SAP AI Community Introduction

Exploring this.  Here just an intro and link.  ...   Intriguing.  Met with them in the 90s to discuss what they were doing in this and related analytic areas.   We were a SAP shop them. 

Welcome to the SAP AI Community

Start building an intelligent enterprise by embedding enterprise AI capabilities with machine learning software from SAP into your applications and scenarios. See how you can benefit from built-in AI for your core business processes — connecting finance, supply chain, procurement, sales and marketing, human resources, and IT.

Ask your questions and follow us on our journey to make the intelligent enterprise a reality.

Dr. Feiyu Xu, Global Head of AI, SAP SE

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SAP Sapphire 2023: Built-In, Relevant, Responsible Business AI

It has never been a more exciting time for artificial intelligence (AI). Generative AI and large learning models (LLM) are dominating headlines and making AI a part of every business conversation. However, turning AI technology advancement into business impact remains a challenge for many companies as they lack in-house expertise. That is what we solve at SAP with our unique approach to AI.

Explore 15 new business AI capabilities announced at SAP Sapphire

Read the SAP Sapphire News Guide:

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SAP and Microsoft Collaborate on Joint Generative AI Offerings to Help Customers Address the Talent Gap

Together, SAP and Microsoft are using the latest in enterprise-ready generative AI innovations to help customers conquer the talent gap. SAP SuccessFactors solutions integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Viva Learning will bring the power of AI to people leaders, helping them recruit and develop their teams.

Read the news:

Explore the use cases  ... 

Considering Orbit in Developer Relations

Read about this in Andreessen Horowitz.  About better online communities.  Involved in an effort that will need some of this. 

Investing in Orbit by Martin Casado

Great communities make great companies, and community-building is now part of a broader shift in B2B businesses towards bottom-up growth. As part of that shift, companies are relying on communities as a key method for growing and engaging their user base, and moving from focusing on traditional marketing and direct sales to community growth and post-sales. Post-sale because a community member often already uses the product, so maturing them with the business is more about cultivating the user experience and turning them into community advocates than trying to convert them from a lead to a paying customer.    .... 

Why Orbit is Better Than Funnel for Developer Relations

DevRel teams need tools and models created specifically for our discipline, and not just those adopted from other fields.

Josh Dzielak and Patrick Woods.   .... 

Wal-Mart Helps Neighbors in Community

An example of a grocery retailer aiming at improved local community regarding services tailored to current emergencies.

Walmart launches ‘Neighbors Helping Neighbors’ program
Partnership with Nextdoor allows customers to shop for their neighbors when making a trip to Walmart   By Michael Browne in SupermarketNews

Walmart Neighbors Helping Neighbors The Neighbors Helping Neighbors initiative follows recent moves by Walmart to make other shopping services contact-free, such as checking out with Walmart Pay and curbside pickup and delivery services.

Walmart and online neighborhood hub Nextdoor announced Thursday the “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” program, an effort to make it easier for neighbors across the United States to help one another during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through the new program, Nextdoor members in cities across the country can now request assistance — or offer to help someone in their community — with shopping for their essential items at Walmart. According to the companies, this support network makes it easier for vulnerable community members to coordinate the pickup and delivery of their groceries, medications and other essentials with a neighbor who is already planning a shopping trip to their local Walmart store — completely contact-free.

The Neighbors Helping Neighbors initiative follows recent moves by Walmart to make other shopping services contact-free, such as checking out with Walmart Pay and curbside pickup and delivery services..... "
   

Driving Information Diffusion

Never thought it was just about central users, but it helps to create uniformly consistent reactions.   

Even Central Users Do Not Always Drive Information Diffusion
By Chao Gao, Zhen Su, Jiming Liu, Jürgen Kurths
Communications of the ACM, February 2019, Vol. 62 No. 2, Pages 61-67
10.1145/3224203

Community structure, a significant and useful statistical characteristic, is ubiquitous in social networks.17 Based on it, a network can be viewed as consisting of multiple units. The nodes (users) are highly connected to each other inside a unit, while the connections between units are sparse.4,17 For example, people with similar interests or backgrounds might join together to form a community or web-pages with related topics might cluster together. Different types of information, including rumors,5 virus attacks,10 and even cyber epidemics diffuse through social networks,8 possibly leading to unexpected social effects. A typical example is the worldwide cyberattack by WannaCry ransomware, as first reported May 12, 2017, that resulted in the infections of more than 200,000 organizations worldwide.15 The underlying attack reflects a malicious diffusion in the presence of communities; that is, the homogeneous feature of individuals leads to the community's vulnerability. It is against this back-drop that understanding the potential dynamics could help network administrators gain insight into controlling unwanted information diffusion. Much research today involves networks with community structure (such as to detect potential communities,21 model diffusion dynamics,6 and control information dissemination and sharing19). In particular, the influence of each node in the diffusion process must be taken into consideration. In simulation experiments, the source nodes that trigger diffusion are selected by researchers at random from a network or based on predefined measures of centrality. ... "