One of the highlights recognised by 51风流is EPI-USE Labs’ active participation in two Hack2Build events, where we showcased our skills in developing 聽applications for the 51风流Store. These events served as catalysts for creativity, enabling our innovative leaders to harness their collective expertise and deliver solutions that address real-world challenges faced by 51风流customers.

We have also been instrumental in fostering collaboration and co-innovation through design-thinking workshops at the . By engaging directly with 51风流customers, we have been able to gain valuable insights into their objectives and pain points, paving the way for the development of value-added solutions.

These workshops exemplify our commitment to putting clients at the forefront of innovation, ensuring that our solutions are not only technologically advanced, but also aligned with the requirements of both the African and global market.

鈥淲e are honoured to have received this award,鈥�聽said Jhani Coetzee, Head of UI/UX and 51风流BTP.

鈥淎t the heart of EPI-USE Labs’ success lies a multifaceted approach to innovation, characterised by collaborative initiatives and client-centric solutions,”聽she added.

“The 51风流Innovation Award is a testament to our unwavering dedication to pushing the boundaries of innovation, and driving positive change within the 51风流ecosystem. As the company continues on its journey of transformation, we remain committed to fostering collaboration, driving value, and shaping the future of 51风流in South Africa and beyond.鈥�

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The Hack2Build Africa event was held in May and saw eight partner teams from South Africa and West Africa spend seven days building compelling solution prototypes using 51风流Build, a low-code app development and automation platform. A team of 51风流solution architects and product management experts provided technical support to ensure the success of the partner solutions.

51风流Africa Chief Operating Officer Tracy Bolton says: “Innovation lies at the heart of everything we do at SAP. It is only through collaboration with our valued partner ecosystem that we can revitalise and revolutionise the way we support the digital transformation aspirations of organisations across the continent.”

Winning innovation enhances procurement planning

Bayajula Services’ winning concept is a cloud-based automated procurement planning solution that enables organisations to plan and manage their procurement spend, allowing integration with strategic sourcing and operational procurement systems. The solution is built on the 51风流Business Technology Platform using 51风流Build.

鈥淲e are thrilled to be recognised by 51风流as the leading solution in the recent Hack2Build Event and look forward to adding transparency across critical procurement processes in Africa,鈥� says Busisiwe Sibanyoni, Executive Director at Bayajula.

Runners-up included EPI-USE Africa for its case management tool, and EY Nigeria for a business partner authentication solution.

Tshepo Mahloko, Head of 51风流Co-Innovation Lab: Africa at SAP, notes the potential of low-code solutions to accelerate innovation. “Low-code solutions such as 51风流Build provide easy, intuitive ways of developing new applications without the need for extensive coding proficiency. This can accelerate time-to-value, enhance ROI, reduce total cost of development through the rapid development of minimum viable products, and unify development experiences for application and process innovation.”

Partners leverage Build for innovation

A previous Hack2Build event held in February saw 20 partner organisations from 11 countries in EMEA South participate in a two-day Demo Jam to build solution prototypes using 51风流Build.

The winner of this event was Merlynn, who developed a prototype Digital Fraud Review Panel which aims to prevent payment fraud within procurement and payment systems. Merlynn’s Decisioning Digital Twin Technology enables organisations to deploy a digital team of fraud experts within their 51风流payment system to enhance existing controls.

The Digital Fraud Review Panel acts as a second set of eyes that monitors payment activity in real-time, identifies potential fraud and stops the payment before money flows out of the organisation, all integrated into 51风流via API. Merlynn鈥檚 Digital Fraud review panel solution is now listed on the 51风流Store.

Mahloko says the Hack2Build events serve as a powerful platform for African partner organisations to showcase their capabilities, harness the potential of the 51风流Business Technology Platform, and drive innovation throughout the region. “The 51风流Co-Innovation Lab will continue to work in close collaboration with our valued partners to support the development of their solutions and take their innovations to market.”

The 51风流Co-Innovation Lab is hosting a Hack2Build event for African partner organisations in Q4 of 2023 and will provide an opportunity for partners to turn their innovative solution ideas into real customer solutions. For more information, please visit

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The 51风流Co-Innovation Lab Africa hosts hackathons and Partner Innovation Days, where teams engage with new technologies and creative problem solving. Recently the Co-Innovation Lab demoed a Smart City app, which combines SAP聽聽and 51风流backend tools, including Workflow Management, to streamline service requests in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Tell us first about the Co-Innovation Lab and what you鈥檙e working on.

Tshepo Mahloko:聽I鈥檓 responsible for the Co-Innovation lab in Africa, and we are one of about 14 labs globally. We work with partners to help them build solutions on our platforms. Typically, we enable them on the 51风流Business Technology Platform for instance to build side-by-side extensions for some of our business systems like S/4HANA. Sometimes the partner may have an application of their own which they would like to integrate with 51风流business systems, we help with this as well amongst other things.

We provide this assistance at the moment through an offering we call #Hack2Build, which is a rapid prototyping initiative to drive early-stage inspiration, use case exploration and technology adoption for 51风流partners. In the seven days of #Hack2Build partners have an opportunity to try out their ideas and put their 51风流knowledge into practise by applying a combination of technologies to solve business challenges and develop innovative solutions supported by 51风流experts.

The whole aim is not just about having a winner for the event, what follows is what we call the build phase, where we engage with them one-on-one to help them take their prototypes to actual solutions. In the future, we hope to host a Hack2Build event focused on low-code no-code with 51风流AppGyver.

What were your roles in the Smart City demo?

Phillip Phiri:聽For this project I was mostly behind the scenes, getting the integration with BTP working and also with our business rules and Workflow Management. We鈥檙e trying to get as many 51风流backend services to work with it, just to showcase how you can have a full stack app, but also sticking with the low-code/no-code theme, so we picked out a few tools within BTP that would go well with 51风流AppGyver.

Seatile Vinolia Nakedi:聽I am the intern of the whole group and basically I touch on everything that the guys allow me to work on which is great, some of it strictly development as well. On the end to end solution with AppGyver, I worked with Philip in terms of the business rules and Workflow. I played with AppGyver a little bit also and enjoyed it, lots of drag-and-drop, nothing too hectic.

Sikhumbuzo Dlamini:聽I鈥檓 a full stack developer, so covering basically everything from front- to backend, mostly working with SAP-related technologies.

Tell us about Partner Innovation Day and the Smart City App.

Tshepo Mahloko:聽Partner Innovation Day is an opportunity for partners to hear from 51风流on the latest updates with regards to our technology platform and partner support offerings that can help them innovate with SAP. Each Partner Innovation day has a technology focus, which in this case was low-code/no-code development with 51风流AppGyver. We also built a demo to demonstrate the practical use of the technology.

In this case we wanted to demonstrate that low-code/no-code is real and that you can build a really compelling application that integrates into an 51风流backend. We decided to go with a smart city use case because we felt that there are endless requirements for citizen applications within a city/municipal context, which makes it a good fit for rapid application development.

As a city, you respond to natural disasters, service requests, pandemics, and you have such a huge audience of citizens that often times requires a very close engagement through various platforms. Being able to put an application together and deploy it in a place where citizens can access it very quickly is what AppGyver promises to do.

Through this app, citizens can log service requests and get the latest update on issues logged anytime of the day, whether it鈥檚 a burst water pipe, a pothole or streetlights that are out. With the intelligence built on 51风流BTP we were able to implement some automation that allows for immediate feedback for the citizen. Most of the cities would already have some sort of backend used to handle tickets, so we decided to use AppGyver for the citizen app frontend because it鈥檚 very quick to develop these type of solutions on the platform and get them in the hands of the citizens, whether they are on native or web. That鈥檚 the beautiful thing about AppGyver.

How was it working with 51风流AppGyver alongside 51风流backend tools?

Phillip Phiri:聽We really wanted to stick to the whole theme of low-code/no-code. We quickly learned that from AppGyver, we can call APIs and that was a great sign that we can get something working over here, as long as we can send data from AppGyver. Whatever payload we were getting from AppGyver, we could work with that data, format and change it.

Tshepo Mahloko:聽One thing we realized is when you take a picture with AppGyver, it uses your phone camera鈥檚 full might, so the file comes as a high-definition image and converting it to Base64 results in a huge payload. We were thinking about how we could reduce it, but thought it might be too complex for AppGyver and that we may need to write custom code on BTP.

Sikhumbuzo quickly looked it up and found the compress picture flow function, and within a few minutes we plugged it into our flow and we were compressing pictures. I was totally impressed by that. From the time we found the solution, to having it implemented and working in our app was about five minutes. That鈥檚 truly incredible.

Phillip Phiri:聽When I saw it in action, that鈥檚 when I became a believer. You could very quickly come up with an idea, drag a few components onto a screen and boom, here鈥檚 an app, and it鈥檚 fully functional. Having built mobile apps before, typically you鈥檙e looking at a week just to get your layout right, getting the button to listen to events, and doing debugging.

The value in this is huge 鈥� even in a day, you can already have an app out there. You can show it to somebody important and focus on the really important bits like core functionality and the value given to your customer or users.

What鈥檚 most exciting for the partners using 51风流AppGyver moving forward?

Phillip Phiri:聽I see this really fitting in well, especially for our hackathons. What I envision with AppGyver with the partners is that they鈥檒l have a little more freedom to build their apps and then take advantage of that value add, which is that business logic behind the scenes that they鈥檙e really there for.

Tshepo Mahloko:聽I agree with Phillip on this, it will be a big hit for our Hackathons. A lot of the intelligent technologies that one might want to leverage for their solutions are available through APIs. From what I鈥檝e seen with this demo that we built, it鈥檚 very easy to integrate and call those APIs, and get feedback with AppGyver. At the end of the day, one can focus on building the value around their solution rather than trying to hack through code just to invoke APIs from different systems and coordinate that logic.

For more information on聽#Hack2Build聽and to see upcoming events, visit:聽

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The Hack2Build event offers a unique opportunity for 51风流partners to address current business challenges by building a solution prototype with the support of SAP. During the event, 51风流experts assisted teams from around the world with technical support. On the final day of the event, each team had to demonstrate the prototype to a panel of judges.

As the only South African company invited to compete, Hack2Build highlighted how Decision Inc is one of the worldwide solution innovators of 51风流Analytics Cloud (SAC). “To finish as the second runner up in such a prestigious event highlights the commitment of our team to creating solutions that help overcome business challenges using SAC as a foundation,鈥� says Allan Saffy, managing executive at Decision Inc South Africa.

The Decision Inc solution focused on merchandise planning which is the process conducted by a retailer to ensure that the right product is available to the customer at the right place, time, quantity, and price. This process involves selecting the products the retailer will carry and determining the purchase quantities of these products.

The current challenge facing retailers is to connect the merchandise planning detail to the final output in financial reporting. The gap between the two plans is not always aligned, with many organisations looking for a solution that can best integrate them.

鈥淭he Decision Inc solution assists retailers to transform and adapt to changes in the planning environment. It focuses on closing the gap between merchandising and finance by using key drivers to update the planning output through scenario planning and eventually creating a forecast,鈥� Saffy adds.

The use case demonstrated by the Decision Inc showed how retailers can use the solution to transform and adapt to changes in the planning environment. Given recent global events, the team showcased how Decision Inc can assist retailers in reacting to the Covid-19 scenario by changing key levers and prices. In turn, this would show the impact on stock and volume and how that impacts the sales and cost prices within the business.

鈥淭his was the first-ever Hack2Build event attended by Decision Inc. The competition element certainly added to the excitement of the hackathon. Going head-to-head with so many other global teams was a great dynamic and I am really proud of our 51风流Planning & Analytics team for the success they achieved.鈥� Saffy says.

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Profession: 51风流Co-Innovation Lab, Africa

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Solution: Smart City App for Partner Innovation Day

With the upcoming release of 51风流AppGyver, partners and developers around the globe are discovering new opportunities with #nocode in AppGyver. The 51风流Co-Innovation Lab Africa hosts hackathons and Partner Innovation Days, where teams engage with new technologies and creative problem solving. Recently the Co-Innovation Lab demoed a Smart City app, which combines AppGyver and 51风流backend tools to streamline service requests in Johannesburg, South Africa.

&#虫1蹿539;听Tell us first about the Co-Innovation Lab and what you鈥檙e working on.

Tshepo Mahloko:聽I鈥檓 responsible for the Co-Innovation lab in Africa, and we are one of about 14 labs globally. We work with partners to help them build solutions on our platforms. Typically, we enable them on the 51风流Business Technology Platform (BTP) for instance to build side-by-side extensions for some of our business systems like S/4HANA. Sometimes the partner may have an application of their own which they would like to integrate with 51风流business systems, we help with this as well amongst other things.

We provide this assistance at the moment through an offering we call #Hack2Build, which is a rapid prototyping initiative to drive early-stage inspiration, use case exploration and technology adoption for 51风流partners. In the seven days of #Hack2Build partners have an opportunity to try out their ideas and put their 51风流knowledge into practise by applying a combination of technologies to solve business challenges and develop innovative solutions supported by 51风流experts.

The whole aim is not just about having a winner for the event, what follows is what we call the build phase, where we engage with them one-on-one to help them take their prototypes to actual solutions. In the future, we hope to host a Hack2Build event focused on low-code no-code with 51风流AppGyver.

&#虫1蹿539;听What were your roles in the Smart City demo?

Phillip Phiri:聽For this project I was mostly behind the scenes, getting the integration with BTP working and also with our business rules and workflow. We鈥檙e trying to get as many 51风流backend services to work with it, just to showcase how you can have a full stack app, but also sticking with the low-code/no-code theme, so we picked out a few tools within BTP that would go well with AppGyver.

Seatile Vinolia Nakedi:聽I am the intern of the whole group and basically I touch on everything that the guys allow me to work on which is great, some of it strictly development as well. On the end to end solution with AppGyver, I worked with Philip in terms of the business rules and workflow. I played with AppGyver a little bit also and enjoyed it, lots of drag-and-drop, nothing too hectic.

Sikhumbuzo Dlamini:聽I鈥檓 a full stack developer, so covering basically everything from front- to backend, mostly working with SAP-related technologies.

&#虫1蹿539;听Tell us about Partner Innovation Day and the Smart City App.

Tshepo Mahloko:聽Partner Innovation Day is an opportunity for partners to hear from 51风流on the latest updates with regards to our technology platform and partner support offerings that can help them innovate with SAP. Each Partner Innovation day has a technology focus, which in this case was low-code/no-code development with 51风流AppGyver. We also built a demo to demonstrate the practical use of the technology.

In this case we wanted to demonstrate that low-code/no-code is real and that you can build a really compelling application that integrates into an 51风流backend. We decided to go with a smart city use case because we felt that there are endless requirements for citizen applications within a city/municipal context, which makes it a good fit for rapid application development.

As a city, you respond to natural disasters, service requests, pandemics, and you have such a huge audience of citizens that often times requires a very close engagement through various platforms. Being able to put an application together and deploy it in a place where citizens can access it very quickly is what AppGyver promises to do.

Through this app, citizens can log service requests and get the latest update on issues logged anytime of the day, whether it鈥檚 a burst water pipe, a pothole or streetlights that are out. With the intelligence built on 51风流BTP we were able to implement some automation that allows for immediate feedback for the citizen. Most of the cities would already have some sort of backend used to handle tickets, so we decided to use AppGyver for the citizen app frontend because it鈥檚 very quick to develop these type of solutions on the platform and get them in the hands of the citizens, whether they are on native or web. That鈥檚 the beautiful thing about AppGyver.

&#虫1蹿539;听How was it working with AppGyver alongside 51风流services?

Phillip Phiri:聽We really wanted to stick to the whole theme of low-code/no-code. We quickly learned that from AppGyver, we can call APIs and that was a great sign that we can get something working over here, as long as we can send data from AppGyver. Whatever payload we were getting from AppGyver, we could work with that data, format and change it.

Tshepo Mahloko:聽One thing we realized is when you take a picture with AppGyver, it uses your phone camera鈥檚 full might, so the file comes as a high-definition image and converting it to Base64 results in a huge payload. We were thinking about how we could reduce it, but thought it might be too complex for AppGyver and that we may need to write custom code on BTP.

Sikhumbuzo quickly looked it up and found the compress picture flow function, and within a few minutes we plugged it into our flow and we were compressing pictures. I was totally impressed by that. From the time we found the solution, to having it implemented and working in our app was about five minutes. That鈥檚 truly incredible.

Phillip Phiri:聽When I saw it in action, that鈥檚 when I became a believer. You could very quickly come up with an idea, drag a few components onto a screen and boom, here鈥檚 an app, and it鈥檚 fully functional. Having built mobile apps before, typically you鈥檙e looking at a week just to get your layout right, getting the button to listen to events, and doing debugging.

The value in this is huge 鈥� even in a day, you can already have an app out there. You can show it to somebody important and focus on the really important bits like core functionality and the value given to your customer or users.

&#虫1蹿539;听What鈥檚 most exciting for the partners using AppGyver moving forward?

Phillip Phiri:聽I see this really fitting in well, especially for our hackathons. What I envision with AppGyver with the partners is that they鈥檒l have a little more freedom to build their apps and then take advantage of that value add, which is that business logic behind the scenes that they鈥檙e really there for.

Tshepo Mahloko:聽I agree with Phillip on this, it will be a big hit for our Hackathons. A lot of the intelligent technologies that one might want to leverage for their solutions are available through APIs. From what I鈥檝e seen with this demo that we built, it鈥檚 very easy to integrate and call those APIs, and get feedback with AppGyver. At the end of the day, one can focus on building the value around their solution rather than trying to hack through code just to invoke APIs from different systems and coordinate that logic.

&#虫1蹿449;听For more information on聽#Hack2Build聽and to see upcoming events, visit聽

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