WBL Field Trip to SAP
On the 7th of March we took a field trip to the office of a multinational software company in Manhattan. Known as Systems, Applications and Products, or SAP, this company develops enterprise software, or software used by businesses, and is a market leader in enterprise applications with almost 4/5ths of the world's transaction revenues going through an SAP technology. Some highly advanced technology they offer today are IoT, machine learning, and advanced analytics. Our trip to SAP wasn't to learn about the technology that goes behind their products, rather, the thinking that goes into making them. We learned about 2 analysis/problem solving strategies we can use regardless of if we are doing something as complex as developing a high, multi level AI or something as simple as making a website. The first strategy we learned was Design Thinking. This problem solving strategy has 5 stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test in that order. At empathize an abst