SAP needed help in a hurry. A crack technology team in their Portals group had responded to customer needs by developing new search technology to unlock new ways of searching the corporate enterprise portal. But the technology had no user interface, and the team needed one. Fast.

One powerful new feature allowed users to launch a search that looks for results in multiple repositories across both the corporate network, and the wider internet. Users can search contact lists, expert resources in the corporate knowledge store, team folders—nearly anything.

The problem was, how do you give users the power to use this feature? Should the user select what resources to search? And how should the results be presented?

Drawing on our deep experience with SAP’s enterprise solutions and the needs of the enterprise worker, 36 Partners designed a set of user interfaces to present this rich functionality simply. Critical to the success of the design, these UIs can be deployed flexibly by developers across many enterprise portal contexts.

The result is a set of user interfaces that helped SAP developers satisfy key user goals.

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