awaited reshuffling and update of the Pocket version of the SAP R/3 style guide. In the future, this will be the only SAP R/3 style guide available. For those visitors, who still work with R/3 systems older than 4.6, we offer access to the previous version via a link on the starting page of the new style guide.

What is the Design Guild team planning for the new year? Let's take a look at our bag for 2001.

The SAP Design Guild started in spring 2000 as a resource for designers in the SAP environment, and also as a forum for discussions within the design community, be it graphic or user interface designers. We strongly feel that these distinctions are fading more and more and that a close integration of the two is needed; this is one of the many impacts of the Web. But there is more: people who care for the content, such as documentation designers, technical writers, or knowledge brokers, should also take part in the discussions, because content has such a strong impact on design. So, one of our goals for 2001 is to make the SAP Design Guild better known within this larger design community and to eventually make it the forum we initially intended.

The resources within the SAP Design Guild will be continually updated and complemented. For the next year, we hope to offer more Web-related content, especially in the portal area. Of course, we will also add some nice goodies as a bonus, such as optical illusions.

Last, but not least, our long promised questionnaire will be delivered for you via the SAP Design Guild in the beginning of 2001.

And now we wish you a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year!

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