At the SAP user event in Orlando this week, 12 teams from around the world competed with applications designed to take advantage of its in-memory computing appliance, HANA.
The variety was impressive - the finalists had been whittled from a starting field of 625 entires, and 48 regional finalists.
The Guten Apetit entry used an Android app which matched the user entered health profile and scanned in bar code from a packaged food item to validate against a database of ingredients to highlight potential food allergies. Semiconductor Yield Improvement focused on visualization of large amount of production data analyzed by the HANA Calc Engine.
The judges ranked the Prajnaa entry the best with its Google like search box - users submit a search query and get “information blocks” that display the matching data and analyzed insights.
Photo Credit - Larry Dignan of ZDNet. He and I were doing our own commentary and scoring in the back of the room:)
Vinnie - Am surprised none of those top contesting applications are business related. With decades of experience in various verticals, SAP could have demonstrated much more stronger use cases/application of HANA rather than showcasing something like diet advisor kind of apps. I see a significant innovation deficit.
Posted by: Bala | May 24, 2011 at 02:01 PM
you are focusing on the first one and there were other individual focused ones like one on Bangalore bus schedule...but there were many others which focused on supply chain and other constraint based optimization. I can send you the abstract of each I have from SAP if you are interested.
Posted by: vinnie mirchandani | May 25, 2011 at 05:50 PM