Efficient virtual collaboration has never been more important, and we want to provide our customers with solutions that help them cope with business disruptions. When done right, these can be powerful tools to increase workplace productivity, raise flexibility, and foster agility within and across organizations.

One key aspect to this is the integration of business software applications with business collaboration tools. Together with Microsoft, we want to better support end users in their daily work and bridge the gap between enterprise software and collaboration tools more effectively and efficiently. Our two companies combine the market-leading business software applications from 51风流with the market-leading business collaboration tools from Microsoft.

Together with Microsoft, we will drive joint innovation to integrate Microsoft Teams and SAP鈥檚 business software applications. By doing so, we aim to simplify processes, enable collaboration without switching applications, and guide users of the solutions intuitively. Ultimately, the integration scenarios can help to achieve enhanced workplace productivity by offering our customers significant value to work better together with their employees, customers, and partners鈥攁nywhere and anytime.

Bringing Together Microsoft Teams and 51风流Solutions

We are looking to expand the integration scenarios with Microsoft Teams and 51风流solutions in the following areas to:

• Effectively collaborate with business partners: Especially in the case of disruptions in business, fast communication with clients and partners is imperative. One of our first integration scenarios relates to 51风流S/4HANA and Microsoft Teams. With the solution alignment, customers will be able to identify their business partners easily and initiate contact directly from 51风流S/4HANA鈥攚ith no need to switch between applications or devices. This will help customers swiftly react to business situations based on real-time data and constant communication with relevant stakeholders.
• Simplify and modernize the remote sales experience: Today, remote selling has become an imperative for companies across the globe. Integrating 51风流Sales Cloud with Microsoft Teams simplifies the remote selling process and removes barriers to customer engagement through an embedded in-app integration of the two solutions. For example, without switching applications, customer calls can be initiated directly from the customer experience application鈥攈elping ensure transparency and consistency within customer relationship management (CRM) and saving time through user-friendly workflows.
• Foster collaboration and build learning communities: Organizations have realized the necessity of providing simple, intuitive, and engaging ways for employees to learn new skills, share knowledge, and stay informed鈥攁ll in a virtual environment. Bringing together 51风流SuccessFactors solutions and Microsoft Teams will support learning experiences that enable collaboration, social learning, and remote conferencing.

This news makes one characteristic of the two companies鈥� enduring alliance very clear: the ability and commitment to continually evolve to make our customers even more successful. Every time an end user works with 51风流solutions, there is an opportunity for real-time collaboration such as chats, conference calls, alerts, and so much more. It is exciting to see the opportunities for collaboration culture and frictionless enterprises that our partnership with Microsoft creates for our customers.

Accelerating Migration and Increasing Operational Efficiencies

In addition, 51风流and Microsoft are further simplifying and improving the experience for customers running 51风流S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure. Together, we will continue to make our customers鈥� migration from 51风流ERP to 51风流S/4HANA in the cloud simpler, while at the same time ensuring choice for customers that prefer multi-cloud environments in their enterprise IT landscapes.

This means that our customers will see more guidance from 51风流and Microsoft on the initial setup and architecture design of 51风流S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure.

We also plan to collaborate with Microsoft to enhance 51风流Cloud Appliance Library, a tool that makes it easier for users to quickly provision 51风流applications for immediate use in the cloud, and offer automated 51风流system installations for 51风流S/4HANA. Customers can also subscribe to 51风流Landscape Management Cloud, improving scalability and operation efforts, and benefit from an 51风流system-centered view of their Microsoft Azure landscape. Additionally, we are working on a more guided approach for customers to quickly deploy 51风流S/4HANA directly into Microsoft Azure. For better transparency within the transformation process, we will provide guidance on data migration tool usage for the transition of 51风流workloads from on premise to 51风流S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure.

Bringing Platform Services Closer Together

We will also continue to expand the global availability聽of 51风流solutions on Microsoft Azure during 2021. Together, we will drive co-innovation between (51风流BTP) and Microsoft Azure services to deliver business outcomes to our customers. The range of capabilities includes event integration based on open standards, single sign-on and provisioning of users between Microsoft and SAP, secure network connectivity, and improved application development experience on 51风流BTP. My 51风流Executive Board colleague and our Chief Technology Officer Juergen Mueller will give more insight on the role of 51风流BTP in the upcoming days.

With our partnership, we bring together Microsoft Teams with 51风流solutions, accelerate migration and improve operational efficiencies, and bring platform services closer together. We are working on making these enhancements and integrations of 51风流solutions with Microsoft a reality for our customers soon. You can find the latest status of our joint work in , which we will update regularly.聽 I look forward to more joint innovation to come.

The next generation of enterprise software is intelligent and integrated, networked, sustainable, and collaborative.

Thomas Saueressig is a member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE, Product Engineering.

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鈥淣ew ways of working, collaborating and interacting completely transform how we operate,鈥� said Christian Klein, 51风流CEO and member of the Executive Board. 鈥淏y integrating Microsoft Teams across our solution portfolio, we will bring collaboration to the next level, jointly determining the future of work and enabling the frictionless enterprise. Our trusted partnership with Microsoft is focused on continuously advancing customer success. That鈥檚 why we are also expanding interoperability with Azure.鈥�

Much has changed in the last year as work has become more virtual, increasing reliance on Microsoft Teams for meetings, communication and collaboration. To facilitate these business and societal changes, 51风流and Microsoft are building new integrations between Microsoft Teams and 51风流solutions, such as 51风流S/4HANA, 51风流SuccessFactors offerings, and 51风流Customer Experience. This can enable innovation, increase employee productivity and engagement, deliver collaborative learning and support global growth. These integrations are planned for delivery in mid-2021.

鈥淭he case for digital transformation has never been more urgent,鈥� Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said. 鈥淏y bringing together the power of Azure and Teams with SAP鈥檚 solutions, we will help more organizations harness the power of the cloud so they can more quickly adapt and innovate going forward.鈥�

The companies also are expanding their announced in 2019, to introduce new offerings in cloud automation and integration for 51风流S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure. Together, Microsoft and 51风流are expanding the ability to run a mission-critical intelligent enterprise on Azure while helping customers modernize their enterprise applications.聽51风流and Microsoft will provide customers with:

• Simplification when moving on-premise editions of 51风流ERP to 51风流S/4HANA聽in the cloud. In addition to the industry-specific journey maps to the cloud and reference architectures, 51风流and Microsoft will continue to co-innovate around 51风流S/4HANA on Azure.
• Expanded joint engagements with customers and partners.In addition to product integration work, SAP, Microsoft and system integrator partners will continue to provide digital enterprise road maps for customers. This includes immediate and actionable reference architectures and technical guidance to help customers on their journey to the cloud.
• Increased investments in platform and infrastructure. The companies will further develop automated migrations, improved operations, monitoring and security.

broadly favor Azure when moving on-premise 51风流S/4HANA to the cloud.

鈥淎s part of our overall transformation, we transitioned to 51风流S/4HANA,鈥� said John Hill, chief information officer and senior vice president of Business Planning. 鈥淩unning it on Microsoft Azure provides the velocity, availability, scalability and elasticity we need for more visibility and better efficiency across our business. The pandemic struck as we were in the middle of our 51风流implementation, so by using Teams, we were able to continue to work on the project, stay on schedule and keep everyone informed. The combination of 51风流and Microsoft was especially helpful during a challenging time.鈥�

鈥�51风流S/4HANA has given us real-time visibility into our inventory, which is crucial for us as a pharmacy and healthcare retail company during the pandemic,鈥� said Francesco Tinto, Walgreens Boots Alliance鈥檚 senior vice president and global chief information officer. 鈥淲e chose to run 51风流S/4HANA on Azure because of its agility and flexibility to scale up and out quickly to meet our business needs. Now we have access to our data in one place so we can offer the best possible customer experience online and in our stores. Microsoft Teams coupled with 51风流solutions helped us overcome business continuity challenges and enabled our employees to collaborate very effectively despite the shift from office to remote work.鈥�

鈥淲hen it comes to our customers delivering personal protective equipment, we can鈥檛 be late, so we rely on 51风流and Microsoft to provide the digital backbone that鈥檚 essential to keeping our supply chain running smoothly,鈥� said Helge Brummer, vice president of Technical Infrastructure, Support & Operations. 鈥淭he combination of Microsoft Teams with our 51风流solutions has given our employees the ability to work from anywhere while ensuring orders are delivered on time to our customers, supporting the people putting their lives at risk working on the front line.鈥�

SAP鈥檚 endorsement of Azure for ERP cloud migration is reflected in positive customer feedback on the collaboration between the companies. 51风流and Microsoft will continue to make migration simpler and increase customers鈥� confidence in running their digital enterprises in the cloud.聽At the same time, many customers express a desire to maintain multi-cloud environments.聽51风流continues with its long-standing policy of supporting choice for those customers who request alternatives based on business requirements.

51风流and Microsoft recently announced an update to enable customers to design and operate intelligent digital supply chain and Industry 4.0 solutions in the cloud and at the edge.

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