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Product and Topic Expert
Who said that a new year means a new challenge? Well, that’s never been so true!

Let’s launch the new 2022 AI & Automation tutorial challenge on SAP Community, starting now.

Today, infusing artificial intelligence and automation capabilities are key to enabling automated, accelerated, and sustainable corporate processes, and thus building intelligent enterprises of tomorrow.

With this new tutorial challenge, we invite you to showcase your valuable development skills to the community using AI and automation products available on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) by building actionable business use cases and winning awesome prizes! 🎉

How does it work? 🧐


It’s quite simple!

You'll have to publish a step-by-step tutorial blog post on SAP Community explaining how you created a use case involving at least two of the following products/services available on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP):

All these services are part of the free-tier model of SAP BTP, allowing you to start with a productive account right away — try out selected services up to a specified capacity limit and switch easily to the paid service plan, without losing any work.

Visit this page for more information.

In addition, the use case can also integrate other services and applications, both SAP (e.g. SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors…) and non-SAP.

Example


Replay this recent SAP Community Call to learn how to leverage SAP AI Business Services capabilities available in SAP Process Automation for intelligent business document processing. Contact our product experts tomasz.janaszsingh.simar, and evgeniy.gorbunov if you have questions on these specific use cases.

This is just a glimpse of what can be achieved using automation & AI together, now it's your time to build!


Requirements and important information for valid participation in this challenge


1/ The use case should involve at least two of the following services listed above.

2/ Your tutorial blog post should consist of:

  1. a short introduction, including a link to this announcement blog post

  2. a main part where you present the use case

  3. a closing part outlining key takeaways from your use case.


Learn about the SAP Community blogging standards here.

3/ Add the user tag “AI & Automation Tutorial Challenge 2022” in the submission blog post.

Please note: If you’re a first-time blogger in SAP Community, moderation processes apply which can take up to 72 hours before your blog post gets published. Ensure you have set notifications to notice moderator messages.

Please note: Only one representative of a team submission can submit the blog post. In the submission blog post itself, it is possible for the blog author (representative) to introduce the involved team members in the introduction or closing part.

4/ After your blog post is published, add a comment on this announcement blog post by sharing the link to your submission blog post.

5/ Only use content/use cases in your submission blog post that is/are ok to post publicly, following the SAP Community rules of engagement. Do not repost the same content published either by you or someone else in the community, otherwise, it will not be considered.

6/ All challenge participants (representatives and team members) need to have a complete active profile in SAP Community. Learn how to update and maintain your profile here.

How are winners selected?


The 3 winning teams will be selected using a point system (from 1 to 10, 10 is the best) based on 3 criteria.
The three winning teams will be those who collect the most points among all the submissions received.
In the event of a tie for the first 3 places (for example, 2 teams with 8 points for the third place) the jury will choose the winner.

Criteria 1
A jury consisting of andreas.bader, AI Product Manager at SAP, and thomas.volmering, Chief Product Manager, SAP Process Automation at SAP will select 3 submissions in total.
The 3 selected submissions win 5 points.

Criteria 2
We encourage participants to record a demo video and include it in their blog post.
All the tutorials with a demo video win 3 points.

Criteria 3
Participants are encouraged to publish and promote their tutorial on their LinkedIn and/or Twitter accounts with this dedicated hashtag: “#SAPTutoChallenge2022”.
The 3 social media posts with the highest number of likes win 2 points.

What’s the timeline? 🗓



  • April 5, 2022 (0:01am Eastern Time) – Start of the challenge 🚀


  • *NEW DEADLINE* June 16, 2022 (3:00pm Eastern Time) May 18, 2022 – End of the challenge 🏁




  • *NEW DATE* July 1st, 2022 – Winners’ announcement on SAP Community 🏆




What are the prizes? 🎉


Each team will win an exclusive SAP merchandise package including office supplies, clothes and goodies.

  • Approximate package value for 1st winning team: 500€

  • Approximate package value for 2nd winning team: 300€

  • Approximate package value for 3rd winning team: 200€


The first winning team will be offered to participate in an SAP Community Call hosted on YouTube to showcase their successful use case in front of the whole community, including challenge participants, SAP employees, SAP partners, and more.

Learn more about past and upcoming SAP Community Calls.

Ready? We are looking forward to receiving your submissions! 💻

Get started links 💡


Artificial Intelligence at SAP
Visit the AI page on SAP Community
Visit the SAP AI Business Services page on SAP Community
Visit the SAP Conversational AI page on SAP Community

SAP Process Automation
Visit the SAP Process Automation page on SAP Community
SAP Process Automation: Free Tier is out, create your own automations!

SAP BTP Free Tier
Learn more about the free tier model available for SAP BTP
List of free tier products available







Official Rules


The Legal Stuff, a.k.a. Participation Subject to the Official Rules
AI & Automation SAP Community Tutorial Challenge

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.­

A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

(1) SPONSOR: SAP America, Inc., 3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073, is solely responsible for all aspects of the AI & Automation SAP Community Tutorial Challenge.

(2) ELIGIBILITY: AI & Automation SAP Community Tutorial Challenge (“Contest”) is open to individuals who are 18 years old or older at time of entry Note: Employees of SAP or any of its affiliated companies (such as but not limited to SAP SE, SAP America, Inc., SAP Labs, Inc., and SAP Global Marketing, Inc.), and family members of any of the above (parent, children, siblings, regardless of where they reside) or those living in the same households of such employees (whether or not related) are not eligible for the prizes listed in Section 6.

Any prize awarded to you is awarded under the condition that your acceptance does not violate any applicable laws or policies within your organization. Public sector employees and/or government officials and SAP customers currently in an active competitive bid cycle with SAP are not eligible to receive prizes. Acceptance of this prize indicates that the recipient is neither public sector/government official or a customer in an active competitive bid with SAP.  If you are unsure whether your acceptance may violate any such laws or policies, we strongly encourage you to seek advice from your ethics or compliance official. If an individual or an organization is unable to accept all or a portion of a prize that is awarded, Sponsor may elect to award some portion of the prize to the recipient in question or may elect to withdraw the prize and award it to another participant.

This Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited by law.

(3) ENTRY PERIOD: The Contest begins at 0:01 AM Eastern Time (“ET”) on April 5, 2022 and ends at 3:00 PM Eastern Time on

June 16, 2022 May 18, 2022 (“Contest Entry Period”).


(4) HOW TO PLAY & ENTER:

To enter, follow the steps listed below:

  1. Sign into your SAP Community account (“Account”). If you don’t have an account, you will need to create an account on community.sap.com.

  2. Write and publish a tutorial blog post on community.sap.com, consisting of a short introduction, including a link to this announcement blog post, a main part where you present your use case and a closing part outlining key takeaways from your use case.

  3. The use case described in the tutorial should involve at least two of the following products/services available on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP): SAP Process Automation, SAP Conversational AI, Document Classification, one of the SAP AI Business Services, Business Entity Recognition, one of the SAP AI Business Services, Service Ticket Intelligence, one of the SAP AI Business Services, Data Attribute Recommendation, one of the SAP AI Business Services.

  4. Add the user tag “AI & Automation Tutorial Challenge 2022” in the submission blog post. Posts without the tags will not be qualified.

  5. After your blog post is published, add a comment on this announcement blog post by sharing the link of your submission blog post. Posts without the comment will not be qualified.


Each blog post must follow the Community Rules of Engagement and in addition to these Rules, you are also subject to and must comply with all applicable terms and conditions of your SAP Community account.

(5) WINNER SELECTION: All entries must be received during the Contest Entry Period to qualify for the Contest. Each team will win an exclusive SAP merchandise package including office supplies, clothes, and SAP goodies.

  • Approximate package value for 1st winning team: 500€

  • Approximate package value for 2nd winning team: 300€

  • Approximate package value for 3rd winning team: 200€


One package will be shipped per team.
How that prize is allocated amongst the team members (if applicable) will be decided by the team.

The 1st winning team will be offered to participate in an SAP Community Call hosted on YouTube to showcase the use case in front of external audience, including challenge participants, SAP employees, SAP partners, and more.
Participation is subject to the agreement of the winner.

The 3 winning teams will be selected using a point system (from 1 to 10, 10 is the best) based on 3 criteria.
The three winning teams will be those who collect the most points among all the submissions received.
In the event of a tie for the first 3 places (for example, 2 teams with 8 points for the third place) the jury will choose the winner.

  • Criteria 1: A jury consisting of Andreas Bader, AI Senior Development Manager, SAP and Thomas Volmering, Head of Product Management, SAP Process Automation will select 3 submissions in total.
    The 3 selected submissions win 5 points.

  • Criteria 2: We encourage participants to record a demo video and include it in their blog post.
    All the tutorials with a demo video win 3 points.

  • Criteria 3: Participants are encouraged to publish and promote their tutorial on their LinkedIn and/or Twitter accounts with this dedicated hashtag: “#SAPTutoChallenge2022”.
    The 3 social media posts with the highest number of likes win 2 points.


Your video must not: (a) violate any third party rights, including, but not limited to, copyrights, trademark rights, or rights of privacy and publicity; (b) depict any risky or offensive behavior or contain images that are obscene, defamatory, profane, offensive, lewd, pornographic, false, misleading, deceptive (c) prominently feature any trademarks or logos; or (d) have been entered in any other contest or have been published or distributed in any other media.  Sponsor reserves the right to reject any video for any reason. By submitting a video, you represent and warrant that: (a) the video is an original work created solely by you; (b) you own all rights to the video; and (c) the Entry complies with all requirements of these Official Rules.

(6) PRIZES & CORRESPONDING APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUE (“ARV”): Three package prizes will be awarded in total during the Contest Entry Period. Prize is not redeemable for cash or transferable; prize may not be sold or transferred for commercial use. No substitution allowed except that Sponsor may, at its sole discretion, substitute a prize with another of equal or greater value. All taxes are solely the responsibility of the winner. Except where prohibited by law, entry and acceptance of prize constitute permission for Sponsor to use each winner’s name, prize won, hometown, likeness, photographs, and statements for purposes of advertising, promotion, and publicity (including online posting) in any and all media now or hereafter known throughout the world in perpetuity, without additional compensation, notification or permission.

This prize is extended to you under the condition that your acceptance does not violate any applicable laws or policies within your organization. If you are unsure whether your acceptance may violate any such laws or policies, we strongly encourage you to seek advice from your ethics or compliance official.

(7) LIMITATIONS: In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of the person submitting an Entry, the Entry will be deemed to be submitted by the natural person who is the “authorized account holder” assigned to the Account by SAP Community. Entries by any method other than set forth above in Section 4 are void. Use of any automated system to enter as determined by Sponsor in its sole judgment is prohibited and will result in disqualification at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor and any of its or its affiliates officers, directors, shareholders, employees, agents or representatives (individually and collectively, “Releasees”) are not responsible for Entries from persons residing, or physically located, outside the Territory, or Entries that are altered, delayed, deleted, forged, fraudulent, illegible, improperly accessed, inaccurate, interrupted, lost, misdirected, tampered with, unauthorized, or otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules; or for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server or other connections; technical failures of any sort; unauthorized human intervention; traffic congestion; or other errors of any kind, whether due to electronic, human, mechanical, printing, production or technical errors or other causes; even if caused by the negligence of any of the releasees.

(8) WINNER NOTIFICATION:
A blog post announcing the winners will be published on SAP Community on July 1st, 2022.
Winners will also be tagged on the announcement blog post previously published on April 5, 2022.
Winners will have to send an email to businesscai@sap.com within a month to confirm they accept their prizes.

The Sponsor is not responsible for changes to a potential winner’s SAP Community Direct Message function that may interfere with winner notification. To claim prize, potential winners will be required to provide his or her email address and their shipping details. At the sole discretion of the Sponsor, disqualification, forfeiture and the selection of an alternate winner may result from any of the following: [1] potential winner’s failure to respond to notification within twenty-four (24) hours after its transmission; [2] the failure of notification due to deactivation of the potential winner’s Account prior to receipt of notification; [3] potential winner’s failure to provide Sponsor with satisfactory proof of age, identity and residency; [4] potential winner’s failure to validly claim the prizes by deadline date, and [5] any other non-compliance with these Official Rules. In the event of a prize is forfeited, the Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, award or not award the forfeited prize to an alternate winner.

(9) CONDITIONS : By entering this Contest and/or accepting any prize you may win, you agree, represent and warrant that: [1] you will be bound by the Official Rules and the Sponsor’s decisions, which shall be final in all respects; [2] you will comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations in connection with your participation in the Contest [3] without limiting your obligations under the prior section [2], immediately above, you will comply with the Federal Trade Commissions “.com Disclosures” guidelines, addressing the requirements for disclosure of endorsements, sponsorships and other payments from online endorsers, including bloggers, in connection with any such activities or communications related to Sponsor and these Contest; [4] you release and hold harmless the Releasees from any and all liability for claims, injuries, losses or damages of any kind, resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from the awarding, delivery, acceptance, use, misuse, possession, loss or misdirection of any prize; participation in the Contest or any Contest-related activity or travel or from any interaction with, or downloading of, computer Contest information; [5] the Releasees do not make any representation, warranty or guarantee, express or implied, relating to the Contest or the prize; [6] in the event viruses, bugs, unauthorized human intervention, Acts of God, acts or regulations of any governmental or supra-national authority, war, national emergency, accident, fire, riot, strikes, lock-outs, industrial disputes, acts of terrorism or other matters beyond the Sponsor’s reasonable control, corrupt, prevent or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the Contest, so that it cannot be conducted as originally planned, Sponsor has the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate or suspend the Contest; and in such event, to select winner(s) by such method as Sponsor in its sole discretion shall consider equitable; [7] the Releasees are not responsible for typographical or other errors in the offer or administration of this Contest, including but not limited to: errors in the advertising, Official Rules, selection and announcement of the winner and prize distribution; [8] the Releasees are not responsible for any inability of a winner to accept or use the prize (or any portion thereof) for any reason; [9] Sponsor has the right to modify prize award procedures at its sole discretion; [10] the Releasees are not responsible for changes to any SAP Community function that may interfere with Contest or your ability to timely enter; [11] Releasees are not responsible for any failure of delivery of winner notification; and [12] you agree that any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, the Contest or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, your rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor in connection with the Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York.

 
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