The SAP HANA Innovation Award is your opportunity to give back to your community while gaining international recognition, all by sharing your innovation. Submit your innovations and promote your project using #HANAStory. See the full list of rules and details here: http://innovation.saphana.com/

1. SAP HANA Innovation Award
For any feedback/questions reach out to:
Rukhshaan Omar email: Rukhshaan.Omar@sap.com

2. Enter the SAP HANA Innovation Award
Win 4 Tickets to SAP d-code and donate $10,000 to charity
Gain international recognition and acclaim:
Winners will be showcased at
9 Winners
3 Categories
• Trailblazer Transforming business
• Social Hero Improving Lives, Addressing social needs
• Big Data
Re-imagine business with Big Data
$51,000* Donations
21 SAP d-code passes
* opportunity to select an Eligible Charity
How to Enter:
Who can enter:
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Create a video/write a blog post
Highlight impact for workforce, partners, customers, society
Submit entry in one of 3 categories innovation.saphana.com
Promote your entry #HANAStory
Solution is in production, go-live date is Jan 1, 2013 or later
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May 20: Submission Close
Timeline
Feb 3: Entry submission starts
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May 1-23 : Public Vote
May 26-31: Judging
June 3-5: Winners showcased
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3. Need help crafting your story?
Points to include in your submission
• Explain the issue. What key business, technical, and data challenges did your organization face and how
did your solution help to resolve them?
• What advanced data management challenges did you face? For example, what kind of volume, data
types, real-time analysis requirements did you have to address?
• What kind of business or social value does your solution deliver? Consider both qualitative and
quantitative measures
• Highlight impact for workforce, partners, customers, society and identify the person
• Why SAP HANA? What specific features of HANA did you use and how did it impact your IT architecture?
• Did the solution drive new way of working? How did you overcome resistance to change?
Complete the entry form on innovation.saphana.com
Choose the category (Trailblazer, Social Hero or Big Data) that best fits your solution
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All entries must be in English
Video should be 2-3 minutes, blog should be 200-300 words
Submissions will go thru a qualification “quality check” to be deemed eligible to participate in the award
Applicants must be available for follow-up phone calls during the qualification and judging process
Winners might be asked to participate in press and other activities (e.g. case-study, webinar, speaking
engagement)
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4. Questions?
Contact: Ruks Omar
Rukhshaan.Omar@sap.com