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/#/solutions
2) 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=en
https://events.sap.com/teched/en/session/36837
In 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.pdf
https://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.html
3) 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.html
https://archive.sap.com/documents/docs/DOC-27464
4) 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.pdf
Last 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.