Sap Ag

Beate Koch

Thomas Vogt

Wolfgang Kalthoff

Guenter Huber

Guido Hoeckele

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for sharing information. The technique includes defining a stored data set maintained by a first entity to include a locked data set and an unlocked data set, and providing a second entity with access to the stored data set. The second entity has permission to view the locked data set and to change only the unlocked data set.

Collaborative design process

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing change. The technique includes changing an object of a product creation process and accumulating the change without changing a baseline of a product structure associated with the product creation system if the change to the object is a soft change.

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Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany

Beate Koch