Share your HANA story – Win 4 Tickets to SAP d-cod...

Rukhshaan · ‎2014 Feb 13

Are you a great innovator? Can you envision the possibilities of new technologies and also successfully harness these technology capabilities to transform work and everyday life? Do you have a compelling SAP HANA story to share? Enter your story in the first ever SAP HANA Innovation Award competition for a chance to gain international recognition and acclaim!

What are the prizes?

Each category has prizes for first, second and third place

1st Place $10,000 donation to charity + 4 Free SAP d-code show floor passes
2nd Place $5,000 donation to charity + 2 Free SAP d-code show floor passes
3rd Place $2,000 donation to charity + 1 Free SAP d-code show floor pass
All qualified entrants receive an SAP T-shirt
All qualified entries will be promoted on innovation.saphana.com and via social media at #HANAStory

Note: The updated official rules has amended the prizes!

How to Enter?

Create a video/write a blog post
Highlight impact for workforce, partners, customers, society
Submit entry innovation.saphana.com in one of 3 categories

Trailblazer Innovator: Transforming business
Social Hero Innovator: Improving Lives, Addressing social needs
Big Data Innovator: Re-imagine business with Big Data

Promote your entry #HANAStory

To increase your chance of winning be sure to include the following in your submission

What key business, technical, and data challenges did your organization face and how did your solution help to resolve them?
What advanced data management challenges did you face? For example, what kind of volume, data types, real-time analysis requirements did you have to address?
What kind of business or social value does your solution deliver? Consider both qualitative and quantitative measures
Highlight impact for workforce, partners, customers, society and identify the person
What specific features of HANA did you use and how did it impact your IT architecture?
Did the solution drive new way of working? How did you overcome resistance to change?

Timeline:

Who can enter?

Your SAP HANA powered solution is in production, go-live date is Jan 1, 2013 or later
You are a resident in one of 15 countries listed in Official Rules.

Your vote counts

Cast your votes between May 1 and May 23 as the ten entries with the most votes in each category will be selected as finalist. Make your choices using the following criteria:

The Human Impact of SAP HANA
Simplification of IT architecture and
Degree to which the Entry exemplifies the relevant Entry Category

How to vote for an entry?

Visit the voting page
Login or register to vote
Select the category (Trailblazer, Social Hero, Big Data)
Click on Vote (in the entry’s logo – see image below)

The Panel of judges will score each finalist using the score card to determine the first, second and third places for each

Share your HANA story – Win 4 Tickets to SAP d-code(formerly SAP TechEd)

Your vote counts