KWENA MABOTJA GWAMAKA MWALEMBA - AFSUG...KWENA MABOTJA SAP Next-Gen SAP Next-Gen “Connecting next generation talents to the SAP Ecosystem” GWAMAKA MWALEMBA University of Cape Town

KWENA MABOTJA SAP Next-Gen

SAP Next-Gen“Connecting next generation talents to the SAP Ecosystem”

GWAMAKA MWALEMBA University of Cape Town

SAP Next-Gen“Connecting next generation talents to the SAP Ecosystem”

June 2017

Kwena Mabotja, SAP Next-Gen Gwamaka Mwalemba, University of Cape Town

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The Millennial phenomenon

https://www.wired.com/insights/2013/08/the-rise-of-the-millennial-workforce/

75%of global workforce

58%Mobile shoppers

95%Top-rated brands


…coming soon to an office near you

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World’s largest urban logistics

company owns no vehicles

Largest accommodation provider

owns no real estate

Largest phone company

owns no infrastructure

World’s most valuable retailer

owns no inventory

World’s largest movie house

owns no cinemas

Largest music company

owns no music

Worlds biggest book (& other) distributor

owns no books

Digital Disruptors are Designing a New World

World’s largest trading network

owns no inventory


94%Accountants

and auditors

Accountants & Auditors

89%Security

guards

Security Guards

75%Call center

employees

Call Center Agents

71%Service

technicians

Service Technicians

66%Legal

associates

Legal Associates

48%Computer

programmers

Computer Programmers

The impact of Robotics and Machine

Learning by 2035


Both are facing the challenges of

constantly changing nature of the youths,

organisations and skills requirements

Misalignment of expectations

Current challenges requires the two to

work closely together

Academia & Industry

Innovation

Industry

Universities


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The digital innovation

system that enables you to

innovate at scale to

confidently redefine your

business.

A global network to help our

Customers Partners

In their digital transformation journey

IoT Analytics Machinelearning

Blockchain

Supported by our partners.

System

integratorsSoftware

solution

providers

Technology

partners

IoT sensor and

machinery

partners

UniversitiesStartups

Big Data


The SAP Next-Gen Landscape…

Teaching and

LearningInnovation


New / fresh look at industry challenges

Identify early talent

Close cooperation with leading

universities

Starts building a network with SAP ecosystem

Exposure to new SAP technologies

Experience in solving industry challenges

Strengthen relationships with industry

More topics for research

Students more work ready

Universities

Students

Why do we do Next-Gen?

Customers PartnersCustomers


How it works - Projects

Research Driven

SAP Next-Gen

Project

Semester Course

SAP Next-Gen

Project

TEACHING (ACADEMIC) RESEARCH CO-INNOVATION

Co-Innovation

SAP Next-Gen

Project

Industry AcademicAcademic Industry

SAP Next-Gen : Types of Projects


Students

Company

SAP SE

• Licenses

• Technology

• Software

• Expertise

• Challenge

• Data sets

• Funding

• Expertise

• Ideas

• Innovation

• Implementation

Next-Gen ProjectsNext-Gen Labs @ University

SAP Next-Gen: How it Works


Identify and Scope Problem

• Find a problem area

• Identify project team (Customers,

Partners, Students and Academics)

• Scope the problem

1

Problem Solving

• Present problem to students

• Design Thinking workshops

• Solution building

Share Findings

• Students to present

solutions to customer

• Prize giving

• Define next steps

2 3

SAP Next-Gen: Phased Approach


SAP Next-Gen in action…


Foundation Program: ESEFA

>4000 students

>200 lecturers

11 Countries

www.esefa.ac.za

13 Universities


UCT BPM Project

STUDENTS

Perform detailed process analysis

Identify the root cause of problems with

the process and model the AS-IS

process

Make recommendations on

improvements as well as propose a TO-

BE process

Identify possible operational as well as

management reports that will be useful

monitor the process.

CUSTOMERS: Provide a problematic process and employee time

PARTNER: Provides expertise and sponsorship for award ceremony & prize money

SAP: Provides free software license (SAP ERP, SAP Crystal Reports, SAP Dashboards, SAP Lumira


Innojam for Smart Cities on SAP BUILD

University Universite Haute Alsace

Students 30 business students

Challenge Create prototypes for apps

that make citizen’s life

better and safer

SAP Tech SAP BUILD

Solution Optimizing bike paths for

safe cycling


Building the student developer community

through SAP HANA Code Jams


Live Twitter Sentiment Analysis

Real-time load of tweets from Twitter for certain keywords (‘trump’ / ‘clinton’)

Real-time sentiment analysis (opinion towards keywords) on loaded data

Visualization of results through SAPUI5 app running on the same SAP HANA system

Project was conducted @ University of Magdeburg → for more information please visit

http://uselection.ucc.ovgu.de

http://uselection.ucc.ovgu.de/


SAP NEXT-GEN BOOTCAMP

Two stands (Drones and ML for

Oil&Gas and IoT for Digital

Agriculture) showcased during the

bootcamp were the results of SAP

Next-Gen Consulting Projects

completed in Next-Gen Labs opened

last year in Russia.

SAP UA at the SAP Forum Moscow 2017


SAP Leonardo Center

New York











If you…

Want to remain relevant

Want to innovate

Want to engage with the future of your business

Get in touch with us and join the Next-Gen

network!

Leonardo


Meet the team:

Kwena Mabotja

SAP Next-Gen in Africa

[email protected]

+2782 854 1284

De Wet Naude

SAP Next-Gen in Africa

[email protected]

+2782 894 4043

Gwamaka Mwalemba

University of Cape Town

[email protected]

+2776 605 9388

mailto:[email protected]



www.sap.com/next-gen

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