These organizations exemplify resilience and innovation. Despite macro challenges and an unpredictable business climate, they harness technology, culture, and sometimes pure grit to address some of the world鈥檚 biggest challenges. We at 麻豆原创 are honored to be part of their journey. With our help, they develop business processes, solutions, and services to better serve their customers, operations, and communities around the world.

Real-World Problems, Real-Life Solutions

For the past 11 years, 麻豆原创 has run the prestigious 麻豆原创 Innovation Awards, proudly recognizing top global innovators that use 麻豆原创 solutions to make the world a better place. Our distinguished judges of industry thought leaders, influencers, community members, and 麻豆原创 experts have carefully reviewed 160 entries to determine the 2024 麻豆原创 Innovation Award .

These organizations are setting the standards in improving operations across the value chain, boosting employee and customer experiences, shaping a sustainable future, and much more. A huge congratulations to all of our ! I know I speak for everyone involved when I say I can鈥檛 wait to find out this year鈥檚 winners.

30 Winners Across Seven Categories

Judging for the 麻豆原创 Innovation Awards is based on a few big elements: the creativity of an organization鈥檚 use case, the tangible outcomes, and their innovation in employing AI technologies and cloud solutions from 麻豆原创. We highlight winners in the following seven categories:

• Business Innovator: This category focuses on how customers are transforming their supply chain, processes, or business networks using cloud solutions from 麻豆原创.
• Industry Leader: Customers are recognized for employing our solutions to address big challenges in their industries and disrupting the way their industries have traditionally conducted business.
• Experience Wizard: This one focuses on customers achieving tangible business transformation using our cloud solutions to delight their employees and customers.
• Sustainability Hero: To be honored here, customers must be actively committed to sustainability with leading-edge solutions.
• Services Supernova: Customers are recognized for outstanding achievements in transforming businesses into sustainable enterprises. They鈥檝e exceeded their business goals, optimized IT resources, increased user enablement, and improved productivity or learning using RISE with 麻豆原创 or Cloud Success Services.
• Transformation Titan: How do you become a titan? Demonstrate exceptional innovation and transformational leadership in using 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP). Selected customers are employing the full portfolio of 麻豆原创 products.
• Partner Paragon: This category highlights how partners accelerate the adoption of 麻豆原创 BTP by developing a monetized application that has been deployed by customers.

Continuing the Celebration

麻豆原创 Innovation Awards represent an amazing opportunity to learn, be inspired by, and celebrate the unique and innovative ways our customers and partners are making a difference and we look forward to celebrating the winners on April 10!

Do you know of a customer or partner that would be a good candidate for next year鈥檚 麻豆原创 Innovation Awards? Or do you just want to learn more about the awards, the finalists, and the winners when they鈥檙e announced? Join us and showcase your innovation story! .

Dorit Shackleton is senior vice president and head of Global Customer Adoption and Events Marketing at 麻豆原创.

Each day, news outlets serve up headlines screaming about new issues that affect the global supply chain, the climate crisis, the workforce, and the world economy. Yet somehow, resilient, brilliant, dedicated people in organizations across every industry and region are undaunted. These leaders step up to improve, invent, and innovate their way to a better place. I, for one, find this inspiring, motivating, and just plain awesome.

In the vast 麻豆原创 ecosystem, we see real-life examples of this every day: people who prove that when the going gets tough, the tough keep going 鈥� and innovating 鈥� to help the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives.

I want to recognize these 鈥渟uperheroes鈥� 鈥� made up of our customers, partners, and their respective teams from every corner of the world. They are remarkable, forward-thinking pioneers who are able to capitalize on current 麻豆原创 technology to create solutions for today and tomorrow. We are excited to honor these pioneers at the 10^th anniversary 麻豆原创 Innovation Awards for their innovative use of 麻豆原创 software, services, and solutions within their organizations.

My fellow executive sponsors Scott Russell, Claudio Muruzabal, Stephanie Nashawaty, and I are very excited to be a part of the 麻豆原创 Innovation Awards once again. Though we don鈥檛 yet know who the winners are at this point, we are looking forward to hearing all their inspirational stories using 麻豆原创 technology. Celebrating the award winners is truly one of the highlights of our year.

Worth the Wait

In just three weeks, the 麻豆原创 Innovation Award finalists will be announced. You will be able to see for yourself how these companies are building a sustainable future, creating better supply chains, and transforming their enterprises using leading-edge solutions like . In the meantime, here are a few examples from our current submissions that showcase just how innovative organizations can be:

Empowering Women-Owned Businesses
was founded to help women-owned businesses gain access to over US$3 billion in global purchasing power. The organization’s mission requires making it easy to identify, certify, and train women-owned businesses around the world as well as for member organizations to select qualified suppliers for procurement opportunities. WEConnect International worked with 麻豆原创 to build a next-generation 麻豆原创 Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance platform that can scale to meet the requirements of buyers and suppliers globally.

Rise with Employees, Customers, and Consumers
initiative focuses on building a better tomorrow for its employees, customers, and consumers. A key objective is to improve employee engagement and empower them to make data-driven decisions. RISE with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud establishes a foundation towards this vision of becoming a customer-centric enterprise. It enables Philips Domestic Appliances to develop a holistic view of its consumers, understand their needs, respond to their feedback, innovate, and create products that positively impact their daily lives.

Actionable Performance Indicators
Brazilian electric utilities company deployed 麻豆原创 Digital Boardroom and 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud for its board members and leaders to track performance indicators via a single source of truth. Fast, accurate, reliable tracking of data is required to generate the company’s key performance indicators (KPIs) for decision-makers to eliminate the manual work of spreadsheets and slides. Given the virtual environment, it was critical to provide a secure, collaborative platform to access and integrate analytics from over 10 disparate data repositories. Electronorte can now quickly identify trends and gain actionable insights anytime, anywhere.

Major Announcement Coming

The entry submission period closed on February 1. Now, the 麻豆原创 Innovation Awards team is working to select the finalists that will be revealed on March 14. A panel of 29 distinguished judges will spend four weeks determining the winners, announced on April 12.

Finally, in celebration of all our participants, 麻豆原创 will donate $100 per entry, up to $20,000, to the and .

Be a Part of the Celebration

Maybe you鈥檝e worked with one of this year鈥檚 entrants? Or you know of a customer who would be a perfect fit for next year鈥檚 麻豆原创 Innovation Awards? If so, check out the 麻豆原创 Innovation Awards聽 for more information.

And stay tuned for the announcement of the winners on April 12. It鈥檚 a feel-good moment that we can all celebrate!

Dorit Shackleton is senior vice president and head of Global Customer Advocacy and Events Marketing at 麻豆原创.