Your Opportunity to Influence SAP – CEI Projects 2018 Cycle 2

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SAP offers the opportunity influence innovations for next releases through the influence program Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI).  This is the second cycle of 2018.

What innovations are there?

There are several projects for which you can register. The following projects are relevant for the SAP BI Community Members:

 

Title	Link to Customer Influence Site
SAP Analytics Cloud models connector for Web Intelligence	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1487
SAP Analytics Cloud Insights for IOS	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1488
Data modeling in SAP HANA 2.0	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1489
Help us define the features for the planned SAP Analytics Cloud live access to relational database	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1530
Understanding use-cases of a typical modeler in a company	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1440
Innovations on SAP Analytics Cloud Mobile	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1490
SAP Business ByDesign Customer Analytics	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1462
IoT Analytics	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1446
SAP Connected Goods and Machine Learning: Value-added Innovations with SAP Leonardo technologies	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1498
Combining IT and OT data at the edge	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1523
CoPilot Bot Integration Hub for Slack	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1531
SAP CoPilot Conversational Interaction	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1447
Customer Feedback for Fiori Floor-plans	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1500
Innovation of Fiori Floor-Plans	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1501
Predictive Analytics for Emissions and Compliance Management	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1450
Consumer Sales Intelligence	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1510
SAP Analytics Cloud content for SAP Hybris Marketing	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1513
Intelligent Purchase Order Accruals	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1514
Process Automation in Real Estate using Machine Learning	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1458
SAP HANA Performance Management Tools (Capture and Replay, Workload Analyzer, SQL Analyzer)	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1460
SAP HANA Python Client API for machine learning and Machine Learning Notebook	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/1518

These projects can be found here .



Source: SAP



Source: SAP

Above shows a picture view of the opportunities

 

Follow-up after registration

When you register, you will be sent a confirmation from.  When you register for a project, you will be invited to an introductory call SAP; at this point further participation is optional. Typically signing a Feedback Agreement with SAP will be part of the procedure.

The deadline for this cycle is on June 17

Reference:

How do I register on the Customer Influence website?
The process of registration is here online.

About the Customer Engagement Initiative

SAP wants customer’s early involvement in the development process. Many topics will be opened only for SAP customers, but there are also topics for which the contribution of partners is requested.

Note: The above information was pulled together from various sources: SAP, ASUG and VNSG with some edits by me.

Also check the SAP Continuous Influence topics listed below:

Continuous Influence Opportunity	Link to project
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/895
SAP Analytics Cloud & SAP Digital Boardroom	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/884
SAP Analysis for Mícrosoft Office	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/889
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis edition for OLAP	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/890
SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/891
SAP BusinessObjects Mobile	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/892
SAP BusinessObjects Roambi	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/893
SAP BusinessObjects Semantic Layer	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/894
SAP Crystal Reports	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/897
SAP Analytics Hub	https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/942

 

Other

Consider registering for these upcoming ASUG influence council sessions:

June 18 ASUG Analysis Influence Council Relaunch

2018 ASUG Annual Conference Influence Sessions can be found here

Appendix - Survey (source: SAP)

The BI Survey 18, the world's largest annual survey of business intelligence (BI) users.

As a participant, you will:

 

* Receive a summary of the results from the survey when it is published

* Be entered into a draw to win one of ten $50 Amazon vouchers

* Ensure that your experiences are included in the final analyses

 

The BI Survey 18 should take about 15-20 minutes to complete.

 

Click here to take part