We are excited to invite you to the virtual Hack2Build event focused on SAP Datasphere, taking place from October 10-17, 2023. The event will be held in Central European Working hours. All partners can join, build their prototype and showcase virtually from across Europe, Africa, Middle East.

SAP Datasphere is a data management platform that allows businesses to integrate with other data vendors and external data products, bringing together various data sources to better understand the business data and make confident decisions based on real-time information. SAP Datasphere helps eliminate the hidden data tax, enabling customers to build a business data fabric architecture that quickly delivers meaningful data with business context and logic intact. Whether it is optimizing operations, improving customer experience, or developing new products and services, SAP Datasphere provides the tools and expertise needed to unlock the full potential of data-driven innovation.

SAP Datasphere enables customers to access authoritative data, enrich all data projects and simplify the data landscape. It enables a business data fabric architecture that brings together mission-critical data throughout the organization, allowing business experts to make the most impactful decisions. It also allows users to easily enrich their data with information from multiple systems. It supports data integration, cataloguing, semantic modelling, data-warehousing, and virtualizing workloads for SAP and non-SAP data.

Through SAP Datasphere, SAP has introduced strategic partnerships with industry-leading data and AI companies – Collibra NV, Confluent Inc., Databricks Inc. and DataRobot Inc. – to enrich SAP Datasphere and allow organizations to create a unified data architecture that securely combines SAP and non-SAP data.

SAP Partners can use SAP Datasphere to create innovative solutions that leverage the power of advanced analytics and machine learning. You can build custom applications that integrate with SAP Datasphere to provide customers with new insights into their business operations. You can also develop new products and services that leverage the power of SAP Datasphere to drive innovation and growth, especially in the areas of sustainability, reliable supply chain etc.

SAP Datasphere represents the tailored integration point for all partners enabling customers to connect, unify, and manage SAP and non-SAP data unlike ever before. SAP Datasphere enables data professionals to easily distribute mission-critical business data, with business context and logic preserved, across the data landscape.

We invite our Partners to explore new possibilities for growth and innovation through advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI-driven insights using SAP Datasphere. Through Hack2Build, SAP offers a unique opportunity for Partners to team up with SAP to ideate, build and monetize SAP Datasphere solution and content.

Join the Hack2Build initiative, where a team of SAP experts will guide and coach you to build solutions using SAP Datasphere and SAP Business Technology Platform. The Hack2Build event offers a unique opportunity for Partners to work with SAP to develop repeatable solutions that address true business challenges. Through Hack2Build, SAP has supported many partners across the globe to build their innovations on SAP technologies and platforms.

To participate, simply submit your SAP Datasphere solution idea to us! A team of SAP experts will then evaluate the technical feasibility and economic viability of your proposal.

During the one week of Hack phase, SAP experts will assist your team with technical support to build a prototype based on your idea. On the final day, as part of the demo-jam, your team will present the working prototype together with a business plan and solution architecture to a senior panel of judges. Beyond the Hack phase, SAP Co-innovation Lab will support the Build phase to help you develop the agreed full scope of your innovation. Further, you will be provided with access to the relevant go-to-market teams at SAP.

The Hack2Build event offers SAP Partners, joining the SAP Datasphere initiative 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

We have seen that partners who bring their ‘A’ team to the Hack2Build initiative always have an advantage and have the potential to win the hearts of judges. Partners who have the time and skills to invest most often develop a full-fledged solution as per the initiative timelines. You need to assemble your A-team with 4-6 members who have expertise in business, functional, architectural, data management and development areas. Your organization also need to adhere to the initiative timelines and sign the required agreements with SAP.

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.

Your technical team should be well versed with these topics.

• Basic modelling concepts star schema\snowflake schema 
• Basic SQL concepts
• Concept of Datasphere
• SAP Datasphere missions
• Introduction to SAP Datasphere
• [Optional] UI component development in case of extension applications

Partners are free to use 3^rd party connectors as part of their usecase, but SAP experts will not offer support for them from a licensing or technical standpoint.

SAP offers Partners a Free Tier and Pay-As-You-Go model for test, demonstration, and development licensing services for SAP Datasphere to meet your evolving business needs. Find all the relevant links below:

• SAP Discovery Center - SAP Datasphere

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 event Contact us by clicking here. The last day for registration with your use-case is September 27, 2023. Acceptance of your registration will be communicated within a week of submission.

All registered attendees will be invited to a Partner Innovation Day session few weeks before the hackathon. In this session, we will provide you with an overview of the rules of engagement, SAP Datasphere solution offerings and the business value of co-innovation with SAP.

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