Guideline
Teams may choose one topic, or work on a solution that addresses any combination of two or - better yet - all three!
Green IT
It's possible to redesign a value chain for environmental conservation, by analyzing and managing emissions output and energy consumption of supply chain and business operations, products, and services. IT plays a critical role. Business applications can reduce emissions and improve energy efficiency, ultimately contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gasses. The challenge is to deliver a new or improved business application for the enterprise that has the potential to make SAP a thought leader in this emerging space. Examples might include:
- Environmental accounting
- Operations optimization from an environmental perspective
- Carbon-credit management and trading; energy management
- Hazardous materials tracking
- Green product design
- Lifecycle analysis
- Corporate social responsibility reporting solutions
- Cloud computing
Social Computing
Next-generation collaboration takes place both behind and beyond the enterprise firewall, and encompasses social networking, prediction markets, peer-to-peer communities, and more. For this challenge, deliver an SAP product or service that facilitates this new kind of collaboration in the enterprise. Examples might include:
- A plug-in for Confluence to enable crowd-sourcing
- An application that analyzes chat patters and generates alerts based on urgency thresholds
- Central profile server enhancement for Harmony social networking application that improves online representation management inside and outside the firewall.
Mobilizing SAP
This challenge focuses on applications and/or widgets that extend the value of SAP core systems through BlackBerry Business Solutions. |