SAP offers the opportunity influence innovations for next releases through the influence program Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI). This is the first cycle of 2018.
What innovations are there?
There are several projects for which you can register. The following projects are relevant for the SAP BI Community Members:
| CEI Influence Opportunity | Link to project |
| Hybrid offering of SAP BPC embedded and SAP Analytics Cloud | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/1292 |
| Improve Machine Learning Adoption | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/1293 |
| Make SAP Analytics Hub the unique entry point for all your Analytics | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/1294 |
| SAP Analytics Cloud Content for Consumer Products Industry | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/1295 |
| Lighthouse Analytics | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/1296 |
| Leveraging SAP Analytics Cloud with live connection to Universes | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/1297 |
| Mobile Insights | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/1298 |
| Failure Mode Analytics | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/1351 |
| Hybrid with BIPlatform – User’s Email support in SAML Integration to BIPlatform for SAP Analytics | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/1355 |
| Not really related to BI but interesting: | |
| Blockchain as a Service for Public Sector | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/1333 |
These projects can be found here .
Follow-up after registration
When you register, you will be sent a confirmation from. When you register for a project, you will be invited to an introductory call SAP; at this point further participation is optional. Typically signing a Feedback Agreement with SAP will be part of the procedure.
The deadline for this first cycle is on March 15
Reference:
How do I register on the Customer Influence website?
The process of registration is here online.
About the Customer Engagement Initiative
SAP wants customer’s early involvement in the development process. Many topics will be opened only for SAP customers, but there are also topics for which the contribution of partners is requested.
Note: The above information was pulled together from various sources: SAP, ASUG and VNSG with some edits by me.
Also check the SAP Continuous Influence topics listed below:
| Continuous Influence Opportunity | Link to project |
| SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/895 |
| SAP Analytics Cloud & SAP Digital Boardroom | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/884 |
| SAP Analysis for Mícrosoft Office | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/889 |
| SAP BusinessObjects Analysis edition for OLAP | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/890 |
| SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/891 |
| SAP BusinessObjects Mobile | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/892 |
| SAP BusinessObjects Roambi | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/893 |
| SAP BusinessObjects Semantic Layer | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/894 |
| SAP Crystal Reports | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/897 |
| SAP Analytics Hub | https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/942 |
Other
Consider registering for these upcoming ASUG influence council sessions:
- Mar 19 SAP Analytics Cloud ASUG Influence Council Launch
- May 7 ASUG Analysis Influence Council Relaunch
Fantastic info, thank you Tammy Powlas !
Received with thanks and spreading the word.
Cheers, H
Thank you, Tammy! Great post, we need more information like this on SCN. The Influence site can feel like trying to find something on the Internet before Google existed. 🙂
Thanks Tommy, I have joined some of the groups, which I have interest. “SAP Analysis for Mícrosoft Office” URL is not working. Could you please check?
It is a very useful information for us. Thanks once again.
For some reason the site wants to add a %23 to the URL that does not belong
Here is the link: https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/889