Dear Colleagues, Friends and IoT Startups,
openSAP is launching the first in a series of FREE IoT educational series in September – Imagine IoT to be followed by Touch IoT.
If you are looking to work with SAP in the area of IoT or just exploring IoT for your business, Imagine IoT is a great place to start.
‘Imagine IoT’ is a FREE course on openSAP, designed help you get started with ideation and prototyping of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. This is a live course that offers an opportunity to explore IoT at your own pace, taking advantage of SAP’s heavy investment in tools, products and resources, made available for this learning journey.
The course starts with a holistic view to the Internet of Things, offering a market view to the topic with walkthroughs on a multitude of IoT use cases and guest speakers from thought leaders from Intel, Deloitte, more. You will then explore SAP’s IoT strategy and learn how SAP’s HANA Cloud Platform can help you jumpstart your own involvement in IoT. And, there is more, get ‘hands on’ with free tools and resources and your choice of an IoT use case, and, participate in the “prototyping challenge”, where you can submit your work and receive anonymous peer feedback and get a chance to get listed in a gallery of top-rated prototypes.
As a part of the IoT ‘hands on’ learning journey, you get to play with BUILD, a new design tool for non-technical users that can help you design lo-fi and hi-fi prototypes with innovative design tool set, access to templates and best practices, easy sharing and end user feedback collection and easy consumption via heat map visualizations and notes. And it’s all free.
Week 1: Get to Know the Internet of Things
Week 2: Go Deeper into IoT with SAP
Week 3: Create Your First IoT Prototype
Week 4: Submit Your IoT Prototype
Week 5: Evaluate IoT Prototypes of Your Peers
Week 6: View Results of Your IoT Prototype
Week 7: Winners Announced
Once you embrace the ‘Imagine IoT’ – be on the lookout for a follow up openSAP course called “Touch IoT’ that will help you go deeper into SAP HANA Cloud Platform IoT Services and more.
Finally, if you are one of IoT startup companies engaged or looking to explore IoT collaboration opportunities with SAP, drop us an email to let us know you are on board. We will follow up with upcoming opportunities for to engage with SAP, and, specific IoT enablement content, tailored to help you best move forward with your IoT Solutions in the SAP Ecosystem. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Not totally convinced? Take a look at these blogs talking about the course, the contest and SAP’s commitment to IoT!
SAP commits €2B to IoT plan
Build an IoT Prototype and help decide how SAP gives away $50K
Learn who helped build the course