Perspectives on Innovation

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I’ve spent the last two days at SAP’s TechEd 2008 conference in Las Vegas.  At this gathering of 6,000 enterprise software developers, business process experts, analysts and other IT stakeholders, we launched a strategic partnership aimed at changing the way companies innovate in Computer Science and IT.  I’ll be writing more extensively about this relationship over the coming days, but I wanted to share some initial thoughts right away while they’re fresh.

Participation and engagement in SAP’s online communities has exploded over the last few years.  There are now 1.3 million members in the SAP Developer Network (SDN).  Several other related communities span an additional 500,000+ members.  Taken together as the “SAP Community Network”, this ecosystem is actively helping to  shape SAP’s agenda and success.  Many members are employees at major SAP customers and partners.  The leaders in these communities have a strong voice – on SAP’s site and through their own independent blogs and networks.  It’s been great to have a chance to share our model and vision with them and listen to their input and questions.

Here are some quick takeaways from the event so far:

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Today at SAP’s TechEd event in Las Vegas – SAP announced that they will be collaborating with us to launch a Pavilion, as well as to invest in our business. They have sponsored a new Pavilion on our site, the SAP Innovation and Technology Pavilion, which contains 3 new Challenges they just posted. Our CTO, David Ritter (@dhritter), is at TechEd this week and promises to keep us updated here on the blog, so stay tuned! Also watch our twitter feed for up-to-the minute updates http://twitter.com/innocentive or follow the official InnoCentive twitter feed @innocentive.

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