By Freya Purnell
The 2012 InnoJam, held in conjunction with the SAUG Summit 2012 and SAP Forum Australia, was won by the team behind ‘Where’s Wally Now?’, a bushfire status and advice app.
Members of the winning team were Lynda Willshire, Matt Harding, Chris Gunaratnam, Grahame Reynolds, Sarat Atluri and Stevanic Artana.
InnoJam is a 30-hour competition to conceive and develop a solution using SAP products, and was held over Sunday 19 and Monday 20 August in Melbourne at Victoria University.
This year, teams used the Design Thinking methodology to come up with solutions relating to bushfire crisis situations.
In developing the ‘Where’s Wally Now?’ app, the team used technologies such as HANA, Neo, Gateway and Sybase Powerbuilder, as well as Google Maps and email, to create a solution that would track registered people in bushfire areas, send a series of alerts as the risk intensified, including checklists of tasks to undertake to prepare, and provide a personalised escape route from their location once the situation required them to evacuate.
InnoJam participants said the competition provided access to technology that they may not otherwise have, and provided a framework for thinking about the end users when developing a solution.
