Fostering Co-Innovation and Collaboration
To foster continuous co-innovation, collaboration, and ongoing improvement in a wide range of products, services, and business processes, SAP continues to foster various “communities of innovation” – highly interactive networks of developers, customers, and partners that come together to collaborate on a variety of topics. The major communities include:
- SAP Developer Network
The SAP Developer Network (SDN), the largest of the SAP communities of innovation, enables members from more than 120 countries to co-innovate in a robust, highly collaborative environment. SDN includes discussion forums, blogs, wikis, software, and tools downloads, and e-learning. The collective expertise of thousands of technologists and thousands of technical assets drive more than half a million visitors to SDN every month. Having reached a milestone of one million members in 2007, the network is so active that a member who submits a question will typically receive a response from a fellow member in just under 20 minutes.
- Business Process Expert Community
The Business Process Expert community is the largest business process community in the world, with more than 225,000 members covering 26 industries. This community drives process innovation through collaboration, best-practices sharing, and collective learning. Its participants include industry experts, business analysts, application consultants, IT managers, and enterprise architects, who engage in moderated forums, collaborative wikis, and expert blogs.
- Industry Value Networks
Industry Value Networks continue to thrive across 13 industries including aerospace and defense, automotive, banking, chemicals, consumer products, high tech, oil and gas, public sector, retail, mill products (forest and paper), mining, travel and transportation, and utilities. Industry Value Networks bring together independent software vendors, systems integrators, and technology vendors with SAP and customers from various industries. Together, these participants work to solve customers’ most pressing business challenges through the creation and improvement of industry-relevant business processes.
- Enterprise Services Community
The Enterprise Services (ES) Community enables customers, partners, and SAP to form collaborative groups focused on developing enterprise service specifications for business process platforms. This community currently has over 250 members and 30 active community definition groups.
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