World Times Features and Preview

The World Times business package from Sweetlets is a simple, yet very practical time, date and weather iView for your SAP NetWeaver Portal. This user friendly business package includes a wide variety of time, date and weather personalization options right out of the box - from the admin down to the end user.

Why the World Times application

We developed World Times out of necessity just like the range of our other applications - seeing a big void in the market for convenient and cost effective solutions. With our deep understanding of portal ROI, we know what it takes, not only the resources to develop such an application, but also to maintain. Developing the plug n’ play World Times business package provides a significant return on investment for any IT – saving them considerable resources which could be devoted elsewhere.

The World Times business package applied

Every global company dealing with multiple regions or a diverse range of employee and dealer locations has added difficulty running a smooth business. Widespread companies suffer with issues such as communicating in several time zones, regional sales which depend on local weather conditions, and many different work schedules from a variety of cultures. These ongoing issues can disrupt an employee’s work flow and ultimately in the end, hurt business. Some good examples which may apply to you include:

• Your colleagues in the sister office on another continent may not in the office because they are 5 hours ahead of your time zone.
• Somehow you always try to call your client during their lunch times or their pre-scheduled daily meetings.
• You scheduled a conference call for Monday while forgetting that Monday in Arabian countries is considered the weekend.
• How about national holidays? No wonder you didn’t get an answer on an important email Friday! It was a long weekend in your Asian client’s province due to their national holiday.
• And your sales people need to have easy access on a daily basis to the weather in the next state over so they can plan seasonal product sales.

World Times can solve all these issues and more! Simply select and configure your preferred list of worldwide cities and deploy the World Times iView into your SAP Portal, then customized per area/department, and use.

This handy iView will display each pre-selected city complete with its appropriate time, date and weather. World Times is also smart enough to not only calculate time zones, but to automatically adjust to daylight savings every season - so you don’t have to.

While it may seem like a simple iView (because we like to keep things easy), World Times comes with an array of features. These handy features include admin personalization options, end user preferences, multiple deployments, and mouse over details along with many more.

And don’t forget to use the clever “When it is…" feature to quickly convert times for you between cities on your displayed view.

Content Administration for adding the World Times iView to any page

World times

• Current local time
• 12/24 hour format
• Automatic daylight savings time
• Intuitive client side time change
• All time zones (inc UTC time possibility)
• What time is it in "X" city when it's "Y" o-clock in "Z" city

World dates

• Alternative date layouts
• Workday and weekend information (including "Non-Mon-Fri" schemes)
• National/state/country/religious holiday information (inc. in-lieu days)
• Out of the box provides over 600 bank holidays
• Show/hide current day of the week

World weather

• Local weather conditions
• Weather formats
• Mouse over iView pop up displaying in depth, 3 day forecast

World locations

• Over 200 Country flags
• Multiple locations
• Out of the box equipped with over 60 major locations
• Customizable locations
• Intuitive design to fit the number of cities
• Add cities/locations
• Over 60 locations shipped with standard version

Simple installation

An admin will start to experience the many advantages when applying the World Times business package to the SAP Portal. But the main benefit… it just works!

When it comes to deployment, World Times seamlessly integrates into your SAP Portal theme with the same look and feel of your current styling. Sweetlets plug n’ play installation requires no additional fighting on your end to configuration, set up or adapt. We understand the portal and know IT can be focusing on other important tasks rather than developing and maintaining such time and money consuming projects.

The effective administrator

As an administrator, decide whether end users are allowed to leverage the portal personalization or restrict certain iView properties. Even insert helpful links within the displayed cities for end users as an additional resource. The configuration permits the admin full control over what the end user sees and can do.

• Deploy several iViews in various areas of your SAP Portal – each with apersonalized view
  

  World Times administrative set-up - A glimpse of all iView properties