According to a recent , the key challenges impeding the full realization of digital value include: IT complexity and high barriers to innovation, digital skills gaps and lack of on-demand expertise, and limited integration between technologies and data silos.

These challenges indicate the need for a flexible, extensible, and open digital business platform. For many organizations, (51风流BTP) is the answer. The platform can provide the development environments, applications, tools, content, and resources they need to help drive innovation, growth, and outcomes that translate into real business value.

But it’s also conceivable to further amplify and extend the platform’s value, thanks to the 51风流Preferred Success plan for 51风流Business Technology Platform, expanded edition. The edition can provide access to product specialist resources, , prescriptive one-on-one advisory, design and activation of platform capabilities, and proof-of-concept development.

Additionally, this edition of 51风流Preferred Success can offer guidance on migrating from cost-intensive, on-premise environments to the cloud and adopting new features. It can also facilitate quality reviews for solution stabilization聽and enhanced service-level agreements 鈥� all delivered through an outcome-based partnership with SAP.

Navigating the Way Forward with the Right Expertise

Business demand for new technologies, capabilities, and processes is constantly evolving. But one thing is unchanged: the urgency to deploy innovations and realize expected outcomes faster. In return, organizations must become more flexible, extensible, open, and integrated to resolve business challenges in ways that drive concrete results.

While adopting a unified platform is critical, companies must also combine the right applications, tools, content, and resources to deliver optimal value. This includes honest discussions and precise decision-making focused on closing skill gaps, sequencing transformation steps, securing full integration, and advancing data analytics and automation.

51风流Preferred Success for the expanded edition of 51风流BTP can fulfill that requirement, helping to bring genuinely digital-first businesses to life. The edition combines the existing 51风流Preferred Success service with more technical and functional expertise and predefined, built-in services through a . This approach helps increase productivity, reimagine processes, accelerate innovation, steer adoption of next-generation technologies with lower TCO, and improve go-live and risk mitigation.

Here are some new elements of the edition:

• Product specialists provide functional and technical knowledge to help drive the adoption of 51风流BTP, answering non-support-related questions, advising proposed 51风流best practices, and recommending appropriate services.
• Feature and platform activation services configure the capabilities of 51风流BTP to help meet customer requirements. They include simple configurations, connectivity setup, modeling, visualizations, and enablement to help activate tenants while excluding changes to the platform’s standard features and capabilities.
• Use case and business process design and realization deliver the “to be” architecture based on 51风流BTP. 51风流experts design and develop proof of concepts, prototypes, or pilots for a greenfield or extension use case inside a sandbox tenant that leverages the principles of 51风流BTP. The scope of this element excludes production readiness and production deployment.
• Migration and re-platforming recommendations allow customers to discover and develop their unique migration path to the cloud. The on-premise solution architecture is analyzed for re-platforming to 51风流BTP while adhering to .
• Solution review helps identify patterns that may cause system instability and proposes potential resolutions related to data, integration, configuration, performance, and overall cloud service setup during complex and custom implementations. 51风流validates whether a deployment of 51风流BTP follows 51风流best practices.

All these built-in resources and services 鈥� including the scope and delivery sizing based on 51风流internal benchmarking 鈥� are designed to help enhance innovation capabilities throughout your platform journey, including the run and optimize phases.

As a result, 51风流customers can increase the speed of application development, process automation, integration, data management, and analytics with the efficiency and agility needed to become and run a full-fledged digital-first business. More importantly, they can shape their business model to drive technology adoption and ongoing hypergrowth.

Unlocking Potential with Flexibility, Choice, and Insight

Extending and personalizing everything from applications to processes requires a development environment that鈥檚 ready to take on the next innovation use case while running undisrupted operations and fueling ongoing growth. However, reaching this level of business agility and resilience requires access to hands-on guidance with the right expertise and digital capabilities.

With 51风流Preferred Success for 51风流BTP, expanded edition, organizations can gain the best of both worlds through an enhanced partnership they can trust. And very quickly, their vision of a digital-first business can become a reality as the value of their investment in 51风流BTP deepens.

Ready to amplify the impact of your investment in 51风流Business Technology Platform? or contact your local 51风流representative to learn more about 51风流Preferred Success for 51风流Business Technology Platform, expanded edition.

Amit Lodhe is global solution owner for 51风流Preferred Success for 51风流Business Technology Platform at SAP.

As the NHL continues to grow, the League continues to prioritize technology adoption to help advance the game and provide more engagement opportunities for fans.

Chris Foster, NHL vice president of Digital Business Development, explains: 鈥淎s our relationship with 51风流grows and technology advances, we pivot quickly to meet new demands and address our challenges with intuitive technology through 51风流Preferred Success services.鈥�

Unlocking the Power of Data with Partnership

The NHL is a rich tapestry of unforgettable moments, legendary players, and enduring passion that has captured the hearts of fans worldwide. To inspire and keep generations of new fans entertained and engaged, the League understands the importance of continuously innovating the experience in the arena and through its national broadcast partners.

鈥淥ur digital transformation efforts are not only boosting fan engagement across NHL platforms, but also increasing parity among our 32 clubs,鈥� Foster says. 鈥淲e are looking at data differently, ensuring it reaches the right people 鈥� our fans, players, coaches, and clubs.鈥�

This mindset on finding opportunity in data launched a series of innovations focused on enhancing the game and improving venue sustainability. With 51风流Preferred Success, to implement a platform that jump-started its ability to build and expand use cases over time to help meet changing business dynamics and objectives.

鈥�51风流Preferred Success is instrumental in making all this work,鈥� Foster underscores. 鈥淎ccess to personalized, prescriptive recommendations from subject-matter experts and quality reviews enables us to create a customized and personalized solution.鈥�

Connecting Fans with Their Favorite Clubs

The first project the NHL delivered in collaboration with 51风流was transforming 鈥� creating a definitive destination for hockey analytics. Last season alone, more than 100 million data-hungry NHL fans engaged with the site’s intuitive dashboards and filters to analyze the performance of their favorite clubs and players and compare them to past NHL legends.

鈥淲e saw the potential to create a one-stop shop that uses stats to better connect our audiences with their favorite players and teams, understand the strategy of the game, and see trends more broadly across the League,鈥� Foster shares.

Working with 51风流Preferred Success, the NHL tapped into a database that has evolved into to help store and manage data points like never before. The effort digitalized more than 100 years of historical hockey data and introduced new and enhanced statistics in a way that enthusiasts can find visually appealing.

Foster adds: 鈥淭here are also unlimited storytelling opportunities as we provide our fans with a personalized and interactive experience.鈥�

Elevating Plays with Data Intelligence

Following the digitalization of its stats, the NHL co-developed one of the most significant technologies resulting from its partnership with 51风流Preferred Success 鈥� the , which runs on the League鈥檚 iPads. 51风流HANA Cloud again serves an integral role as the processing power that helps translate all in-game hockey data from the arena and the NHL’s system to the mobile app.

鈥淎s the fastest game on ice, there are millions of data points to be collected and analyzed every second across our 32 clubs,鈥� Foster says. 鈥淲e knew we needed to deliver a tool that could serve every club with very different expectations, different coaching staff structures, and different responsibilities.鈥�

Equipped with the advisory checks introducing development and administration readiness, capability advisory, and design discovery that 51风流Preferred Success offers, the NHL increased developer productivity for the mobile app development. Making real-time, customizable player statistics and data visualizations accessible during the game allows coaching staffs to adjust in-game tactics and achieve new levels of individual player and club performance.

For example, the data tiering functionality of the SAP-NHL Coaching Insights mobile app on the League鈥檚 iPads differentiates between in-game and past seasons’ NHL EDGE Puck and Player Tracking data. In-game data is analyzed in real time with the quick in-memory processing of 51风流HANA Cloud, processing puck and player position coordinates every 30 milliseconds. Meanwhile, gigabytes of NHL EDGE Puck and Player Tracking data are archived instantly, stored cost-effectively and securely, and reactivated readily and swiftly for further analysis.

Throughout this use case, 51风流Preferred Success helped the NHL better understand the stability of the system to reduce data duplication and storage while still providing a powerful processing engine that brings accurate data to the user rapidly. The services also helped deliver security and connectivity reviews and performance optimizations to help ensure the NHL coaching staffs have the best possible experience. In fact, with visualizations made possible by the solution, the League can review each clubs鈥� app usage to improve the app further and tailor it to their evolving needs.

Going Green with NHL Venue Metrics

In addition to elevating the fan experience and enhancing the game on the ice, the NHL is also working to reduce its ecological impact while preserving the sport’s roots for future generations. The League developed to collect, process, and report energy and water consumption, waste generation, and recycling frequency across NHL clubs and arenas 鈥� which plays a key position in its NHL Green platform.

The end-to-end, cloud-based application is the NHL’s latest and extended use of 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), delivered through the prescriptive guidance of 51风流Preferred Success. Data is processed through 51风流HANA Cloud and visualized with 51风流Analytics Cloud, helping give venues the insights to embed sustainability best practices into their business operations wherever possible.

鈥淭he development of NHL Venue Metrics enables us to define new sustainability goals and standards as a League,鈥� Foster remarks.

Building a Future of Game-Changing Outcomes

A critical lesson the NHL learned throughout its experience with 51风流Preferred Success is the value of expert guidance and support 鈥� fast-paced innovation enabled through skillful teamwork. Each step in the League’s innovation journey progresses with best practices, targeted learning, in-depth release guidance, and prioritized incident handling 鈥� all aimed at evolving and improving the overall growth of the game.

鈥淲e certainly have clear goals and specific objectives for the future of the NHL. But it’s equally important to have in-depth expertise to ensure business solutions are doing all they can to help us reach our vision. It takes experience in seeing what others have done, what’s worked well, and what you should avoid,鈥� Foster reflects.

By working with 51风流Preferred Success, the NHL gained a trusted partner that helps it map out and provide prescriptive advice on configuration steps, modeling, performance testing, and more. All this work culminates in a smooth rollout and adoption experience across NHL club coaching staffs.

Foster concludes: 鈥淥ur collaboration has allowed us to continue to evolve and deliver additional stable and reliable applications that increase productivity, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.鈥�

To learn more about the value of 51风流Preferred Success and how the NHL is innovating, look at the following resources:

Amit Lodhe is global solution owner of 51风流Preferred Success for 51风流BTP at SAP.

Top image courtesy of the NHL

According to , more than 90% of enterprises worldwide will rely on a mix of on-premise and public cloud environments to meet their IT infrastructure needs within the next two years. And this trend is gaining momentum for a good reason 鈥� an incremental transition to the cloud helps ensure the operational continuity necessary to handle today鈥檚 challenges.

However, for most companies, moving 100% to the cloud is the realization of a multi-year road map, not a single digital transformation effort. Each step along a carefully orchestrated journey requires a secure migration of the IT landscape and data, seamless integration and expansion of line-of-business processes, greenfield innovation, and continuous intelligence exchange. But in the meantime, integration architecture, data management, enterprise processes, and user experience must remain stable enough to fend off disruption, risk, and noncompliance.

51风流customers are mapping and navigating their unique path to the cloud by adopting the , with the assistance of the offering. Guided by insight-driven, prescriptive, and personalized expertise, they benefit from a customer success approach that is ideal for their IT operating model today and brings them closer to becoming a fully cloud-based operation in the future.

Amplifying the Dynamic Opportunity of Hybrid and Full Cloud Environments

From sales, marketing, and the supply chain to finance and human resources, organizations worldwide are challenged with unlocking the value of diverse system environments comprising 51风流and third-party solutions. This pressure comes from employees and customers with unique needs and an executive team facing a rapidly evolving market. Meanwhile, constraints such as data silos and disconnected technologies make any effort to respond to change with agility, efficiency, and sustainability even more difficult to achieve.

51风流Preferred Success helps our customers sort through such complexity by offering a broad portfolio of best practices for securing the IT landscape and fostering DevOps readiness. From design discovery to a smooth go-live, the offering helps ensure our customers access standard integration packages combined with solution capability advisory for 51风流and third-party interfaces. Side-by-side extension applications, greenfield innovations such as mobile apps, and other user interfaces are also supported through solution capability advisory and a safe-start readiness approach.

In these COVID-19 times, companies are also looking for new business models to survive. 51风流Preferred Success provides advisory services for 51风流Conversational AI to allow our customers to deliver differentiating digital experiences through chatbots and intelligent robotics process automation (RPA). In return, our customers stay on the cutting edge of technology with faster adoption of the latest innovations through tailored release planning and new feature implementation.

Such support from 51风流Preferred Success opens the door to a faster, more flexible transition from a hybrid landscape to one that is entirely cloud based. This approach can increase project efficiency, process speed, transparency, communication effectiveness, user adoption, and collaboration across organizations and third parties. More importantly, our customers can achieve these competitive advantages while realizing seamless integration, minimal overhead, high development potential, and a user experience that connects the entire workforce and business network.

For example, many midsize businesses and large enterprises rely on cloud platform capabilities and best practices for increasing the productivity of hundreds of developers and administrators across multiple innovation hubs. Tapping a broad portfolio of advisory and design discovery services, our customers pursue a long-term, stable, and fit-to-standard integration architecture for many interfaces and establish global reach for their processes. Change management, platform capability evaluation, strategic innovation road map planning, and advanced support and advocacies are also constant sources of value realization.

More notably, our customers rely on 51风流Preferred Success to continue navigating their path to an ultimate cloud vision. We help them undergo new implementations, migrations, enhance the cloud platform with the latest innovations, and extend standard functionality to evolve operations.

Driving Intuitive, Coordinated Momentum to the Cloud

The core of every path to cloud-driven operations is an intermediate hybrid cloud strategy that establishes a foundation of intelligence with integrity, continuity, and security. Designed to deliver such an edge, when combined with 51风流Preferred Success, the cloud platform can empower organizations to overcome challenges of all complexities by integrating processes, supporting innovation through solution extensions, and harnessing the power of the entire software ecosystem.

For more real-life insights on 51风流Preferred Success, read the rest of our blog series, 鈥�Heading to the Cloud with 51风流Preferred Success.鈥� You鈥檒l discover how your entire company can accelerate cloud adoption and business outcomes with insight-driven, prescriptive, and personalized guidance and support.

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Amit Lodhe is global director of 51风流Preferred Success, Platform and Technology at SAP.