By 2025, 85% of organizations are expected to embrace a cloud-first approach, according to聽. And those digital strategies can be executed only with cloud-native architectures and technologies. This means that 51% of IT spend will shift from traditional solutions to the public cloud, which will eventually support more than 95% of new digital workloads.

Cloud technology has become, without question, a strategic enabler for business transformations, competitive advantage, and accelerated growth and innovation. And why not? It provides a shared infrastructure that lowers the total cost of ownership, encourages creativity through agile development, and allows for elastic provisioning and scalability with high performance and real-time data.

But instead of immediately jumping into a cloud implementation, businesses must first set the right overall strategy with expert guidance that addresses outdated and siloed operations, complex data, legacy technology, and change management.

Marching to Cloud-Driven Progress with Guidance

Close collaboration, guidance, and flexibility are necessary when choosing and deploying the right cloud solution and delivering specific business benefits and outcomes. Organizations need to know how to manage a consistent and standard experience with an optimal hybrid of infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and software-as-a-service cloud solutions. In addition, decoupled competitive functional enhancements must be designed on a powerful platform, and all those solutions must be integrated and connected to support cross-application business scenarios.

As the flagship offering of a portfolio of premium engagements from SAP, guides our customers through every step of their business transformation journey to the cloud, minimizing efforts, costs, and risks associated with this transition. Our premium engagement solution engineers provide the services, methods, tools, and expertise organizations need to succeed in their digital transformation efforts in the cloud.

Supporting the deployment of cloud solutions from SAP, including with hyperscaler solutions, 51风流MaxAttention brings the latest innovations for business process intelligence, hyperconnectivity, and process automation. The key foundation remains 51风流S/4HANA extendibility with 51风流Business Technology Platform, and enhanced by SAP’s industry cloud and the entire 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Suite Foundation. As a result of keeping their core clean, organizations benefit from adopting innovations more rapidly, and becoming more agile and resilient in adjusting their business processes according to dynamic market requirements.

For example,聽聽reported in its total economic impact study that 51风流MaxAttention has helped customers increase the ROI of their implementations and landscape management by reducing budget overruns and optimizing value delivered. Participating organizations unanimously agreed that these improvements led to a higher degree of success with their digital transformation initiatives with faster innovation, smoother implementation, lower operational costs, and increased business benefits.

As one customer noted: 鈥淭he fact that the 51风流MaxAttention team is there, they can help engage the right people to work with you. Without 51风流MaxAttention, it probably would take 30% or 40% longer to deliver and include a possibility of failure. To be honest with you, the risk level would鈥檝e been a five out of 10. Working with 51风流brought that down tremendously.鈥�

Leading Transformation and Innovation with Less Risk

51风流MaxAttention delivers industry-specific content, reference models, expertise, tools, and methodologies that inspire customers to rethink their transformation by leveraging the cloud鈥檚 full potential. And as customers overcome their transformation and innovation challenges with a premium engagement experience with 51风流MaxAttention, they become smarter, more sustainable, and more resilient.

Kurt Bauer is global senior vice president of Premium Engagements for Cloud Success Services at SAP.

One of the best examples of this wisdom is the race to tap the massive potential of digital transformation. According to , 41% of organizations need to invest in technology to close digital transformation gaps, while over half (55%) want to expand their use of technology to enhance products and services.* And in most cases, these efforts require a shift away from traditional on-premise applications and toward modern cloud technology.

To help ensure its customers can benefit from everything the cloud offers, 51风流reimagined, simplified, and sharpened its to focus heavily on adoption and experience. And that effort brought to life a suite of new options, including the 51风流Business Journeys portfolio.

A Reimagined Services and Support Portfolio and a New Era of Value Creation

Offering Value from the Start and for the Long Term

51风流Business Journeys provide a quick, clear path to help solve specific cross-company challenges with a carefully crafted set of services and support offerings. The portfolio is designed to make standardized business transformation scenarios easier to address and deliver expected results in a concise and consumable way.

51风流Business Journeys feature mandatory and selectable scope options, timelines, and outcomes predefined to help deliver your desired business outcomes.

By choosing the journeys relevant to your specific business objective or IT event, you can gain a simpler way to tackle every aspect of your business transformation, avoiding complexity and focusing on your strategic objectives.

Currently, you can leverage 51风流Business Journeys designed to address critical areas that help ensure a successful move to the cloud 鈥� with a steady stream of additional journeys planned throughout 2022.

1. Discovery business journey for RISE with SAP

This business journey provides quick answers to initial questions about cloud solutions from 51风流such as 51风流S/4HANA. Having this information immediately accessible allows you to validate the business case and plan and start the migration project.

You can create a transformation strategy and road map for the chosen 51风流solution, identify functional scope, and clarify related business value and potential innovations. Furthermore, 51风流guides you through the conceptualization of the business case and request for proposal, including an accurate projection of expected project efforts and timeline.

2. Hyperscaler transition business journey for RISE with SAP

If you already have a clear direction for your transformation, the first step is moving on-premise workloads into the cloud. Doing so helps ensure you have the digital capability to embrace new transformation opportunities with greater ease.

The hyperscaler transition business journey for the RISE with 51风流offering helps transition your legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system smoothly to the hyperscaler environment. 51风流plans the migration, transfers knowledge to operations, and migrates systems within scope. In addition, you can engage in strategic planning or optimize your data volumes to further accelerate and stabilize this and any future stage of your transformation.

3. Optimization business journey for RISE with SAP

Once your ERP system and data have transitioned to the cloud, the next milestone should be focused on the root cause of most unsuccessful transformation initiatives 鈥� an overly customized, complex IT landscape.

This business journey provides transparency and insights into business processes and your system’s preexisting custom code footprint. As a result, you can start planning, adapting, and extending applications to establish modern, back-to-standard business scenarios with increased speed, greater platform flexibility, and less risk.

4. Business journey for 51风流Sustainability Control Tower

A common predictor of business transformation success is sustainability. research indicates that an emphasis on sustainable performance opens the door to competitive efficiencies, more streamlined compliance with increasing regulation, and the ability to adapt and thrive through new opportunities.

The business journey for the 51风流Sustainability Control Tower solution enables you to achieve these advantages through ambitious sustainability objectives. For example, adopting the holistic, enterprise-wide 51风流Sustainability Performance Management analytic application can help set targets, monitor progress, and derive actionable insights from reliable sustainability data.

Driving Lasting Impact with Unmatched Expertise

With 51风流Business Journeys it is possible to navigate your business transformation with the confidence of knowing that your complex challenges will be resolved to seize a competitive edge and mitigate risks. More importantly, you’ll have continuous access to services and support that are consistently focused on delivering the results your business needs with speed, certainty, and control.

*鈥�,鈥� IDC, sponsored by SAP, 2021. Doc #US47409921.

Kurt Bauer is global senior vice president of Premium Engagements for Cloud Success Services at SAP.

Even in the best years, industry prediction can never fully capture the potential of digital transformation. But one look at 51风流customers proves how the traditionally long, arduous process has become a fast-paced, evolutionary imperative. Making a significant impact with their cloud-based transformation, they have successfully moved to the cloud as innovators of their industry and key drivers of a more intelligent and sustainable world.

Leading with聽聽services, our premium engagements portfolio has helped organizations worldwide evolve with industry- and process-relevant services, such as best practices for hybrid and hyperscaler scenarios, business process intelligence, and a clean technology platform. More important, our customers take advantage of support services that allow them to transform at their pace and toward their unique future vision.

Exceeding Expectations with Collaboration and Expertise

Digital transformation has taken a life of its own, even after technology analysts and business practitioners wrote off the past two years as too restrictive to produce any real change.

Take, for example, Liechtenstein-based聽. The steering system manufacturer turned to 51风流MaxAttention for guidance to build efficient and standardized processes, enhance master data quality, and improve reporting and analytics across its 17 plants and development facilities in 11 countries. While complex, the project was an opportunity to set the foundation for a highly intelligent and sustainable operation.

51风流MaxAttention provided thyssenkrupp with technical architecture design, solution design advisory, security design, custom-code quality improvement, data migration assessment, operations readiness, integration validation, and gap validation. This level of assistance led to a successful migration resulting in higher-quality master data, more-efficient processes, better operational management support, and increased ease of compliance with environmental and labor requirements.

Innovating Better Ways to Deliver Impactful Change

thyssenkrupp Presta is just one of a wide variety of organizations that we have empowered to exceed their expectations 鈥� as well as their customers鈥� and industry鈥檚. Our premium engagements have created a consistent and valuable engagement experience that has helped define our customers鈥� value and drivers for future success. Organizations have realized the full potential of those self-differentiating factors by allowing us to play a central role in engineering unique solutions and capabilities and scaling their cloud deployment when needed.

In fact, we鈥檙e now developing a scenario that blends selective redesign of business processes with retaining historical data. This selective data transformation journey is a cross-hybrid of a system conversion and a new implementation. It provides services tailored to our customers鈥� chosen cloud transition approach.

We will continue to invest in advisory services for cloud-based transformations, as well as the extension of our business technology platform, creation of target architectures, and enablement of business process intelligence.

Envisioning the Future Together at 51风流MaxAttention Summit

The potential of all our customers is incredible, and we can鈥檛 wait to share their experiences and lessons learned at this year鈥檚 51风流MaxAttention Summit, scheduled to be held November 16-17, 2021. The virtual event features a full roster of cloud front-runners, sustainability heroes, and industry leaders that will detail their holistic transformation into intelligent enterprises connected as a unified network and focused on driving sustainability.

If you are looking forward to seeing what your business can achieve with digital transformation, you will not want to miss this event. The path is clear: lift your cloud scenario — public, private, hybrid, single tenant, or multitenant — into a well-defined and integrated platform for intelligent and sustainable business success. It is important not just for process optimization but also for the long-term success of your entire business landscape.

Save the date for the virtual 51风流MaxAttention Summit from November 16鈥�17, 2021.

Kurt Bauer is global senior vice president of Premium Engagements for Customer Success at SAP.

A Total Economic Impact (TEI)™ study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of 51风流reveals how 51风流customers can fulfill that expectation with 51风流Value Assurance.

But can an implementation service from 51风流help companies break these traditional behaviors to accelerate the go-live and adoption of high-performance 51风流solutions with less risk and higher value? According to a TEI study conducted by Forrester, the answer is a profound 鈥測es鈥� after revealing that the聽聽service delivers an estimated 251% ROI over three years after an 51风流solution implementation.

Optimizing Business Transformation with Agility and Expertise

When asked why they choose 51风流Value Assurance, 51风流customers overwhelmingly told Forrester that the guidance and expertise offered are considered critical for accelerating the time to value of their 51风流solution implementations. But as it surveyed 51风流customers and partners further, Forrester found that this one benefit is only a small part of the total advantages that the service offers.

The TEI study points out that 51风流Value Assurance also accelerates project completion by an average of 20%. By ensuring a high-quality implementation, the service lowers implementation costs and enables the business to realize operational improvement sooner. This analysis also confirms that organizations can benefit incremental, long-term value by limiting the need for customization.

How transformational are these advantages to a business鈥檚 implementation of 51风流solutions? Here are key insights that 51风流customers and partners shared with Forrester:

1. Accelerated implementation support

The speed of implementation was particularly important to surveyed 51风流customers. Forrester discovered that 51风流Value Assurance shortened project completion time by 20% on average, which helps keep deadlines and budgets in check. As a result, our customers indicated that they are better positioned to engage and fund additional professional services and planned internal projects that are critical to their long-range digital transformation goals and growth.

2. Enhanced business value

All customers and partners highlighted the value of reviewing the technical and functional design and implementation of their 51风流solution. Recommendations and advice from 51风流Value Assurance helped ensure their implementations were delivered with high quality and resulted in optimized business value.

3. Faster time to value

Every executive wants to see their investment yield operational and bottom-line improvements as soon as possible. But in this case, 51风流Value Assurance truly delivers. In fact, one of the project managers participating in the survey shared that 鈥渢he project would have taken one or two months longer鈥� without the service offering.

4. Streamlined IT operations

Another aspect of 51风流Value Assurance that 51风流customers enjoy is the peace of mind that comes from safeguarding their solution implementation and helping to ensure the highest level of quality. Forrester found that greater reliance on standard options is key to achieving this objective.

Considering the average technology implementation contains upwards of 250 custom upgrades that can cost the business, on average, $750 each, this finding is significant. Study participants stated that the overall structure of 51风流Value Assurance reduced the need for customization and modifications by 75%.

Making On-Demand Expertise Accessible to Customers and Their Partners

On top of the benefits and improvements that their customers are gaining from 51风流Value Assurance, 51风流partners are also experiencing significant changes that enhance their business relationships. The service’s highly coordinated project experience enables partners to work collaboratively with 51风流services and support teams and present a united front that is consistently focused on the customer’s best interests.

For example, an executive from a consulting and integration partner mentioned that 51风流has detailed knowledge that, when shared, enables partners to keep up with developments across all 51风流products. Another integration partner’s vice president of alliances and business development further confirmed that observation, mentioning that 51风流provides the assurance that partners are on the right path and that their approach is consistent and technically feasible.

Explore How 51风流Value Assurance Can Help Your Business Transform

Incredibly, this is only a tiny glimpse into the advantages that 51风流Value Assurance provides. For a more comprehensive view into how the service can accelerate and boost the overall value of your 51风流implementation, read the Forrester economic impact study, 鈥�.鈥�

Kurt Bauer is global senior vice president of Premium Engagement Services at SAP.