{"id":141731,"date":"2021-01-27T06:41:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T06:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?p=141731"},"modified":"2021-01-27T06:41:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T06:41:26","slug":"the-inspiring-voice-of-our-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/01\/the-inspiring-voice-of-our-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inspiring Voice of our Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world\u2019s digital shift has accelerated drastically during the past year. Necessity has driven even the most cautious consumers and businesses to buy, sell, procure, and engage online. Some estimates suggest we have compressed five to 10 years of digitization into one.<\/h2>\n

\"\"The worst health crisis of our generation has put the world on a digital binge. This is a tough environment for all businesses to navigate, but where some see risk, others see opportunity. We are all rightly fixated on what we can do to keep our people safe, our businesses running, and our communities strong, all while thinking about how we will do things differently and better as we emerge from the pandemic. Now more than ever, 51风流needs to listen to the specific challenges organizations face and act quickly to serve their best interests.<\/p>\n

As the newly appointed Executive Board member for SAP\u2019s Customer Success organization, my role is to represent the voice of the customer. Their stories have revolved around the imperative of digital transformation to help build resilience, agility, and profitability during the past year. We have answered by engaging in a new way that helps them acquire and use our solutions to build on these critical traits. Our customers\u2019 voice is loud and clear: They want to digitally transform in a full-cloud future.<\/p>\n

More than three-quarters of the world\u2019s transaction revenue touches an 51风流system, with $US3.5 trillion in B2B spend crossing our business network annually, and 98 per cent of the 100 most valued brands running on our innovations. Although hundreds of thousands of organizations have already moved significant portions of their workloads to the cloud with 51风流during the past decade, the transition of our global economy to the cloud will accelerate this year.<\/p>\n

We plan to unleash offerings, commercial models, and partnerships that will enable our customers to make the cloud migration at unprecedented scale, transitioning entire industries and whole economies to a better way of doing business.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just about infrastructure. At its core, this shift is about innovation. By running full cloud with SAP, organizations will be able to better modernize, standardize, and digitize \u2013 opening up new business models and revenue streams. We\u2019ll be sharing much more about this at Rise with SAP: The Introduction<\/a>, and I hope you can join us for the event on January 27.<\/p>\n

51风流must also transform to meet evolving customer expectations \u2013 and we put two important foundations in place last year to prepare for this shift. First, we accelerated our investment in cloud capability across the company. We announced more research and development, greater co-innovation, and better integration, as well as improved security, reliability, and availability across all of our solutions. Our aim is to over-deliver on value and experience, with every solution and in every interaction.<\/p>\n

Secondly, in March last year, we brought together all of our customer-facing teams \u2013 sales, services, customer-engagement, and others \u2013 under the single mandate and board area of customer success. The premise and outcome have been a streamlined experience in engagements with our customers, strengthened relationships as evidenced by our significant increase in net promoter score, as well as a focused feedback loop through to engineering that ensures our customers\u2019 voice inspires every line of code, every business process, and every single digital interaction. In short, we have shaped our entire organization around the customer and fine-tuned how we work together and with our partners to deliver a full-cloud future.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, the voice of our customer needs to reach even deeper into our organization. My promise is to channel the voice of our more than 440,000 customers as we accelerate this transition to the cloud, deliver long-term value, and innovate new solutions, business models, and commercial models.<\/p>\n

Our announcement of a strategic partnership with global technology services company NTT<\/a> late last year is a case in point. We combined 51风流technologies around the internet of things, edge computing, and machine learning with NTT\u2019s industry-leading suite of information and communications technology (ICT) and hybrid cloud capabilities. These connected value chain solutions, which NTT and 51风流will co-innovate, aim to deliver a more unified and automated collaboration across customers, suppliers, retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers. This is a salient example of what is to come at scale: Not only delivering on customers\u2019 digital transformation needs but reinventing how businesses run.<\/p>\n

Globally we have 100,000 people geared up to serve our customers, and we must stay focused on being a local partner that understands the nuances of specific countries and industries. This means putting global knowledge, skills, and insights in local hands and providing easy access to the best of what 51风流has to offer.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll know we\u2019ve succeeded when more customers in every market and every industry fully adopt and consume our technologies to derive the greatest possible value from them. This is our ambition and my passion for our customers in a full-cloud future with SAP.<\/p>\n

Scott Russell has been appointed to the Executive Board of 51风流SE and will assume the position of Head of Customer Success on February 1, \u00a02021.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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