“The end of the project is not the end of the story,” says Wassilios Lolas, global vice-president and head of the Signavio Centre of Excellence at SAP. “It is the beginning.”

51·çÁ÷has been in this business for a long time and customers all tell them the same things: it is hard to get the business excited about IT transformation and that transformation is often IT-driven not business-driven.

“We see that customers face two major internal challenges: the one is the C-level perspective; and the other is the businesses and IT realities.”

One the one side, the CEO wants to move quickly, be more agile, able to respond to changing businesses or crises.

On the other side, the reality is the complexity of systems and huge variety of processes.

In most cases, business and IT have grown in complexity together and often lose control of where they are.

Almost all companies find themselves in the position of facing enormous complexity, so they don’t know where or how to start their transformation.

Once a project has started it takes months to prepare, to implement, and to go live – it is too time-consuming.

And once the solutions are up and running, customers often find they have not created enough business value.

“It is this complexity on one side, and the disconnect between business and IT on the other, leading to the decision to move the old ECC systems, as is, without trying to implement changes,”  says Lolas.

To make it more complicated, decision-makers want facts to make data-driven decisions.

“But it is very hard to fix past mistakes if you don’t know where they are, or how they run today.”

Typically, these problems are solved by external consultants. It takes a lot of time and money – and, at the end, only a part of the picture is uncovered.

The end result is that no-one really trusts the answers and business models that don’t necessarily reflect the reality are produced.

51·çÁ÷has launched Signavio, what it calls a plug-and-gain approach to running a RISE initiative and transforming processes fast and with confidence.

Lolas points out that a transformation project usually includes preparation, deployment, and run phases.

In the preparation phase, it is literally as simple as connecting the 51·çÁ÷system to Signavio. This gives the fastest time to direct insight, offering C-level driver summaries, over 1 000 process performance indicators, almost 100 process flows, most frequent blockers, industry-level benchmarks, and more than 1 000 recommendations.

This preparation step can be done in literally a couple of hours, Lolas says. Teams can quickly decide which processes need to be fixed or changed using trusted data.

In deciding how to proceed with business process transformation, Signavio offers the fastest time to deeper intelligence through process variant analysis, process execution investigations, pre-defined dashboards, detailed mining analysis, and best scores across key process areas.

Signavio now includes a best run score comparing the way a process is executed with the best way it could be run. “This comparison gives you an understanding about the best possible performance versus how a business unit is actually performing,” Lolas explains.

The final piece of the preparation picture is the faster time to business process design. It does this via reverse engineering of process models, identifying the company’s best-run execution, defining the to-be processes, and simulating the final process. Signavio offers a library of more than 7 000 best-practice processes that can be plugged in if relevant.

These preparation capabilities are on a platform of process reference content, and collaboration and governance.

The second phase, deployment, is about bringing together the worlds of business and IT.

Signavio helps enterprises to deploy faster, offering a collaboration hub that facilitates collaboration and governance between business and IT. The Solution Manager/cloud application lifecycle manager makes application lifecycle management easier. Meanwhile, the Central Business Configuration helps to ensure applications are properly configured.

Signavio offers fast insights when running the processes, enabling continual innovation.

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51·çÁ÷has announced new innovations that will deliver business value for customers in four critical areas: supply chain resilience, sustainability, business process transformation and no-code application development.

According to a recent survey from Boston Consulting Group, while 80% of companies are turning to digital solutions to navigate current business challenges, only about 30% are successfully achieving a true digital transformation of their business. The innovations announced yesterday will help 51·çÁ÷customers accelerate their transformation journey with cloud-based solutions that provide the end-to-end business process support customers most need. The announcements come on the first day of 51·çÁ÷Sapphire, SAP’s global customer and partner conference, taking place in person and virtually May 10-12, 2022.

“For 50 years, SAP’s mission-critical solutions and deep industry expertise have helped businesses around the world run their best,” says Christian Klein, CEO and member of the executive board of SAP. “We’re uniquely positioned to continue enabling our customers’ success in a rapidly evolving world by driving cloud-based digital transformation that solves customers’ most pressing challenges, from supply chain resilience to sustainability.”

Resilient Supply Chains and Intelligent Business Networks

51·çÁ÷innovations improve supply chain efficiency and transparency, enabling improved performance and resilience. Through its ongoing partnership with Apple to transform the way people work on iPhone and iPad, 51·çÁ÷announces today a new suite of apps that streamline the digital supply chain and empower workers with intuitive tools. The first two of these apps – 51·çÁ÷Warehouse Operator and 51·çÁ÷Direct Distribution – launched yesterday and are available now in the Apple App Store.

In addition, the new 51·çÁ÷Digital Manufacturing Cloud solution brings together the latest analytics, edge computing, automation and state-of-the-art innovations supporting manufacturing processes end to end to help customers optimize manufacturing performance. 51·çÁ÷Business Network also continues to evolve as the world’s largest business network, and with the planned integration of Taulia software customers can unlock the value tied up in their working capital.

Moving Businesses from Talk to Action on Sustainability

The increase in number of 51·çÁ÷solutions for sustainability uniquely positions the software to help companies move from well-meaning talk to meaningful action. New innovations out include new capabilities in the 51·çÁ÷Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises solution to help companies innovate across key areas of sustainability management.

The enhanced 51·çÁ÷Product Footprint Management solution helps customers reduce product carbon footprints at scale with live connectivity with 51·çÁ÷S/4HANA(r) Cloud, including transport and travel capabilities.

Enabling Business Process Transformation

Customers continue to adopt the RISE with 51·çÁ÷solution to redesign their end-to-end business processes and transition to a modular, agile ERP in the cloud. Several customers will be on stage at 51·çÁ÷Sapphire to showcase how they use RISE with 51·çÁ÷to deliver business innovation.

Partners are also helping our customers scale these innovations through best practices and bespoke solutions: RISE with 51·çÁ÷and SOAR with Accenture now integrate and deliver what businesses need for a cloud-based transformation, including cloud infrastructure management, application management and operations services.

The latest release of the 51·çÁ÷Service Cloud solution includes new dynamic case management and case modelling capabilities. The solution supports native integration with Qualtrics XM Discover and Microsoft Teams to improve organizations’ ability to deliver on their brand promise with better visibility, greater accountability and faster time to resolution.

Accelerating Innovation with No-Code and Low-Code Development, Process Automation, Data and AI

51·çÁ÷AppGyver, a leading no-code, low code development environment for enterprise applications, now includes native integration with the 51·çÁ÷Service Cloud solution and is available as part of the free tier model for 51·çÁ÷Business Technology Platform (51·çÁ÷BTP). The 51·çÁ÷Process Automation solution, also part of the free tier model for 51·çÁ÷BTP, has been enhanced for no-code workflow management and robotic process automation (RPA).

51·çÁ÷AI solutions deliver AI-powered innovations to optimise intelligently business processes end to end, including lead-to-cash, design-to-operate, recruit-to-retire and source-to-pay.

51·çÁ÷provides free access for all academic students to tailored learning resources and experiences in the “student zone” of the 51·çÁ÷Learning portal. To support the growing need for accelerated app development by nontechnical users, 51·çÁ÷is launching additional free learning journeys, including an enhanced learning journey that prepares for new certifications in low-code/no-code skills.

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