By Eleanor Reader
Six promising startups from SAP Australia’s first ever SAP Startup Forum have been selected to participate in the Development Accelerator program.
Held last week in Sydney, eight startup companies were given the opportunity to show off their innovative ideas by creating easy-to-access solutions to help solve real-world problems using SAP HANA.
Dereck Daymond, GM database and technology group at SAP said: “We saw some great innovations during this first Startup Forum. Eight entrepreneurs pitched their business case and software solutions with six selected to participate in the Development Accelerator (DA) program.”
The companies were selected based on a number of criteria: the innovation of the idea; feasibility of the business case; proximity to SAP’s portfolio; fit with SAP HANA: technical feasibility; and whether the solution could be market ready within one year and have a prototype in time for SAPPHIRE NOW Madrid in November 2012.
The six startups chosen are:
SenSen Networks: a video and business analytics (VBA) solutions company. It can convert video images into accurate business analytics data to deliver increased productivity, revenue and novel insights for decision makers in a wide range of businesses. SenSen VBA solutions detect, extract and analyse relevant events from video streams and render them as valuable information to businesses.
SummaBI: a cloud business intelligence tool, developed specifically for hospitality and retail sales businesses/franchises.
Resonate: a provider of customer feedback (Net Promoter Score) programs and data visualisation solutions for large brands in the Asia Pacific region. Resonate identifies the key customer drivers, turns unhappy customers to brand advocates and offers a closed loop feedback program.
GoCatch: a smartphone application that connects taxi drivers directly with passengers. The taxi-location app uses GPS to allow passengers to book and track taxis close to their location using their smartphones. Thousands of real taxis from Australian cities can now be seen driving in real-time through the 3D world of Google Earth.
baank: a website and mobile app that helps consumers manage their money, achieve saving goals and get the best deals.
EngineRoom: a specialist in enabling the world to leverage, discover and create value from their data. It brings big data processing on demand.
