Sponsored Academic Research
Office of the Chief Scientist
Transfering Innovative Technologies into SAP Products
More than other industries, information and communications technology (ICT) needs innovations to sustain its future revenue stream. One of the tasks of SAP's Office of the Chief Scientist is to determine emerging IT and business trends, conduct vital research and connect the developing organizations within SAP to leading technologies from top American universities.
To identify future trends and to facilitate the roll in of new technologies for SAP, SAP Labs Palo Alto has established the Sponsored Academic Research Program with the goal of creating strong university relations in the Americas and harvest leading edge technologies from academia.
Research Agenda
The Office of the Chief Scientist focuses on these hot topics including:
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High Performance Computing - Multicore/Multithreading
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Economics - IT Productivity, Business Network Transformation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Sustainability - Smart Grid, Smart Cities, AMI
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Next Generation Data Storage - File Cluster, Streaming DB, Hybrid Stores (Column/Row DB)
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Software Security, Productivity, Complexity, and Quality - Rengineering, Machine Learning, Composite Applications
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Software as a Service and Cloud Computing
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Usability - HCI, Smart Debugging and Testing
Featured Blog:
Enterprise - The Next Generation @ Academic Conference
In Paul Hofmann's most recent blog he writes about the third Annual Academic Research Conference. Topics covered include:
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Keynote by Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of theSAP Supervisory Board Enterprise Applications - OLTP and OLAP Share One Database Architecture
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Keynote by Ike Nassi, SAP Chief Scientist Enterprise - The Generation
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Cloud Computing
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Next Generation Software for Smart Grid and Smart City
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The World Data Web
To read Paul's blog and associated comments, click here.
Find out more about what others are doing with SAP Labs
The Office of the Chief Scientist sponsors classes at acclaimed US universities in order to use the creative student potential. These classes are structured so that a small group of graduate students work to solve a problem SAP proposes.
In the United States, the Office of the Chief Scientist is connected with several universities including:
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Carnegie Mellon
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Cornell
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MIT
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Stanford
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UC Berkeley
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and others...
Learn more about these students opportunities and projects here.
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Overview Information
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Contact:
Paul Hofmann
Vice President, Academic Research
paul.hofmann@sap.com
Sponsored Research Projects
Click here to view the list of projects SAP's Office of the Chief Scientist is currently affiliated with.
SAP Research in China
For additional information on the Office of the Chief Scientist in China, click here.
Press Coverage
Highlights:
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How IT can give companies a competitive advantage (Charlie Rose Show)
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Students of Cornell University proposed how to better allocate resources for SAP customer Canadian National Rails
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SAP in HBR article Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference (Podcast)
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SAP Academic Research on Secure SaaS using IBE gets rave reviews!