Anniversary 2023
10 Years of Human-Centered Innovation
10 Years SAP AppHaus. 10 Years Successful Customer Innovation!
Since 2013, customers and partners leverage the methodologies and practices of our interdisciplinary teams and benefit from human-centric innovation with the latest SAP technology.
This calls for a celebration!
Check out our agenda below and join our festivities from Nov 28 – Dec 1 in Heidelberg, Germany as well as virtually!
Agenda
10th Anniversary Interactive Exhibition (Public Event - Everybody Welcome!)
Location: SAP AppHaus Heidelberg, Bergheimerstraße 147, Entrance F & C, 69115 Heidelberg.
Experience Innovation (Culture) Firsthand
01:00 pm to 06:00 pm CET
Our doors are open for you to explore the interactive exhibition along our five pillars for sustainable innovation: people, process, place, leadership, and technology.
Join us at the SAP AppHaus in Heidelberg for a unique experience filled with intriguing sessions and interactive elements presented by both our SAP AppHaus Network partners and us.
Get ready to unleash your creativity, engage in active learning, expand your network, and celebrate together with us!
Special offerings you shouldn't miss:
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Live Performance: SoulHaus Band
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Presentation: Design for Enterprise
presented by Bourne Digital Leverage Human-Centered Design to align stakeholders around user needs, which helps encourage process rethink and design solutions that optimize adoption and drive ROI. |
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Presentation: Don't Let Them Build It Without the UX Design
presented by LeverX Frequently, product development solely revolves around business objectives, with designers blindly following directives without engaging with users. This often leads to products facing adoption issues. Fostering a culture of user research from the outset can effectively prevent such problems. We will share our insights in applying easy-going and effective UX techniques and transforming individuals into UX advocates. |
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Presentation: Don’t Build Something Nobody Wants
presented by OSSMO – a Trifork Lab company Our ability to capture value from our IT investments hasn't improved over the last 15-20 years, even though investments has gone up fivefold. Why could that be and how can we approach this? Get a sneak peek into how we are pioneering Adoption Management together with Vestas and how this enables us to design for success at scale, not just done. |
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Workshop: Explore New Business Models with Design Thinking
conducted by SAP Discover an enjoyable method of creating new business models for existing ones by utilizing inspiration cards and ideation. The most innovative design will be selected and celebrated at the end of the session. |
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Presentation: From Dream to Reality: The DalRae Solutions AppHaus Journey Down Under
presented by DalRae Solutions Explore DalRae's journey of turning a 10-year-old dream into a successful reality with SAP AppHaus and why they love being an SAP AppHaus Network partner. |
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Interactive Session: SAP Build and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
presented by AGILITA Experience the power of innovation and real-time app development. See live demos in SAP Build and gain practical insights on creating innovative AI capabilities in SAP applications. Discover the potential of generative AI and its integration with business data and processes. Engage with like-minded individuals for an interactive discussion. |
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Presentation: Human-Centered Innovations on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
presented by Mindset Consulting AI and Generative AI have captured the imagination of everyone across the world. In the SAP World, customers look for ways to get their return on investment using SAP BTP and AI within the enterprise context. We bring to you ways to realize value using SAP BTP with SAP AppHaus tools with an example use case and a sample of our customer feedback. |
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Workshop: GenAI - Yes or No? Let's Discover Reasonable Use Cases for ChatGPT and Co.
conducted by sovanta AG Interactive workshop along some use cases for which GenAI brings real added value. |
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Live Performance: SoulHaus Band
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The SAP AppHaus Journey
Launching the SAP AppHaus in Heidelberg and Palo Alto
- 1Award Won
The SAP AppHaus team starts co-innovating with customers on elevating the user experience (UX) of their SAP solutions. The team establishes creative co-innovation spaces and implements Design Thinking methodologies to transform the way businesses engage with SAP software solutions through design.
Co-Innovating with Customers on SAP Fiori
- 3Awards Won
SAP’s Chief Design Officer, Sam Yen, accelerates Design Thinking to drive and improve the user experience (UX) at SAP. The combination of Design Thinking methodologies and the co-innovation approach with customers by the SAP AppHaus leads to the creation of SAP's first cohesive design system – SAP Fiori.
Designing Business Processes with Customers
- 5Awards Won
The SAP AppHaus team notices that humanizing business through design means more than just redesigning software interfaces: It involves rethinking and improving all aspects of business, including processes and models, with a focus on prioritizing human needs and experiences.
Kicking Off the SAP AppHaus Network
- 7Awards Won
- 1Partner Onboarded
Looking at the success of the SAP AppHaus locations, SAP decides to scale the AppHaus mission globally and launches a franchise model for like-minded partners – the SAP AppHaus Network is born!
The Innovation Toolkit Going Viral: Available for Free
- 1Partner Onboarded
- 1Award Won
The Innovation Toolkit, a collection of Design Thinking templates available for free on the SAP AppHaus website, gains widespread popularity. In the first year alone, the toolkit is downloaded over 6,000 times in 84 countries on all continents by both customers, NGOs, universities, and SAP colleagues.
Humanizing Leadership – and Technology
- 3Partners Onboarded
Leadership becomes a cornerstone in the human-centered approach to sustainable innovation. In a changing world, top-down methods wane. Effective leaders empower their team, foster trust, creativity, and innovation. Collaboratively, the team must explore, design, develop, and refine solutions, driving impactful digital transformation.
Helping Customers Innovate with SAP Business Technology Platform
- 6Partners Onboarded
- 6Awards Won
With the launch of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), the SAP AppHaus team is among the first to introduce the new platform concept to SAP customers and partners. It combines application development, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities optimized for SAP applications.
Adapting to Change: The Future of Work
- 7Partners Onboarded
- 7Awards Won
- 1Global Pandemic
During the global pandemic, the SAP AppHaus team shifts to remote work. Workshops evolve into vibrant virtual events. Customer feedback shapes the Innovation Toolkit, birthing "The Next WoW, the Next Way of Working" with lessons learned, best practices, and recommendations for remote work.
Inspiring Customers to Transform into an Intelligent Enterprise
- 3Partners Onboarded
- 3Awards Won
The SAP AppHaus team wants to ensure that customers understand and benefit from the capabilities of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) to address their business challenges. Thus, the team creates repeatable use cases to simplify the implementation and usage of SAP BTP.
Gaining Momentum with the SAP AppHaus Network
- 2Partners Onboarded
- 6Awards Won
The SAP AppHaus Network has grown into a community of like-minded partners working on almost all continents. In 2022, it consists of 22 innovation teams. Several SAP AppHaus Network projects win at the SAP Innovation Awards.
Co-Innovating on GenAI into the Future
- 3Partners Onboarded
- 9Awards Won
With the rise of generative AI (artificial intelligence) applications, the SAP AppHaus pilots GenAI exploration workshops. Together with customers, the team assesses opportunities in their business context. These workshops are shared with the public in the Innovation Toolkit.
Celebrate the winners of the SAP AppHaus Network photo contest with us!
Watch the full video submissions of EPI-USE and DalRae Solutions!
Looking for a short and crisp introduction of who we are?
How to find us:
- apphaus@sap.com
- SAP AppHaus Heidelberg
Bergheimerstraße 147 (parking lot accessible via Alte Eppelheimer Straße)
69115 Heidelberg