For the fourth year running, startups across Europe have nominated the most active corporates in terms of open innovation as part of the Corporate Startup Stars Awards. Enel has secured the top position, followed by SAP and Telefónica according to the new ranking unveiled today during the SEP Scaleup Summit organized by Mind the Bridge at the Bolsa de Madrid.
Alexa Gorman sucht für SAP die besten Software-Start-ups – und achtet dabei besonders auf diverse Teams.
Alexa Gorman weiß, was ein gutes Start-up ausmacht, trotzdem wollte sie selbst nie gründen. Das liegt daran, dass sie seit 20 Jahren einen Job bei SAP hat, der ihr “super viel Spaß macht”. Und davor war die Start-up-Welt noch eine andere. “Damals gab es keine Gründerkultur, keine Acceleratoren, kein Ökosystem”, sagt die 46-Jährige. Heute gibt es sie, die Inkubatoren und Acceleratoren – zu Deutsch: Beschleuniger, die Jungunternehmern helfen, zu starten und zu wachsen. Einer davon ist SAP.iO. Gorman ist Leiterin der Foundries, der lokalen Ableger, in Europa und Israel. 141 Start-ups haben die weltweit acht Foundries seit der Gründung 2017 gefördert. Die durchlaufen ein dreimonatiges Programm und dürfen am Ende ihre Software über eine SAP-Plattform anbieten. So bekommen die Start-ups Zugang zu SAP-Kunden und das Software-Unternehmen ein breiteres Angebot und eine Provision.
As with so much of what we do today in finance, technology can help you. Well-intended education initiatives simply aren’t enough. At SAP, we’re increasingly using machine learning and artificial intelligence embedded in human experience management software to alert us if job descriptions or management behaviors exhibit inherent bias. Cultivate is an AI software created in our SAP.iO startup accelerator that alerts managers when they’re giving disproportionate time and attention to some employees over others.
What if you could identify and quantify waste even before it was created? Would this be revolutionary? One person’s waste is another person’s treasure, so the biowaste created by an industrial farm could be the biofuel that a production company needs. And being able to predict how much biowaste is available at the farm at any given time means you can begin creating a secure supply chain.
That is the ethos behind the circular economy. It’s also the idea behind iNex, one of eight startups recently invited to the SAP.iO Foundry Paris program’s greentech and sustainable enterprise cohort.
The companies SAP.iO and Daivergent are collaborating on a process that matches job candidates who have been identified as being on the autism spectrum. This is through the Daivergent for Autism Recruiting solution.
The partnership enables companies using SAP Fieldglass solutions to hire and manage neurodiverse talent who have been sourced and trained by Daivergent. Key to this mission is software development. SAP.iO helps innovators inside and outside of SAP build products, find customers, and change industries. To discover more, Digital Journal spoke with Vanessa Liu.
Personal healthcare experiences often spark pioneering cures, and Hindsait CEO Pinaki Dasgupta is no exception. After two immediate family members weathered serious health issues, Dasgupta brought his digital expertise in manufacturing to the healthcare industry.
His cloud-based startup is designed to help insurance companies and healthcare organizations reduce costs while boosting patient health by replacing manual reporting, preauthorization, and audits with automation based on artificial intelligence (AI).
Healthcare spending in the U.S. alone has totaled almost 18 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), an astounding amount. While the causes are complex, Dasgupta points to unnecessary procedures, inefficiencies, errors, abuse, and fraud as among the top culprits. AI was just emerging when he founded Hindsait in 2013 amid a swirl of market-wide healthcare reform model
Personal healthcare experiences often spark pioneering cures, and Pinaki Dasgupta, CEO of Hindsait, is no exception. After two immediate family members weathered serious health issues, Dasgupta brought his digital expertise in manufacturing to the healthcare industry. His cloud-based startup is designed to help insurance companies and healthcare organizations reduce costs while boosting patient health by replacing manual reporting, preauthorization, and audits with AI-based automation.
“This has been my mission for the last 20 years,” says Dr. Rajiv Shah of MyMeds, the company he founded in 2012. MyMeds is a medication management tool that helps consumers get a complete picture of the medication they have been prescribed and encourages adherence through a comprehensive “Digital + Human” approach.
Accessible as an app on the phone or a web-based tool on the desktop, consumers using MyMeds are able to auto-import their prescriptions, identify better prices for their medications, set up reminders and chat with expert pharmacists. MyMeds is also the only medication adherence platform to have connectivity with Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), enabling real-time data exchange between insurers, clinical teams and patients, providing new engagement insights that health systems never had access to before.
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Asia’s startup ecosystem had been on the ascendance over the past few years. According to a study backed by Vertex Venture Holdings and Preqin, Asia could overtake North America as the epi-center for venture capital funding next year. Asia VC funds had USD 323 billion worth of assets under management (AUM) at the end of last year vs North American VC funds which had USD 397 billion. With more unicorns in China than the US, it is not surprising that the bulk of the Asian funds are focused on China. However, Southeast Asia already have USD 28 billion AUM and attracting Chinese and Japanese investors to the region.
Adults on the autism spectrum often have difficulty finding employment. Entrepreneurs and advocates are working to fix that by pairing companies with a pool of candidates.
Silverback.ai, the leading AI-driven marketplace performance engine, announced today a deeper partnership with Mirakl, the leading global marketplace platform solutions provider, which will bring more sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities to Mirakl customers.
Southeast Asia also enjoys strong government backing for entrepreneurship, backed by a rising, affluent, middle class, said Scott Russell, president for Asia Pacific Japan at German software provider SAP, whose SAP.iO Foundry fund based in Singapore is in the process of accelerating seven early-stage startups. “We see innovative and ambitious startups developing across the region,” said Russell. “This is driving deal flow and overall interest from venture capitalists to invest.”
Artificial Intelligence start-up Niki is all set to diversify into seven other Indian languages after having tasted success in the Hindi language app-based internet commerce by creating a virtual agent for online voice-based transactions for consumers who are hassled by the barriers like using the keyboard in English or Indian languages.
Niki has already created a user base of 18 lakh consumers in Hindi language and the start up firm has reached an annual turnover of Rs 300 crore.
IIT Kharagpur alumnus and CEO of Niki Sachin Jaiswal told The Pioneer, “What we are trying to do is to unlock internet commerce for the next billion users in India by developing a virtual agent for them. In India, 95 per cent of the people don’t know how to use an app because most of the apps are in English language. Typing through keyboard in vernacular language is complicated and one should have a basic understanding of computer terminologies to process the instructions through the apps.”
Niki has developed a solution by developing apps in Indian languages that operate through voice-based commands to remove the sore points of the consumers.”
The Niki app will help the users for services like online recharge, bill payments of various utilities like power, phone or gas and also facilitate in booking travel tickets by just issuing commands through voice especially in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
The Dutch brewing company HEINEKEN concluded its first-ever HR tech-focused competition called HEINEKEN HR Brewhouse last Friday.
The winner of the Recruitment category was SAP, a team consisting of platforms Eightfold.ai, Sonru, and Plum. The final winner for the Wild Card category was Pulsifi, a Singapore-based company that uses data analytics for HR management. Pulsifi’s platform combines organizational psychology and artificial intelligence to help companies hire, retain, and develop talents.
L’association des Utilisateurs SAP Francophones (USF) organise sa Convention annuelle les 9 et 10 octobre 2019 à la Cité des Congrès de Nantes sur le thème « L’IA, nouveau vecteur de la transformation des métiers ». Les sujets qui fâchent dans les relations entre SAP et ses clients n’ont pas été oubliés.
