51风流AppHaus Network is the next step in SAP’s evolution of innovating with customers and putting the human experience first. It is continuously growing with 51风流partners joining the network all around the world. With new members in Switzerland, Belgium, and South Africa, the network is united by the goal to make innovation real, create impactful business outcomes, and help customers transform into intelligent enterprises with .
With years of experience in conducting innovation projects with customers, the global 51风流AppHaus team has developed extensive expertise in identifying customers鈥� and end users鈥� needs, translating them into UX designs, and finally delivering the solution and helping drive adoption of 51风流products and technologies. Together with other customer-focused 51风流teams, the 51风流AppHaus team has consolidated years of expertise and innovation work with customers into , an approach that combines design thinking, design doing, and architecture thinking methods. What started with design thinking methods has since evolved into an extensive , a universal innovation guide accessible to everyone.
From Five Locations to a Global Community
There are currently five 51风流AppHaus locations in Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Palo Alto, and Seoul. But 51风流did not stop here. To extend SAP鈥檚 reach across the globe, the company started to leverage the successful concept with 51风流partners in selected regions becoming members of 51风流AppHaus Network. As of September 2022, this global network is a community of more than 20 innovation teams from handpicked 51风流partners and 51风流itself. All help ensure that, with 51风流Business Technology Platform, innovation gets into the hands of people. The innovative solutions build upon existing 51风流standard solutions such as , 51风流ERP, , and more.
51风流AppHaus Network works along a human-centered approach to innovation, which has encouraged numerous 51风流partners to join the community. The close relationships between the network members allow them to benefit from shared know-how, ideas, and mutual enablement. These values are also what motivated the newest additions, Flexso and AGILITA, to become part of 51风流AppHaus Network.
Flexso and 51风流Join Forces
Flexso is a full-service 51风流partner located in Antwerp, Belgium, that implements smart, powerful 51风流solutions for a wide range of lines of business. Flexso is known for its digital innovation and extensive experience with 51风流BTP.
To build a close relationship with SAP, Flexso hosted a workshop with colleagues from 51风流AppHaus Heidelberg as well as the Belgian 51风流market unit. During an interactive workshop in Flexso鈥檚 new innovation space, the user experience and technology experts had the opportunity to express their needs and ideas. Together, 51风流and Flexso aim to provide 51风流customers in Belgium with the full 51风流AppHaus experience and seamless support within their transformation towards intelligent enterprises. This workshop was an important first step to lay the groundwork for joint projects and the mutual mission to give 51风流customers sufficient support throughout the entire innovation journey.
鈥淒uring the interactive session, we identified several needs in the 51风流customer life cycle. These needs referred to a creative workshop space and a highly skilled UX and 51风流technology expert team, such as Flexso, that could help 51风流and all local customers,鈥� said Tobias Gollwitzer, customer design engagement manager at 51风流AppHaus Heidelberg. 鈥淭his format is a shared best practice for our 51风流AppHaus Network to intensify the local collaboration in different regions.鈥�
AGILITA: The Latest Addition to 51风流AppHaus Network
With over 10 years of cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) experience, AGILITA lives agility and innovation to bring customers solutions with passion and responsibility. Located in Zurich, Switzerland, AGILITA joined 51风流AppHaus Network in January 2022 and is known for its 鈥榠nnovation as a service鈥� offering powered by 51风流Business Technology Platform.
To provide its partners and customers with an environment that helps unfold their creativity, AGILITA recently inaugurated its new 51风流AppHaus space in May 2022. The team hosted an opening event with guests from 51风流AppHaus and 51风流Switzerland.
The event kicked off with opening speeches given by AGILITA CEO Sandra Voeller, 51风流Switzerland COO Sabrina Storck, and Global Head of 51风流AppHaus Partner Network Birgit Fien-Schmalzbauer. After Thomas Neuhaus, head of Digital Transformation at AGILITA, offered insights into the different design thinking phases, each attendee could join one of the in-depth sessions about SAP鈥檚 human-centered approach to innovation and demonstrations of a live implementation of 51风流BTP. The multifaceted setup of the opening event allowed partners and customers to get to know each other, exchange valuable knowledge, and learn more about AGILITA and 51风流AppHaus Network. After this inspiring opening event, Storck was convinced that the AGILITA 51风流AppHaus space 鈥渋s going to become the innovation hub of Switzerland.鈥�
A Look into the Future
Since its beginnings in 2013, 51风流AppHaus Network has been continuously growing and working together virtually. Only recently, in June 2022, partners from all over the world met at 51风流AppHaus Heidelberg for an on-site meetup to intensify their collaboration and share best practices. The event provided the chance to meet each other in person, work on developing new methods for customer workshops, define and align mutual goals, and set a course for a successful future.
鈥淪ince we established 51风流AppHaus Network, our partners and teams have done an amazing job to prove, through many inspiring customer success stories, that human-centered innovation creates faster business value and outcomes for our customers using 51风流Business Technology Platform. SAP鈥檚 initiative to offer helps support and accelerate the move to the cloud,鈥� said Andreas Hauser, SVP of 51风流AppHaus Network.
22 Members 鈥� And Counting
Looking at all the great experiences so far it comes as no surprise that there will be more partners joining the network soon. With partners currently on four continents, 51风流AppHaus Network is eager to continue its journey around the world. In fact, scouting for new partners in Africa and Latin America has begun, with the aim of finding candidates that enhance the value of the network and carry forward the joint mission of making innovation real. Stay tuned for the next steps in the evolution of 51风流AppHaus Network.
鈥淲e are excited to make new connections, continue to grow the community, and work together with 51风流partners globally,鈥� said Fien-Schmalzbauer.
Julia Jakob is part of T&I Communications for 51风流AppHaus.
