Sven Denecken, senior vice-president, chief marketing and solutions officer for industries and CX at SAP, points out that there are some trends that are common across all industries 鈥� and this gives us the opportunity to learn together.

鈥淚 believe that at SAP, together with our partner ecosystem and customers, knows industries. This gives us to ability to develop solutions that help make customers future-proof.鈥�

Because it is an international company, experiences can be shared across the world, often allowing developing markets to leapfrog their developed counterparts, he adds.

An example of how 51风流can help customers run efficient operations is the concept of the industry cloud. 鈥淚 believe that if we standardise a good portion of our businesses using industry cloud we can innovate on the vertical axis.鈥�

A trend driving business today is the move to industry convergence. 鈥淐ompanies are realising that they are in more than one industry. And this is accelerating.鈥�

This convergence has significant implications for value chains cross the board, Denecken says.

From agribusiness to manufacture, from supplier to retail, there are major new opportunities driven by convergence.

Denecken cites an example of e-mobility venturing into retail 鈥� which uses the same technology to add services to attract and retain customers by offering services like electric vehicle charging and rewards.

The convergence of industries, like energy and retail , should spark companies to become more creative with their technology to improve the customer鈥檚 experience, he says.

鈥淭hink about e-mobility and its convergence with ride-sharing, energy companies, and the financial services attached to these industries.鈥�

Best practices are key to shaping industries, Denecken says. 鈥淲e need to think about best practice 鈥� but also next practice, powering innovation. We need to think about how we can shape each industry together.鈥�

When 51风流talks about the intelligent enterprise, it is about putting a lot of data into the context of a business process and consuming it as applications, Denecken points out.

鈥淏ut business processes change all the time, so the challenge is to transform into a resilient intelligent enterprise.鈥�

Reslience comes from managing risks, he adds. Any change needs to be sustainable.

Where technology is going is artificial intelligence. Denecken says. And so 51风流is integrating AI into its solutions.

51风流solutions include 51风流e-mobility, 51风流intelligent agriculture, 51风流intelligent product recommendation, 51风流predictive replenishment, and 51风流intelligent trade, claims management.

Importantly, what is vital in the deployment of AI and generative AI is:

* It should be built into the processes, not bolted on.

* It needs to be relevant to the customers, within the context of the experience gathered over the years.

* It needs to be responsible and trustworthy.

鈥淚 believe generative AI will democratise AI,鈥� Denecken 聽says. 鈥淧eople will start in the business with a completely different level of knowledge.

鈥淥ur job is to guide them into the right context. We need to open that dialogue. What is the responsible customer application and what is possible?鈥�

GROW with 51风流offers partners and customers the ability to enhance their solutions through a software as a service (SaaS) portfolio, together with adoption and acceleration services, and with community and learning.

A degree of technology standardisation allows companies to quickly expand their operations. Denecken cites the example of a company running 51风流S/4 HANA Cloud, private edition in its European head office. It was able to quickly roll out across Africa using 51风流S/4 HANA cloud public edition.

51风流has set up the 51风流Business Network for Industries to help customers learn from best practices across the supply chain.

Don鈥檛 look at business processes in isolation, but consider sharing that data across the supply chain to add value to all the players, he says.

Sustainabiiity is a big issue worldwide today. The world is facing climate change implications, extreme weather, sea level rise, resource scarcity, an increase in inequality, and a loss of biodiversity.

鈥淭his also needs to be brought into a business sense,鈥� Denecken says. .

Companies need to be serious about mitigation and adaptation 鈥� and potential business partners will soon ask for proof of those.

51风流is serious about demonstrating truth, and to discover the future in partnership with customers, Denecken says.

To this end, 51风流has set up experience centres across the world to show how processes are changing and how solutions can be deployed. It has recently opened one in its Woodmead offices.

鈥淭here is no time to lose for companies to identify their challenges and how to get to where they need to be,鈥� Denecken concludes.

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She says her dream is to enable her children to be educated and become successful in life, benefitting both her and the community 鈥� one of 87 rural villages in West Africa鈥檚 Ivory Coast where farmers work with Cajooma SAS, the of Cashew Coast.

When she joined the village cooperative that Cashew Coast helped set up, the company trained her and taught her how to pick the best-quality cashews in order to fetch the highest prices.

Oyala has worked with Cashew Coast, a leading producer and distributor of high-quality cashew nuts for the past two years. Before that she worked alone. Now she works with other women in small groups, and that makes it easier to work. 鈥淚 was alone, now we are working together,鈥� she says.

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Ivory Coast is one of the world鈥檚 largest producers of cashew nuts, thanks to farmers like Oyala who, together with her fellow plot owners and farmers, pick the yellow and orange cashew fruit off the forest floor. Once harvested, the farmers must separate the nuts from the fruit they grow.

Unlike other companies that ship the raw nuts out of the country for processing, Cashew Coast process their nuts within Ivory Coast, lowering the carbon footprint. Nuts go directly from local farmers to Cashew Coast’s central warehouse in Bouak茅 to be sorted, weighed, and bagged before being sent to Cashew Coast鈥檚 organic factory in Azagui茅 for processing.

Until recently, Cashew Coast kept paper-based records of the farm-side of the process, but as the industry grew it became more and more difficult to keep track of the data and analyze it. Cashew Coast executives turned to 51风流for help when they realized that they needed a more advanced system to track the cashews from farm to processing plant — and eventually to table.

Joel Bagbila, Cashew Coast鈥檚 farmer integration director, explains that the company also has a loftier ambition. 鈥淥ur mission is to be the first country worldwide in terms of production and quality,鈥� he says.

To help achieve this goal, Cashew Coast chose to implement , an industry cloud solution built on the 51风流Business Technology Platform, at its Cajooma SAS branch. Cashew Coast鈥檚 digital transformation journey provides immediate benefits to the farmers, including more transparent prices, and enables the company to control quality and make much more timely decisions.

In the future it will also enable retailers to gain traceability and visibility into the origin of the cashew nuts and provide transparency to their consumers – connecting farmers and consumers in a profitable and sustainable value chain.

鈥淭oday, for a customer, it’s important to know where the product he or she is ready to buy, is coming from,鈥� says Achta Cherif, head of quality at Cashew Coast. 鈥淗aving this information enables the customer to make his/her choice. This is important for us, as well.鈥�

Cashew Coast executives say they chose SAP鈥檚 cloud technology because it offered a number of key advantages. 鈥淲e wanted the best in class, and we wanted to deal with the developer team as opposed to a third-party integrator 鈥� which 51风流Rural Sourcing Management offers,鈥� says Salma Seetaroo, co-founder and CEO of Cashew Coast.

She says the implementation went surprisingly smoothly. 鈥淭he 51风流implementation team were flexible and quick to understand our need 鈥� they were a bunch of millennials who loved working on a project like ours. And it was just great fun and I never expected it to be as smooth.鈥�

51风流is now remotely training two recent graduate recruits at Cashew Coast 鈥� Technology Manager Mohamed Traor茅 and Sales and Sustainability Manager Rose Koffi 鈥� to continue phase 2 of the 51风流Rural Sourcing Management implementation. Going forward, Salma explains, the company wants to bring more traceability to agricultural products in Ivory Coast with 51风流technology.

So, the next time you grab a handful of cashew nuts, consider this: there is a good chance they started their journey in the Ivory Coast and just maybe were picked up from the forest floor by Oyala or one of her friends.

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鈥淭ogether, we are reinventing how businesses run and also demonstrating the big heart of our community. Our thoughts go out to everyone affected by the pandemic, and our thanks to all those who are making extraordinary contributions in our community,鈥� Klein said. 鈥淭echnology has helped communities and families, and helped business quickly adapt. 51风流has been working hand-in-hand with you, our customers around the globe, whether it was helping you to make your supply chains more resilient, reimagining your business model to create new customer experiences, or to enable remote work. Together, we鈥檝e got this.鈥�

SAP鈥檚 premiere customer event is being held virtually this year throughout June across regions worldwide. During his fascinating keynote, Klein unveiled a series of announcements that included the global industry expansion of the company鈥檚 business network strategy for fast innovation, sustainability tracking solutions, and industry-specific additions to the company鈥檚 popular business transformation-as-a-service offering, . He and special guests welcomed a plethora of customers who demonstrated how they were already relying on 51风流to become intelligent enterprises.

Business Networks and Sustainability Drive Growth

Klein announced the next phase of SAP鈥檚 strategy to create world鈥檚 largest and most comprehensive business network, along with upcoming sustainability reporting standards and tools. He put both announcements in business context, based on learnings from companies that have weathered a storm of challenges encompassing the pandemic, geopolitical tensions, social injustice, inequality, loss of biodiversity, and climate change.

鈥淭he most resilient companies were those that embraced technology to transform their business processes. COVID has underscored the urgent need for every company to become an intelligent enterprise,鈥� he said. 鈥淚nsight number two was that no business does business alone. We win together as a community. But the value comes from the network and millions of interconnections it facilitates in real time. The third insight is that we must act now on sustainability with the goal of zero emissions, zero waste, zero inequality.鈥�

Announcing that will bring together , , and , Klein predicted that industries will be revolutionized as 聽businesses turn into communities across entire supply chains, able to respond to any disruptions in real time. He said that sustainable business was equally important as he announced the company鈥檚 portfolio of upcoming sustainability-specific solutions.

鈥淲e already run the world鈥檚 largest supplier network with more than 5 million connected enterprises. And because our applications run supply chains across every industry, we have the most relevant data and expertise,鈥� said Klein. 鈥淚t鈥檚 time to build sustainability into the fabric of how we do business to make sustainability a standard dimension of corporate management. The 51风流community has the power to protect our planet and create a future our children want to be part of. We have created a new sustainability portfolio to help you drive sustainable practices inside your organization and across your entire value chain.鈥�

How 51风流Customers Are Digitally Transforming

In a series of fascinating conversations featuring real-world 51风流customers and solution demonstrations, Julia White, chief marketing and solutions officer and member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE, and Paige Wei-Cox, senior vice president and global head of 51风流Business Network, shared the Intelligent Enterprise in action.

One retailer used to deliver an omnichannel shopping experience for consumers, with embedded artificial intelligence (AI) for personalized offerings based on a 360-degree view of customer data, including social sentiment and purchase history. capabilities integrate data across supply chain planning, inventory, ordering, and invoicing for real-time visibility and faster delivery.

A global leader collaborated in SAP’s industry cloud to develop an advanced track and trace solution for sustainable medicine returns and launch a single platform for data sharing across partners. Another 51风流customer, a large agribusiness organization, used SAP鈥檚 business network to find 140 new suppliers in a few days when the pandemic disrupted supply chains last year. Executives from two and organizations shared how they鈥檝e collaborated with 51风流to launch an industry-wide clinical trial network to connect seamlessly across complex supply chain partners for faster time-to-market.

RISE with 51风流Expands with Industry Expertise

Responding to high customer interest, Klein said that 51风流has expanded its transformation-as-a-service offering RISE with 51风流beyond 51风流S/4HANA Cloud to and , as well as a dedicated package for human experience management (HXM).

鈥淢any customers want a holistic, modular cloud ERP solution,鈥� he said. 鈥淎ll of this is delivered with one data and security model, and business process intelligence to ensure your processes are fully optimized and running industry best standards.鈥�

In addition, White announced RISE with 51风流for industries focused on retail, consumer products, automotive, utilities, and industrial machinery and components (IM&C).

鈥淲e鈥檙e bringing together the best of SAP鈥檚 50 years of deep industry expertise and the best of our partner ecosystem to provide industry-specific cloud-based solutions as-a-service,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hese solutions are built on to give you the benefits of integration, extensibility, analytics, and one data model. They work natively with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud so every customer can get the full set of industry-specific solutions needed in their cloud deployment.鈥�

Connected Insights Speed Up Digital Transformation 聽

White also had a candid conversation with Hasso Plattner, chairman of the Supervisory Board of 51风流SE, about how organizations can use 51风流technology to bring people, processes, systems, and data together for transformational business results. Plattner advised companies to explore transformation using simulations with active data models, which is now possible using experience information from , the , and process management and mining from

鈥淭he whole notion of cloud systems is such a gigantic improvement,” Plattner said. “With new ways to visualize business processes and to get feedback, we have a better chance to move forward faster. We can monitor systems, and see what鈥檚 missing and make changes鈥ven on the fly.鈥�

Innovation Networks for Sustainable, Profitable Business

Klein鈥檚 vision for the future was clear: connected intelligent enterprises will reinvent how businesses run.

鈥淲e will jointly build networks with you that champion diversity, inclusion, and human rights. We will make carbon footprint tracking available in the business network so that you can go to true net zero,鈥� he said. 鈥淭ogether, we can reinvent how industries run by connecting intelligent enterprises into an industry-wide business network, making profitability sustainable and sustainability profitable.鈥�

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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.

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This presents a unique opportunity for 51风流and our partner ecosystem to guide customers through their digital transformations. Together, we help customers remain agile by managing their business processes end-to-end in the cloud. As a result of the combined value we deliver to customers, partners and 51风流will generate significant cloud growth and recurring revenue.

To help partners maximize this opportunity, 51风流launched a new Partner Success organization, which will drive more proactive engagement from our partner experience managers. They will work with partners on their business plans and priorities. We continue to collect and act on partner feedback for our offering while focusing on improving partner profitability in migrating customers to the cloud.

51风流is also introducing a new commercial offer and enhancing existing offerings to help partners drive customer success in the post-pandemic business landscape. Here are some details.

Enhancing Partner Flexibility to Support Cloud Adoption

At the beginning of the third quarter of 2021, 51风流plans to launch鈥�51风流PartnerEdge Cloud Choice, flex model, a鈥痭ew revenue share鈥痑nd go-to-market model that provides partners more flexibility to win cloud customers鈥痑nd鈥痳ewards partners for driving customer adoption.鈥疶he flex model splits the customer life cycle into two stages, creating opportunities to better compensate partners for delivering effective sales activities and ongoing customer engagement.鈥疻e are also improving partner cash flow by paying upfront commissions for sales transactions and increasing commission rates on renewals. This鈥痭ew model will be available in both the鈥痩arge enterprise and midmarket.

Identifying the Right Partner, Quickly and Easily

By the third quarter of 2021, 51风流will roll out a new Partner Finder to provide greater exposure for partners. This will feature a simple, intuitive, and visual search function for customers to identify the right partner for a specific business or industry without needing an in-depth knowledge of 51风流technology or the ecosystem.

Customers will enjoy a more seamless experience that includes the possibility for partners to provide direct links to and . On the main page, customers can also learn more about available 51风流solutions and certified consultants and even ask the partners to be contacted, which will be a new source of demand generation for our partners. At the end of May, partners will receive an invitation to access the new partner profile editor to maintain their profile in the new Partner Finder, which they will need to complete to be visible to customers and prospects.

Highlighting Partner Contributions to Customer Success

We are likewise transforming the annual 51风流Pinnacle Award program to align to our strategy and priorities for creating customer value in the cloud. We will publicly recognize those partners that have delivered superior customer value in close collaboration with 51风流and provide partners with the means to market this achievement accordingly. Customers that want to work with the best of the best in the ecosystem will be able to immediately recognize the partner for unique and outstanding contributions to customer success.

Partner-Led Customer Success Through 51风流BTP and Industry Cloud

51风流aims to foster a best-in-class ecosystem that delivers outstanding cloud implementations to drive customer outcomes and innovation. To achieve this, 51风流is investing significantly to train and educate partner consultants and developers with the most relevant and up-to-date learning content so they can develop solutions on (51风流BTP).

With this additional training, 51风流partners will be prepared to develop industry cloud offerings, combining partner-built solutions and innovations with integration services, industry content, accelerators, and industry reference architectures. With 51风流BTP as its foundation, SAP’s industry cloud helps deliver lower costs for software innovation and faster time to innovation.

As more partners developing on 51风流technologies, we can help customers improve their integrated end-to-end business processes and run apps and data on a unified platform.

According to a commissioned by SAP, partners can expect to close between 50% and 150% more deals in their first year, when compared to a similar solution, using a process model and integration technology within SAP’s industry cloud, in addition to selling bigger deals, closing deals faster, extending contract durations, and improving margins by leveraging 51风流BTP.

51风流is also committed to helping ensure that affordable training accompanies the release of new cloud updates and solutions. 51风流is investing to help partners increase their SAP-certified consultants. In total, we aim to grow to 150,000 trained and certified 51风流consultants within the 51风流ecosystem by the end of 2021.

Empowering Partner Sales Success with New Test and Demo Opportunities

Since June 2020, 51风流has provided partners with free access to 51风流Partner Demo Environment, shared option. This integrated, pre-configured software demonstration environment expedites sales conversations. 51风流is steadily expanding live demo offerings 鈥� with more than 50 live scenarios to date 鈥� to help partners position the value of the Intelligent Enterprise vision, including 51风流BTP, RISE with SAP, and industry cloud.

Additionally, the 51风流Demo Store site has been expanded and offers partners more than 430 demo scenarios. 51风流is also offering partners further price reductions for additional core cloud solutions. Since January 2021, we h鈥檝e offered reduced subscription fees for dedicated test, demo, and development systems of RISE with SAP, 51风流Digital Supply Chain solutions, and the the database and data management and HR and people management portfolios. Reduced pricing on other cloud solutions is planned for later this year.

Delivering New 51风流for Me Dashboards

is quickly becoming the single point of access for partners to get key actionable insights and data in a digital format. We extended the scope of and added new dashboards and functionalities for 51风流PartnerEdge program members. This includes dynamic cards that sales professionals can use to facilitate end-to-end deal execution and so partner contacts have a partner-level view of 51风流certifications and partnership insights.

Before the end of the year, partners will have access to additional insights, such as customer project information, a partner solutions dashboard, and cloud product adoption and renewals. This will give partners a complete overview of their customers鈥� information and relationship with SAP.

I look forward to a gradually improving global demand in the second half of 2021 and am confident that the initiatives and opportunities we are creating for our partners will enhance the experience of both partners and customers and drive success — now and in the future.

Additional Reading

• 51风流Ecosystem and 51风流Business Technology Platform: Delivering the Intelligent Enterprise for Customers, by Juergen Mueller, chief technology officer and member of the Executive Board of聽 51风流SE
• How Partners Enable Customer Success Through a Unified Technology Platform, by Jagdish Sahasrabudhe, CTO of the Global Partner Organization at SAP

Learn more on how to partner with 51风流at and . Existing partners can find details on .

Karl Fahrbach is global partner officer at SAP.

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Speaking directly to all developers across the 51风流ecosystem, Mueller explained how was the foundation of the company鈥檚 intelligent enterprise vision and technology strategy, providing them with future-proof resilience.

鈥淭his is why we get up every morning. The goal of 51风流Business Technology Platform is to empower you in your development role so that you can accelerate your company鈥檚 move to the cloud,鈥� he said. 鈥淭his year has been an exceptional journey, impacting each and every one of us, and we have to go through it together as a shared journey.鈥�

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One Platform for Extensibility, Integration, and Data-to-Value

Inclusive in all ways, Mueller鈥檚 words were both heartfelt and fact-based, as he enumerated how 51风流had achieved important milestones throughout the year. Filled with solution demonstrations and a customer testimonial, Mueller鈥檚 keynote answered questions from developers in the 51风流ecosystem, ranging from the impact of COVID-19 on the company鈥檚 strategy to how 51风流Business Technology Platform delivered extensibility, integration, and data-to-value.

鈥淲e identified the three top scenarios to support you best so that you are able to build extensions on your 51风流environment, create value from various data sources, and build integrations across 51风流and non-51风流systems. And all of that in a simple and agile way,鈥� said Mueller.

Easily Build, Integrate, and Extend Applications

Whether someone was a cloud native developer, data scientist, enterprise architect, application developer, integration developer, or UX designer, Mueller and his special guests shared how 51风流Business Technology Platform empowered developers with extensibility and integration.

Supporting SAP鈥檚 commitment to extensibility for rapid customization and innovation, Mueller announced multitenancy, as an example of how 51风流made it easy for partners to extend 51风流and non-51风流solutions using 51风流Business Technology Platform. He said this would reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) for ABAP deployments. He also explained how cloud native developers can more easily build extensions for more 51风流solutions, including 51风流S/4HANA, 51风流SuccessFactors, and 51风流ECC.

鈥淎BAP is still at the heart of the Intelligent Enterprise, fully backed by [SAP] Business Technology Platform. We protect your career and your investments of all the ABAP know-how in the world, and we bring ABAP to the cloud,鈥� Mueller said. 鈥淲ith [SAP] NetWeaver add on for event enablement, we allow [cloud-native developers] to build extensions for your 51风流ECC system, the same way as for 51风流S/4HANA, using .鈥�

At the same time, he called out the integration value of enhancements, along with new 51风流Cloud Platform Master Data Integration service and 51风流One Domain Model for first objects.

鈥淲ith the 51风流One Domain Model and the 51风流Cloud Platform Master Data Integration service, integration happens holistically and out-of-the-box,鈥� said Mueller.

This was followed by a quick overview of the updated user experience.

Turn Data into Business Value

Mueller also noted that 2020 marked the 10-year anniversary of

鈥淭here鈥檚 so much to celebrate. 51风流HANA plays a vital role in the 51风流portfolio. It is the foundation for our key solutions like 51风流S/4HANA, and the foundation for ,鈥� said Mueller.

Mueller announced new integrations in , allowing developers to connect data between 51风流HANA on premise and 51风流S/4HANA systems, as well as third-party sources.

鈥淲e want to make it very simple for you to make sense of your data,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he latest edition of 51风流HANA Cloud combines all the greatness of [SAP] HANA on premise with all the great cloud capabilities, including federated data access. Connecting your [SAP] HANA Cloud system to your on-premise 51风流S/4HANA system is extremely easy. Also connecting to other third-party systems is very easy.鈥�

Data-to-Value Can Modernize Medical Supply Chains

Raymund Heinen, chief process officer and member of the Board at HARTMANN Group, a medical supply company, was among the experts that joined Mueller on the virtual stage. Heinen explained how his organization collaborated with 51风流to develop a proof of concept addressing one of the most urgent pandemic demands: prioritizing medical supplies, such as hand disinfectant, where they are needed most in an unpredictable environment.

Built on , the pilot solution used machine learning to analyze data from internal and external sources 鈥� such as daily health updates from external organizations and intensive care beds by region 鈥� into one dashboard on 51风流Business Technology Platform.

鈥淚f you can anticipate at an early stage the most likely scenarios, we could approach the impacted customers proactively. We could verify and increase the local inventories and adapt on short notice our supply chain even before most customers start ordering,鈥� said Heinen. 鈥淎 dashboard can be of really great help and make it easier for teams to prioritize based on actual internal and external data.鈥�

A Call to Developers

COVID-19 and other important issues loomed large across Mueller鈥檚 talk. He spotlighted SAP鈥檚 commitment to workforce diversity beyond gender, as well as addressing climate change with a number of initiatives, including embedding sustainability metrics in the company鈥檚 analytical and transactional applications. He also held up SAP鈥檚 co-innovation of the German Corona-Warn-App with Deutsche Telekom for the German government as an example of the collective power of the developer community. His message to developers was clear.

鈥淐OVID-19 really brings a new level of digitalization. As developers, you are the true enablers for every business. We want to help you be successful personally, and we want to help you help your company,鈥� said Mueller. 鈥淭his is the whole purpose of 51风流Business Technology Platform. This is your time to shine by developing new applications, extending applications, creating new integrations quickly, helping your teams make confident decisions, and making it easier for your colleagues to work in your company.鈥�

To learn more about SAP鈥檚 portfolio supporting its intelligent enterprise vision, Mueller encouraged viewers to explore the company鈥檚 , take advantage of the free , as well as , and get involved in the .

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This is the message from Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, who explains that organisations can increase resilience, rise to challenges, and increase profitability.

鈥淲e can achieve sustainability by reducing waste and creating circular economies,鈥� he told delegates to the virtual SAPPHIRE NOWconference. 鈥淲e can make sustainability profitable and profitability sustainable.鈥�

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us how helpless we can be when something unexpected hits us, Klein adds. 鈥淒igital transformation is no longer an option, but a must. When we can鈥檛 interact in person, we have to find other ways.鈥�

While business leaders across the world are worrying about whether their companies will survive, the more technologically advanced have a better chance of survival.

鈥淚f your business is not resilient, you have nothing,鈥� he stresses. 鈥淎fter that, you need to focus on profitability.鈥�

In the current world of coronavirus, Klein says it is more important than ever to set your company up for growth.

鈥淣ew technologies enable better customer experiences. They also allow for scale, and help to secure profitability.鈥�

While the focus right now is on health, safety and business continuity, a bigger challenge is climate change, he adds. 鈥淛ust as we cannot ignore the pandemic, we cannot ignore climate change.

鈥淚magine the impact if all industries join the fight to reduce carbon emissions,鈥� Klein points out. 鈥淭he current situation has shown us we can quickly drive change if we want to. So let鈥檚 seize the opportunity to build resilient, profitable and sustainable businesses.

鈥淲e all care about our business success, but we are also members of our communities, and should care about the world we leave behind.

鈥淲e are in the driver鈥檚 seat,鈥� Klein says.

Sustainability is good for business too, he adds. 鈥淭his is not just about the next generation, it is about customers and employees that choose companies that care about sustainability. Companies are selected not only on their performance but on their sustainability practices.

鈥淭he business values of a profitable business are clear: resilience, profitability, sustainability.

鈥淲e can help you achieve this.鈥�

Klein was previously the chief operating officer of 51风流and was responsible for the company鈥檚 own digital and sustainability transformation.

鈥淚 learnt that transformation will only be successful if there is leadership from the top,鈥� he says. 鈥淲e have been doing this ourselves for almost 50 years, and the 51风流product strategy enables us to deliver the right outcomes.

鈥淲e are an innovator and business partner. We have spent time with customers to understand requirements and challenges. As a result we have evolved our vision of the intelligent enterprise.鈥�

51风流is helping companies improve supply chain and industry-specific processes, connect through the business network and embed sustainability as a critical measure of business success.

鈥淚n uncertain times, companies need a trusted partner to help them make confident decisions to enhance agility and resiliency during and beyond the current Covid-19 crisis,鈥� says Thomas Saueressig, member of the executive board of 51风流for 51风流product engineering. 鈥淚n today鈥檚 hyperconnected world, it鈥檚 even more important for businesses to quickly react to environmental and market changes.

鈥淲e鈥檙e helping to address these challenges with new ways for customers to address sustainability, lead in their industry and grow their business networks. 51风流has the strategy, expertise, solutions and partner ecosystem to enable customers to run their business as an intelligent enterprise.鈥�

Other announcements included:

Climate 21

51风流announced the Climate 21 program to support customers in pursuing their climate-related objectives.

In a multiyear road map, 51风流will work with co-innovation partners to embed sustainability metrics across SAP鈥檚 solution portfolio. This will help customers understand, analyse and optimise the carbon footprint of their products and operations along the value chain.

The 51风流Product Carbon Footprint Analytics application is now available as the first solution in the Climate 21 program. The application uses data from 51风流S/4HANA and third-party sources and calculates this information within the 51风流Analytics Cloud solution.

This helps customers understand their carbon footprint and provides a foundation for analysing and optimising greenhouse gas emissions.

Industry Cloud

Intelligent enterprises strike the balance between optimising their current business models and innovating at the vertical edge to develop new revenue streams and growth potential using digital technologies.

51风流and its partners are offering industry cloud solutions that extend the end-to-end processes of SAP鈥檚 intelligent suite to help drive customer鈥檚 core business in their industries.

SAP鈥檚 industry cloud strategy will deliver innovative, vertical solutions from 51风流and its partners. These solutions will be built on technologies in the Business Technology Platform portfolio and use an open API framework, open process model, open domain model and common business services to create a better customer and user experience.

The interoperability with SAP鈥檚 intelligent suite will enable rapid development, deployment and integration.

Artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and other advanced technologies from 51风流will be available to help developers to accelerate development and deliver greater business value, enabling improved business practices and business innovation at the vertical edge.

Investment in Industry 4.0 across the supply chain

51风流innovations can help companies design and manufacture intelligent products and assets that can capture and analyse the increased tide of information from sensors across the supply chain. This enables customers to move Industry 4.0 from a factory-focused initiative to a company-wide business strategy.

With Industry 4.Now, 51风流will deliver innovations that companies need to create and capture a digital thread of these intelligent products and assets throughout their lifecycle to provide real-time insights back into the business processes, from design to operations.

With embedded analytics and predictive capabilities, this intelligence can empower people to make better business decisions and drive new business models and revenue streams.

Strategy for a unified business network

51风流announced a strategy to bring end-to-end visibility, increased efficiency and collaboration across the entire supply chain processes, including design, planning, sourcing, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and asset operations.

By creating a network of intelligent enterprises, 51风流can help companies digitalise multi-enterprise business processes for better visibility and collaboration across the supply chain ecosystem.

This initiative spans across SAP, using insights from real-time ERP, advanced analytics and successful networks solutions such as Ariba Network, 51风流Asset Intelligence Network, 51风流Logistics Business Network and 51风流Fieldglass solutions to deliver the collective intelligence through an open and interoperable business network.

With more than $3,3-trillion flowing through these business-to business powerhouses, 51风流will help enable sustainable and resilient supply chains, transform business models and provide the agility to safeguard against global disruptions.

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