The report recognized 51风流as a leader based on its 鈥渁bility to execute鈥� and 鈥渃ompleteness of vision,鈥� after evaluating Gartner evaluated 17 vendors and named 51风流a leader.

According to Gartner, 鈥淓nterprise iPaaS providers continue to broaden their go-to-market strategies to cover an increasing range of enterprise integration scenarios. This Magic Quadrant assesses 17 vendors to help application leaders meet the needs of their organizations.鈥�

鈥淚ntegration is becoming the number one strategic priority for organizations in the digital age,鈥� said Gunther Rothermel, president, 51风流Cloud Platform, SAP. 鈥淐ustomers now demand integrated digital experiences across omnichannel engagements, connecting people, businesses and devices in their ecosystems and business networks. We believe that this recognition from Gartner shows how crucial 51风流Cloud Platform Integration Suite has become for customers on their digital journey鈥�.

a Dutch producer and supplier of natural gas, electricity and heat serving more than two million business and residential customers, uses 51风流Cloud Platform Integration Suite.

鈥淭hanks to 51风流Cloud Platform Integration Suite, we were able to cut down our IT spend for integration middleware to between 50 percent and 60 percent of our annual total cost of ownership,鈥� said Marco Verhoef, integration consultant, IT Asset Management, Eneco Holding N.V. 鈥淎t the same time, the ease of use and flexibility of the solution helped us go live in a matter of weeks.鈥�

As part of , 51风流Cloud Platform Integration Suite provides a comprehensive set of integration capabilities for all enterprise integration challenges in a multi-cloud environment. Additionally, offers access to rich integration content packs with over 1,500 prebuilt, ready-to-run integrations, APIs and events that target specific business processes. 51风流Cloud Platform Integration Suite enables customers to connect their data and processes seamlessly and with agility to achieve desired business outcomes.

Learn more about and its recent position as a leader in Gartner鈥檚 2020 Magic Quadrant for Multiexperience Development Platforms.

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The report recognized 51风流as a leader based on its 鈥渁bility to execute鈥� and 鈥渃ompleteness of vision,鈥� after evaluating . Gartner evaluated 16 vendors and named 51风流a leader.

According to Gartner, 鈥淭he digital user experience increasingly spans multidevice, multitouchpoint and multimodal interactions, and is therefore a multiexperience journey. This report evaluates vendors of MXDPs 鈥� platforms on which to build user experiences across web, mobile, conversational, immersive and wearable apps.鈥�

鈥�51风流Cloud Platform Extension Suite helps our customers to simplify the development of their application extensions, optimize business processes and accelerate business value for the intelligent enterprise,鈥� 51风流Cloud Platform President Gunther Rothermel said. 鈥淣ow more than ever, customers expect digital experiences that are consistent, personalized and unified across multisensory touchpoints and modalities. We believe that this recognition from Gartner shows the importance of how 51风流Cloud Platform Extension Suite supports multiexperience development by offering low-code and professional developer tools with strong back-end and artificial intelligence services.鈥�

51风流customer , a leading window manufacturer in Australia, is using 51风流Cloud Platform. 鈥淲ith 51风流Cloud Platform we were able to digitalize and mobilize our supply chain in order to refine processes, improve teamwork and create cohesion throughout our company,鈥� said Darrell Bramley, vice president at A&L and Trends. 鈥淭his ultimately helped us to deliver better experiences and products for our customers.鈥�

SAP鈥檚 multiexperience development offering consists of the , including , which is the evolution of 51风流Web IDE, , and . The offering enables customers to build modern web and mobile apps, chatbots for 51风流applications, and custom apps on 51风流Cloud Platform. 51风流supports development by providing low-code tools for citizen developers as well as professional and cloud native developer tools, supporting native architectures, cross-platform and web-based app architectures. Its back-end multiexperience architecture is based on 51风流Cloud Application Programming Model and ties together the front-end tools and software development kits with enterprise data and services.

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A study by data analytics firm IDC found that spending on public cloud services will nearly triple over the next five years, from R4,29-billion in 2017 to R 11,53-billion in 2022.

We are seeing a phenomenal uptake of public cloud across a spectrum of businesses; from micro organisations that want to back up their data to the cloud in a cost-effective way, to the most complex ones such as financial services organisations that are using Microsoft Azure as the foundation to drive new levels of productivity, create intelligent data-driven experiences and deepen business trust.

Businesses need to be agile, move quickly and respond to market demand. The power of the cloud allows them to drive agility and speed, but it also enables them to be flexible, which is important in these challenging and uncertain times.

Organisations that are scaling back or ramping up their products and services can leverage the power of the cloud and an opex model to respond accordingly.

Those businesses that run an on-premise IT environment are struggling to put in place plans that will allow their employees to work remotely coupled with the necessary business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

However, the reality is that many businesses are going to be in a hybrid state for some time as their IT environments are evolving and becoming increasingly complex.

听Managing a hybrid state and the edge

Applications are running on different hardware across on-premise datacentres, multiple clouds and the edge.

Exxaro Resources, one of South Africa鈥檚 largest heavy minerals mining companies, moved its headquarters to a new green building and migrated its on-premise datacentre to Azure, effectively reducing the entire company鈥檚 energy footprint while increasing both its data security and operational agility.

All mining sites located in dispersed rural locations, where connectivity is an issue, are now connected directly to Azure. This move cuts out a bespoke model where the sites were connected to the corporate building in the past, with the aim of creating a digital mining company.

Managing disparate environments at scale, ensuring uncompromised security and enabling developer agility and innovation are critical to success. Hybrid cloud capabilities must therefore evolve to enable innovation anywhere, while providing a seamless development, deployment and ongoing management experience.

We have introduced Azure Arc for businesses that want to simplify complex and distributed environments. It includes a set of platforms and tools that allow companies to manage their multi-cloud environment, from on-premise applications to those running in Azure or even on the edge.

More importantly, it allows them to manage other hyperscale cloud environments and helps them deal with the administration burden of running a multi-cloud environment.

听Driving innovation

The increased utilisation of public cloud services and the additional investments into private and hybrid cloud solutions will continue to enable South African organisations to focus on innovation and building digital businesses at scale.

We are seeing significant growth for 51风流on Azure. We offer on-premise 51风流customers the ability to take their workloads into Azure as part of the Project Embrace initiative between Microsoft and 51风流announced last year. It is centred around the customer journey to 51风流S/4HANA and 51风流Cloud Platform on Microsoft Azure.

One such customer is Standard Bank South Africa that is making the move to significantly improve the experience customers have with the bank, while enabling it to introduce new solutions to market more efficiently.

The work that we are doing with Standard Bank is the first local demonstration of this partnership and 51风流on Azure is one of the fastest growing services that we run locally in Azure.

Additionally, several organisations have decided to move their developer environments into Azure. The acquisition of GitHub and the massive global community that comes with it, sets our customers up for success in terms of driving their developer environments in the cloud.

The presence of local听cloud听technology means more opportunity for economic growth and innovation. Some of the innovation we鈥檙e driving are cognitive services and the Internet of Things (IoT), which accelerates customers鈥� digital transformation and opens the door to build interesting applications.

An example is AB InBev South Africa that is improving its cooler management and gaining new insights with IoT.

听Enabling innovation through partners

Our partners remain key to our strategy and are at the forefront of building solutions that will enable business innovation and digital transformation.

We believe that local service providers will continue to find ways to drive their value.听Managed service providers are showcasing innovation in how they鈥檙e levering the power of the public cloud to extend their services and value proposition to customers.

They see the presence of hyperscale platforms as positive for the market because it enables them to provide customers with cloud solutions that might not otherwise be available.

Whether organisations are adopting a pure or hybrid cloud solution, this move will enable the foundation to drive digital transformation, reduce costs, gain insights and achieve business innovation.听

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At 7:00 p.m. on March 17, Rui Nogueira was working from his home in Walldorf and about to log off for the evening when he received an e-mail from 51风流Executive Board Member Juergen Mueller. The moment he read the chief technology officer鈥檚 message, he realized he would not be logging off any time soon. Nogueira told his wife he had a long night鈥檚 work ahead of him.

The night would last nearly 24 hours. But by the time it ended, Nogueira, chief product expert for 51风流Cloud Platform, and a team of around 40 colleagues across three time zones had made a small but vitally important contribution to dealing with the effects of COVID-19.

Widespread Quarantine: Stable Platform Is Vital

With travel restrictions in place, reports rose of Germans camping at airports in Mexico because the hotels are closed, not knowing when there will be another flight back home. Others are forbidden to leave their tiny huts in the Philippines, not even to go to the beach, and have no idea when or how they will be able to get to the next major airport. More are quarantined in a hotel in northern Cyprus. The list is long, and they all want to return to Germany as soon as possible.

With moods swinging between resignation and panic, the stranded were counting on the German government’s repatriation program to come to their aid. They registered via an app on the ELEFAND list, an emergency contact list administered by the German Foreign Ministry for German citizens living and traveling abroad.

But the underlying platform had been designed for use in isolated emergencies and according to Nogueira 鈥渨as not built to cope with huge numbers of people trying to log on.鈥� A growing number of stranded Germans got no more than a 鈥渟erver unavailable鈥� message, and eventually the platform crashed completely.

Emergency Repatriation Program: Teamwork Is Crucial

Help was needed urgently, without a second to lose. 51风流received a call from the German Foreign Ministry late in the afternoon on March 17 and Nogueira was contacted that evening. Having spent seven years involved with 51风流Cloud Platform, Nogueira not only knows the technology inside-out, he also knows the people who work in that environment and their skillsets.

The first meeting 鈥� held virtually, of course 鈥� took place at 7:30 p.m. An hour later, a core team of eight had been assembled. Each of its members, one of whom was in the U.S., began 鈥渞ecruiting鈥� additional 51风流specialists for specific tasks.

鈥淲hat we needed at that moment was a combination of expertise and a willingness to drop everything and 鈥榤ake a night of it,鈥欌�� Nogueira says. It wasn鈥檛 hard to get everyone on board. 鈥淔irst off, it鈥檚 common practice at 51风流for people to help each other; secondly, almost everyone wants to do something to help solve the current problems; and, thirdly, who says no when the CTO asks for help?鈥�

Communication and coordination took place in a Microsoft Teams room, which was kept open for the customer too. This meant that Foreign Ministry personnel could watch the solution gradually taking shape. In multiple meetings scheduled at intervals during the night, the project partners checked the current status against requirements and made adjustments as and where needed.

New App Built on 51风流Cloud Platform

The aim was not only to develop the app but above all ensure it was scalable and would run securely on 51风流Cloud Platform. Data protection requirements were the toughest challenge. 鈥淲hen describing their situation, people obviously can鈥檛 avoid posting personal data on the platform. That data has to be secure,鈥� Nogueira explains.

To make sure any security flaws were detected and resolved at the development stage, before the app went live, the team鈥檚 data protection experts were asked to try and 鈥渂reak鈥� the application. They could not, but their penetration testing uncovered one or two weaknesses, which the team were then able to correct early on.

Almost 24 hours after the initial request, the 51风流solution for the German Foreign Ministry was complete and accessible worldwide at rueckholprogramm.de, thanks to an impressive team effort that surpassed anything Nogueira had ever experienced in terms of intensity and time pressure.

What did he take away from the project? The first aspect he stresses is community spirit, the way people really do pull together when it matters. The second is that a global network is more vital than ever in situations like these. 鈥淲e hit a problem we couldn鈥檛 solve at about 3:00 a.m.,鈥� he shares. 鈥淪o we contacted colleagues in India, who came up with a quick and pragmatic solution.鈥�

鈥淭he Real Work Is Only Just Beginning鈥�

The project also showed that if properly organized, remote teams function well 鈥� even in exceptional situations. In this case, having live contact with the customer was patently also both crucial and instructive, and it helped 51风流build precisely what the German Foreign Ministry needed at such short notice. Currently, an 51风流team is engaged in making the solution available to other countries as well.

Although everyone involved is delighted with the project and its outcome, 51风流CTO Juergen Mueller is quick to put the company鈥檚 contribution in perspective. 鈥淭he real work 鈥� the task of actually getting people home 鈥� is only just beginning,鈥� he says.

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This accelerates the digital transformation of 51风流customers to S/4HANA by partnering with Microsoft and using jointly developed reference architectures, roadmaps, and industry best practices, the bank said.

It noted that many enterprises are looking to reduce their reliance on their own datacentres and moving more of their core workloads to the cloud.

Standard Bank鈥檚 CIO for personal and business banking SA, Sabelo Nkwanyana, said: 鈥淭his partnership continues our focus on innovation by leveraging the respective skills of 51风流and Microsoft to transform the digitisation and personalisation journey for our customers.鈥�

Lillian Barnard, managing director, Microsoft South Africa said: 鈥淭he Project Embrace initiative between Microsoft and 51风流announced globally last year is centred around the customer journey to 51风流S/4HANA and 51风流Cloud Platform on Microsoft Azure.

鈥淭he work that we are doing with Standard Bank is the first local demonstration of this partnership, and another milestone in the journey Microsoft is on with Standard Bank, to bring innovation into every aspect of the bank鈥檚 IT system and enable enriched interactions with the bank鈥檚 customers.鈥�

鈥淭oday鈥檚 announcement is the biggest partnership centred on 51风流implementation in Africa. With client experience a key strategic pillar for Standard Bank, Project Embrace reflects the shared commitment of both 51风流and Microsoft to accelerate our customers鈥� journey to the cloud,鈥� said Cathy Smith, managing director at 51风流Africa.

The project will help Standard Bank deliver a faster time-to-market on products and services, while ensuring its IT infrastructure is optimised, the bank said.

By moving workloads to the cloud, Standard Bank will be able to access a range of features that it can deploy instantly and scale according to demand. This will result in cost reductions, improved system performance, and access to innovation, it said.

“Through Project Embrace, we are now able to better identify our business pain points and effectively address them through technologies that deliver a demonstrable return on investment,” said Nkwanyana.

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