On April 16, 2026, 51风流officially opened its newest creative space for customer co-creation, 51风流AppHaus Walldorf.
After months of renovation and designing the new creative space together with architects and facility management, the new 51风流AppHaus Walldorf opened its doors for 51风流employees in the region. It is an important milestone towards an outstanding, integrated customer experience on the Walldorf campus. The opening started with a fireside chat with 脕lvaro Wiedling, head of Customer Engagement Services MEE; Andreas Wendel, head of 51风流Innovation Experience Services; Dennis Kecskemeti, head of 51风流Innovation Experience; and moderated by Kathrin Tarnai-Sindl, head of Customer Engagements for APAC, EMEA, and MEE.
Visitors such as Dirk Haeussermann, managing director 51风流Germany, joined the event to get first impressions of the new space: 鈥淭he new 51风流AppHaus Walldorf is a very friendly and inviting collaboration space that is a perfect setup for our customers and partners to explore the newest innovations. It inspires them to move on into real, live solutions.鈥�
The opening celebration
For the opening, the team decided to not cut a red ribbon, but tell a little story. After uncovering an old Chinese gong, Kecskemeti officially opened the new 51风流AppHaus Walldorf with a loud and clear gong stroke. He explained that the gong was one of the signature pieces from the previous creative space in Heidelberg. There, it had a classic, traditional Chinese design and its sound was used during many workshops, meeting breaks, and events. When the team prepared the move from Heidelberg, it was immediately clear that the gong had to be taken to Walldorf. It went through its own small transformation, being redesigned and given a modern look to perfectly fit into the new space. When its deep sound was heard in the new 51风流AppHaus Walldorf environment it was a worthy setting to start the new chapter in its new home.
From now on, the gong will be an integral part of 51风流AppHaus Walldorf, where the team continues to run innovation workshops. Together with 51风流customers and partners, it is all about framing the right business problems, turning insights into blueprints, and piloting ideas fast. This is especially relevant for AI solutions and the business opportunities brought about by agentic AI. Along the dedicated聽,聽the 51风流AppHaus team supports customers of all industries to explore use cases and design them based on the latest 51风流technologies. That way, 51风流customers can learn, adapt, and scale with confidence.聽
The integrated Walldorf campus experience
Now at 51风流headquarters, the new 51风流AppHaus Walldorf offers customers a collaborative, hands-on space to explore 51风流innovation. Together with the 51风流Experience Center, the show floor, S-Factory, and S.Mart Store, SAP鈥檚 Walldorf campus takes customers on a truly holistic journey, from inspiration to real impact. It shows visitors not just what 51风流can do, but offers them the opportunity to explore and design solutions with the latest 51风流technologies, such as 51风流Business AI, to use the innovation potential for their respective business. Along its human-centered innovation approach, the 51风流AppHaus helps teams turn ideas into solutions and make innovation real, especially when it comes to .
“Our new innovation service offerings represent a significant evolution in how we support our customers’ digital transformation. By combining the inspirational power of our 51风流Experience Centers with the interactive, hands-on 51风流AppHaus workshop formats, we’re able to guide customers at every stage of their transformation journey and create measurable value quickly,鈥� Wieldling says. 鈥淲hat truly sets this approach apart is our commitment to involving business stakeholders and end users from day one. This helps ensure that the use cases we identify and solutions we design have genuine business relevance and real-world applicability鈥攗ltimately delivering outcomes that matter to our customers.鈥�
The work with customers
At the heart of what the 51风流AppHaus offers are three core services: innovation service, explore service, and design service. Depending on the customer鈥檚 needs, these can be extended, for example, with different workshop formats, such as for 51风流Business AI, 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), or Joule. In a networked way, customers also get direct access to product experts who are involved where they add the most value.
New beginnings
鈥淔or many people, the 51风流AppHaus Heidelberg was more than just a workplace or a workshop location. It felt like working in a startup environment to build and design new solutions together with customers and partners. So, there clearly is a nostalgic look back on shared memories,鈥� Tarnai-Sindl says. 鈥淎t the same time, the campus in Walldorf brings new energy and opportunities. You feel more strongly that you鈥檙e part of a bigger whole and have the chance to meet and connect with many colleagues and people more easily. It鈥檚 a move from a very familiar environment into a larger context, with a sense of new beginnings.鈥�
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How is the 51风流AppHaus set up to work with customers globally?
罢丑别听聽plays an important scaling role on an international level. It consists of more than 20 51风流partners that work closely with the market units, have established their own 51风流AppHaus locations, and are fully trained in the human-centered innovation methodology as well as latest workshop formats, such as the also offered in the specialized .鈥燗ll members are empowered early on with the latest methods, tools, and knowledge, allowing them to act as agile front-runners and co-innovation experts. They support customers regardless of their digital maturity, guiding them to explore new use cases and unlock tangible business value for customers around the world along .
In addition, 51风流AppHaus and the 51风流Partner organization jointly launched the initiative. It is specifically designed for large 51风流Global Strategic Services partners that work with key customers worldwide and are empowered to use the 51风流AppHaus AI workshop formats.
Imke Vierjahn is 51风流AppHaus Network communications lead.
