So I have blogged before about Polestar - an intuitive UI for browsing and exploring information that as one deployment option can be directly accessed on the Internet at http://polestar.ondemand.com

Internally, the labs team continue to innovate this offering in interesting ways. One way has been to add an API that allows applications, pages and tools to push prepared data to Polestar and embed the cloud based solution into their products. Which is interesting, but not as interesting at the amazing things that start to happen once that API happens.

For example, one internal team created this video of an internal test showing that Polestar could be embedded into a classic SAP applications.

This is just someone playing with an idea at this point (so don’t look for this built into your SAP applications just yet), but it really demonstrates the power of an API to generate the unexpected. Hopefully we will see lots more innovative uses of these API.