WALLDORF, Germany, July 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP
NEWSBYTE -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP), together with
thousands of customers and partners, successfully concluded one of
the largest crowdsourcing initiatives in the enterprise world. A
free online course "Build Your Own SAP Fiori App in the Cloud" was
delivered through the openSAP platform and offered a holistic
approach to app design, including design thinking. The initiative
resulted in the design of more than 1,500 unique SAP Fiori® apps
created by customers, partners and students on SAP HANA® Cloud
Platform.
The SAP Fiori user experience is the latest SAP innovation for
business software. Applying modern design principles and delivering
a personalized, role-based experience across lines of business, it
optimizes usability on different types of devices to improve
business interactions and ease use. SAP® Business Suite software
includes many SAP Fiori apps, but SAP customers have innovative
business processes of their own to differentiate themselves from
the competition. SAP HANA Cloud Platform addresses their need to
build applications to support those business processes and
integrate them with SAP Business Suite applications.
As part of the course's hands-on learning experience,
participants built their own SAP Fiori apps using SAP Web IDE and
SAP HANA Cloud Platform. SAP Web IDE is a cloud-based integrated
development environment with a growing set of embedded tools that
cover the development process end to end. The development
environment allows users to collaborate with business experts and
designers to fulfill user requirements and expectations more
effectively.
Beyond its innovative technology platform, SAP attributes this
crowdsourcing success to the combination of the following key
factors:
- Weekly open forums specific to current course material focused
collaboration among learners and SAP experts and fed valuable
feedback into the following week's course content.
- Enterprise gamification, here in the form of an app creation
challenge, sparked competitive instincts that led to unusually high
participation and completion rates.
- Peer reviews of the submitted apps made scalability in the
grading process possible.
- Many of the learner-submitted SAP Fiori apps were of
production-level quality, a feat the judges credited to the fact
that learning content was based on the tried-and-proven SAP Best
Practices family of packages.
"Every participant in the app challenge gained valuable skills
in creating SAP Fiori apps for their own unique use cases while
having a lot of fun amidst intense interaction, especially when
compared to traditional learning experiences," said Michael
Kleinemeier, member of the Global Managing Board of SAP SE.
"Enterprise gamification combined with SAP Best Practices packages,
a cloud-based development environment and a massive open online
course platform are a winning combination."
The challenge of developing SAP Fiori apps on the openSAP
platform inspired thousands of participants to work within the
context of their individual experiences to build for their own use
cases. The initiative testifies to the commitment and renewed focus
of SAP on customer user experience, with SAP planning to offer more
of these unique learning experiences in the near future.
For more information on the app challenge program and to view
the winning apps, please visit the gallery. For more information,
visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.
Media Contact:
Martin
Gwisdalla, SAP, +49 (6227) 7-67275,
martin.gwisdalla@sap.com, CET
Shauna Kelleher, FleishmanHillard,
+1 (617) 692-0511, shauna.kelleher@fleishman.com, EST
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