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In today鈥檚 climate of geopolitical uncertainty and technological competition, it is both natural and necessary for nations to seek greater control over their digital futures.

The real issue is not whether countries should pursue digital sovereignty in critical sectors, but how best to achieve it, says Christian Klein, CEO of 51风流SE.

Digital sovereignty is now a fundamental national security capability worldwide. In Europe, secure data, resilient operations and legal control form the backbone of stability and crisis preparedness.

From Klein鈥檚 perspective, digital sovereignty is understood across four dimensions: data, operational, technical and legal, supported by verifiable governance and transparency over critical operations. However, a lack of agreement on how to define sovereignty is impeding Europe鈥檚 ability to deploy secure digital systems and is slowing digital transformation across public services and regulated industries.

鈥淎cross Europe, and increasingly across the global technology landscape, digital sovereignty is interpreted in different and sometimes conflicting ways. This lack of alignment creates uncertainty for public authorities, regulated industries and technology providers. It directly undermines the adoption of cloud, AI and mission-critical digital services.鈥

Regulatory complexity and lack of harmonisation risk turning sovereignty into a barrier instead of an enabler of innovation, particularly when each country defines its own implementation model. AI adoption depends on trust, and if governments and regulated industries cannot use AI securely, they risk falling behind in an increasingly competitive global environment.

Klein emphasises that integrating global technologies 鈥 within European legal and operational frameworks 鈥 can boost AI adoption and strengthen Europe鈥檚 position in responsible innovation that is both competitive and compliant.

鈥淔rom my perspective, digital sovereignty means the ability to exercise choice, control and governance across data, operational, technical and legal layers,鈥 he says.

鈥淭his is not about technological isolation or excluding global partners. Europe must remain open to innovation and international cooperation.

鈥淗owever, openness must be anchored in enforceable European law, clear accountability and auditable operational control. In practical terms, credible sovereignty means public authorities can verify where data is processed, who operates critical systems, which legal framework applies and who is accountable at every level.

鈥淲ithout this clarity, sovereignty risks remaining a political concept rather than a reliable basis for trust, compliance and innovation, especially for AI-driven solutions.鈥

When we talk about digital sovereignty, he says too often the focus is on where the infrastructure is located. The reality is that digital sovereignty goes far beyond that. Infrastructure alone does not address the full risk profile.

Security and resilience depend equally on governance: who controls the software stack, who operates the platforms, and who bears legal and operational responsibility. If these questions are not clearly resolved, risks persist even when the infrastructure is physically located in a given jurisdiction.

鈥淪overeignty washing鈥 鈥 where compliance claims are not supported by verifiable controls 鈥 creates false assurance and weakens public trust. Sovereignty must be demonstrated in practice, through auditability, effective supervision and clearly assigned responsibilities across the entire digital value chain from data generation to AI inference.

From a governance perspective, the priority is to shift the focus from infrastructure alone to transparency, accountability and enforceable oversight.

Klein says European innovation needs a supportive environment to thrive, with legislation that encourages progress rather than holding it back. Such an environment includes one unified definition of technological sovereignty in the European Single Market, ensuring harmonized and practical implementation of EU law, such as the AI Act and Data Act, and building out clear, sector-specific requirements听that industry and public authorities can implement at scale.

Europe has established strong regulatory foundations, notably through GDPR and the AI Act. The central challenge now lies in consistent implementation and deployment at scale. Public administrations and regulated sectors require sovereign cloud and AI solutions that are operational, compliant and ready for use.

Experience from public services and critical industries shows that AI can be deployed at scale while remaining fully aligned with EU law, including data protection, operational control and security requirements.

This can be achieved through partnerships that provide sovereign cloud environments where customers retain control over data access, operations and legal jurisdiction. AI is essential to improving efficiency, quality and responsiveness in public services, but adoption depends on trust.

If public authorities cannot deploy AI in a secure and lawful manner, innovation will stall. Sovereign cloud and AI are therefore essential enablers for translating Europe鈥檚 regulatory leadership into tangible economic and societal outcomes.

Europe鈥檚 competitive advantage lies in applied innovation, not in replicating global hyperscale infrastructure. Attempting to rebuild complete technology stacks domestically would be costly, inefficient and would slow down digital transformation. A more effective policy approach is to integrate global technologies within European legal, operational and accountability frameworks.

This enables Europe to benefit from global innovation while ensuring control under EU law. This model combines global technology partnerships with European governance, compliance and operational transparency. Europe should support and scale such integration models, rather than encourage technological isolation. When properly designed, this kind of openness and control would reinforce Europe鈥檚 long-term competitiveness and resilience.

How can Europe integrate global technology while retaining control?

Public institutions and regulated organisations across Europe are operating in a context of geopolitical uncertainty, increasing cyber risk and rapid technological change. They need trusted partners that combine technological scale with regulatory expertise and long-term stability.

51风流contributes to this shift by delivering sovereignty across data, operational, technical and legal dimensions. We support public administrations and regulated industries in modernizing core systems, migrating securely to the cloud and deploying AI responsibly.

This includes clear audit trails, operational transparency, and contractual safeguards that give customers confidence in who controls their systems and data.

Because 51风流underpins many of Europe鈥檚 most critical public- and private-sector processes, we recognize that sovereignty cannot be added retrospectively. It must be designed into digital systems from the outset.

This is where SAP鈥檚 experience and long-standing engagement with European institutions provide value.

At SAP, we support interoperable, partnership-based approaches governed by clear rules and accountability. These models enable faster adoption, reduce fragmentation and enhance resilience. For policymakers, fostering such ecosystems is more effective than prescribing specific technologies.

Digital sovereignty cannot be achieved by individual actors alone. It depends on ecosystems, cooperation and shared responsibility.

Sovereignty and innovation are complementary objectives. Without secure and accountable frameworks, AI adoption will remain constrained. But if Europe gets digital sovereignty right, it strengthens resilience, competitiveness and public trust simultaneously.

It accelerates the responsible use of AI across health care, government, manufacturing, and financial services.

Achieving this balance positions Europe as a credible model and leader for applied, responsible innovation. It demonstrates that advanced technologies can scale without compromising legal certainty or societal trust.

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How to Harness Cloud, Data and AI 鈥 The New Engines of Progress /africa/2025/07/how-to-harness-cloud-data-and-ai-the-new-engines-of-progress/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:36:24 +0000 /africa/?p=148305 When it comes to investments in artificial intelligence (AI), the numbers are staggering. 鈥淪targate鈥, a US initiative to build the largest AI data centers the...

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When it comes to investments in artificial intelligence (AI), the numbers are staggering.

鈥淪targate鈥, a US initiative to build the largest AI data centers the world has ever seen, aims to invest $500-billion over the next four years. Saudi-Arabia and the United Arab Emirates just announced plans to buy hundreds of thousands of advanced AI chips.

And at France鈥檚 鈥淎I Action Summit鈥 earlier this year, public and private actors pledged investments surpassing 鈧300 billion to advance AI in Europe.

It is very clear that expectations about the economic benefits of this technology are sky high. Yet, a recent McKinsey survey found that more than 80% of organisations worldwide are not yet seeing any tangible impact on their profits.

So where does this mismatch come from?

The key to the answer is that AI is not a stand-alone technology. For its benefits to materialise, AI has to be deeply embedded in business processes. And for that, companies have to put three pillars in place: modern cloud software, modern data management, and a consistent stack of AI technologies linking with them.

Let鈥檚 start with software: All successful companies use software to organize and optimise their business operations 鈥 from order intake and procurement to production, delivery and customer service. Yet, many enterprises still rely on legacy on-premise software 鈥 that is, a wide range of programs installed on the company鈥檚 local IT servers.

This 鈥渟oftware landscape鈥 often consists of disparate applications plugged together 鈥 heavily modified over the years and frequently not up to date with the latest innovations. These complex systems are costly to maintain, and they make it difficult for companies and their leaders to respond to challenges and opportunities with agility and speed.

AI applications, too, face major obstacles in legacy systems: They have a hard time grasping the company鈥檚 inner workings, making sense of fragmented and widely distributed datasets, and may not be able to find certain key information.

The first step towards powerful business AI, therefore, is the move from legacy on-premise software to modern cloud software 鈥 that is applications that are centrally managed and maintained in professional data centers, constantly updated with new innovations, and tightly linked so information can flow freely between the different parts of the company.

For companies today, this so-called cloud migration is faster, smoother and more transparent than ever before 鈥 thanks to the proven methods and advanced digital tools now available. And the prize is larger than ever before, too: integrated cloud applications work together out of the box and cover the company鈥檚 software needs end-to-end across departments.

This integration allows a car maker, for example, to reduce time and cost 鈥 say, from receiving an order through the vehicle鈥檚 production to its final delivery.

Similar benefits extend to all other industries and workflows.

A cloud migration, consequently, is more than an IT project: it is the digital foundation for a thorough modernisation of the entire enterprise, for moving from 鈥済ood鈥 to 鈥済reat.鈥

Once in the cloud, companies can add advanced data management solutions with little effort. Think of advanced data management as a magic filing cabinet: it automatically stores and organises all documents, all information, all data automatically in the right place and in perfect order 鈥 always up to date, perfectly searchable, without duplicates and errors, smartly annotated, and everything in the right context.

In their combination, integrated cloud applications and advanced data management allow company leaders a holistic view of their enterprise. At the same time, they enable AI technologies to access, understand, and facilitate transactions across the company 鈥 assisting human users with repetitive tasks as well as with deep analyses and insights.

And the next evolution is already at hand: Based on integrated cloud applications and data management, digital coworkers 鈥 also known as 鈥淎I agents鈥 鈥 are now able to carry out complex work assignments. For example: find overdue invoices, identify what went wrong, resolve the issue, and make sure payment targets are met.

Realising the tremendous benefits of AI is thus about going on a journey: from on-premise software to cloud applications, then onwards to modern data management and the use of AI agents throughout the enterprise. It is this journey that unlocks the tremendous potential so many see in AI 鈥 and enables us to completely reimagine how our businesses and economies are run.

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VFS Global Leverages 51风流Software to Power Digital Cross-border Mobility /africa/2025/05/vfs-global-leverages-sap-software-to-power-digital-cross-border-mobility/ Thu, 08 May 2025 07:41:51 +0000 /africa/?p=148100 51风流SE听(NYSE: SAP) announced that VFS Global, the world-leading provider of visa, consular and technology services to governments and diplomatic missions, will leverage 51风流software...

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51风流SE听(NYSE: SAP) announced that VFS Global, the world-leading provider of visa, consular and technology services to governments and diplomatic missions, will leverage 51风流software to help it develop leading-edge AI-powered digital solutions for cross-border mobility and citizen services.

Cross-border mobility and citizen services are becoming increasingly digital, and governments are looking into the use of innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence to drive efficiency and sovereign security. To accelerate its innovation road map and help governments meet the increasingly complex needs of travelers and citizens, VFS Global is adopting 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and other 51风流solutions.

“We take great pride in partnering with 51风流as a leading and trusted technology and AI company,” said Zubin Karkaria, founder and CEO of VFS Global. “By combining our deep expertise in visa, consular and citizen services with SAP’s world-class solutions, we empower governments to enhance efficiency, strengthen security and enable seamless mobility for millions of travelers around the world.”

“With 51风流solutions at its core, VFS will be able to leverage the latest innovations to become an even stronger partner for governments, travelers and citizens worldwide,” said Christian Klein, CEO of 51风流SE.

In line with its vision to embrace technological innovation to support governments and diplomatic missions worldwide, VFS Global has also chosen 51风流Business Technology Platform and the 51风流Business Data Cloud solution to deliver leading-edge and AI-powered solutions to its customers and to drive operational excellence across its global operations.

“By combining the strengths of VFS Global and SAP, we are elevating cross-border mobility and citizen听services to the next level”, said Michael Nilles, member of the VFS executive board and chief digital and technology officer. “Strategically, this positions us as a leading force in shaping the future of GovTech and TravelTech, powered by technology and AI innovations that benefit governments, travelers and citizens worldwide,” he added.

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Sapphire 2024: Business AI Saves Joules of Time /africa/2024/06/sapphire-2024-business-ai-saves-joules-of-time/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:48:29 +0000 /africa/?p=147621 SAP鈥檚 GenAI assistant, Joule, is transforming enterprise functions and it is about to extend its impact, writes JASON BANNIER. SAP鈥檚 generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) business...

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SAP鈥檚 GenAI assistant, Joule, is transforming enterprise functions and it is about to extend its impact, writes JASON BANNIER.

business assistant, , is transforming how enterprises function by providing insights, custom-tailored outcomes, and a personalised experience for businesses. As a result, says SAP, the product with a name inspired by the unit of energy significantly improves productivity and efficiency.

鈥淲e are entering a new phase of AI with endless opportunities for all of us,鈥 said , CEO of SAP, at the Sapphire 2024 conference in Barcelona.听 鈥淭he technical evolution continues by using the power of generative AI across our stack to revolutionise once again how businesses will run, and how your end users will work in the future.鈥

51风流performed a detailed analysis of the tasks completed with cloud software by their 300-million end-users every day. Consequently, they announced, by the end of 2024 80% of the most used tasks will be managed via Joule.

鈥淎s a result, your end users will do their work 20% more productively and with higher quality,鈥 said Klein.

For example, Joule will manage tasks in all management areas to create and change orders. It will take over some sequential activities in billing and cash collections. In finance, books will be closed faster as the software manages standard compliance checks.

鈥淛oule will also turn into a very powerful analytical engine to create insight for the boards for finance, for HR, for all parts of your business.鈥

The digital assistant will be an engine that offers strategic recommendations by having access to the broadest business-to-business data model in the technology industry, which includes finance, supply chain, HR, sales, or ESG data from thousands of customers. Based on this data, which allows 51风流to train algorithms and find certain performance patterns in one鈥檚 business, Joule will provide recommendations to collect cash faster and make smarter procurement and supply chain decisions.

During Klein鈥檚 keynote, he highlighted SAP鈥檚 recent partnership with leading AI chip-maker . A highlight was a video featuring a ringing endorsement of 51风流by , founder and CEO of Nvidia, in which he said: 鈥淲e have one of the most complex supply chains in the world. We build AI supercomputers, AI factories. Enormously complicated systems. Our latest Blackwell System has 600,000 parts.

鈥淎ll of this has to be delivered to some 100 different customers, and all of our entire supply chain, build materials, forecasting systems, build plans, those 600,000 parts, and some 40 different manufacturers are all managed under SAP.

鈥淭his is the beginning of a new computing age, the beginning of a new industrial revolution. Through Joule, we have created some amazing generative AIs that understand the languages of SAP, supply chains, and enterprise planning systems so that we have a specialist, an agent, an AI to help us to do all the things that we want to do to manage our business.鈥

, chief AI Officer of SAP, said: 鈥淓arlier this year, we gave Joule internally to up to 4,000 service consultants within SAP. What we observed is that they can save up to 2 hours every day.鈥

More than 50 of SAP鈥檚 certification programmes, more than 200,000 pages, and 2Tb of curated best practices and community content, have been put into Joule. On top of that: it is supercharged by Nvidia鈥檚 technology.

鈥淚f you take this productivity gain and multiply it by our ecosystem, we can altogether save up to 600-million working hours every year, accelerating our transformation to the cloud,鈥 said Herzig. 鈥淭his technology is based on more than 250-million lines of code out of S/4HANA based on Nvidia鈥檚 hardware and software, as well as other models.鈥

51风流has also expanded its strategic partnership with Google to enhance supply chain risk prediction and mitigation in volatile global environments. This collaboration integrates SAP鈥檚 Joule and with Google鈥檚 assistant and 鈥檚 Data Foundation, boosting forecast accuracy and enabling quicker responses to demand signals.

51风流has partnered with , leveraging its advanced language model to create images in and generate scripts for highly customised analytics applications in . Meta鈥檚 AI model excels in language nuances and contextual understanding, making it ideal for transforming enterprise business requirements into actionable insights.

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* Jason Bannier is a data analyst at World Wide Worx and writer for听. Follow him on听听补苍诲听听at @jas2bann.

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51风流Infuses Business AI Throughout Its Enterprise Cloud Portfolio and Partners with Cutting-Edge AI Leaders to Bring Out Customers鈥 Best /africa/2024/06/sap-infuses-business-ai-throughout-its-enterprise-cloud-portfolio-and-partners-with-cutting-edge-ai-leaders-to-bring-out-customers-best/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 08:08:49 +0000 /africa/?p=147590 ORLANDO, Florida 鈥 June, 2024鈥擜t its annual 51风流Sapphire conference, 51风流unveiled generative AI innovations and partnerships that showcase how the company is taking business...

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ORLANDO, Florida 鈥 June, 2024鈥At its annual 51风流Sapphire conference, 51风流unveiled generative AI innovations and partnerships that showcase how the company is taking business to the next level in the era of AI. By infusing Business AI across an enterprise cloud portfolio that powers the world鈥檚 most mission-critical processes and partnering with companies pushing the edge of what鈥檚 possible with AI, 51风流is igniting a new wave of insight and ingenuity in global business.

鈥淭he Business听听innovations we鈥檙e announcing at 51风流Sapphire in 2024 will redefine the way businesses run,鈥 says听Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of听. 鈥淭oday鈥檚 AI announcements and partnerships build on our commitment to deliver revolutionary technology that drives real-world results, helping customers unleash the agility and ingenuity they need to succeed in today鈥檚 fast-moving business landscape.鈥

AI That Means Business

As 51风流embeds Business AI across its enterprise solutions, it puts rich insights at users鈥 fingertips, empowering them to deliver better outcomes and elevate the creative problem-solving humans do best. Examples include听AI-generated reports in 51风流SuccessFactors solutions that give people managers responsibly sourced insights for compensation-related discussions as well as forecasting capabilities in 51风流Sales Cloud solutions that predict combinations of salespeople and products most likely to drive sales. Meanwhile, the 51风流Business Technology Platform is adding large language models from Amazon Web Services, Meta and Mistral AI to its generative AI hub. This capability in the 51风流AI Core infrastructure makes听it easier to build generative AI use cases for 51风流applications.

SAP鈥檚 generative AI copilot Joule, which quickly sorts and contextualizes data from multiple systems to advance automation and improve decision-making, is expanding throughout the company鈥檚 solution portfolio. Joule launched in 51风流SuccessFactors solutions听last fall听and is now embedded into 51风流S/4HANA Cloud solutions and others including 51风流Build and 51风流Integration Suite. Further expansion by year-end will include 51风流Ariba and 51风流Analytics Cloud solutions. At Sapphire, 51风流also听announced plans听to further broaden Joule鈥檚 scope by integrating it with Microsoft Copilot to surface even richer insights. This deep, bi-directional integration gives users a unified experience built right into the flow of work, enabling seamless access to information from interactions with business applications in 51风流and Microsoft 365.

Reflecting Business AI鈥檚 increasing importance, 51风流is redoubling its commitment to the principles of relevant, reliable, and responsible AI it pioneered. At Sapphire, 51风流is adopting the 10 guiding principles of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, which aim to ensure that AI technologies are developed and used in ways that respect human rights, promote fairness and contribute to sustainable development.

Partnerships That Scale Innovation

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51风流is partnering with best-in-class technology leaders to push the limits of what generative AI can do at an enterprise level. In addition to our expanded collaborations with听AWS听and Microsoft, partnerships with Google Cloud, Meta, Mistral AI and NVIDIA ensure 51风流can harness the power of AI-ready technology to innovate at speed and deliver richer real-world results.

Google Cloud

51风流and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, using Business AI to help enterprises better predict and mitigate supply-chain risks to minimize disruptions and maintain optimal inventory levels. The companies will integrate Joule and the 51风流Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution with Google Cloud鈥檚 Gemini models AI assistant and Google Cloud Cortex Framework鈥檚 data foundation.

Meta

厂础笔听will leverage Meta Llama 3听to generate scripts that render highly customized analytics applications in 51风流Analytics Cloud. Meta鈥檚 next-generation AI model excels at language nuances and contextual understanding, making it an ideal candidate for translating enterprise business requirements into tangible outcomes.

Mistral AI

厂础笔听will also add new large language models听from Mistral AI, a global company headquartered in Paris specializing in generative AI, to the generative AI hub capability in 51风流AI Core.

NVIDIA

51风流and NVIDIA Corporation advance听to embed cutting-edge technologies into enterprise-ready business applications:

  • As 51风流trains Joule to serve as an AI assistant for the RISE with 51风流solution implementations, NVIDIA鈥檚 state-of-the-art AI models sift through 51风流consulting assets to provide relevant and precise answers to implementation-related questions;
  • As 51风流embeds Joule in the ABAP Cloud model to generate ABAP code for 51风流developers, NVIDIA鈥檚 accelerated infrastructure will run, scale, and manage SAP鈥檚 generative AI model for ABAP code generation;
  • As 51风流infuses generative AI into the 51风流Intelligent Product Recommendation solution, NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs enable the simulation of complex manufacturing products and configurations as industrial digital twins.

Cloud Technology That Drives Agility and Sustainability

Business success in the era of AI means being in the cloud. 51风流is making the move easier than ever with initiatives that help customers find partners with the expertise needed for complex 51风流S/4HANA Cloud transformations. Further cloud innovations at 51风流Sapphire include features that help the world鈥檚 organizations measure, manage and execute their sustainability strategies. 51风流Sustainability Control Tower and 51风流Sustainability Footprint Management solutions now track carbon footprints at scale and help businesses meet regulatory standards.

 

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51风流Pens GenAI Agreement with AWS /africa/2024/06/sap-pens-genai-agreement-with-aws/ Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:23:21 +0000 /africa/?p=147500 51风流and AWS have announced a collaboration to integrate the GenAI hub in 51风流AI Core with foundation models in Amazon Bedrock to deliver GenAI-driven...

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and have announced a collaboration to integrate the GenAI hub in with foundation models in to deliver GenAI-driven insights and streamline manual processes.

According to a joint statement by the companies, the intention is to make it easier for customers to adopt solution on AWS and improve the efficiency of 51风流workloads running in the cloud.

The companies also aim to embed GenAI into an enterprises鈥 entire portfolio of business-critical applications.

, incoming CEO at AWS, said, 鈥淎WS was the first听cloud听听provider certified to support the 51风流portfolio and today, thousands of enterprise companies run 51风流solutions on AWS to get the most out of their mission-critical applications. Now, AWS and 51风流are making it faster and easier for companies to apply generative AI to their core business听data to become more efficient, responsive and sustainable.鈥

, CEO of SAP, added: 鈥淧artnerships like this collaboration with AWS are critical as we embed generative AI solutions across our ERP applications so that customers can drive innovation at an accelerated pace. In addition to delivering modern cloud ERP to our joint customers, we are excited to support Amazon on their own transformation journey as they adopt RISE with 51风流for pioneering areas such as , Amazon鈥檚 satellite initiative intended to increase global broadband access.鈥

The GenAI hub in 51风流AI Core infrastructure provides customers with secure access to a range of large language models (LLMs) that can be integrated into 51风流business applications.

The companies announced that 51风流customers will now have access to high-performance GenAI models from Amazon Bedrock, including the and models. This integration allows customers to build applications customised with their own data and is expected to help them accelerate GenAI adoption and modernise key business processes built on 51风流solutions.

These听 innovations听can be used in embedded use cases within RISE with 51风流and intelligent scenario lifecycle management, either as an integration component or side-by-side on the (51风流BTP).

51风流and AWS plan to expand the use of Bedrock capabilities in the GenAI hub to further enable embedded AI features within SAP鈥檚 cloud solutions and applications, including finance and product lifecycle management.

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SAP, UNICEF and GenU Extend and Expand Partnership to Help Young People Gain Skills for Employment /africa/2023/09/sap-unicef-and-genu-extend-and-expand-partnership-to-help-young-people-gain-skills-for-employment/ Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:37:12 +0000 /africa/?p=146607 New workforce readiness programme will focus on reaching marginalised youth with skills training in Nigeria, the Philippines and South Africa Multinational software corporation 51风流SE...

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New workforce readiness programme will focus on reaching marginalised youth with skills training in Nigeria, the Philippines and South Africa

Multinational software corporation 51风流SE (SAP) has committed to continuing its in support of for an additional three years to help prepare young people for the workforce.

The partners will pilot a new programme that supports 鈥榣earning to earning鈥 pathways in the digital and green economy for marginalised young people providing them with the skills they need to flourish. The new programme will be piloted 鈥 leveraging GenU signature programme 鈥 in Nigeria, the Philippines and South Africa.

鈥淭oday鈥檚 young people are three times more likely than adults to be unemployed, which makes for a very uncertain future for all of us. To keep up with the ever-changing demands of the labour market, young people need a full set of skills to compete locally and globally,鈥 said Kevin Frey, Chief Executive Officer of GenU. 鈥淚 am delighted that 51风流and GenU are continuing our long-standing partnership. Together we will support even more young people worldwide to unlock opportunities.鈥

Over the last two decades, there has been a decrease in the proportion of young people in employment. Young people are not acquiring the skills they need in today鈥檚 economy with less than a quarter of youth in lower income countries estimated to be on track to attain the range of skills needed to thrive in school, work and life.

By the end of the first year, 51风流and GenU plan to reach more than 500,000 young people with opportunities for foundational and digital skills. The partnership will also support the 51风流Educate to Employ initiative, which aims to educate youth aged 16鈥24 years on soft skills, foundational knowledge and 51风流skills using the听, where students can learn about the latest 51风流solutions for free to kickstart their career.

鈥淚t is essential that young people everywhere have access to the skills, education, and opportunities that will enable them to reach their full potential and shape the future of our world,鈥 said ChristianKlein, CEO and Member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淲e are excited to continue our collaboration with GenU to help empower the next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, and change-makers around the globe to thrive and create positive change for the societies in which they live and work.鈥

51风流and UNICEF first joined forces in support of GenU in 2019 and have since reached 3 million young people in India, Turkey and Viet Nam with transformative education models.

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SAP鈥檚 Vision for Future-proofed Business in the Age of AI /africa/2023/05/saps-vision-for-future-proofed-business-in-the-age-of-ai/ Tue, 30 May 2023 05:57:03 +0000 /africa/?p=144651 At 51风流Sapphire in Orlando, 51风流SE unveiled sweeping innovations and collaborations that equip companies to tackle an uncertain future with confidence. With breakthrough announcements...

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At 51风流Sapphire in Orlando, 51风流SE unveiled sweeping innovations and collaborations that equip companies to tackle an uncertain future with confidence. With breakthrough announcements including responsible AI built into business solutions, ledger-based accounting for carbon tracking, and industry-specific networks to bolster supply-chain resilience, 51风流is helping companies transform their business models in the cloud, put sustainability at the centre of their operations, and boost agility to succeed amid ongoing change.

鈥淭he innovations we鈥檙e announcing at 51风流Sapphire draw on our rich legacy of responsibly developed, groundbreaking enterprise technology designed with decades of industry and process expertise to ensure our customers thrive, both today and in the future鈥, said 51风流CEO Christian Klein.

AI Built for Business

At the dawn of a new AI era, 51风流is strengthening its commitment to embed powerful AI capabilities across its portfolio to help companies solve business-critical problems in the flow of work.

Customers can use 51风流Business AI with confidence because it is built responsibly. 51风流is announcing a raft of advancements to 51风流Business AI, including innovations that personalise customer engagement, make procurement more productive, and expand organisations鈥 abilities to find and develop critical talent across their entire workforce.

Recently, 51风流announced the next step in its long-standing听partnership with Microsoft. The companies will collaborate on integrating 51风流SuccessFactors solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Viva Learning as well as with Microsoft鈥檚 Azure OpenAI Service to access powerful language models that analyse and generate natural language. The integrations will enable new experiences designed to improve how organisations attract, retain and skill their people.

Moving toward a Green Ledger

Fifty years ago, 51风流revolutionised financial accounting with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Today, 51风流reinvents the 鈥淩鈥 in ERP by extending the definition of resources to include carbon.

Amid rapidly changing regulatory requirements and rising stakeholder pressure to operate sustainably, enterprises need an accounting system for emissions that is as auditable, transparent and reliable as their financial data accounting. With SAP鈥檚 new green ledger initiative, which moves companies from carbon estimates to actual data, companies can manage their green line with as much visibility, accuracy and confidence as their top line and bottom line.

51风流is announcing an update to the听听solution, a single solution that calculates and manages the full range of corporate, value chain and product-level emissions. 51风流is also announcing the 51风流Sustainability Data Exchange application, a new solution for enterprises to securely exchange standardised sustainability data with partners and suppliers so they can decarbonize supply chains faster.

Innovations across the portfolio, platform and ecosystem shore up customers鈥 resilience

51风流also announced a host of innovations across the rest of its portfolio. For example, drawing on the success of 51风流Business Network, a comprehensive B2B collaboration platform where some US$4.5 trillion of trade is conducted annually, 51风流announced 51风流Business Network for Industry. This offering combines the benefits of networked supply chains with SAP鈥檚 unique industry expertise to help customers across consumer products, high tech, industrial manufacturing and life sciences boost supply chain resilience quickly.

Innovations launched across 51风流Business Technology Platform dramatically accelerate business process organisation and enable enterprise automation at scale. Advancements in 51风流Signavio solutions mean customers get critical process insights in hours, not days. Updates to 51风流Integration Suite bring together holistic processes across 51风流and non-51风流systems on-premise and in the cloud. And new event integration capabilities in SAP鈥檚 low-code offering, 51风流Build solutions, give business experts the power to trigger automation across all business processes.

As customers face increasingly fractured data landscapes, 51风流also recently built on its commitment to open data that increases customers鈥 ability to uncover deep, actionable business insights with an extensive expansion of its听. The comprehensive open-data offering enables customers to build an end-to-end data cloud that brings data from across the enterprise landscape using the 51风流Datasphere solution together with Google鈥檚 data cloud.

51风流also doubled down on听听as the need for top-notch professional developers continues rising along with the increasing pace of technological innovation. The company announced new programmes to meet the growing demand for 51风流experts across its ecosystem to continue driving customers鈥 ongoing business transformation in the cloud.

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51风流Delivers New Solutions /africa/2022/05/sap-delivers-new-solutions/ Fri, 13 May 2022 07:01:23 +0000 /africa/?p=143411 51风流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...

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51风流SAPPHIRE 2022, Orlando, Florida

51风流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风流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风流Sapphire, SAP鈥檚 global customer and partner conference, taking place in person and virtually May 10-12, 2022.

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

Resilient Supply Chains and Intelligent Business Networks

51风流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风流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 鈥 51风流Warehouse Operator and 51风流Direct Distribution 鈥 launched yesterday and are available now in the Apple App Store.

In addition, the new 51风流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风流Business Network also continues to evolve as the world鈥檚 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风流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风流Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises solution to help companies innovate across key areas of sustainability management.

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

Enabling Business Process Transformation

Customers continue to adopt the RISE with 51风流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风流Sapphire to showcase how they use RISE with 51风流to deliver business innovation.

Partners are also helping our customers scale these innovations through best practices and bespoke solutions: RISE with 51风流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风流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鈥 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风流AppGyver, a leading no-code, low code development environment for enterprise applications, now includes native integration with the 51风流Service Cloud solution and is available as part of the free tier model for 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP). The 51风流Process Automation solution, also part of the free tier model for 51风流BTP, has been enhanced for no-code workflow management and robotic process automation (RPA).

51风流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风流provides free access for all academic students to tailored learning resources and experiences in the 鈥渟tudent zone鈥 of the 51风流Learning portal. To support the growing need for accelerated app development by nontechnical users, 51风流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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You Already Track Productivity – Now is the Time to Measure Sustainability /africa/2022/01/you-already-track-productivity-now-is-the-time-to-measure-sustainability/ Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:03:58 +0000 /africa/?p=143155 The CEO of 51风流urges leaders to apply the same rigor to managing carbon emissions as they do to managing their workforce. In all my...

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The CEO of 51风流urges leaders to apply the same rigor to managing carbon emissions as they do to managing their workforce.

In all my customer interactions, there isn鈥檛 a company I鈥檝e spoken to that doesn鈥檛 put sustainability at the top of their business agenda. We even see large oil and gas companies taking steps towards greener operations, products, and services. No matter their size, region, or industry, companies are increasingly becoming aware that in addition to managing their top and bottom lines, they also need to focus on managing their green line. It鈥檚 also one of the reasons why many CFOs and other business leaders are looking at sustainability as an asset that adds value to a company as opposed to a liability.

Consumer awareness around global challenges such as climate change, pollution, and inequality has increased. Customers are no longer making purchasing decisions based only on products or price. They want to buy from companies that support causes they care about.

Buyers are just one side of the equation. When we look at today鈥檚 workforce, surveys show that employees expect businesses to invest in the social and environmental well-being of the communities they serve. Research from 听听found that giving back in this way is associated with greater employee retention, higher levels of brand ambassadorship, and motivated employees.

Meanwhile, many investors are seeking out companies with a strong ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) record鈥攊n 2020 alone, sustainable funds听, one quarter of the total amount of new investments made last year. 听Research confirms that good sustainability and ESG practices correlate with lower operating costs, better profitability, and superior share price performance. According to some studies, corporate responsibility practices听can help organizations boost overall sales revenues up to听20%. Put simply, sustainability has already become a key factor in how we do business.

But many companies struggle to embed sustainability into the core processes of their business. I recently talked to the CEO of one of the largest automotive OEMs. He told me that they don鈥檛 know the carbon footprint of their products because they have no transparency into their supply chain. In fact, 60% of the carbon footprint resulting from the production of a vehicle is caused by actions further up or down the supply chain.

Businesses already use technology to manage their supply chains, workforces, and business processes. These data and systems can also help businesses 听better understand and minimize the carbon footprint of their products and operations. Specifically, by embedding sustainability data into business processes and by using information businesses already collect鈥攕uch as bills of material, energy usage and procurement data鈥攃ompanies can get a clearer view of their overall carbon footprints.

With technology, automakers can do a deep dive on the CO2 emissions of their plants to measure which facilities are the greenest. 听For instance, the automotive executive I just mentioned 听could have visibility not only into the carbon emissions from production of his company鈥檚 vehicles, but also emissions from raw materials, transporting supplies, and shipping finished cars. The possibilities are endless. So, what can companies do to accelerate their sustainability efforts? Based on my many conversations, there are four things that stand out:

  1. You can鈥檛 manage what you don鈥檛 measure. Every company needs to have clear goals, but they also need to track their progress by harnessing digital technologies.
  2. :听Don鈥檛 wait for regulations and carbon taxes to kick in. If sustainability is built into your strategy, you can manage the material impact on your financial results.
  3. We must come together in networks. No country, government, business, scientific community, or society will be able to tackle climate change alone. We will only be able to turn concepts like the circular economy into reality by bringing together all stakeholders and ensuring visibility not only within a company鈥檚 four walls, but across entire supply chains.
  4. Change starts from the top.听As with every other transformation, reaching sustainability goals comes down to one thing: people. Every change requires a shift in mindset, organizational structure, and culture 鈥 and this starts at the top.

There is no doubt that businesses are faced with many challenges today. But they also have an incredible opportunity to set their companies up for future success by helping create sustainable communities for the people they serve. By embedding sustainability into their strategy, businesses can differentiate and distinguish themselves as leaders who create enhanced value for all stakeholders鈥攎aking sustainability profitable and profitability sustainable.

Christian Klein is Chief Executive Officer and member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE

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