The 10 SAP.iO Foundries, strategically located in key cities around the world, deliver accelerator programs that are tailored to their local markets and primarily work with regional sales teams and customers. SAP.iO Foundry Tokyo, located in SAP’s Experience Center in Ōtemachi, started in 2019 as a practical accelerator program to support the digital transformation of organisations in Japan– championing co-innovation with tech startups. Since its operation, it has already completed four cohort programs that covered various themes such as B2B technologies for consumer products in October 2020 and digital supply chain and customer experience solutions in April 2021.

For this year’s second cohort program themed “data & analytics”, SAP Japan Co., Ltd. started the qualification and recruitment process in June and has selected five startups to participate in the SAP accelerator program. (InsideSAP Asia often references articles from websites in other languages to bring you as much information as possible.) From October 4, 2021, the chosen companies will embark on a 13-week program that allows them to leverage SAP’s go-to-market and technical support to build a successful and enduring partnership with the German software enterprise. 

Five Select Tech Startups in Japan 

SAP.iO is an open innovation model and a zero-equity-ask program that enables visionary startups to use the power of SAP data, application programming interfaces (APIs), platform technologies, and new business models. To be part of the program, the selected startups had to fulfill certain conditions, which include having a clear product-market fit for an enterprise software solution developed in-house, existing enterprise customers, and sales and marketing resources to support the partnership with SAP.

Here are the five startups for the SAP.iO Foundry Tokyo Fall 2021 program:

EAGLYS Co., Ltd. Headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, EAGLYS specialises in secure data utilisation and AI analysis, accumulating a track record of social implementation with major companies worldwide. The company develops and provides software that can securely perform data linkage, search between businesses, and AI analysis on the cloud by utilising secret calculation software Data Armor series.

Sustainable Lab Co., Ltd. The company is an AI group that creates a database of corporate environmental and social contributions. It offers ESG/ SDGs non-financial big data platform ESG Terrace, a data infrastructure that provides a convincing solution for promoting SDGs / ESG of companies by using original data design, data extraction technology, and analysis by machine learning.

Synspective Inc. The Japanese startup provides solutions based on satellite data analysis and develops and operates small SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellites. Synspective aims to provide solutions using SAR satellite data to help solve social issues that have been arising in recent years. The company intends to build a constellation of 6 satellites by 2023.

Trade Waltz Co., Ltd. The tech company provides a trade platform service developed by industry-government-academia ALL JAPAN using NTT DATA’s blockchain technology. TradeWaltz® enables comprehensive information sharing among trade-related players, and provides users with a new value that goes beyond the digitisation of trade documents.

Zeroboard Co., Ltd. The startup develops solutions that involve companies, local governments, and consumers so that society can become a “dashboard” for achieving zero CO2 emissions. The company offers zeroboard, a cloud service that streamlines the calculation of corporate CO2 emissions, reduction management, and response to various reports and market disclosure systems.

The culmination of the program will be during the SAP.iO Cohort Demo Day in January 2022. 

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President of SAP HANA and Analytics, Gerrit Kazmaier, explains how SAP partners play an important role in ensuring customer demands are met by the company:

“To ensure customers quickly gain insights from SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, we offer prebuilt business content packages comprised of end-to-end business scenarios that answer key business and technical questions. Our partner ecosystem plays a critical role in creating these business content packages to meet growing customer demand in all industries and for all lines of business.”

Prebuilt Content and Connectors on the SAP App Center

SAP customers can now leverage expertise from SAP partners to support them in creating the right content for their business with prebuilt content and connectors for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

Below we list down a few of these latest business content packages from SAP partners for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

EWM Insights on Data Warehouse Cloud

This business application from Westernacher Business Management Consulting AG is a central warehouse monitoring solution to guide business operations. It enables companies using several multiple warehouse locations with different IT systems to view KPIs of all warehouses on one screen. The Data Warehouse Cloud connects to the SAP Extended Warehouse Management application and to any data warehousing solution to reduce product distribution costs.

HR Cockpit – Automatic Attendance Analysis

The Automatic Attendance Tracker from Key Performance Consulting enables HR managers to see a detailed view of employees’ attendance at work, to help maintain optimum attendance and avoid work and production delays. The solution is made to be completely customizable, allowing customers to choose how data is represented.

Lyra ICP by Rizing

Lyra ICP is an integrated capacity planning solution with pre-packaged Rizing SAP Data Warehouse content for enterprise asset management and human capital management. It integrates with the SAP Enterprise Asset Management and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central solutions to help businesses track real-time labor capacity and predict skills gaps.

Life Sciences For Data Warehouse Cloud 

The solution from SnapLogic simplifies the exchange of information across the healthcare ecosystem. It provides a single workflow designer and a full-lifecycle API management for integrations and out-of-the-box support for data prep and other data engineering activities.

Optimizing Order Fulfillment with Machine Learning

Created by Inspired Intellect, this solution aims to reduce the number of delays in orders/shipments. It enables customers to better plan around unavoidable delivery delays through the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence that pre-empt the risks associated with delays. It also optimizes logistics, distribution planning, and proactive customer communications.

What is SAP Data Warehouse Cloud?

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is an enterprise-ready, data warehouse in the cloud that runs in a multicloud environment and unites all business data sources in one solution. The solution is designed to:

• empower business users and IT teams to deliver faster results with in-memory technology
• pave the way for improved decision-making with insightful analytics that are simple to set up, use, and share
• help companies allocate IT budget based on existing needs

At the SAPPHIRE NOW Reimagined digital program, SAP announced updates on the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution. The updates include:

• dedicated hybrid scenarios for the SAP BW/4HANA solution and SAP HANA for SQL data warehousing (to be released in early Q3/2020)
• built-in and deeply integrated data flow functionality 
• business content for the retail industry that connects to the SAP Consumer Sales Intelligence solution, and analyzes point-of-sale transactions
• additional industry content for finance to be released in the second half of the year
• early Q3/2020 release of the first version of the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud business layer to enable business users and analysts to create their own models in line with their specific business requirements using top-down modeling

Discover more of the latest business application solutions for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud at the SAP App Center.

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