Since Google launched its Wave collaboration platform this year businesses have been testing how they can make use of the system.
The Wave platform offers users a chance to chat and work together in real-time within a window in a web browser that Google calls a 'wave'.
People can exchange real-time IM, photos, videos, maps and documents within the wave but it is the wave's ability to handle custom apps that promises to be the most useful for business.
At the recent TechEd conference in Vienna, ERP software specialist SAP showed an application called Gravity it has designed for Google Wave that allows staff to draw flow charts to model business processes, as seen here.
Each person who is working within a wave will see the same image, so as each person adds new parts to the business model the image is updated in real-time for everyone on the wave.
This allows staff from different departments and working in different locations to collaborate on designing the model.
Photo credit: SAP
