[ANN] SophiaTX Announcement - The Blockchain for Business

[jvper]

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/#/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.

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[Chief__Architect]

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/#/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.

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]

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/#/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.

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_E6E1MiUo

[KRAUSS]

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/#/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.

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_E6E1MiUo

So AMA is closed two hours ago. Are you satisfied about answers what team made? Good questions and good answers as per my mind...

[sge99]

So AMA is closed two hours ago. Are you satisfied about answers what team made? Good questions and good answers as per my mind...

If you couldn't follow the live session you can still watch the recorded AMA. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC_E6E1MiUo&feature=youtu.be

[Chief__Architect]

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/#/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.

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_E6E1MiUo

So 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 the 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 a cloud- 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=7

My 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-partners
https://www.mendix.com/solution-providers/
https://www.sas.com/en_us/partners/find-a-partner.html#global-partners

What 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=en

PS:
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=1

[SophiaTX]

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/#/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.

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_E6E1MiUo

So 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=7

My 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-partners
https://www.mendix.com/solution-providers/
https://www.sas.com/en_us/partners/find-a-partner.html#global-partners

What 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=en

PS:
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=1

Hi, 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.

[Altcoinrusher]

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/#/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.

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_E6E1MiUo

This is what I like about the project's developers, in having time to attend to the community's queries and in that way I know ive supported a good project.

[geronimo77]

What are the examples of applications or assets that can be bought / sold on the market? Has anyone seen or know about the demo they mentioned in the AMA? I want to test their product

[karlu92]

What are the examples of applications or assets that can be bought / sold on the market? Has anyone seen or know about the demo they mentioned in the AMA? I want to test their product

I think they have no public test right now, you might have to wait till they open their platform for a beta test!

[ANDREW 555]

Design Challenge Contest (May 05)
https://coindar.org/en/event/sophiatx-sphtx-design-challenge-contest-8663

[muleroaa]

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/#/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.

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_E6E1MiUo

This is what I like about the project's developers, in having time to attend to the community's queries and in that way I know ive supported a good project.

I have to agree with this, it's not only the AMA's but also the replying in this topic. A lot of projects decide to just ignore any negative comments or possible enquiries that are hard to answer. In the end they are building something great and this takes time. No one knows yet exactly where it will lead, but at least they are doing their best to make a succes of what they believe in. Time will tell how this will unfold.

[jvper]

What are the examples of applications or assets that can be bought / sold on the market? Has anyone seen or know about the demo they mentioned in the AMA? I want to test their product

The marketplace will be launched in a few weeks (until the end of May). So you will have a clear vision of such examples you wanted.

[Altcoinrusher]

who participated at the ico?? I did and I am up thanks to the bonus! This coin has a strong future

Good for you! The project's concept and the hardworking devs will definitely be the key to the success of this project.

[jvper]

who participated at the ico?? I did and I am up thanks to the bonus! This coin has a strong future

Good for you! The project's concept and the hardworking devs will definitely be the key to the success of this project.

Only a few projects will be really successful. Business-oriented projects are poised to success and SophiaTX is one of the first examples that come to my mind.

[karlu92]

who participated at the ico?? I did and I am up thanks to the bonus! This coin has a strong future

Good for you! The project's concept and the hardworking devs will definitely be the key to the success of this project.

I also participated in the ICO and I think that this was one of my best decisions i made in my crypto Investment!

[Jisatsu]

This area of application will really benefit from integration with the technology of blockchain. A universal platform for business management of any size will be uniquely in demand in the economy.

[Altcoinrusher]

This area of application will really benefit from integration with the technology of blockchain. A universal platform for business management of any size will be uniquely in demand in the economy.

I think this is one of the best crypto projects with real use case for its utility tokens, and that is to enhance businesses processes!

[jvper]

This area of application will really benefit from integration with the technology of blockchain. A universal platform for business management of any size will be uniquely in demand in the economy.

I think this is one of the best crypto projects with real use case for its utility tokens, and that is to enhance businesses processes!

We are on the same boat! I am looking forward to the next steps of SophiaTX dev team. I think we are watching a big evolution for small emterprises here.

[Luka22]

Good project that will help businesses understand how they can extend their business systems and how they can benefit from the blockchain technology.