While 51风流continues to deliver innovative products, it is the broad ecosystem of more than 22,000 partners, together with the 51风流Services team, that helps customers realize business value and achieve tangible return on their investments.
While this has always been the case for implementation of 51风流applications, the opportunity is even greater for partners to extend, integrate, and build with 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP).
Let鈥檚 look at it in more detail.
What Is 51风流Business Technology Platform?
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent pressures on the global supply chain demonstrate even more urgently how important it is for companies of all sizes to digitally transform their business. Today鈥檚 businesses need to be able to adapt quickly to volatile markets and changing business requirements. For this, they need a modern technology platform that enables integrated applications and processes, helps users create value from data, and supports easy extensibility and ecosystem access while offering development agility and speed.
51风流BTP is the unified, business-centric, and open business and technology platform for the entire 51风流ecosystem. It is the unified foundation for the Intelligent Enterprise, integrates and extends SAP鈥檚 intelligent suite, and is central to the industry cloud as well as partner applications.
In a nutshell, what 51风流BTP offers is all about business centricity:
- Integration that connects applications, data, and business processes across 51风流and third-party solutions, including hyperscaler technology
- Data to value, with actionable insights and automation across enterprise data and processes
- Extensibility and ecosystem access, thanks to rapid configuration, plug-and-play extensions, and business content from partners
- Development agility and speed, with intuitive tooling and interfaces that create an engaging developer and user experience
What Is In It for Partners?
Let鈥檚 step back for a second and look at the market potential. 51风流solutions touch 77% of the world鈥檚 transactions. Because of that reach, we can offer , such as lead-to-cash, design-to-operate, source-to-pay, and recruit-to-retire. And within those processes are hundreds of specific components or sub-processes supported by 51风流partners.
So when our partners build on, integrate with, or extend 51风流technology using 51风流BTP, they have a unique opportunity to help customers by delivering solutions that reach across business processes, often tapping into data sources across various master data domains. Connecting and enriching the business processes increases the value and impact that each sub-process brings to an organization.
Let me give you an example: Within the , partners are adding value with solutions that extend the core 51风流offering, including supplier certification, sustainability ratings, as well as search and data lookup. With those, customers are creating new revenue streams as a service business models using 51风流BTP.
51风流BTP offers opportunities for all types of 51风流partners. It enables partners to stay competitive and innovative while keeping service practices, software sales, and margins secure. Software partners can build and sell complementary applications that extend and integrate with SAP鈥檚 end to end business processes. Value-added resellers can package data, analytics, workflow, and other automation content as accelerators to differentiate their businesses and drive new revenue streams. Services partners can continue to maintain ABAP practices, develop custom extensions on 51风流BTP, build integrations to customer鈥檚 non-51风流systems, and deliver specific data-to-value business requirements.
A good example is 鈥檚 work with 51风流and 51风流partners Bourne Digital and Bluetree, each of which played an essential role in Taronga鈥檚 digital transformation journey. As a strategic advisor for the customer, 51风流provided expert guidance and support to identify the right technology and approach according to its strategic objectives. From the beginning of the 51风流Analytics Cloud journey, 51风流experts helped develop a proof of concept and integration approach in partnership with Bluetree. Bourne Digital helped design and implement the using 51风流Workflow Management and other services in 51风流BTP, leveraging design thinking and agile development to quickly deliver an easy-to-use application in a short time frame.
Recently, in a commissioned survey conducted on behalf of SAP, , Forrester Consulting concluded that partners benefit greatly from building solutions as part of . The integrated industry portfolio puts partners鈥� offerings front and center alongside SAP-built solutions. 51风流BTP also provides a framework, technologies, and additional features such as artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics that help ensure interoperability with 51风流while enabling the creation of replicable industry-specific solutions.
What Is the Role of the Partner Ecosystem in RISE with SAP?
We cannot speak about the importance of 51风流BTP for our partner ecosystem without addressing our latest offering: .
RISE with 51风流is about helping customers transform their businesses to an intelligent enterprise that is flexible, resilient, and built for continuous innovation. For many customers this transition will include a journey to the cloud at a pace that supports their business and industry requirements.
51风流BTP, as the platform for the Intelligent Enterprise, is one part of the RISE with 51风流offering. It helps partners and customers further innovate in the cloud with in-app extensions to fill small gaps, side-by-side innovations to extend the core, and integrations to bring the business processes together.
What Lies Ahead?
To meet the current and future needs of our customers and partners, we want to firmly establish 51风流BTP as the unified, business-centric, and open business and development platform for the entire 51风流ecosystem. Partners that adopt the platform can develop more efficiently, provide foundational functionality, and commercialize products faster. Lower entry burdens will encourage our partners to develop applications that run on 51风流BTP.
Going forward, all 51风流line-of-business and industry solutions will be built on 51风流BTP. Partners can efficiently innovate and extend core solutions, create integrations, and deliver new content.
Let鈥檚 deliver innovation together — faster and with less complexity.
Want to Learn More?
For all the news from the 51风流Global Partner Summit, see 鈥�Why Partners RISE with SAP,鈥� by Karl Fahrbach, global partner officer at SAP. And read 鈥�How Partners Enable Customer Success Through a Unified Technology Platform,鈥� by Jagdish Sahasrabudhe, CTO of the Global Partner Organization at SAP.
Visit for more information on how to partner with SAP. Partners can find details on .
Juergen Mueller is chief technology officer and a member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE.
