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Articles by Esther Blankenship
SAP BrandVoice: Are You Cut Out For Co-Leadership?
Co-leaders from left to right: Björn Dederichs, Volker von Seggern, Conny Kinateder, Michael Krenkler, Christian Geldmacher, and Dina Glatzel SAP By Esther Blankenship, SAP In the television sitcoms of the 1960’s and 70’s, the father went off to his 9 to 5 job in a suit while the mother busied herself at home. Today, video on-demand and the widespread incorporation of women in the workforce have left their mark on what we watch and how we work.
Career Advice For Designers: Consider Enterprise UX
In 2005, YouTube was born, Google had just acquired Android, Yahoo! was a popular search engine, and there was no Netflix, Twitter, or Spotify. In that same year, I was asked to build up and manage my first visual design team. In those still formative years of the internet and hence modern user experience (UX), it was unusual – at least in Europe – to find a visual designer trained in human-computer interaction.
SAP Fiori - How It Started and Where It’s Going
SAP Fiori has come a long way since its introduction to the marketplace over half a decade ago. Because of this journey, there are some misconceptions out there about what SAP Fiori is exactly. When we talk about SAP Fiori today, we are referring to a comprehensive design system for enterprise software.
Safeguarding Sensitive Data for Smarter AI
January 14, 2019 by Florian Kunzke, Corinna Machmeier Thanks to advances in technology, we might soon be able to use sensitive data for machine learning without customers having to reveal their confidential information. Machine learning systems need access to huge volumes of data in order to learn thoroughly. But how secure is the data used to train the machine, especially if it’s confidential information? Can it be traced or even hacked?
SAP Inscribe: Bottom-Up Innovation Within SAP
SAP Inscribe, a new and natural way of interacting with software, will soon be offered to SAP customers. It does happen: SAP employees have creative ideas and in their spare time passionately follow through to turn their concepts into amazing products the likes of which the world has never seen before. Take SAP Inscribe, for example.
Artificial Intelligence Helps Supply Chains Minimize Waste in Food and Medicine
It’s estimated that Americans waste about 30 percent of their food and medicine and 91 percent of plastic doesn’t get recycled. In developing countries, about half of the food produced never even makes it to market. The biggest problem, according to Dr. Mohamed Aly, CEO and founder of SAP partner Seeloz, is massively inefficient supply chains that allow food, drugs, and other life-saving products to go to waste. It’s a problem that Seeloz is intent on fixing.
Design Beyond the Car
Klaus Frenzel of Daimler spoke at SAP about designing modern luxury What car will you want five years from today? If you’re not sure, that’s ok; it’s not your job to predict the future. But it is the job of car designers. As director of Digital Design & Design Beyond the Car at Daimler, Klaus Frenzel and his team research about, speculate on, and design for the next generation of mobility.
Familiar yet Surprising
Can you think of a product that more people on the planet know than Coca-Cola? The famous script logo and contour-shaped iconic bottle are so well known that one might even wonder if they need a design department at all! But the reality is, design is central to the Coca-Cola Company, not only for their flagship soft drink, but also for the hundreds of other brands across their portfolio.
Monthly Highlights from the SAP User Experience Community - Dec 20th
Before many of us head off for a holiday break with family and friends, I wanted to share the monthly highlights we have so far for the month of December.In case you haven’t seen it, check out our Most recent blogs and discussions on the Community .
Shiny New Technology! Great! Uh… Now What Do We Build with It?
The irony of revolutionary technologies is that it can often be a challenge to figure out what to do with them. Take the Internet of Things (IoT). Very interesting! Soon there will be loads of devices and sensors communicating with each other autonomously! A new frontier! But how does this help us solve the daily problems of human beings and businesses? Will people embrace or reject the applications we invent?
Monthly highlights from the SAP User Experience Community - Dec 1st - SAP Blogs
It’s gotten very cold here in Germany, but it’s cozy and warm in the SAP User Experience Community . So grab a cup of tea and visit us!Check out our Most recent blogs and discussions on the Community . Another way to catch up on the great content you might have missed! You can also follow us on Twitter and never miss another post!The SAP User Experience Community is a public community dedicated to the exchange of ideas and knowledge about design and user experience.
Need a Vacation? In the Future, Ask Your CoPilot! - SAP Blogs
In this installment of our blog series about SAP CoPilot , we will explore in more detail the topic of natural language processing (NLP). The goal of NLP is to enable users to communicate with software in an intuitive way, that is to say, in languages that people use to talk to each other instead of in special computer languages.How do you currently apply for a day of vacation in your company?
“Wow” Is the Benchmark - SAP Blogs
Impressions from Boris Verkhovsky’s SAP Design Talk on October 25, 2016 in Walldorf, Germany Watching a Cirque du Soleil® performance, even a short clip on a smartphone screen, is simply magical. How do they “wow” viewers over and over again?
Monthly highlights from the SAP User Experience Community – November 3rd - SAP Blogs
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The Human Touch: SAP Introduces a Digital Assistant for the Enterprise
Talking to a smartphone as if it were a person may seem strange at first, but chances are you will be getting the weather report, ordering a new laptop or requesting a day off with a chat bot pretty soon — if you aren’t doing so already. And this is just the beginning. Using natural language – whether via voice or text – is so powerful because it is so human.
The Human Touch - SAP Introduces a Digital Assistant for the Enterprise
Talking to a smartphone as if it were a person may seem strange at first, but chances are you will be getting the weather report, ordering a new laptop or requesting a day off with a chat bot pretty soon… if you aren’t doing so already. And this is just the beginning. Using natural language – whether via voice or text – is so powerful because it is so human.
Apple & SAP Partner to Revolutionize Work
This joint effort will also deliver a new iOS software development kit (SDK) and training academy so that developers, partners and customers can easily build native iOS apps tailored to their business needs. “This partnership will transform how iPhone and iPad are used in enterprise by bringing together the innovation and security of iOS with SAP’s deep expertise in business software,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.
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