We are excited to invite you to the Hack2Build initiative focused on SAP Cloud ALM, taking place from July 4-11, 2023. The event will be held in Singapore Working hours. All partners can join, build and showcase the prototype in two phases.

SAP Cloud ALM helps you to implement and operate intelligent cloud and hybrid business solutions. It provides an out-of-the-box, native cloud solution, designed as the central entry point to manage your SAP landscape with content-driven guided implementation and highly automated operations. SAP Cloud ALM is included in your cloud subscription and in SAP Enterprise Support. SAP Cloud ALM accelerates time to value, ensures business continuity and safeguards your cloud journey.

As a partner, you can endorse SAP Cloud ALM and position it as a differentiator and enable customers usage. Not only you can embed SAP Cloud ALM into the partner delivery infrastructure to accelerate delivery but  you can also build your own content  or extend SAP ALM functionalities or address any whitespaces in our portfolio as well. You can also extend SAP Cloud ALM to integrate with 3^rd party or own proprietary solutions and extend and expand into white spaces as well. SAP Cloud ALM APIs make it simple to extend SAP Cloud ALM functionalities to provide new features, services and applications for your SAP application lifecycle. Check SAP Cloud ALM Roadmap here.

Hack2Build initiative which offers a unique opportunity for SAP Partners to address the whitespace, current business challenges by building a solution prototype with the support of SAP Cloud ALM experts. Hack2Build is a competitive event where judges select six partner prototypes in the Hack week ending in July 11. The finalists will be called to participate in the final demo jam in ALMathon in 2023, part of the SAP Cloud ALM summit to be held in Bangalore on July 25th, 2023. The challenge of ALMathon in 2023 is called “Leverage SAP Cloud ALM based on SAP BTP services” and is therefore a perfect match with the Hack2Build initiative, which supports you with SAP expertise to build your own SAP Cloud ALM innovations leveraging  SAP Business Technology Platform.

You are invited to join our Hack2Build initiative on SAP Cloud ALM and unleash the numerous possibilities to deliver Cloud ALM solutions with opportunities to fill whitespaces in SAP Cloud ALM or build extensions or integrations or develop enhancements or build new content. As part of this initiative, you will use features and capabilities of SAP Cloud ALM, Open APIs from SAP Cloud ALM published on API Business Hub and leverage SAP’s Business Technology Platform to develop processes and applications for any industry use case of your choice and deliver the proof-of-concept in 7 days.

The Hack2Build initiative offers SAP Partners a unique opportunity to:

• Validate ideas with SAP experts
• Bring visibility of your innovation to SAP experts and leaders
• Build end-to-end solutions
• Accelerate the reach of your innovation to our joint customers
• Earn a digital badge for successful completion of a working prototype

In order to participate, simply submit your solution idea to us! A team of SAP experts will then evaluate the technical feasibility and economic viability of your proposal. Once qualified you will be invited to register your team of business and technical experts.

During the initiative, SAP experts will assist your team with technical support to build a prototype on the idea. There will be two stages of qualification before the winners are selected. On the first demo jam day on July 11, 2023, your team will present the working prototype, together with business plan and solution architecture to a senior panel of judges. Six prototypes will be selected to showcase during the live SAP Cloud ALM summit to be held in Bangalore on July 25, 2023, during which the winners will be selected with audience participation. Further, for those partners who are interested to build the full scope of the solution, SAP Co-innovation Lab will facilitate the Build phase and help you with technical support and provide you with access to the relevant go-to-market teams at SAP.

Partners with hands-on experience in SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Business Technology Platform who can develop innovative solutions to address customer pain points should join the initiative. This will be a competitive event where participating partners will have 7 days to develop and showcase their solution ideas to a panel of judges. Partner teams should ideally consist of 4-6 members, including a business and functional lead, as well as senior architects and developers.

By joining this initiative, you plan to integrate and extend solutions, optimize business processes, and/or create an engaging digital experience using SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) services. SAP offers Partners, a new Pay-As-You-Go model for test, demonstration, and development licensing of SAP BTP services to meet your evolving business needs. Many BTP services are offered as Always Free or Free Tier services. Find all the relevant links:

• Partner Test, Test and Demo
• SAP Cloud ALM
• SAP Cloud ALM – API’s
• Test, Demo & Dev Pay-As-You-Go
• Check your Subscribed Services

Participation is valid only as a company and not for individuals There is no fee associated with your registration and participation. Registration is valid for the entire duration of the initiative. Contact us by clicking here. The last day for submission of the filled-in Use Case template is June 20^th. Acceptance of your registration will be communicated within a week of submission.

We will set up a Partner Innovation Day few weeks before the event, all registered attendees will be invited to it. In this session, we will introduce you to the virtual Hack2Build initiative, provide you with an overview of the rules of engagement and share the value proposition of SAP Cloud ALM. 

If you have additional questions, reach out to us at hack2build.coil.apj@sap.com