Terms and Conditions
Reportapalooza Official Rules
1. Promotion Period: The SAP Crystal Social Media Promotion (the “Promotion”, consisting of the “Challenge” and the “Community Voting Sweepstakes”) begins 12:00:01 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on August 16, 2010 and ends 11:59 p.m. ET on November 22, 2010 (the “Promotion Period”). Community Voting Sweepstakes dates and Community Hero Challenge Contest, Community Dashboard Challenge and Community Video Training Challenge dates are within the Promotion Period, but not for the entire Promotion Period. Specific dates are outlined below.
2. Eligibility Criteria:
Challenge Eligibility: Must be one of the five pre-selected and approved experts (in Sponsor’s sole discretion).
The following Challenge Experts and Community members are not eligible to participate: (1) employees of and family members employed by SAP AG, SAP America, Inc., their affiliates and subsidiaries; (2) employees of and family members employed by, or in any other way affiliated with or related to, government entities, government officials or any other person or entity in the public sector.
Community Voting Sweepstakes/Hero Challenge Contest/Dashboard Challenge and Video Training Challenge Eligibility: Must be a legal U.S. or Canadian resident (excluding Quebec), who is 18 years of age or older at time of entry.
The Promotion is void where prohibited or restricted by law and is subject to all applicable federal, state, local, municipal and provincial laws.
3. As a Pre-selected Expert (“Expert”), you may Participate in the Challenge as Follows: During the Promotion Period, you may participate in the following five challenges during the dates indicated, in order to accumulate the most points overall. All portions of an Expert’s participation in a challenge are referred to as a “submission”.
Challenge #1: Dashboard Tool for Everyone: 12:00:01 a.m. ET on August 16, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on August 27, 2010. Community Poll: 12:00:01 a.m. ET on August 16, 2010 throught 11:59 p.m. on August 20, 2010. Community Voting: 12:00:01 a.m. ET on August 30, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on September 3, 2010. Expert winner will be announced on September 6, 2010.
Experts will be asked to poll their personal networks and the Crystal community to help determine the best general-use dashboarding tools that would appeal to a large audience. For example, they may ask the community if they would be interested in having a translator tool, calorie counter, personal budget planners, etc. Sponsor will do initial research to come up with some potential tools and data sets, but will also allow the Experts and the community to add in additional ideas through a write-in option on the poll on the site. Each Expert will select one tool based on the popular vote from the community as well as the tool that they feel will produce the best dashboard. In the event the Experts pick the same tool, a random drawing will be conducted from the Experts to determine which tool each Expert will get. Experts will have one week to build the dashboards. Experts will be supplied with data sets by Sponsor and also required to research and collect additional data in order to build the dashboards. The five tools selected by Sponsor and built by the Experts will be uploaded to the micro-site and the community will have one week to try them out. The community will then vote on the most useful dashboard. The Expert with the dashboard that receives the most votes by the end of the week will be the Challenge #1 Expert Winner and will receive 50 points.
After the Challenge #1 Expert Winner is announced, Sponsor will also have a challenge for the community. Community members will be able to submit their own dashboard submissions, between 12:00:01 a.m. ET on Septermber 6, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on November 5, 2010. The community submissions will be uploaded on the micro-site. There will be a voting week, between 12:00:01 a.m. ET on November 15, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on November 19, 2010 for all consumers to vote on their favorite dashboard. The community submitted dashboard that receives the most votes by the end of the week will be the Challenge #1 Community Winner and will receive a Zune 30gig MP3 Player and a USD$50.00 Sponsor-selected gift card.
Challenge #2: Training Challenge: 12:00:01 a.m. ET on August 23, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on September 10, 2010. Community Voting: 12:00:01 a.m. ET on September 13, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on September 17, 2010. Expert winner will be announced on September 20, 2010.
The Sponsor will host a poll on the micro-site, that will ask three questions, for example: What are the most useful advanced features of SAP Crystal Reports;What are the essentials features every Crystal user should know to use SAP Crystal Reports?;What are some of your daily questions you'd like to ask the Experts.?. The Sponsor will work with internal SAP members, the Experts and the Community Council to help identify the potential responses for poll question #1 and #2. In order to get responses, the Experts will promote the poll to their personal networks and the Sponsor will also promote to the larger Crystal community through their own social media channels. Those that take the poll will be required to select their top five responses for poll questions #1 and #2 and will be asked to fill in a response for poll question #3. The poll will run for two weeks. After two weeks of polling the community, the Sponsor will select the top five most useful advanced features and the top five essential features that users need to know to get started with Crystal Reports. The Experts will be asked to film short, 60-second "how-to" videos describing how to do the eight features/functions. All details will be provided to Experts by Sponsor. Each Expert is required to complete two videos. Experts will have one week to film and send their videos to the Sponsor. The Experts can use existing sample SAP data-sets in order to demonstrate how to use their given feature/function in the video. Additionally, the Experts will be required to respond to the top five daily questions that come in through poll question #3 on the micro-site. The Sponsor will promote these responses through the Twitter feed and Facebook Page. It is recommended that the Experts post their responses with 60-second short videos to make for a more personal response. Once the videos and respones are completed, all content will be posted to the micro-site. The community will then be given one week to vote for the Expert with the clearest explanations. The Expert who receives the most votes will become the Challenge #2 Expert Winner and will receive 50 points.
After the Challenge #2 Expert Winner is announced, Sponsor will have a challenge for the community. Community members will be able to submit their own video tutorial submissions, between 12:00:01 a.m. ET on September 20, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on November 5, 2010. The community submissions will be uploaded on the micro-site. There will be a voting week between 12:00:01 a.m. ET on November 15, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on November 19, 2010 for all consumers to vote on their favorite video tutorials. The community submitted video tutorial that receives the most votes by the end of the week will be the Challenge #2 Community Winner and will receive a Zune 30gig MP3 Player and a USD$50.00 Sponsor-selected gift card.
Challenge #3: Hero Challenge: 12:00:01 a.m. ET on August 16, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on October 8, 2010. Community Voting: 12:00:01 a.m. ET on October 11, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on October 15, 2010. Expert winner will be announced on October 18, 2010.
The Experts will have seven weeks to ask the community for their best stories about people saving the day, because they used SAP Crystal solutions products. The Experts will be asked to publicize the challenge and direct people to the micro-site to submit their stories. The Sponsor will provide each Expert with a specific URL so the amount of traffic each Expert drives to the micro-site is trackable. The Expert who generates the most traffic to their specific URL will be the Challenge #3 Expert Winner and will receive 50 points.
After the five weeks allocated to collecting stories, the Sponsor will then post the 5 best individual stories on the micro-site in the form of a poll and the community will vote for their overall favorite story. The story that received the most votes will become the Hero Challenge Winner and this story will be turned into a creative musical poster. The remaining 4 stories will be used on the Facebook Page or Twitter feed, as case studies (in Sponsor’s sole discretion).
Challenge #4: Charity Challenge: 12:00:01 a.m. ET on September 27, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on October 15, 2010. Community voting: 12:00:01 a.m. ET on October 18, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on October 22, 2010. Expert winner will be announced on October 25, 2010.
The Sponsor will pre-select five charities that will participate. Each charity will have the opportunity to provide a data set or will provide a theme that they would like built into a dashboard. The Experts will be assigned a specific charity and provided a data set for their specific charity and asked to research more data and then build a dashboard. The Experts will have three weeks to collect data, work with the charity and build the dashboard. At the end of the three week period the Experts’ dashboards will be uploaded to the micro-site and the Experts will ask their networks to vote. The Sponsor will also promote this to the larger Crystal community through their social media channels and will ask the charities to help promote through their channels. There will be one week for voting. The Expert who builds the dashboard with the most votes will be the Challenge #4 Expert Winner and will receive 50 points. The charity’s dashboard that wins will also win a corresponding prize.
Challenge #5: The Crystal Journey: 12:00:01 a.m. ET on October 25, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on November 12, 2010.
Experts will be required to go on a "Journey" exploring another SAP Crystal solutions product they are not as familiar with and blog about their learnings and experience. Each Expert will be given a different product so there is different content created throughout the Journey. The Experts will be required to document their Journey through blog and video content. Experts must post at least one blog and one video on their personal social media channel (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, blog, etc.) every week on a specific date, which will be provided by the Sponsor. Experts will be required to make it through the Journey in order to be considered to have successfully completed all five challenges and have a chance at winning the Grand Prize.
Final Expert Voting Week: Community voting: 12:00:01 a.m. ET on November 15, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on November 19, 2010.
At the end of the five challenges, there will be a final voting week. The community will vote on a poll on the micro-site for their overall favorite Expert. The Expert who receives the most votes overall will receive 40 points added to their overall score.
All Expert and community submissions must be complete to be eligible (in Sponsor’s sole discretion). Submissions/tweets may not contain obscene, lewd, or inappropriate text or video content, as determined in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Any submission or portion thereof that, in Sponsor’s sole discretion, contains any third-party materials or otherwise violates or infringes (or may infringe) any copyright (including music recordings), trademark, logo, mark that identifies a brand or other proprietary right of any person living or deceased (including but not limited to rights of privacy or publicity or portrayal in a false light) or entity, or is otherwise objectionable, will not be considered and will disqualify the Entrant. Therefore, clothing worn in the submissions should not contain any visible logos, drawings, cartoons, phrases, trademarks or other third-party materials. Submissions must not include any representation of celebrities, athletes, musicians, or any other public figure, include any anti-social, political or religious groups, any commercial solicitation or promotional materials or address, phone number, or URL address. Submissions become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Automated, script, macro or robotic submissions by individuals or organizations will be disqualified. Normal Internet access and usage charges imposed by entrant’s online service will apply. Neither the Sponsor, their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and the directors, officers, employees or agencies, nor any of their respective partners or prize suppliers are responsible for lost, late, delayed, misdirected or incomplete submissions.
4. As a Member of the Community, you may Participate in the Community Voting Sweepstakes as Follows: During the Promotion Period (during the dates outlined at the onset of each challenge description), you have the opportunity to respond to polls and vote, as explained during the challenges. You also have the opportunity to be entered into a random sweepstakes drawing (as described below). You can do so by clicking the ‘Tweet this’ link associated with that promotion or completing the registration form after you click the ‘don’t have Twitter’ link.
5. Winner Determination/Winner Selection: Expert Challenge: At the conclusion of the first four challenges, a Challenge Expert Winner will be determined and will be identified on the micro-site. The Challenge Expert Winner will be chosen by a point-based voting system. Points will be awarded to the Experts in the first four challenges based on the following: 1st Place: 50 points; 2nd Place: 40 points; 3rd Place: 30 points; 4th Place: 20 points; 5th Place: 10 points. Additionally, there will be a a final voting week after the fifth challenge where the community will vote on a voting widget on the micro-site for their overall favorite Expert. The final vote will go from 12:00 a.m. ET on November 15, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on November 19, 2010. The Expert that receives the most votes will get an additional 40 points added to their overall score. At the end of the five challenges, the Sponsor will calculate the total amount of points won by each Expert during the challenges. The Grand Prize winner will be announced on or about November 22, 2010. There will also be prizes for Second Place and Third Place. These places will be determined by total number of points accumulated. Community Challenges: The community will vote on their favorite community submission for the Dashboard Challenge and the Training Challenge on a poll on the micro-site. The vote will go from 12:00 a.m. ET on November 15, 2010 through 11:59 p.m. ET on November 19, 2010. The submission that receives the most votes for the Dashboard Challenge will be Challenge #1 Community Winner. The submissions that receives the most votes for the Training Challenge will be Challenge #2 Community Winner. Hero Challenge: The community member whose story receives the most votes will be named the Challenge #3 Community Winner on or about October 1, 2010. Community Voting Sweepstakes Random Drawings: During the first four challenges, 25 community voters will be selected in separate random drawings from among all eligible voters who registered or tweeted for that specific challenge. There will be 16 winners chosen in the first challenge (8 chosen after the polling week and 8 chosen during the voting week), 3 winners chosen in the second challenge (1 chosen during the polling week and 2 chosen during the voting week), 2 winners chosen in the third challenge during the voting week and 4 winners chosen in the fourth challenge during the voting week. Random drawings will be conducted by Sponsor, whose decisions are final on all matters relating to this Promotion. Odds of winning a Community Voting Sweepstakes Prize depend upon the total number of eligible entries received per challenge.
6. Prizes And Approximate Retail Values (“ARV”): Grand Prize (1): A Mac Desktop including the Garage Band software. The ARV of the Grand Prize is USD$1,300.00. First Place (1): Bose Noise Canceling Headphones and Sound Dock. The ARV of the First Prize is USD$900.00. Second Place (1): Wii Console and Rock Band software. The ARV of the Second Prize is USD$450.00. Community Challenge Winner Prizes (2): Two Zune 30gig MP3 Players and two Sponsor-specified USD$50.00 Gift Cards. The ARV is USD$300.00. Hero Challenge Prize: The winner’s story will be turned into a creative (video, poster, CD cover, digital comic book), in Sponsor’s sole discretion. There is no value associated with this prize. Community Voting Prizes (25 – as broken out above): Dashboard Tool for Everyone: Sixteen Sponsor specified USD$25.00 Gift Cards. Training Challenge: Three Sponsor specified USD$200.00 Gift Cards. Hero Challenge: Two Zune 30gig MP3 Players and two Sponsor-specified USD$50.00 Gift Cards. The ARV is USD$300.00. Charity Challenge: Four Etymotic Headphones. The ARV is USD$200.00. Charity Challenge Prize (1): The charity with the winning dashboard will receive a USD$1,000 donation. Final Expert Voting Week: Five Sponsor specified USD$25.00 Gift Cards. Limit of one prize per person. Prizes are awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied by Sponsor. No substitutions of any prize or prize alternative permitted. Sponsor may award a prize of greater or equal value in the event of prize unavailability. Sponsor will report value of prizes as required by law, if applicable.
7. Winner Notification: Winners will be notified via mail/email. The Potential Grand Prize, First Prize and Second Prize winners may be required to execute and return an affidavit of eligibility, assignment of rights and (where legal) a liability/publicity release (or a Declaration of Compliance for Canadian winners) within ten (10) days for U.S. residents/twenty (20) days for Canadian residents of notification attempt or prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner determined. Potential Community Prize winners may be required to complete an address verification form and assignment of rights within the same timeframe before receiving their prize. Potential Hero Challenge winner will need to also obtain approval from his/her company in order to use the company’s logo in any creative and promotional presentations, along with the poster. Recipient of the Charity Prize may need to execute necessary paperwork in order to receive prize for the charity. Return of any prize or prize notification as undeliverable will result in disqualification and alternate winner determination. Income and other taxes, if any, related to the prize are each winner’s/winning charity’s sole responsibility.
8. General Rules: All submissions become the property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. Winners and all Experts acknowledge and agree that their submissions (and any components of the Challenge herein) become the property of the Sponsor, which thereby has the right to edit, adapt, modify, reproduce, promote and otherwise use their submissions in any way it sees fit in connection with advertising or promotions in any medium, throughout the world, in perpetuity, without any compensation. Winners/Experts shall have no right to review or approve edits, alterations, or modifications. Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual that tampers or attempts to tamper with the submission process or the operation of the Promotion; violates the Official Rules; or acts in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. In the event company policy prohibits the awarding of a prize to an employee, the prize will be awarded in the name of the company and a principal at that company must execute and return the affidavit or address verification form (as indicated above). CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE PROMOTION IS IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Sponsor and Sponsor’s affiliates are not responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions, telephone failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, or failed, incorrect, inaccurate, incomplete, garbled or delayed electronic communications whether caused by the sender or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Promotion which may limit the ability to participate or by any human error which may occur in the processing of the submissions in this Promotion. In the event the Promotion is compromised in any way, the Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, terminate, or suspend the Promotion and in such event, to determine the applicable winners from among all eligible entries/submissions received, up to such time of cancellation, termination or suspension. By participating in this Promotion, each winner/Expert agrees to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the judges, and warrants that he/she is eligible to participate in this Promotion. All aspects of the prizes are non-transferable and no substitutions are allowed except at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Winners/Experts agree to indemnify and hold harmless and waive any and all claims of liability of any kind whatsoever against the Sponsor and/or the Sponsor’s affiliates, and each of their respective parents, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, public relations and other service agencies and agents (collectively, the “Sponsor Parties”), including any accident, loss, injury or death occurring or in any way related to the determination of the winners, the awarding, receipt, use and/or misuse of any prize or while traveling to and/or from a location to obtain or use a prize. Neither the Sponsor nor the Sponsor Parties make any warranty, representation, or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to the use of any prize including, without limitation, quality, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose. Winners/Experts consent to the use of their names, quotes, biographies, submissions, addresses (city, state), and likenesses for purposes of advertising, trade and promoting in any and all media including the internet (and any press pertaining to this Promotion and related to the prizes), throughout the world, in perpetuity, to the extent permitted by law.
9. Jurisdiction: The Promotion shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. applicable to promotions fully carried out within Pennsylvania. Except where prohibited by law, any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Promotion but in no event attorneys' fees; and winners/Experts hereby waive all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages (including attorneys fees), other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. Each winner acknowledges that no other party nor any agent or attorney of any other party has made any promise, representation or warranty whatsoever, express or implied, not contained herein concerning the subject matter hereof, to induce the winner to execute any document and winners acknowledge that they have not executed any document in reliance on any such promise, representation or warranty not contained herein. Any waiver by the Sponsor of any term of any document in a particular instance shall not be a waiver of such term for the future. Each winner agrees that the invalidity or enforceability of any part of any document shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any of the remainder of that document.
10. Winners: The names of the winners will be available on or about November 22, 2010 for a minimum of 30 days at /winners.html.
11. Sponsor: The Sponsor of the Promotion is SAP North America, 3999 West Chester Pike, Newton Square, PA 19073.