Criteria
Check out below our updated awards categories and judging criteria that are in effect for 2022.
Awards Categories
Winners will be named in the following categories. For all categories, participants must be using SAP solutions in production (live), except for Cutting-Edge Genius.
50th Anniversary Legend
Recognizes customers that have been with SAP for over 2 decades with stories that show their evolution together honoring the past with relevant former project(s), celebrating the present with current projects on the path to becoming an Intelligent Enterprise, and shaping the future, demonstrating clear plans to further innovate with SAP.
Social Catalyst
Recognizes customers with stories highlighting the usage of SAP solutions in ways that demonstrate positive social, environmental, and/or economic impact, and shared purpose in helping the world run better and improving people’s lives
Industry Leader
Recognizes customers that have become industry-leading intelligent enterprises by working with SAP solutions to create new business models, innovate their end-to-end business processes in a dramatic way, or disrupted the way their industry has traditionally conducted business
Partner Paragon
Recognizes partners that have developed a next-generation application deployed by at least one customer that uses at least one advanced technology from SAP Business Technology Platform solutions
Transformation Champion
Recognizes customers that have implemented at least one of SAP’s Business Technology Platform products to solve business problems in an innovative way to become intelligent enterprises
Cutting-Edge Genius
Recognizes customers that have developed a next-generation proof-of-concept application that includes at least one advanced technology from SAP Business Technology Platform solutions
Business Innovator
Recognizes customers that have achieved business transformation using SAP solutions in the cloud to become intelligence enterprises
Adoption Superhero
Recognizes customers that have:
- Successfully adopted SAP solutions to become intelligent enterprises with the help of Customer Success Services and/or Customer Engagement & Experience
- Become intelligent enterprises using SAP cloud solutions with high adoption and entitlement consumption
Advanced Technologies
- Machine learning or artificial intelligence (Conversational AI, AI-based knowledge graph, AI Business Services, Robotic process automation)
- Blockchain
- Internet of Things
- Intelligent data management (Multi-cloud and/or hybrid deployment, data virtualization & governance, privacy compliance, cloud data lake service)
- Advanced cloud integration (New business models using APIs, Connecting business partner(s) with APIs, Integration Advisor, Digital integration hub architecture, Event Mesh)
- Advanced and augmented analytics (Real-time and streaming analytics, spatial analytics, natural language processing, machine learning to identify trends, patterns, and outliers, predictive analytics and planning)
- Combined transactions and analytics on single data set (Reduce data latency and footprint from dedicated data marts, data warehouses and data lakes, > 1TB)
Judging Criteria
Judges will review and score the entries to select the finalists and winners based on a set of specific criteria. The judging criteria includes:
Use Case Creativity: How compelling and disruptive is the use case described in the entry? Does the use case involve a big idea and innovative approaches? Can it drive significant change?
Tangible Outcomes: What was the result of the project? What is the magnitude of the outcome? What is the impact on individuals? How compelling are the quantified results? Is the submission outcome value-based, illustrating how the customer was able to solve a business problem within the context of their own industry?
Intelligent Enterprise: How well does the entry demonstrate the company’s journey to becoming an Intelligent Enterprise? Is the company effectively applying advanced technologies and best practices within agile, integrated digitized business processes that help make them resilient, profitable, and sustainable?