The advanced edition of SAP Build Work Zone (formerly known as SAP Work Zone) extends the standard edition (formerly known as SAP Launchpad Service) by providing additional features and capabilities that are not available in the standard edition. Some of the aspects that are specific to the advanced edition are:
Blending of business data and unstructured content: The advanced edition allows users to create and consume different types of content, such as blogs, multimedia, surveys, polls, wiki pages, events, knowledge base articles, tasks, and feeds, and integrate them with business datafrom SAP and third-party applications. This enables users to have a holistic and engaging work experience that combines structured and unstructured information across different formats and channels1.
Empowering end users to create content: The advanced edition empowers business users with powerful page building and content authoring tools that enable them to create and publish content without requiring coding skills or IT support. Users can create dynamic, modern, and personalized user experiences using templates, widgets, and drag-and-drop features. Users can also collaborate and share content with their teams and colleagues using workspaces, feeds, and comments12.
The aspects that are not specific to the advanced edition are:
Integrating SAP and third-party business content: Both the standard and the advanced edition allow users to access information and processes from SAP and third-party business applications using UI integration cards, which are reusable components that display application content in a unified and consistent way. Users can also use destinations to connect to external services or applications using a simple name34.
Unifying access to SAP business applications: Both the standard and the advanced edition provide a simple, modern, and consistent user interface that provides a unified entry point to SAP business applications, such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, and SAP Analytics Cloud. Users can access the applications using role-based navigation and convenient single or no-password access via Single Sign-On (SSO)34.