itelligence project wins SAP Innovation Award in "Process Innovator" category / Innovative Environmental Protection Project of itelligence AG Honored by SAP

Orlando/Bielefeld (ots) - itelligence has won an SAP Innovation
Award in the "Process Innovator" category with a project involving
the use of drones and image recognition for the purposes of
environmental protection. These awards honor companies that operate
successfully in the digital economy making use of SAP technologies in
innovative ways.

Norbert Rotter, CEO of itelligence AG, said, "I'm delighted that
SAP is honoring itelligence AG as a 'Process Innovator' for an
intelligent environmental protection project in this high-caliber
worldwide competition. Being recognized as a good example of the
smart use of digitization makes me very proud and will serve as a
special incentive for us to warrant the trust placed in us in the
future as well."

This is the sixth year that the SAP Innovation Awards have been
held. The jury received 233 submissions from 37 countries and 25
sectors of industry. 81 projects were shortlisted as finalists. The
winners in the six categories were then chosen from these finalists.

"Drones photograph the landscape and a previously trained and
optimized algorithm processes the image data automatically and
detects the weeds," said Mark Albrecht, Global Head of Innovation
Technologies at itelligence AG. "This involves products from the SAP
innovation portfolio among others."

The itelligence environmental protection project, which was
conducted by itelligence Denmark, itelligence Innovation
Technologies, and NTT DATA Japan, uses drones to loom for giant
hogweed, a plant with huge, deeply lobed leaves that can reach up to
15 feet in height. The sap from these leaves causes photosensitivity
in people's skin, potentially resulting in serious skin inflammation.
As this is a highly invasive species, land and forest owners have a
duty to uproot the plants in order to eradicate them.

Even though the weed is quite large, it is laborious and
time-consuming to scan swathes of land for it by eye. "We have
automated this process by using drones to photograph the landscape
and then examining the vegetation in the photographs," explains
Albrecht. "When the image recognition detects giant hogweed, we mark
the place on a map." Besides the drones, the project uses Artificial
Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big Data technologies. "The
greatest challenge was to supply the algorithm with sufficient images
to train the neural network to recognize the plant," remembers
Albrecht.

The project was conducted in collaboration with the Danish drone
manufacturer ProDrone and involved four Danish town councils. The
users update the existing mapping of the weed with the results of
their IT-based image recognition and use the information to carry out
control work.

The SAP Innovation Awards team is donating $20,800 US dollars to
charitable organizations on behalf of the award winners. The award
winners receive tickets to the annual SAP conference SAPPHIRE NOW®,
which will take place from May 7th to 9th in Orlando, Florida this
year.

Projects:
https://www.sap.com/bin/sapdxc/inm/attachment.2777/pitch-deck.pdf

Overview of Winners
http://ots.de/8l0Ki7

Besides the winning project, two further itelligence projects made
it into the list of finalists in the SAP Innovation Awards:

- FrontlineAI in collaboration with KIA Motors. A lifelike IT
avatar, which provides information to customers in natural language
in the store environment.

- XERVON - a project for Predictive Maintenance based on sensor
data and Machine Learning

itelligence

itelligence AG transforms IT landscapes and business processes
through the combination of innovative SAP software and technology
with services and products developed in-house. As an SAP Global
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every phase of their digital transformation. itelligence's range of
services includes IT strategy and transformation consulting, software
deployment and implementation, as well as application management and
managed cloud services. The excellence of these services is built on
the foundation of itelligence's local presence, global capacity, and
comprehensive industry expertise. itelligence partners with customers
to create new and innovative business opportunities through the use
of IT - for each facet of the customer's business. Thousands of
satisfied customers have placed their trust in itelligence, many of
them since the company was founded 30 years ago. itelligence's
contribution to innovation and long-term business success has been
confirmed by numerous SAP awards and leading market analysts.
itelligence is part of the global NTT DATA group and employs over
8,000 people across 25 countries. In 2018, itelligence generated
926.6 million euros in total revenues.

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