Ear­li­er this year, SAP unveiled its indus­try cloud, which is an open plat­form for indus­try-spe­cif­ic cloud solu­tions aimed at pro­vid­ing cus­tomers with the abil­i­ty to dig­i­tize and auto­mate oper­a­tions while opti­miz­ing, extend­ing, and trans­form­ing core busi­ness process­es. Work­ing in tan­dem with its part­ners, SAP is devel­op­ing solu­tions to inte­grate with the intel­li­gent suite and help dri­ve val­ue and efficiency.

ASUG sat down with Sana Salam, CEO and founder of Sodales Solu­tions, a soft­ware com­pa­ny that has worked with SAP to devel­op a suite of solu­tions for engag­ing with employ­ees and ensur­ing their safe­ty. Salam walked through how Sodales Solu­tions is part­ner­ing with SAP’s indus­try cloud, and how it will con­tin­ue to inno­vate its prod­ucts mov­ing forward.

Jim: Can you tell us about your back­ground and how it has helped you as you’ve devel­oped solu­tions for SAP’s indus­try cloud?

Sana: I am the founder and CEO of Sodales Solu­tions. We are a 100% boot­strapped com­pa­ny, and that’s very impor­tant to men­tion because we actu­al­ly start­ed this com­pa­ny with­out any ini­tial invest­ments or fund­ing, and we grew it organ­i­cal­ly, includ­ing prod­uct devel­op­ment. Pri­or to start­ing Sodales, I was work­ing in the cor­po­rate world for very large com­pa­nies. My role was to turn around projects that were fail­ing and had maybe two or three weeks left before they were shut down. These were mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar invest­ments in IT.