Dear all,
Unfortunately the SophiaTX moderators deleted my post on Reddit, seems they were not comfortable with my questions. Any thoughts about my points?I have a couple of questions regarding the relationship of SophiaTX and SAP.
First, I would like to learn if the SPHTX team perceives themselves as partner of competitor of SAP?
In case they see themselves as a partner, the following questions come into my mind:
1) When will the SPHTX solution be certified by SAP?
https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2013_09_adpd/enEN/#/solutions2) When will we see a joint press release about the partnership other than recent one from SAP Africa?
https://news.sap.com/africa/2017/10/02/sophiatx-open-source-platform-to-integrate-sap-blockchain/Shouldn’t it be published by SAP Germany or SAP Swiss, why was it published by SAP Africa in the past?
3) Any joint presentations at SAP conferences like SAPPHIRE or TechEd planned?
4) Any public opinion or statement by Raimund Gross, Innovation Blockchain Manager@SAP, about SophiaTX available?
https://twitter.com/grossrai?lang=enhttps://events.sap.com/teched/en/session/36837In case they see themselves as competition, the following questions come into my mind:
1) Why should a CIO invest in a crypto start up Blockchain solution, if he can have a strategic Blockchain solution by SAP?
http://assets.dm.ux.sap.com/TechEd/TechEd_Vegas2017/pdfs/CPL200_49430_Presentation_1.pdfhttps://blogs.sap.com/2018/01/15/build-business-blockchain-using-scp-hyperledger-composer-and-scp-cloud-connector/Isn’t an integrated solution provided by the vendor superior to 3rd party tools, especially in regards to software standardization which is always the main focus of SAP implementations?
2) Does the SPHTX team think they can compete with the developer manpower and unlimited resources of SAP to compete with future Blockchain innovations by SAP?
https://www.sap.com/products/leonardo/blockchain.html3) How does the SPHTX team position their B2B Blockchain solution compared to SAP best-practise and reference architectures and tools like HANA Cloud Integration or SAP Process Orchestration?
https://www.sap.com/germany/products/hana-cloud-integration.htmlhttps://archive.sap.com/documents/docs/DOC-274644) Can the SPHTX team confirm that their solution is complaint to indirect access license terms by SAP? Particularly if it comes to B2B scenarios like Order2Cash or Procure2Pay?
http://www.sapsa.se/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/White-paper-July-2017.pdfLast but not least: Any timeline for public customer references or PoC result presentations?
What happened to the GE case? Is GE live now w. SPHTX?
Cheers, Chief Architect
Hello, there is an
AMA session being held tomorrow at 3 pm CEST and your questions have been included.
You are invited to join us live or watch later. More details will be posted tomorrow on
SophiaTX Twitter channel.
I've been following this project very closely, so I particularly believe I know the answers. It lies on road one (partnership). Anyway, it will be awesome to hear Jaroslav Kacina answering those questions and clearing the air.
The 1st AMA was basic.
The 2nd AMA was more advanced.
The 3rd was even more advanced.
The 4th will be amazing! Thanks Chief Architect for the questions.
Many thanks to the SophiaTX team for the effort and for following up my questions in the AMA, this is really amazing!
As well looking forward to the AMA, knowing that recently SophiaTX and in the past SAP joined the Hyperledger project.
SophiaTX AMA starts in 15 minutes.
Join here: https://youtu.be/EC_E6E1MiUoSo AMA is closed two hours ago. Are you satisfied about answers what team made? Good questions and good answers as per my mind...
First of all I would like to leave it up to the community to judge, if my questions were covered. Especially in regards the certification and indirect usage topics.
My feedback:
Very general and vague, I have never raised the question if SophiaTX will compete in the area of ERP w. SAP.
This answer somehow gives the impression their only strategy is to make my questions look ridiculous, because they won’t provide a precise answer. As well these guys seem not to have noticed that SAP is not an ERP-only company anymore, but became acloud- and platform-technology vendor in the recent years.
And in this area of cloud-technology Leonardo Blockchain is obviously highly strategic for SAP. https://www.sap.com/investors/en/reports.html#pdf-asset=46e32ecb-ff7c-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff&page=7My question was if they plan to compete w. SAP in the area of Blockchain-solutions and if they are confident to compete against the SAP manpower and salesforce midterm.
My guess is, that they will be locked out by SAP either by the customer relations of the SAP salesforce, or due to violation of license terms like 3rd party usage.
As well the independent of SAP story is very suspicious to me; there are many certified partners of SAP that have other competitive strategic partnerships as well.
https://www.opentext.com/what-we-do/partners-and-alliances/strategic-partnershttps://www.mendix.com/solution-providers/https://www.sas.com/en_us/partners/find-a-partner.html#global-partnersWhat really sounds pretty strange:
They pretend not to be a partner of SAP, but to be independent on the one hand side; on the other hand side they have a banner behind them which claims:
“World’s first open source Blockchain for SAP”.
And even this claim is obviously wrong:https://blogs.sap.com/2018/01/15/build-business-blockchain-using-scp-hyperledger-composer-and-scp-cloud-connector/But hey, this is crypto. Even Dogecoin has a market cap. of 600 mio.
I leave it to the community to get in touch w. Raimund Gross on twitter:
https://twitter.com/grossrai?lang=enPS:
SAPPHIRE is probably a good opportunity for SAP to announce hot news about strategic hype topics like Blockhain?
https://events.sap.com/sapandasug/en/home.html?bc=1Hi, please find here further information regarding your questions:
SophiaTX is currently not a partner of SAP (no formal agreement in place), since we have chosen to stay independent of any technology vendor at this stage. The reason for being independent is that we service and integrate equally with many other software vendors and want to be commercially free from any particular restrictions. Example of such a strategy is Salesforce
www.salesforce.com, also the one who got away.
It is possible that some of our products may become certified by SAP, however that remains to be decided when and if required.
In terms of capability to compete with SAP, the question is rather larger, is SophiaTX capable of competing in large enterprise blockchain segment? The answer is yes, we are able to compete on several dimensions:
costs, speed to market, and professional service. Of course only future will tell, however who would would think that online bookstore would turn into one of the largest companies today.
At the same time it makes sense to ask the question if large software providers such as SAP can compete with blockchain industry:
speed to market, low cost base, and true innovation. Again, there are countless examples that SAP and other large players have been outcompeted and disrupted.
