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Susanna Havranek In Blog, Global, Venture Studio
Did you catch all our latest SAP.iO Venture Studio highlights?
October — December 2021 | Achievements & News from SAP.iO Venture Studio
SAP.iO Venture Studio drives a new era of organic growth at SAP. It empowers entrepreneurial teams inside SAP to turn innovative ideas into profitable businesses and invests in these new employee-led ventures who are focused on solving some of the biggest problems in enterprise business processes. SAP.iO Venture Studio helps start and scale new ventures by providing design, and development and sales support. Find out more on sap.io/studio.
Brilliant Hire by SAP
Brilliant Hire by SAP intelligently matches candidates with a personalized shortlist of jobs on your careers page based on what really matters to them, using Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Brilliant Hire received follow-on funding! Discover what the successful validation of the venture's three-year product roadmap means for solving customers' challenges in recruiting.
Thanks to AI, Brilliant Hire by SAP is able to simplify the recruiting process as announced in SAP TechEd's News Guide 2021. Read here how AI is at the center of recruitment processes by SAP SuccessFactors with Brilliant Hire by SAP as a major component.
Best-in-class organizations are increasing the use of AI throughout their recruiting process which is exactly what Brilliant Hire by SAP expected. Learn more about AI in the recruitment process and what the venture's General Manager Jeanine LeFlore has to say on it on Forbes here.
As the venture continues its success story, they are now actively looking for Developers, Project Managers, Engineers, and Analysts. Find all open positions on SAP.iO.
More on this venture on https://www.brillianthire.io/
EverLoop by SAP
EverLoop by SAP aims to empower every business on the planet to achieve zero waste by being a sustainability solution that connects stakeholders across the waste value chain to enable the circular economy, with transparency and traceability.
The venture, its business idea and product development were discussed in a feature in national newspaper Times of India: A big moment for EverLoop by SAP after two years of delivering their solution to the market and help customers managing their e-waste and achieve zero.
Join the team as a Developer UI and apply now on SAP.iO.
More on this venture on https://www.ever-loop.io/
Feather by SAP
Feather by SAP is an end-to-end recommerce solution that support brands and retailers that want to accelerate the shift from linear to circular business by taking ownership over their recommerce activities. Facilitate the in-house business processes, capture data, engage with the shopper, and own the end-to-end product life cycle.
We have a new kid on the block at SAP.iO Venture Studio! Feather by SAP finalized naming and branding and has a sparkling new brand identity: Check out their website and follow on LinkedIn.
The official investment announcement introduced the venture and its product's benefits for SAP customers.
As part of SAP's venture arm SAP.iO, Feather by SAP was also discussed as one of SAP's sustainability software solutions. Read more news here.
Do you want to shape the future of a new venture? Feather by SAP is looking for a Frontend Developer, Full Stack Developer, Data Scientist, UX Designer, and Product Owner and they have numerous fellowship positions available. Find all open positions here.
More on this venture on https://www.featherbysap.io/
GreenToken by SAP
GreenToken by SAP is a supply chain solution that offers companies new levels of transparency through reliable, blockchain-based information. Gain visibility into where raw materials came from and produce products with knowledge about where and how the materials were produced, even in complex, non-batch supply chains.
The venture looks back at a successful year with an exciting feature in SAP's CEO opening keynote at SAPPHIRE NOW 2021, and more outings and media mentions, including:
Numerous LinkedIn articles and posts with over 70,500 views in total
Inspiring external speaking engagements
Features in external media articles in 2021, including Frontier Enterprise and Crypto News BTC
Congratulations are in order! The venture was nominated for Hasso Plattner Founders' Award 2022 and is among the last 9 finalists. Check out the nomination video and announcement of the finalists.
GreenToken by SAP can also track hydrogen across supply chains to help businesses determine whether it is truly green. Need more on how on GreenToken by SAP's supply chain solution can contribute to reducing current logistics challenges for the fuel of the future? Read more on the Wall Street Journal.
More on this venture on https://www.green-token.io/
Paid Promptly by SAP
Paid Promptly by SAP drives cash into your business faster by automating receivable processes. Deliver a seamless, personalized, customer experience through Paid Pronto's automated communication solution, beginning when an invoice is first released until payment is received.
Paid Promptly by SAP automates receivables to drive cash into businesses faster and sets a focus on customer correspondence. Listen to SAP's Chief Financial Officer Luka Mucic and get a first glimpse of the importance of their work in this video
The venture has a big influence on SAP's cash collection. This video shows how SAP has optimized this process with Paid Promptly by SAP.
Interested in working at this venture? They are looking actively for a Senior Full Stack Engineer.
More on this venture on https://www.paidpromptly.io/
Source Agent by SAP
Great sourcing shouldn't be a secret. Source Agent by SAP gives you the insights and strategies to address spend intelligently and wow your stakeholders. Identify sourcing opportunities by aligning your spend to current market intelligence. Receive a targeted sourcing strategy and supplier recommendations based on your data and requirements for each spend category. Quickly convert strategies and plans into eSourcing event prep and execution.
Want more entrepreneurial insights into founding and scaling a business? The ventures' co-founder Travis Matter and Will Caseber talked about their personal journey with Source Agent by SAP and SAP.iO. Read about their experiences here.
More on this venture on https://www.sourceagent.io/
Susanna Havranek In Blog, Global, Venture Studio, Funding Announcement
Brilliant Hire by SAP Shines Bright in Venture Capital Round
By Jacqueline Prause, SAP Global Content Team
The future shines bright at Brilliant Hire by SAP, a dynamic startup that believes in giving job candidates the agency to bring their whole selves to the companies of their dreams. Fresh off a round of venture capital funding, the employee-led startup has been given an extended runway to execute on its ambitious product vision for the talent acquisition market.
The new round of Series A funding, awarded by principal investor SAP, comes as businesses are struggling to fill jobs left open as a result of the global phenomenon known as the Great Resignation. Hiring has never been more fast-paced and competitive, with recruiters bearing the brunt of the pressure to hire workers more efficiently and achieve new standards for quality of hire. To gain an edge in attracting qualified and diverse job candidates, businesses are increasingly integrating AI-powered solutions in their talent acquisition strategy.
SAP is stepping up to address this need on behalf of customers that run SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting with an infusion of venture funding for Brilliant Hire by SAP, an employee-led startup in the SAP.iO Venture Studio, an innovation hub that helps employees start up and scale with SAP. As an organically innovated solution, Brilliant Hire by SAP brings customers the advantage that it integrates with and is developed in parallel to SAP SuccessFactors.
Delivering the Candidate-First Experience
With the successful validation of Brilliant Hire's three-year product roadmap, Jeanine LeFlore, General Manager, Brilliant Hire by SAP, says the team is already building out the solution with new features to address some of the toughest challenges in recruiting. For many recruiters, providing an amazing candidate experience is now top of the agenda.
"The industry is at a crucial juncture right now," LeFlore says. "Delivering a powerful candidate-first experience is paramount to the success of any company in the talent acquisition landscape today. At Brilliant Hire, we put the candidate at the core of everything we do, and this in turn is what drives the highest value for our customers."
LeFlore sees the next stage of development as a golden opportunity to leverage the momentum Brilliant Hire generated in 2021. The team plans to build out its vision for an intelligent data platform that enables recruiters to develop authentic relationships with both active and passive candidates, while using data to create personalized journeys for candidates. She says, "We are seeing tremendous traction in the recruiting space with our smart job matching AI/ML- powered technology, and we've just scratched the surface. With this new round of funding, we will double down on building the most compelling candidate-first experiences that connect recruiters with both active and passive candidates — to meet them in their environment, rather than making candidates have to search."
Attracting More Qualified and Diverse Talent
For companies seeking to hire more qualified and diverse talent, Brilliant Hire by SAP helps increase the visitor-to-applicant ratio on careers sites and empowers diverse candidates to apply for roles best fit to their qualifications. In an example of how SAP runs SAP, the global software company runs Brilliant Hire on its career page, which is a vital hub for the one million-plus members of its talent communities.
"With Brilliant Hire by SAP, we are able to leverage AI to elevate the candidate experience and help candidates find the SAP job that is best fit to their skills," says Elke Manjet, Global Head of Talent Attraction, SAP, and Member of the Executive Board of Advisors for Brilliant Hire. "We are seeing strong results from our use of Brilliant Hire's smart job matching feature, both in terms of KPIs and qualitative feedback from candidates. Candidates really like that they can immediately see if they are a strong match for an open position or if they qualify for other positions they had not considered — so that the best-fit jobs find the candidates and not the other way around. We want people to have an amazing experience along their SAP journey from the start, and we do that by presenting the very best of SAP technology and innovation."
Brilliant Hire by SAP offers a pilot of smart job matching for SAP SuccessFactors customers on SAP Store with self-sign-up for customers in the U.S., Germany, and India. The team recently presented smart job matching during its Be Brilliant! webinar series, available for on-demand viewing here.
What is Series A funding for an intrapreneurial venture?
The SAP.iO Venture Studio supports employee-led ventures from small, entrepreneurial teams. Although these ventures are housed within SAP, they experience all the same growth opportunities and challenges that are typical for startups, including technology innovation, market fit and funding.
"Series A funding for an intrapreneurial venture is not unlike funding for an external startup," says Ram Jambunathan, senior vice president and general manager, SAP.iO Venture Studio. "Our approach is to 'build fast and learn things.' Investments are made based on achieving aggressive milestones aligned to product development and business execution. Each venture in the Venture Studio has an executive board that holds it accountable to meeting milestones. What makes the Venture Studio such an exciting opportunity for SAP employees is that we empower employees to drive and own the progress and success of their venture. The Venture Studio provides an incubator environment that offers these ventures runway to develop transformational solutions that will 'future-proof' SAP and its customers."
From Pilot to Venture — The Story of Brilliant Hire by SAP
The story of Brilliant Hire by SAP began with a passion for creative problem-solving, when a small team of developers at SAP Labs India pitched the winning solution at an SAP internal hackathon in 2016. It was the start of a remarkable entrepreneurial journey for the team and their pilot project.
"The inspiration for Brilliant Hire came from our own hiring experience," says Hemant Shetty, co-founder, Brilliant Hire by SAP. He recalls his astonishment as he was interviewing many candidates to scale the team. "There was a 90 percent rejection rate in the first round of interviews. We realized that finding the right candidate is like finding a needle in a haystack."
The experience gave the team insight into the pitfalls of the hiring process and opened the way for the launch of Brilliant Hire by SAP, which found seed funding after a successful pitch to the SAP Innovation Center Network (ICN) in 2017. "Hiring is time consuming and it includes human unconscious bias. At Brilliant Hire, we wanted to solve this and create experiences for recruiters as well as candidates," Shetty says.
In 2018, the team joined the SAP.io Venture Studio to begin working full time on Brilliant Hire by SAP as an independent venture. Brilliant Hire has grown from a three-person pilot to a dynamic team of twenty passionate experts spread across India and the U.S., who bring a diverse range of experience to solving challenges in recruiting. With its third round of funding, Brilliant Hire by SAP shines a bright light on the possibilities for AI to elevate the candidate experience in talent acquisition.
"We believe in creating a world where a candidate's dream job finds them," says Swetha PB, co-founder, Brilliant Hire by SAP. "We've focused on building an intelligent and inclusive platform that provides companies the ability to build authentic relationships with candidates they want to hire and candidates to own their successes."
The future of talent looks bright indeed at Brilliant Hire by SAP!
About Brilliant Hire by SAP
Brilliant Hire by SAP is a dynamic startup in the HR Tech space with teams in San Francisco and Bangalore. It offers an AI-powered application that integrates with SAP SuccessFactors to deliver a more personalized and inclusive candidate experience on companies' careers sites, and streamline processes for recruiters. Brilliant Hire by SAP is a venture within the SAP.iO Venture Studio.
Find out more on www.brillianthire.io
About SAP.iO Venture Studio
SAP.iO Venture Studio drives a new era of organic growth at SAP. It invests in new ventures founded by small, entrepreneurial teams inside of SAP who are focused on building the future of enterprise business processes. SAP.iO Venture Studio provides design, development, and sales support to help these ventures launch.
Find out more on www.sap.io/studio
Corinna Schmidt In Foundries, Venture Studio, Announcements, Awards
SAP is awarded for its startup friendliness and accelerator program
December 17, 2021 — For the second time in a row, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) was recognized with the annual Corporate Startup Stars Award 2021 as one of the Top 25 companies to encourage startup innovation.
In addition, SAP was again honored with the Corporate Startup Accelerator Award for its efforts in accelerating and working with startups. On December 16, the International Chamber of Commerce and innovation advisory firm Mind the Bridge announced this year's winners at the award ceremony in Paris.
SAP follows a holistic open innovation approach by driving both organic and startup innovation to remain a resilient player in today's global marketplace and deliver new innovation to customers. With its strategic business unit SAP.iO, SAP supports early-stage ventures to accelerate new ideas inside and outside the company.
"We see ourselves as the matchmakers between startups on the one side and SAP customers on the other." said Alexa Gorman, Senior Vice President and Global Head of SAP.iO Foundries & Intrapreneurship. "This recognition validates our open innovation approach to work closely with promising, diverse startups and bring additional innovation to our customers."
Since 2016, the Corporate Startup Stars Awards have celebrated companies that are role models in open innovation and are strongly committed to working with startups. Therefore, the startups nominate the corporates they believe to be most active in terms of open innovation themselves.
"Consistently over the past years, SAP confirmed to be among the world's corporates that are more effective in turning open innovation into results," said Alberto Onetti, Chairman of Mind the Bridge. "SAP engages with global startups in multiple ways, ranging from acceleration and partnerships to investments and acquisitions. We specifically appreciated SAP's approach and particularly its recent evolutions. The SAP.iO Intrapreneurship program and SAP.iO Venture Studio are an interesting benchmark as well as the way SAP evolved and optimized its corporate startup accelerator."
About SAP.iO
SAP.iO delivers new partnerships and products for SAP by accelerating and scaling startup innovation as well as incubating employee ventures. SAP.iO brings together innovators from every region, industry, and line of business to transform how businesses run. Since 2017, SAP.iO has helped 330+ external startups and internal ventures accelerate their growth while enabling thousands of SAP customers to access innovation. For more information, visit https://sap.io/.
Dedication for progress: From employees to co-founders
A good idea is based on a combination of intuition, customer understanding and experience. Fortunately, Travis Mattern and Will Caseber have just that. While they've been long-time SAP employees, they have proven their entrepreneurial spirit and founded the employee-led venture Source Agent by SAP. With the upcoming Entrepreneurship Day on November 16, 2021 in the US, we thought it would be great to hear from them on their entrepreneurial journey firsthand.
Working as a senior director in the global sales operations team at SAP Ariba, Travis was not actively trying to become a founder. But this all changed when he came across an internal tool that classifies the suppliers of a company in a matter of hours. After encountering the tool, he realized its potential — especially if it could be given to customers directly. With this idea in mind, Travis entered his idea into the SAP.iO accelerator program for employees shortly before the deadline in 2020 and was accepted.
"To be honest, I really had no idea who the SAP.iO team was, what the SAP.iO Intrapreneurship program really was all about," he said. "But when I was accepted, I learned a lot through that fast-track program and really ended up pivoting the idea through that process."
Will Caseber joined Travis right before the accelerator program started. With more than 20 years of experience in procurement and sourcing, he was the perfect fit with the right expertise.
"When I last worked with supplier classification as a value advisor, the process was highly manual, and it would take the better part of probably three to four weeks to complete," Will said. "Travis made the point using this automated process as an entry to sourcing-as-a-service; with the vision of delivering and engaging with customers in a different way, a digital way that aligns with SAP's corporate strategy. That got my attention. And that's something that evolved throughout the entire accelerator program."
A long way to go
Going through the accelerator program with coaching, pitches and weeks of deep focus, Travis and Will received their first investment and founded the venture Source Agent by SAP. Since then, they have worked tirelessly on transforming sourcing into a web-based purchasing process that supports buyers in their procurement strategy. Being the two people in charge of a venture was not only exciting but also challenging. Travis explained that even with the first round of funding he was constantly thinking about the next steps and how to handle the complexity of his new role.
"We have to cover all elements of the business: budgeting, branding, going-to-market, building a product, finding customers, HR, and finance," he said. "And I am still trying to figure out the best way to build the right culture within the team. I'm constantly challenged with where to spend my time best each day."
Will said that his biggest challenge was the lack of tangibility of their product.
"In the early stages we were pitching a dream as opposed to an actual product and that's a challenge. But we're living the dream now and we're getting some traction and recently had first customer traction," he said.
First achievements
Even though the co-founders needed to focus on many issues simultaneously, there were moments in which both could feel their progress and enjoyed the payout of their hard work. Travis felt this acutely when Source Agent by SAP went live.
"For me, a key moment was when we went live with the website, created our LinkedIn company, and updated our personal LinkedIn profiles. This was our way to tell the rest of the world: Hey, we're doing this!" Travis said.
Co-founder Will, on the other hand, associates this feeling with when the team was able to sign their first contract.
"We have been pitching the concept for quite a few weeks but you're still unsure whether or not they're going to make the decision," he said. "When they came back with a signed contract it was now very real. We have a company that's put their trust in us and now we have to deliver."
Personal progression
After eight months of intense work, Travis and Will are now enthusiastic co-founders with a team of eight members and their first customers. It's not only their job description that changed but also their way of working and of appreciating what they are doing.
"I've noticed I'm more inspired when I enjoy the work that I'm doing and I feel like it has more purpose. It has definitely been an awesome experience," Travis said. "We've got the corporate safety net but we do have the independence to run it like our own business within SAP."
Will thinks back to the moment he recognized the importance of the team: "It's getting your ego out of the way, and kind of focusing on the team delivery aspect and realizing that you may not be able to convince every customer to convert and take on."
Travis's and Will's journey was challenging and eventful, and it still is. By staying on track with the help of the SAP.iO Venture Studio they didn't lose sight of their goal: To simplify and automate sourcing to help all businesses run better. And with their first customers today, their dream becomes more and more reality.
About Source Agent by SAP
Great sourcing shouldn't be a secret. Source Agent by SAP gives you the insights and strategies to address spend intelligently and wow your stakeholders. Identify sourcing opportunities by aligning your spend to current market intelligence. Receive a targeted sourcing strategy and supplier recommendations based on your data and requirements for each spend category. Quickly convert strategies and plans into eSourcing event prep and execution. More on this venture on www.sourceagent.io/
SAP.iO Venture Studio drives a new era of organic growth at SAP. It invests in new ventures founded by small, entrepreneurial teams inside of SAP who are focused on building the future of enterprise business processes. SAP.iO Venture Studio provides design, development, and sales support to help these ventures launch. Founding teams join the SAP.iO Venture Studio primarily through the SAP.iO Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) programs. Find out more on www.sap.io/studio/
How startups can help to create a positive impact on society and business
A good product is no longer enough to win a customer. Sustainability has become the new compass for companies worldwide and has gained enormous importance over the years.
"There is no doubt that sustainability is a key piece of the strategy of most successful companies moving forward, if not all of them," said Gunther Rothermel, Head of SAP S/4HANA Sustainability.
This increased focus on sustainability has impacted both consumer behaviour and employer branding. According to a global report from The Economist Intelligence Unit and the World Wildlife Fund, global online searches for sustainable goods have increased by 71 percent increase over the last five years, triggering what's been called an "eco-awakening."
Not only that, but employees are placing more value on finding responsible and sustainable employers. The global pandemic has only accelerated this demand for sustainable actions, a sense of urgency for businesses to improve their sustainability credentials.
What customers want
For customers on their journey to build a more sustainable enterprise, there are three goals to keep in mind:
Determine ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, waste, and create socially equitable business models.
Improve performance and long-term valuation by embedding sustainability metrics and insights in their core business processes.
Find innovative solutions as they need to respond to stakeholder demands while meeting regulatory compliance needs.
Software technology can help with these challenges by collecting, analyzing, and providing insights based on that data.
But no company, government, or country will solve the greatest challenges of our time alone. To succeed, companies need to collaborate across value chains, build alliances, and work together with governments and academia.
Global challenges require global solutions
The partnership between SAP and Accenture shows what is possible when two leading companies join forces to help their customers stay ahead of this global transformation.
Together, SAP and Accenture launched the "Sustainable Future" accelerator program with 13 selected startups from eight countries at the SAP.iO Foundries Berlin and Munich. The joint program aimed at helping early-stage B2B startups drive digital transformation and innovation in four target areas: carbon tracking and trading, resource efficiency, climate risk tracking and mitigation, and the circular economy.
"The 'Sustainable Future' cohort represents an innovation engine, meant to be leveraged by customers," said Stephanie Guimbellot, Managing Director and Global SAP Sustainability Lead at Accenture, during a panel discussion at the closing Demo Day.
This collaboration is the latest in a series of initiatives from Accenture and SAP that help businesses support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and capture value from sustainability.
"We are entering the decade of action," Guimbellot said, adding that today's companies need to modify their business models to have a real impact on sustainability. "Technology will be an absolute must to reach the SDGs."
This also means that startups are crucial in this process, across all industries.
"Sustainability will be an ecosystem where startups play an important role as they complement existing offerings with specialized technology," she said.
How startups can help accelerate the sustainability journey
During the Demo Day, startups Astraea, Carbon Minds and Footprint had the chance to present their solutions and first projects with customers.
Astraea hails from Charlottesville and leverages unique big data from air quality sensors to geospatial analysis for real-time insights and workflow automation toward climate risk tracking and mitigation. In a first integration case with SAP's Industry Cloud for Agriculture, Astraea will focus on providing satellite-derived data and indexes by field to enable seasonal planning on field level reflecting upcoming growing cycles.
Founded in Cologne, Carbons Minds provides integrated capabilities for holistic steering and reporting that helps companies measure, reduce, and offset CO2 emissions across their supply chain. The team is currently planning a project with a global pharmaceutical company to identify emission hotspots, find efficient mitigation options, and support the sustainable product development.
The third startup which showcased its superpower at the Demo Day was Berlin-based Footprint. Their software allows online shoppers to measure their feet with their smartphones and order the right shoe size, reducing returns, costs, and emissions. As part of their SAP.iO journey, Footprint is exploring collaboration opportunities with a German shoe and fashion retailer in SAP Commerce Cloud.
Check out the other ten startups that were part of the "Sustainable Future" program:
Breeze Technologies
Circular IQ
CodeCheck
Emitwise
Greenplat
Journey Foods
Lizee
Stay tuned for more exciting customer projects and integrations coming out of this cohort. If you are a startup and want to participate in one of the upcoming SAP.iO programs, learn more and apply now!
To learn more about how SAP.iO is helping innovators start up and scale with SAP, please visit https://sap.io/.
July — September 2021 | Achievements & News from SAP.iO Venture Studio
SAP.iO Venture Studio drives a new era of organic growth at SAP. It invests in new ventures founded by small, entrepreneurial teams inside of SAP who are focused on building the future of enterprise business processes. SAP.iO Venture Studio provides design, development, and sales support to help these ventures launch. Find more on sap.io/studio.
Autumn is upon us which means another three months have passed! Despite the summer break in many regions of the world, SAP employees have continued to take charge of their venture, pursued the freedom to shape their own strategy and taken their own decisions, also accelerating their own personal growth. Find the highlights of recent events and developments below:
The SAP.iO Venture Studio has welcomed a new venture to their portfolio. Yet to be named, it already had its first outing back at SAP's customer flagship event.
Watch the session from SAPPHIRE 2021, presented by General Manager Joanna Maryewska, here.
Want to join the team and build an SAP venture from scratch? Find open job positions as Head of Engineering, Senior Integration Expert and Senior Fullstack Developer on the SAP Career Center!
We'll share more on the venture soon!
Brilliant Hire is now live on the SAP Store!
Despite already having mentioned their latest video in last quarter's edition, we nevertheless wanted to highlight it once more. Watch and read how their product elevates the candidate experience with smart job matching.
After featuring prominently in the global opening CEO keynote at SAPPHIRE 2021 and announcing their collaboration with Eastman Chemicals, the partners got together for yet another project, in the form of a 24-hour hackathon. Read more on the event in this blog post on LinkedIn: 24 hour Hackathon delivers cool consumer 'App'
Further, Eastman also strengthened their commitment to GreenToken and a more sustainable future by mentioning the venture in their quarterly update for investors: "In addition, we continue to drive the circular economy platform from every angle, including digital. We are proud to highlight our collaboration with SAP GreenToken technology. The Eastman and SAP collaboration will leverage the blockchain-based platform of GreenToken to provide visibility through the value chain of sustainable products, such as the specialty plastics produced with Eastman's molecular recycling technologies. Through data transparency enabled by blockchain, the platform is designed to give brands and consumers traceable information of sustainable attributes of products, including their percentage of certified recycled content."
More on this venture on http://www.green-token.io/
Brilliant Hire has a new General Manager! Paul Parter has taken over the task from Erin Dierker who is on to a new academic chapter at Stanford Business School. We're wishing both all the best!
Read here about the founders' journey and how they developed an idea that was initially discussed over coffee into a product!
The team will be from now also sharing updates on their LinkedIn channel, so don't forget to follow them on their journey of enabling the circular economy through transparent and easy e-waste disposal and recycling management.
More on this venture on https://everloopbysap.webflow.io/
SourceAgent by SAP
The venture celebrated their six months anniversary on September 1! If you need a throwback, re-read their investment announcement from our 2020/2021 cohort here.
The team will be from now also sharing updates on their LinkedIn channel, so don't forget to follow them on their journey of building the future of sourcing.
Their pilot program is currently open. Visit their website or email sourceagent@sap.com to learn more.
Starting a corporate venture: From idea to funding
Sometimes the best ideas just come from chatting over a coffee: The founders behind EverLoop by SAP share insights on how they started their business, what hurdles they had to overcome along the way and what makes a successful team.
EverLoop by SAP is a B2B sustainability waste management solution with goals of empowering businesses to achieve zero waste by digitalizing the waste value chain and making it more transparent and traceable way for corporations and e-waste recyclers alike. On the one hand, EverLoop provides retailers and corporations the opportunity to find more certified e-waste recyclers for sustainable, easy disposal. On the other, e-waste recyclers can get an increased supply of e-waste by bringing secondary raw materials back to market on the same platform. By connecting the two parties, EverLoop aims to enable a circular economy that is built on responsible recycling and refurbishing across all industries.
Ajit Chandran, one of the co-founders and General Manager of EverLoop, shares how their product vision first came to life — and is now becoming a real product:
When and how did you know you had a viable idea for a start-up?
Ajit: Our idea started 1.5 years ago over a coffee, discussing a way to dispose mobile phones that are no longer being used, or are broken. Together, we counted the number of mobile phones lying around at home and found that we had nearly 10 devices. From there our curiosity drove us to start researching how much e-waste was being generated globally. Using LinkedIn, we started reaching out to various stakeholders in the industry, from waste pickers to India's largest recyclers. We also went directly to retail stores and talked to managers to validate the issue of e-waste disposal. Based on these conversations, we became confident that this was a viable solution that could solve the global problem of e-waste.
So, you have a problem to solve. Now what?
Ajit: Your team is everything. We are a team of four, comprised of Kiruthika and myself, where we manage product planning and customer tractions, while Rima and Amit work on platform development and integrations.
Once we got to know that there was a potential issue around e-waste, we took part at InnVent 2019, SAP Labs India's major innovation event. We began validating the idea and kept talking to customers — starting from waste pickers/aggregators to India's largest recyclers. After that event, we applied for SAP's Accelerator Program 2020 for employees, hosted by SAP.iO Venture Studio.
After a 6 months-long program and immense mentoring sessions, we won funding to build our product. We are beyond excited to help make e-waste management simple, easy and transparent.
Which difficulties did you have to overcome in your first months as co-founders?
Ajit: We never ran an entire business and all its operations before. Everything about starting a venture was new to us: from ideation phase to developing a new product and scaling. We had to learn everything on the fly — which was a fun challenge!
Since this coincided with the start of the COVID 19 pandemic, switching to a virtual environment was one of the most difficult situations we had to face early on. We managed it by having regular calls as well as daily discussions.
What plans do you have for the future?
Ajit: SAP is not just an enabler but an exemplar as well. EverLoop has been co-innovating with the SAP IT team in India and has already released its first internal version to them. The team now uses our EverLoop platform for their IT asset disposal in all campuses across the country. EverLoop's next milestone will be an external release to customers.
About EverLoop by SAP
EverLoop by SAP helps every business to achieve zero waste by connecting stakeholders across the e-waste value chain. By simplifying and connecting organizations, EverLoop by SAP extends the life cycle of used electronic products and opens doors too for enterprises to new sustainable networks. To learn more about the future's marketplace for electronics manufacturers and e-waste recyclers, go to www.ever-loop.io/
April — June 2021 | Achievements & News from SAP.iO Venture Studio
It's been a busy three months recently! SAP employees haven taken charge of their venture, pursued the freedom to shape their own strategy and taken their own decisions, also accelerating their own personal growth. Find the highlights of recent events and developments below:
Brilliant Hire has a new General Manager! Jeanine LeFlore already shared some insights on "Busting Product Myths" in this blogpost.
Head of Marketing at Brilliant Hire, Katya Pokrovskaya, also shared her tips for successful startup marketing in this blogpost.
Did you know that 90% of candidates leave career pages without applying? Their new product video and this article explain more on how they help customers with this challenge and elevate the candidate experience.
Brilliant Hire's offer to their early access program was also announced during SAPPHIRE NOW 2021. Read more in the event's Innovation News Guide and watch their customer talk in this session on how companies can build their future together with SAP.
The venture turned one on April 1! Walk down memory lane with them in this blog post.
GreenToken was featured in the global CEO keynote of SAP's flagship event SAPPHIRE NOW 2021. Watch their segment here. Their early access program was also announced during the event. Read more in the event's Innovation News Guide.
Eastman published a press release on their collaboration with the venture to track recycled content. Together they also joined the SAP Sustainability Summit. Find the replay to their session "Material Return Loops — Accelerating Sustainability Outcomes" here.
OwnID by SAP
OwnID by SAP enables your customers to use their phone as a key to instantly access their accounts on your website. This password–less method of login and verification grants a subtle and streamlined user experience, ensuring the highest security standards and complete privacy of every account.
OwnID talks about the crazy costs of passwords: Read their article on how those can jeopardize revenue and security for business here.
General Manager Dor Shany also wrote about how weak passwords equal big problems in his blogpost "I am me and I can prove it".
More on this venture on https://www.ownid.com/
Paid Pronto by SAP
Paid Pronto by SAP drives cash into your business faster by automating receivable processes. Deliver a seamless, personalized, customer experience through Paid Pronto's automated communication solution, beginning when an invoice is first released until payment is received.
General Manager Erin Dierker featured on Femventure's podcast episode on "Founding your own business". Listen on Apple podcasts or openSAP.
Team member Andrew Blum also laid out in this blogpost why receivables teams might need to look across the hall to their procurement and payables counterparts for a transformation roadmap.
More on this venture on https://www.paidpronto.io/
EverLoop by SAP (formerly ReLoop by SAP) aims to empower every business on the planet to achieve zero waste by being a sustainability solution that connects stakeholders across the waste value chain to enable the circular economy, with transparency and traceability.
EverLoop joined the SAP Sustainability Summit. Find the replay to their session ""Growth of Recommerce to Better Manage our Waste" here.
The venture is one out of two helping SAP and SAP customers achieve their sustainability goals. Read blog post here.
They also have a new website ready for you!
More on this venture on www.ever-loop.io!
The venture is actively looking for customers interested in sourcing opportunity assessments (free of charge) right now. Contact them here.
And why not check out their new website as well?
Elevating the Candidate Experience with Brilliant Hire's Smart Job Matching
Between searching through job postings, refining and revising resumes and cover letters, and prepping for interviews, applying for a job can feel like a full-time job in and of itself. There's also the additional stressor of potentially falling through the cracks of a company's applicant tracking system (ATS).
Not only that, but because there are so many open roles to choose from, prospective candidates can be overwhelmed by job sites. So overwhelmed that they end up exiting the page all together. According to a report, 91% of candidates leave career pages without ever applying to a single job.
The numbers are even more grim when diving into applicant demographics. A frequently cited Hewlett-Packard study found that men will apply for a job when they meet just 60 percent of the qualifications, while women will only apply if they meet 100 percent of the qualifications. What's more, a LinkedIn Business's Gender Insights Report also found that women were 16 percent less likely than men to apply to a job after viewing it and apply to 20 percent less jobs than men in the first place.
This isn't what the team at Brilliant Hire by SAP envisions when they think of the future of inclusive recruiting.
"For us, the future of recruiting is one where candidates can easily find the best roles for their skillsets and companies can find the most qualified and diverse talent for their open roles," said Jeanine LeFlore, General Manager of Brilliant Hire. "We believe that job applicants and companies alike benefit from a personalized candidate experience and we're making that a reality with Smart Job Matching."
Launched last fall, Brilliant Hire Smart Job Matching leverages artificial intelligence to deliver a curated list of best matched roles to each candidate. This bespoke experience doesn't just help candidates, but also helps companies increase their visitor-to-applicant ratio. It also gives recruiting teams valuable insights on where candidates are dropping off as well as the types of positions and skills job seekers are searching.
How Smart Job Matching works
When a candidate visits an SAP SuccessFactors careers page that has been integrated with Smart Job Matching, the Skill Matcher will ask a few short questions about their professional background and skills. The answers will be analyzed to match them with top jobs based on their experience while also ensuring candidate privacy by not collecting any personally identifiable information.
In doing so, Brilliant Hire can recommend a tailored list of opportunities to each candidate, pointing out jobs that are strong match for their unique background and thus encouraging them to apply. The hypothesis is that this personalized experience can also boost applicant pool diversity by enabling minority groups of candidates that have traditionally been outnumbered (such as females) to send in their resume for the top recommended jobs.
"My personal experience as a woman of color navigating a tech career across various sized companies and industries has shown me that the playing field is not always level when it comes to the recruitment and hiring process," LeFlore said, adding that Smart Job Matching enables candidates to apply to the roles that fit their skillsets with confidence which in turn helps make recruitment more inclusive.
SAP launched Smart Job Matching capabilities on its own careers site late last year and saw an 11 percent increase in the visitor-to-applicant ratio in just a few weeks because applicants were able to find a matching job more quickly. Another early adopter of Smart Job Matching is leading global supplier of specialty chemicals, W.R. Grace, who will be participating in a session during this year's virtual SAPPHIRE NOW conference.
"Brilliant Hire by SAP integrates with SuccessFactors and helps us achieve our recruitment goals by attracting more qualified candidates to our open jobs." said Stephanie Wheeler, Head of Global Talent Acquisition at W.R. Grace.
With goals of optimizing hiring by providing a personalized experience for candidates through Smart Job Matching, Brilliant Hire aims to further inclusive recruiting practices for customers.
"A great candidate experience should be at the center of the hiring process in a way that could also help make recruitment more inclusive for all applicants," LeFlore said. "And we're making that happen at Brilliant Hire."
Founded in 2018 within the SAP.iO Venture Studio, Brilliant Hire by SAP believes that everyone deserves a fair chance at landing their dream job. Built to unlock diversity and inclusion in the workforce, Brilliant Hire continues to innovate.
To learn more about Brilliant Hire by SAP, visit www.brillianthire.io/
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Explorium advises enterprises on improving and speeding up analytical machine learning
The key to successful artificial intelligence-based advanced analytical training is augmenting internal data with external, according to data science platform startup Explorium Inc.
The process is not easy, though. Problems include getting a hold of and managing that mass of external material.
"The key to any analytical problem is having the right data," said Zach Booth, director of global partnerships and channels at Explorium.
Models are only as strong as the data they train on, but getting that needed, external data is challenging. "It's manual, it's tedious and it's extremely time consuming," he said.
Explorium claims it has a solution that includes a curated, data-source catalog coupled with a platform to integrate everything within an organization's existing, internal material.
Booth spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's livestreaming studio, during the AWS Startup Showcase: The Next Big Things in AI, Security & Life Sciences. They discussed how external data source platforms — taking advantage of the massive amounts of data being generated in the world — could improve and speed up analytical machine learning for individual organizations.
Venture Voices: Tips for successful start-up marketing
Start-up marketing, Storytelling and Co.: The Director of Product Marketing at Brilliant Hire by SAP shares some key lessons that that she has learned through the years.
By Katya Pokrovskaya, Director of Product Marketing at Brilliant Hire by SAP
Having recently made a career move, I joined Brilliant Hire by SAP as Director of Product Marketing just over a month ago. Brilliant Hire is an employee-led venture in the SAP.iO Venture Studio, SAP's in-house incubator designed to build new growth businesses for the company. Having worked for a few early-stage software start-ups in the past, it feels great to be back in the innovation space. I wanted to share two tips that I believe are key in developing strong messaging and positioning for a SaaS start-up: building your story around your audience and communicating value over functionality.
So, why does my start-up need marketing?
As a marketer, a question that I often get asked from non-marketer colleagues and friends is "Why do we even need marketing in the first place? We're building a great product. It should sell itself". It's an interesting question as there's no doubt that a great product is the foundation for the success of a business. Organizations such as Product-Led Institute have built fantastic frameworks and entire training programs on building fast-growing SaaS businesses with a product-led approach. However, as important as product is, so is getting the word out about it in a way that will resonate with your market. Marketers exist to craft a clear, compelling story and bring it to the right people at the right time – to ultimately communicate the value of your product and drive growth.
Tip: Make your customer the hero of your (marketing) story
Who is your target audience? If you're trying to appeal to everybody, then you're probably not appealing to anybody. I would argue that the number one rule of marketing is this: know your audience. It starts with taking a step back from what you're building or selling to listen and empathize with your target user and customer. Try to learn as much about them as possible to understand their unique needs and think about where you can help. Make time for qualitative research such as interviews and focus groups to build detailed buyer/user/customer persona profiles. If your product addresses a few different audiences, repeat the audience profile exercise for each one to understand all the key personas that you are positioning your product to. Ask yourself: Who are you building your product for? What problems does it solve for them? What value can it bring to their lives?
The expert knowledge you gain from empathizing with your audience should be the foundation for your marketing storytelling. Think of your marketing message as a story and your customer as the hero of the story. I recently came across an interesting framework for crafting a marketing story in a great book that I'm reading: Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller. As in any story plotline, the hero (your customer) will need to overcome a challenge or obstacle. Eventually, they meet a guide (your product/service/solution) who will offer them a plan and provide a call to action to help them solve the problem. How does your product help customers overcome a challenge and make them successful?
Tip: Communicate value, not feature/function
In the fast-paced, information-saturated world that we live in, communicating value helps people quickly understand why they should care about your product. When creating marketing messaging for software, it can be easy to resort to listing the features and functions of the amazing SaaS product that you're building. However, unless you're targeting a highly technical customer, this approach most likely wouldn't resonate with your audience. Instead, think about how you can help your customer: specific use cases for your product, the problems solved for the end-users and ultimately, the value that it brings. Even better, could you quantify the value to show things like time saved or ROI?
Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Slack, once sent a memo to his team that said: "Just as much as our job is to build something genuinely useful, something which really does make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive, our job is also to understand what people think they want and then translate the value of Slack into their terms".
The category of company-wide messaging software wasn't new when Slack entered the market in 2013. However, Slack was unparalleled in translating their platform's capabilities into a clear value proposition. By positioning themselves as a replacement for email and the place "where work happens", Slack clearly communicates how its product makes users' working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive. The strong messaging and positioning, coupled with a fantastic product, powered Slack's impressive hypergrowth.
At the end of the day, customer-centric marketing that communicates clear value will make it quick and easy for your audience to understand why they should choose your product over all of the other options out there.
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Brilliant Hire intelligently matches candidates with a personalized shortlist of a company's jobs based on what really matters to them. It allows the candidates to search based on their skills, interests and passions — instead of keywords.
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Venture Voices: A year of and with GreenToken by SAP
Sometimes news unfold on April Fools Day that isn't a joke, but real and exciting: The founders behind Green Token by SAP share their venture's founding anniversary with other greats in the tech industry. Here are some of their highlights from their first year.
Founded on April 1, 1976, Apple most certainly wasn't a joke. Nor was Google's announcement in 2004, introducing the beta version of Gmail, its new — and free! — web-based email service. And of course, though hard to believe today, SAP was once also considered a start-up. When five entrepreneurs started the company on April 1 in 1972, Hasso Plattner didn't even own a personal computer.
Today, almost all of the world's 100 most valuable brands use SAP software and the company has grown to more than 100,000 employees. Even with its storied history and reputation in the tech industry, SAP has not strayed far from its start-up roots. Among its 100,000 employees, some continue to build products and teams from scratch through the SAP.iO Venture Studio, an organization dedicated to fostering employee-driven innovation. Since 2016, SAP has been investing in small, entrepreneurial teams to find and test new areas with products that attack some of the biggest problems in enterprise. On April 1, 2019, Green Token by SAP, a venture building a solution focusing on supply chain transparency for more ethical business, also joined the ranks of SAP's employee-led ventures. Hear what James Veale and Nitin Jain have to say, looking back on their first 12 months and ahead as venture founders:
Exactly one year ago you started GreenToken by SAP after 18 months of evolving the idea. What happened since?
Nitin & James: "Like one-year-old humans we have learnt an incredible amount in the last 12 months and now proudly stand on our own two feet. Our memorable successes since April 1, 2019 have to be :
Building a fantastic team of eleven passionate individuals who go above and beyond in their daily tasks to make GreenToken a success.
Great meetings with our motivated advisory board members who have given us excellent guidance and share our drive and enthusiasm for this project.
Our launch customers who helped us prove GreenToken at scale at the end of last year and continue to challenge us to make the product frictionless and fit for purpose."
Biggest misconception on founding and building a venture you had so far?
Nitin & James: "One of the biggest myths we faced was 'you all have to be based in one location for this to work.' We have team members in APJ, Europe and North America and we and made it work! What's more, GreenToken works with global supply chains and our globally distributed team is actually able to talk to any customer or prospect in the world in their local business hours."
Plans for your second year as venture founders?
Nitin & James: "Our second year is shaping up to be as exciting as our first! This year we plan to release the production-ready version of GreenToken and run it at scale, we intend to expand into new industries across many different raw material supply chains, and we aim at adding new features that will give our customers meaningful insights into their raw material supply chains showing them the good actors, the risk and the blind spots. We want to enable them to make meaningful procurement decisions and help drive sustainable and circular economies. And we already hit the ground running in year 2: Watch this space and our personal LinkedIn accounts for our new initiatives in a circular economy industry."
Feel free to personally connect with Nitin and James on LinkedIn and never miss a beat on their upcoming projects & results.
About Green Token by SAP
GreenToken by SAP is a supply chain solution that offers companies new levels of transparency through reliable, blockchain-based information. Gain visibility into where raw materials came from and produce products with knowledge about where and how the materials were produced, even in complex, non-batch supply chains. More on www.green-token.io
Venture Voices: Isn't it time that we see a Chief Receivables Officer?
Receivables teams might need to look across the hall to their procurement and payables counterparts for a transformation roadmap.
By Andrew Blum, Head of GTM and Customer Engagements, Paid Pronto by SAP
The path is laid out
The procurement and payables space has been transformed by a digital revolution over the last few decades. This has in turn enabled significant automation. I'm lucky to have witnessed it firsthand as a practitioner, consultant, and technology advisor. Procurement and accounts payable organizations have evolved from focusing on tactical, cost-control measures to adding meaningful value towards the organization's bottom line. Local or regional organization structures have been replaced by centralized global procurement organizations.
Technology has been at the center of this revolution and the results are clear. Compliance and cost-control is managed by the technology which allows procurement professionals to focus on higher-value, strategic initiatives.
This great transformation has increased the importance and visibility of the roles within the organization. Often an afterthought, a Procurement Manager used to be the middle person executing on the tactical parts of purchasing. Now that the tactical tasks are automated, and focus is on adding strategic value to the bottom line, we've seen a surge in companies adopting the title of Chief Procurement Officer — a reflection of the value that they bring to the enterprise.
Is Accounts Receivables really that much different than Procurement and Accounts Payable?
When I joined Paid Pronto by SAP and took a deeper look into the accounts receivable space, I realized that it's very similar to where procurement was 20 years ago and ripe for evolution. In fact the only major differences between accounts receivable and its procurement and accounts payable counterparts are that we're talking customers instead of suppliers and managing invoices instead of purchase orders.
If the global pandemic has taught us anything in the business world, it's that a strong cash flow helps prepare enterprises for anything. Outside of increasing sales or improving margins, there are two levers that finance organizations have to improve cash flow: (1) increase payment terms or (2) decrease receivables.
All too often, I see organizations only focus on the first lever. I've seen firsthand where a company made a blanket increase to their standard payment terms, from Net-45 to Net-120. And while larger suppliers can (uncomfortably) accept that, this is potentially fatal to smaller businesses that don't have deep capital pockets.
So, we need to start focusing on the second lever, and optimize receivables. This presents a massive opportunity for Receivables Managers to provide strategic value to the enterprise. They are now at the same inflection point that procurement and accounts payable managers were at 20 years ago.
The opportunity case is there. Improving days sales outstanding by one day provides a $2.7M cash flow benefit for every $1B in sales. Simply put, the receivables team can easily make a material impact on the bottom line. A cash flow benefit of this magnitude is sure to make any C-suite notice, especially in capital intensive industries.
The key to unlocking this value is automation of tactical activities so receivables professionals can use their expertise to focus on the complex problems. A receivables agent typically spends most of their day putting out fires and executing routine tasks, unable to tackle their work in a strategic manner. Whether it's asks from a customer to update a contact or upload to a portal, internal payment status queries, or just trying to get others to respond, there is a huge opportunity for automation.
It's uncanny how similar this opportunity is to what procurement and accounts payable teams faced a just a few decades ago. They've successfully tackled this problem and have been rewarded with a seat in the C-Suite. So, I ask the question: Isn't it time that we see a Chief Receivables Officer?
Paid Pronto by SAP is your transformation partner
We at Paid Pronto want to be your partner as you embark on this transformation. Our solution automates standardized receivables tasks, so that your receivables team can focus on the complex, high-value-added activities. Early pilots have shown significant improvement in day sales outstanding, total cash collected, and number of open invoices.
Paid Pronto by SAP is currently looking to expand our pilot program. If you are interested in letting us obsess over your success as part of the program, reach out to paidpronto@sap.com.
Find more also on www.paidpronto.io
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SavingsNow! and Recycletronics Join SAP.iO Venture Studio
avingsNow! and Recycletronics have joined the SAP.iO Venture Studio with goals of scaling and growing business for SAP and its customers. As part of the New Ventures and Technologies organization, the SAP.iO Venture Studio takes an employee-driven approach to innovation by bringing it in-house with an intrapreneurship program.
The two new employee-created ventures have received €1-2 million in funding from SAP through the company's grassroots Scouting & Acceleration program.
"Entrepreneurs at SAP are in a unique position to shape the future of enterprise software," said Ram Jambunathan, head of SAP.iO Venture Studio. "SAP's distinctive understanding of business processes enables ventures like Recycletronics and Savings Now! to leverage data and technology to explore, experiment, and transform how business is done."
The intrapreneurship program operates as an accelerator that supports entrepreneurial employees by creating an environment that fosters a culture of exploration and innovation. Employees selected for the program can build out and validate their ideas through working with real end users and assigned mentors from across SAP expertise in the challenges faced by SAP and its customers. From these interactions, the teams can then accelerate their idea into a venture with proven market demand.
To better understand today's business landscape and how their proposed solutions fit within it, teams run through two phases. During the validation phase, teams join an eight-week self-paced program with virtual lectures covering topics from testing assumptions to analyzing markets and building a first version of their product. During the acceleration phase, some get the opportunity to further develop and test their product and to win early-stage customers. They receive feedback from mentors from inside and outside of SAP, including a committee of senior leaders from across SAP, along with founders and investors.
SAP Invests in Accounts Receivable Solutions with Newest Venture Paid Pronto
SAP's newest employee-led venture, Paid Pronto by SAP, is an application that automates accounts receivable processes. It has received seed investment and officially joined SAP.iO Venture Studio with the goal of building a new growth business to impact SAP's business and customers.
SAP.iO Venture Studio cultivates an environment for in-house innovation by investing in small, entrepreneurial teams to build, launch, and scale products that address some of the biggest problems in enterprise. SAP employees are encouraged to tap into their entrepreneurial spirit to pitch product ideas to the program. After a competitive selection process, the founders can develop their product inside the company.
The idea for Paid Pronto came out of an understanding of how difficult and time-consuming the process of collecting money can be for businesses. In the U.S., Atradius reports that 47% of invoices are not paid on time, and approximately two of every three late invoices still are not paid after another 30 days. Typically, to get a customer to pay these invoices, teams have to manually follow up to understand why customers aren't paying, help them work through issues like billing disputes and invoice updates, and update internal teams on progress.
At enterprise scale, this is a massive undertaking. Keeping up with all of these processes for thousands of invoices and customers can often prove to be challenging. Therefore, improving accounts receivable operations can provide significant benefits for working capital management.
Paid Pronto aims to drive cash into businesses faster by accelerating receivable processes through automation. It does this by automating standardized tasks, like customer correspondence, to support receivables teams in covering their large book of customers. Through the automated communication solution, customers receive personalized and easy-to-digest reminders beginning when an invoice is first released until payment is received. These communications help ensure customers have full transparency into what they owe and can flag issues or questions earlier in the process.
Paid Pronto aims to deliver value to enterprises in three ways. First, it increases the total cash collected by improving customer response rates and getting more customers to pay their invoices. Second, it decreases the days of outstanding sales by surfacing issues sooner. And third, it helps reduce the total number of open invoices, limiting the number of items a collector needs to follow-up on.
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Q: How to Call Rest API with header and body for e2e protractor testing? testcase for this using e2e protractor testing
it('Should reach testsite', done => {
           request('https://sbx-office-api.b2bcloud.com/rmi/v1/books/list?type=fetchall' + '/authorize/authenticate')
            .set('Accept', 'application/json, text/plain, */*').set( 'Content-Type', 'application/json')
            .set('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.87 Safari/537.36')
            .set('Authorization', 'token')

            .end(function (error, body) {
                if (error) {
                    console.log('error:', error);
                } else {
                    console.log('body:', body);
                }
            });

        });

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A:

var request = require('request');

var options = {
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'https://sbx-office-api.b2bcloud.com/rmi/v1/books/list?type=fetchall',
    headers: {
        'Accept': 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
        'Authorization': 'Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6IlFrTTFRemt6UlVJNE5UazNSVVJGTUVVNU5rTXlNVVpFT0RJek5EQTNPRFkyTVVaRVFrVXdSZyJ9.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.D5MoBVJ2lWZ7b3FCZtMQkmdMxJot8SCR1-Oso-wponPtF2y6kLxKK5dUftI_yzydvaJsZ9mwjVvZIAHESlrwkjVizYGXTFchjasT81hMZtJgt6iW8sA7Nu5qx7MVsc2z7UAS0mGhV2a_NEvZaYQ1A0dC19wG2A6bNJIMNEy46oJXlUe8nxb1ezkh4CkO3jUnVIPBo4rney_uwcXj-wc5hiE3a6m7jeHphyy70zDBFD_YRiizZaXzI-LTPGvhuRb7UtfcZuOomQqOuH6xebaoe3OzX9aA7CfWCHIJDhjQJwC-5BR5HQ9k7FCae3L4pWfmUVUOTZEFViJtxazLxOjM_w',
        'Content-Type':'application/json',
        'Sec-Fetch-Mode': 'cors',
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.87 Safari/537.36'
    },
    body: '{ "headers":{"normalizedNames":{},"lazyUpdate":null}}'
};

it('Should reach testsite', done => {

        request(options, function (error, response, body) {
            console.log('error:', error);
            console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode);
            console.log('body:', body);
            done();
    });
});

A: By importing one of node library which can make http calls. EG supertest
Protractor is not meant for making external http/https request.

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Israel Closes Sole People Crossing with Gaza after 'Riot'
by Naharnet Newsdesk 05 September 2018, 12:40
The Israeli army said Wednesday it was closing its sole crossing for people with the Gaza Strip following a violent demonstration the previous day, just 10 days after it reopened it.
"Yesterday, a violent riot was instigated in the area of the Erez crossing, with the participation of hundreds of Palestinian rioters," the Israeli army said in a statement.
"Subsequently, it was decided to close the Erez crossing until the damage caused by the rioters will be repaired."
The Palestinians were protesting against a U.S. announcement on Friday that it would cease all funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) which helps some three million needy refugees.
Washington, which until last year was by far the biggest contributor to the UNRWA, had already plunged the nearly 70-year-old agency into financial crisis in January with its announcement of a $300 million funding freeze.
In Gaza, most children attend UNRWA-run schools whose funding beyond the end of this month is now in doubt, along with that of the agency's network of clinics and food distribution centers.
The Israeli army said Tuesday's protesters had damaged the infrastructure of the crossing with rocks thrown from the Gaza side.
It said it would remain open for "individually approved humanitarian cases."
An AFP correspondent said several thousand Gazans passed the Palestinian Authority checkpoint at Erez during Tuesday's protest and headed to the Israeli side, where they caused damage to lights and the road surface.
The Israeli army eventually forced them back, using tear gas and live ammunition. Five Palestinians suffered gunshot wounds, the Gaza health ministry said.
Israel reopened Erez on August 27 after an 11-day closure following previous clashes, as part of its policy of easing its decade-long air, land and sea blockade on the Gaza Strip when calm is maintained.
The sole goods crossing between Israel and Gaza, Kerem Shalom, remains open.
There have been months of tension along the border and several military flare-ups, but recent weeks have seen relative calm.
Egyptian and United Nations officials have been mediating indirect negotiations on a long-term truce between Israel and Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas, who have fought three wars since 2008.
arturo 05 September 2018, 15:50 01
Gaza should demand that all crossings it has into and out of Israel be closed permanently, and should have Hamas enforce this -- similar to the Lebanese border with Israel. Gaza should rely exclusively on its border with Egypt, a friendly Moslem state.
phillipo 05 September 2018, 16:25 01
Please remember that the reason the crossing is closed is............it was damaged yesterday by hundreds of Gazans demonstrating against Israel. So despite the fact that the damage has to be repaired, why should Israel open the crossing to allow people who demonstrate it to use? If they don't want Israel, then they can always leave Gaza through the Rafah Crossing into Egypt, that is when the Egyptians decide to allow it to be open.

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Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. Yes, it exceeds my love of all things Christmas! That's a huge statement considering that I owned a part-time Santa's Surplus store for nine years and sold Christmas décor year 'round for about ten years.
Valentine's Day is such a happy day. How can anyone not feel exuberant from all the loving well-wishes, tea parties, chocolate, and warm fuzzies floating in the air. I can already see mini-hearts mixed with the snow flakes drifting by my office windows. Well, perhaps that's an exaggeration.
Do you start with your favorite tea as the centerpiece for your Heart Day Celebration? How about a Valentine Tea Tasting? Adagio pops up first for tea ideas – great SEO! and Country Living features a slide show of Valentine Tea Table décor.
Do you start with a tea party centered around scones or desserts? Or what about your favorite Valentine decorations?
For me, I start with Hoffman Media, Tea Time Magazine (check out the Pavlova recipe) and Southern Lady. Next to Burton and Burton and Nashville Wraps.
After that, I browse Michael's and Hobby Lobby. Seeing the Wilton Individual Fruit Pies makes my mind travel to where I'd find fresh raspberries (and the number of fat grams in the crust – but they look *small*, don't they?) and should I serve raspberry-flavored tea? Which raspberry tea? Chocolate Raspberry Truffle or just plain old everyday Raspberry Crème Tea? Which would guests prefer?
Homeschooling ideas are terrific for tearooms too, especially when you are a DIY owner or you need to rework previous years' Valentine's décor.
Urban Homestead in Vancouver, B.C. is hosting Valentine's Teas. Although they have a pansy on their tiered tea tray, perhaps violets will be in bloom by then and I can scavenge the outer yard for violets. Checking for wholesale florists because I need to buy in large quantities for table décor as well as giftees, Portland Flower Market is usually my first trek although it seems I cannot better Costco for fresh flowers if needing carnations, roses, baby's breath, bird of paradise and other anchor plants. But if I need florist picks, gossamer and other floral needs, I might as well go to the market anyway.
Top Party Ideas – yes, they do have some eye-popping, colorful ideas.
King Arthur Flour has numerous Valentine ideas, products and recipes. I love their Foodoodler for making heart shapes on white sugar cubes and for easy cookie decorating.
How about you? Are you teacentric and what ideas or tips can you share for a more sensual experience (taste, smell, visual, music, tactile)? For example, for music, one year local barbershop quartets were offering on-site entertainment for $75 as a fundraiser. Ha! They came to the house and sang wonderfully for a heart-stopping 15 minutes that encored to 30 minutes. Fantastic! and their fundraiser was a huge success in the community.


¶ 1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
¶ 11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
¶ 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.


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This work is nearing completion and once complete, the driveway will be reopened and similar work will take place at Quartzite Road. Quartzite Road will be closed for this work with no access to or from Hunt Highway, currently scheduled to begin Sunday night, February 10 and last through the morning of February 17.
In addition, scheduled to begin Monday, February 4, crews will work to construct a box culvert under Copper Mine Road. This work will take place one-half the road at a time so that one lane of traffic in each direction can be maintained on Copper Mine Road.