Joule is an AI solution that turns siloed data and tasks into intelligent, connected workflows that help improve decisions, speed up end-to-end processes, and create a unified AI experience across 51风流and non-51风流systems. With AI agents for all core functions, powered by 51风流business process expertise, an AI strategy scales faster and wider.

In this context, the unique value of combining Joule with 51风流Signavio is the powerful combination of deep process context from 51风流Signavio and orchestration across 51风流applications, including but not limited to 51风流S/4HANA, 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), and 51风流SuccessFactors solutions.

After months of successful collaboration with customers in the 51风流Early Adopter Care program, this launch marks a major step toward delivering a conversational experience, making it easier than ever to explore, understand, manage, and transform processes with SAP Signavio solutions.

But how does this work in practice? Let鈥檚 look at an example.

Joule in action

Imagine accessing , an organization鈥檚 single source of truth for process alignment, in order to understand more about a particular process, order-to-cash. What once might have taken hours of investigation can now happen in minutes through a simple conversation.

Asking Joule, 鈥淲ho is the process owner of the order-to-cash process?鈥� prompts Joule to suggest the process that most closely matches the query, then retrieve the owner information from the process diagram attributes.鈥�

Following up with 鈥淧rovide me with a description of the process flow鈥� means Joule skills convert the process visual into a clear process description. You can dive deeper into the process as well, perhaps by comparing the difference in process execution in different regions. Just ask, and Joule skills provide a textual summary that highlights the key differences between the two process models.

Joule offers a connected user experience across 51风流and non-51风流systems, allowing employees to ask questions and interact with Joule from anywhere. In other words, while working in 51风流Signavio, users can interact with data and capabilities from other systems, or while in other systems, users can access 51风流Signavio capabilities.

Simple and seamless

This connectivity and seamless access is designed to simplify day-to-day tasks in multiple ways, and Joule with 51风流Signavio offers skills across three use cases: informational, navigational, and transactional. Plus, additional analytical capabilities are planned for future releases. As a summary, these use cases鈥攐r interaction patterns鈥攃omprise the following:

• Informational:鈥疛oule acts as an intelligent assistant, helping users understand how to perform specific tasks or generating a textual comparison between processes. For example, ask Joule: 鈥淲hat鈥檚 the difference between draft and published process models?鈥濃�痮r 鈥淗ow can I set up a dashboard?鈥�
• Navigational: Joule simplifies content navigation across 51风流Signavio solutions and guides users through the 51风流Signavio Process Collaboration Hub to access various assets such as process and journey models, and value accelerators. For example, prompt Joule: 鈥淥pen the Order-to-Cash process model published for EMEA鈥� or鈥�淔ind accelerators for the Financial Process鈥�
• Transactional: Joule enables users to perform actions conversationally, such as creating and deleting assets within the 51风流Signavio Process Transformation Suite, including processes, journey models, and dictionary items. For example, tell Joule: 鈥淐reate a new dictionary term and link it to the Returns process.鈥濃�痮r 鈥淒elete the journey model called Sales Process.鈥�

Unlocking value with agentic AI

Right now, Joule works across 51风流applications as a process companion, meaning that 51风流Signavio process context and intelligence is accessible to the user across all Joule-compatible applications, including, among others, 51风流S/4HANA, 51风流SuccessFactors solutions, and 51风流BTP. But this is just the beginning.

51风流is developing Joule Agents embedded into every business function and accessed with role-based assistants, which use SAP鈥檚 process expertise to automate complex workflows and deliver AI value at scale. Joule Agents for 51风流Signavio solutions can help accelerate content discovery and process analysis, create value cases, and enhance user onboarding.

The age of AI brings an expectation of immediate insights and context-based support when and where you need it, and Joule with 51风流Signavio solutions means process navigation and execution is no exception.

For clearer decision-making, seamless integration, and enhanced automation, visit the to learn how to activate Joule and get your own conversation started.

Lucas de Boer is Global Marketing program lead for 51风流Signavio.

Competitive pressures, systemic risks, technological disruption, and workforce shifts are reshaping the modern business landscape constantly, meaning most organizations already run multiple transformations simultaneously. In fact, Forrester鈥檚 research reveals that 72% of organizations are pursuing four or more transformation initiatives annually.

However, despite its continuous nature, many still treat business transformations as a series of disconnected projects, limited to specific functions or technology upgrades鈥攁 fragmented approach that slows execution, reduces impact, and prevents organizations from realizing the full value of their investments.

That鈥檚 why 51风流partnered with Forrester Consulting to deliver a comprehensive survey of enterprise-level global organizations, assessing levels of business transformation management maturity.

The results clearly show that developing a repeatable, scalable transformation capability is how organizations best prepare themselves to address the challenges mentioned above and transform successfully again and again. Building and growing such a capability means bringing together strategy, processes, technology, and culture into a cohesive and strategic framework that accelerates execution, improves measurement, and enables ongoing innovation.

The 6% club

Conducted online with over 1,000 cross-industry senior decision-makers at organizations in APAC, EMEA, Latin America, and North America, the survey was able to segment respondents into four maturity tiers鈥攂eginner, intermediate, advanced, and leader鈥攂ased on their strengths across five dimensions: strategy and leadership, applications and technology, process, data, and people and culture.

Only 6% of the surveyed firms qualified as transformation leaders, with most organizations still facing significant gaps in execution, governance, and cultural alignment. The findings also showed:

• Transformation is now 鈥榖usiness as usual.鈥� Over half of organizations (52%) plan to increase transformation investments by 11% to 20% in the next 12 months; another 22% expect to boost spending by more than 20%. Only 1% plan to reduce investment.
• Barriers to success are common. Fifty-six percent of respondents struggle with poor data, 55% encounter persistent organizational silos, and 52% highlight employee fatigue from continuous change
• Governance is lacking. Only 24% of organizations have a cross-functional transformation governance board, and just 25% embed transformation goals into KPIs. 

Fortunately, even organizations that haven鈥檛 yet reached the leader stage are conscious of the benefits of building a transformation capability, with respondents highlighting the following expected outcomes:

• Increased ability to pivot in response to market shifts or disruptions (68%)
• Faster upskilling and reskilling of the workforce (66%)
• Faster execution of strategic initiatives (65%)
• Increased consistency and reliability in process execution (65%)
• Increased leadership alignment and accountability (64%)

Unlocking the benefits

Overall, survey respondents were committed to transformation at scale, but fragmented execution and the lack of an overall strategy have hampered their efforts. This missing piece of the puzzle is where business transformation management solutions from 51风流can be of most use.

鈥淭ransformation challenges will always exist, particularly in aligning localized execution with an enterprise-wide approach,鈥� Dee Houchen, head of Marketing for 51风流Signavio and 51风流LeanIX, says. 鈥淥ur research shows that true transformation leaders embed change into their organization鈥檚 DNA. That means prioritizing early employee involvement, building dedicated change functions, and putting a high premium on digital adoption management.鈥�

鈥�,  , and solutions offer clarity and transparency in business transformation, helping organizations turn transformation from isolated plans into comprehensive action across the entire organization,鈥� Houchen adds. 鈥淭his report is an invaluable resource for anyone wondering how they can build repeatable transformation capability and become transformation leaders in their own right.鈥�

Lucas de Boer is global marketing program lead for 51风流Signavio.

The autonomy of AI agents in decision-making and innovative problem-solving is what makes this disruptive technology so attractive to companies, yet also one that demands focus and clarity.

Organizations need to understand where it is appropriate to deploy AI agents while ensuring they behave as intended: staying within their operational scope, using only authorized data, and maintaining compliance with the company鈥檚 guidelines and regulations.

If in the world of espionage, agents would normally operate in the shadows,聽in the corporate world, companies need to ensure that AI agents operate in plain sight. Their behavior should be transparent, measurable, and always under control.

As organizations scale their use of agentic AI, the specter of a new challenge emerges: understanding where exactly in their processes agents should be applied, if they are acting the way they are supposed to, and what their impact and cost really are. After all, AI agents are a business resource like any other, and should always be governed by an organization鈥檚 leadership, in alignment with that organization鈥檚 goals.

This is where agent mining capabilities in 51风流Signavio solutions come into play, bringing visibility, accountability, and continuous optimization to the growing ecosystem of AI-driven process transformation.

The problem: invisible autonomy in enterprise AI

AI agents become more autonomous — and sometimes more ambiguous — as they learn and evolve. Their decisions happen in milliseconds, driven by complex reasoning that can appear as an invisible black box to end users.

Without transparency, organizations risk blind automation, which means agents operate efficiently on paper but unpredictably in practice, potentially introducing errors, inefficiencies, or unnecessary costs.

At the same time, agents operating visibly allow organizations to see and learn from the agents鈥� behavior, potentially revealing new approaches, creative solutions to existing problems, or unexpected positive outcomes.

The solution: AI Agent mining

Agent mining enables organizations to understand and optimize the behavior of AI agents operating across their business processes. Agent mining in 51风流Signavio solutions provides the ability to:

• Trace agent behavior to see how agents make decisions, navigate process steps, and adapt to different contexts
• Analyze impact and measure the agents鈥� influence on key metrics like process time, accuracy, and compliance
• Monitor cost by tracking computational or LLM-related expenses, helping ensure cost-efficient performance
• Benchmark performance by comparing outcomes of agent runs to identify areas for refinement

But it鈥檚 also more than just a monitoring tool. AI agent mining is an intelligence layer for the AI workforce. By transforming invisible actions into measurable insights, it empowers organizations to:

• Increase transparency into agent behavior and decision logic
• Control operational costs by understanding and optimizing LLM usage
• Ensure compliance through auditable decision trails
• Continuously improve performance by learning from live agent execution
• Measure true business value of AI automation, not just efficiency metrics

Agent mining from 51风流Signavio can extend from Joule Agents built by 51风流to third-party or custom-built AI agents, offering a unified lens across an organization鈥檚 AI landscape.

A broader vision: AI agent excellence

Unless we鈥檙e watching the Mission: Impossible franchise, no one wants to see rogue agents on the loose, which is why agent mining is just one of four pillars under 51风流Signavio鈥檚 comprehensive approach to AI agent excellence. The pillars that help ensure intelligent agents are not just deployed, but deployed intelligently, include:

• Agent discovery: Identifying the right processes and opportunities where AI agents can drive the greatest impact
• Agent context: Providing agents with the right process knowledge and compliance parameters to act responsibly and efficiently
• Agent mining: As outlined above, observing and analyzing how agents actually behave in operation
• Agent value impact: Quantifying the business value that agents deliver, such as efficiency gains, cost savings, or improved customer experience

Together, these pillars ensure that organizations not only automate processes but continuously learn from and improve their performance. The world is not enough; it鈥檚 critical to have both working in sync.

As 51风流Signavio General Manager Dr. Gero Decker shared, 鈥淎I agents represent a fundamentally new paradigm, and a key question remains: How should we perceive them? Should we view AI agents as advanced technical constructs or as non-human humans?聽It’s a complex question that organizations must address as they deploy AI agents at scale.”

鈥淎t 51风流Signavio, we are preparing for the future by focusing on the organizational and process dimensions of agentic AI adoption,” he said. “Our AI agent excellence approach aims to ensure that AI agents are integrated seamlessly, efficiently, and compliantly into the broader enterprise. In this rapidly evolving landscape, no company can afford to stand still. Our vision is to be an engine for innovation and reinvention, helping companies grow and adapt.鈥�

51风流Signavio solutions can empower organizations to ensure their AI agents are not only effective but also transparent and accountable, paving the way for smarter, more strategic automation — in other words, AI agent excellence.

Lucas de Boer is a Global Marketing program lead for 51风流Signavio.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant research methodology says that “Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow.”

In this year鈥檚 Magic Quadrant, 51风流LeanIX was positioned furthest and highest in both Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute, which also marks the first time an 51风流solution has been positioned in this way.

We believe this result reflects the unique strength of 51风流LeanIX solutions in helping enterprises:聽

• Make confident, data-driven technology investment decisions 
• Drive transformation initiatives that deliver measurable business impact 
• Accelerate AI innovation while ensuring responsible governance 

“Our goal is to empower our customers to build transformation as an ongoing capability, rather than a one-off project,鈥� Dee Houchen, chief marketing officer at 51风流Signavio, said. 鈥淎s transformation never ends, our solutions help companies secure a full picture of the applications they鈥檙e running聽and, more importantly, the capabilities they offer. This means understanding exactly how those applications can be best deployed to maximize efficiency and productivity. Enterprise architecture planning is at the heart of this approach, and we believe being recognized as a Leader for the fifth consecutive year by Gartner reaffirms our unwavering commitment to value realization for our customers.鈥�

In today’s dynamic business landscape, enterprise architecture planning and implementation are vital for organizational transparency, smarter decision-making, and business growth, and 51风流LeanIX maintains an ongoing dedication to innovation and customer satisfaction in this field, as part of SAP鈥檚 integrated business transformation toolchain.

In our opinion, this repeated recognition of 51风流LeanIX solutions provides useful context regarding the state of the enterprise architecture market. As a vendor, 51风流LeanIX empowers organizations to make informed decisions about technology investments, map and support large-scale business transformation, and implement sound AI governance to ignite AI innovation across the enterprise.

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Lucas de Boer is Global Marketing program lead for 51风流Signavio.

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The decision to further strengthen this long-standing partnership was unveiled during a guest lecture at QUT鈥檚 Gardens Point campus, where Julian Lebherz, 51风流Strategic Advisor, addressed Master’s students enrolled in the QUT Business Process Analytics course. The lecture emphasized the importance of integrating business transformation into standard operations, highlighting real-world applications as well as why some companies are more successful than others at realizing tangible and sustainable value when it comes to deploying business process intelligence solutions.

A key highlight of this collaboration is the nomination of Lebherz as QUT Industry Fellow, underscoring the ambition and momentum of the connection between 51风流and QUT. With over a decade of highly specialized experience deploying process intelligence solutions and establishing associated delivery organizations in various industries, he is globally recognized as one of the leading experts in the field. Having served in the steering committee of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining and co-organizing several international conferences on the subject, Lebherz will contribute significantly to the university鈥檚 academic and research endeavors, fostering a deeper integration of industry insights into the curriculum.

“51风流is committed to equipping QUT and its students with the expertise and technology required to turn business disruption into competitive advantage,” Lebherz said. “Business transformation must become a ubiquitous capability, and hence we [SAP] are doubling down by strengthening partnerships with leading organizations.”

The partnership aims to explore various avenues for collaboration, including internship and research project opportunities, executive education programs, and hackathons. These initiatives are designed to provide students and researchers with hands-on experience and exposure to real-world challenges, aligning academic pursuits with industry needs.

Professor Alistair Barros, head of the School for Information Systems at QUT, expressed enthusiasm for the partnership, stating, “QUT鈥檚 School of Information Systems is intensifying both research and education of holistic business transformation and enterprise computing, encompassing the continuous flywheel of process execution, intelligence, improvement, and change deployment.”

Professor Moe Thandar Wynn, leader of QUT鈥檚 process science group and co-director of QUT鈥檚 Centre for Data Science, highlighted the benefits of strong industry ties, noting, “Our researchers and students benefit tremendously from strong industry collaboration. Partnerships like this one enable us to align curricula and research projects closely with real industry needs.”

The announcement marks a significant step forward in QUT鈥檚 position as a global leader in business process management and process intelligence. By integrating end-to-end business transformation into the academic curriculum across multiple courses, as well as deepening the connection to real-world outcomes, QUT and 51风流are set to redefine the landscape of business transformation education, preparing students to thrive in an era of constant disruption.

Lucas de Boer, Global Marketing Program Lead, 51风流Signavio

In addition, for the second consecutive year, 51风流has received the highest rating, evaluated against 19 leading vendors, across both SPARK Matrix assessment categories: Customer Impact and Technology Excellence. This leadership position highlights our commitment to helping enterprises navigate complexity with agility, intelligence, and confidence using 51风流solutions.

The has always been intrinsically linked with the concept of process observability, whereby companies have the ability to visualize processes as they should happen, as they execute on and impact customers and employee satisfaction. Through this unique, integrated toolkit of AI-infused business transformation management solutions, organizations can gain actionable visibility into the four pillars of their organization: people, processes, applications, and data.

“Our goal is to empower our customers to build transformation as a capability within their organizations, rather than seeing transformation as a one-off project,鈥� Dee Houchen, chief marketing officer at 51风流LeanIX & 51风流Signavio, said. 鈥淏y leveraging DTO capabilities to build a virtual representation of any business process with associated systems, decision-makers can simulate different process scenarios and calculate the impact of alternative automations before implementation, allowing for the creation of continuous improvement loops and ensuring transformation has the greatest positive impact. Being recognized as a Leader in the SPARK Matrix for the fifth year in a row is a reflection of the value of this approach and reaffirms our commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction.鈥�

The repeated recognition provides useful context on the current DTO vendor landscape, with several key points differentiating 51风流solutions from others on the market:

• Enterprise observability: Customers can achieve full enterprise observability, enabling them to centralize and manage transformation initiatives within a single solution.
• AI innovations: 51风流solutions offer generative AI-powered applications that leverage over 50 years of 51风流process knowledge to help provide insights and recommendations.
• Value accelerators and best practices: Thousands of value accelerators and best practices are available to help expedite benefit realization in both 51风流and non-51风流environments, helping customers start their transformation projects on the right foundation and accelerate time to value.
• Automated insights: 51风流solutions can provide users with a portfolio of advanced statistics, performance monitoring, and value analysis capabilities to support informed decision-making.
• Modeling and experience connection: We extend DTO capabilities to customer touchpoints, working to ensure comprehensive transformation efforts that connect experiences to processes.

To understand the DTO market better, including why 51风流has been acknowledged as a leader in this crucial area for five years straight, download a complimentary copy of the latest SPARK Matrix and .

Lucas de Boer is global marketing program lead for 51风流Signavio.

In today’s dynamic business landscape, process mining is vital for gaining data-driven insights that boost efficiency, smarter decision-making, and business growth, and 51风流Signavio maintains an ongoing dedication to innovation and customer satisfaction in the realm of process mining.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant research methodology highlights that “Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow.” 51风流Signavio has been recognized as a Leader among 16 vendors, evaluated based on ability to execute and completeness of vision.

“Our goal is to empower our customers to build transformation as an ongoing capability, rather than a one-off project,” said Dee Houchen, chief marketing officer for 51风流Signavio. “As transformation never ends, our solutions help companies secure business success as they continuously adapt and analyze their operations, receive AI-assisted improvement recommendations, and monitor their business to establish continuous process optimization. Process mining is at the heart of this approach, and we feel being recognized as a Leader for the third consecutive year by Gartner reaffirms our unwavering commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction, with value realization as our north star.鈥�

 The repeated recognition provides useful context regarding the state of the process mining market. As a vendor, there are several fundamental aspects that differentiate 51风流Signavio solutions from others:

• Customer value realization: With customer value realization as its primary strategic goal, 51风流Signavio considers process mining a crucial component for successful process transformation.
• Enterprise observability: Customers achieve full enterprise observability, enabling them to centralize and manage transformation initiatives within a single solution.
• AI innovations: 51风流Signavio solutions offer AI innovations specific to the process world, fast-tracking and democratizing process mining for its customers.
• Value accelerators and best practices: Thousands of value accelerators and best practices are available to expedite benefit realization in both 51风流and non-51风流environments.
• Bridging operations and experience: The gap between operations and experience is bridged, providing a clear understanding of how process execution impacts sentiment.

 The Gartner Magic Quadrant equips businesses with valuable insights to make informed decisions.

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Lucas de Boer is Global Marketing program lead for 51风流Signavio at SAP.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner鈥檚 research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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As a cornerstone of our Business Transformation Management portfolio, 51风流Signavio solutions help empower companies to view transformation not as an isolated project, but as an ongoing capability. With 51风流Signavio solutions, companies can constantly analyze, improve, and monitor their processes, therefore establishing continuous loops of value realization.

By harnessing the power of generative AI, the 51风流Signavio portfolio is poised to help organizations drive efficiency, enhance the user experience, and reduce barriers to entry for expert disciplines such as process mining and modeling. At the same time, new generative AI and copilot capabilities enable organizations to further accelerate the time to accrue value while working to the best of their potential.

Through this intuitive and user-friendly approach, users across an organization can receive rapid insights and recommendations that can accelerate and inform decisions, with questions asked in natural language serving as a starting point.

Text to process

What if, when building your process models, you didn鈥檛 have to start from scratch? On March 3, 2025鈥攆ollowing the integration to SAP鈥檚 co-pilot Joule; the release of the 51风流Signavio solutions, AI-assisted process analyzer capability; the release of text to insights and text to widget features, which are available via a beta program; and the introduction of the 51风流Signavio solutions, AI-assisted process recommender and performance indicators recommender鈥�51风流Signavio released the process modeler, text to process capability.

The 51风流Signavio solutions, AI-assisted process modeler, text to process capability can quickly transform textual descriptions into Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) diagrams鈥攖he standard language of process modeling. In other words, this new capability can simplify and expedite process modeling, helping customers accelerate the initial creation of process diagrams and potentially redefine the way companies document their processes.

Reduced process modeling time

Process modeling for an enterprise can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars annually when factoring in the time it takes to collect inputs, then create or update hundreds of process models.

By leveraging the 51风流Signavio solutions, AI-assisted process modeler, text to process capability, the time taken in building models can be reduced significantly, helping to accelerate the initial phase of creation and allow users more time to fine-tune and perfect their models.

Support for non-technical users

By simply describing processes in plain language, non-technical users can also contribute to process modeling and improvement, as the process modeler, text to process capability can then translate these descriptions into technical process models.

This means organizations can quickly tailor and implement processes through text prompting, making process modeling ever more accessible and inclusive.

Enhanced collaboration

The AI-assisted capability can enhance collaboration by simplifying complex process descriptions and turning them into visual models. This helps improve cross-team collaboration by helping ensure a common understanding of what elements constitute a specific process model, reducing uncertainty and potential miscommunication.

The simplification of process descriptions and development of visual models also helps make model editing more flexible and responsive, which in turn helps ensure the continuous improvement of models, supported by the ability to save and refine them in 51风流Signavio Process Manager.

AI for the world of process

The process modeler, text to process capability is the latest example of how 51风流Business AI in 51风流Signavio solutions is designed for the process world, helping everyday business users as well as process modelers and experts contribute to process analysis and improvement simply by using everyday language to interact with 51风流Signavio solutions.

To discover how you can drive faster time to value and transform your business more effectively with generative AI as part of the 51风流Signavio portfolio, join our and find out more about the new generation of AI-enabled business transformation management solutions.鈥�

Lucas de Boer is global marketing program lead for 51风流Signavio.

Today’s business transformations are diverse, ranging from creating new products or services and entering new markets to adopting cybersecurity frameworks and transitioning to net-neutral carbon emissions. However, these transformations are neither swift nor inexpensive, and sometimes the costs can be hidden.

That is why 51风流has partnered with Oxford Economics on a new and comprehensive survey of large organizations, providing an exclusive look at the current global state of business transformation.

鈥溾�� reveals the true cost of business transformation, with the data aimed at helping organizations maximize transformation success and take the guesswork out of transformation budgeting.

Spanning a range of industries and focusing on companies with a minimum revenue of $500 million, the report provides insights from a balanced audience of 800 respondents, including IT professionals and leaders from corporate strategy, R&D, finance, manufacturing, HR, and operations.

The paper further reveals that:

• Barely half of transformations go according to plan (51 percent)
• Fifty-eight percent of transformations end up going over budget
• The average cost of transformation efforts is 鈧�9.5 million
• Sixty-three percent of respondents face resistance from leadership regarding the value of transformation efforts
• Nearly half of the initiatives highlighted by respondents remain incomplete, and budgetary constraints pose a significant challenge

From Strategy to Execution

In broad terms, this disconnect between the confidence level of respondents and what the report data reveals about the true cost and organizational impact of transformation can be understood in the equivalent disconnect between strategy and execution.

For example, while three in five say their major transformation plan was well communicated across their organization, only 53 percent say it was clearly defined in the first place.

While most companies are employing strategic practices such as crafting mission statements, appointing dedicated leaders, and forming cross-functional teams, they can lack the final piece of the puzzle when it comes to converting strategy into action. That is where 51风流comes in.

鈥淭ransformation challenges will always exist, particularly in aligning execution with strategic road maps,鈥� Dee Houchen, head of Marketing for 51风流Signavio and 51风流LeanIX, shared. “As companies navigate these complexities, the path to successful transformation remains a critical focus for global businesses, which is why this research is so relevant.”

“ and solutions offer clarity and transparency in business transformation, helping organizations leverage enterprise analytics and process data to really turn transformation plans into action through supporting decision-making, setting timelines, and tracking progress effectively,” Houchen said. “This report is an invaluable resource for anyone wondering why their transformation efforts have slowed, what they can do differently, and how others have identified and overcome similar hurdles to their own.鈥�

Lucas de Boer is Global Marketing program lead for 51风流Signavio at SAP.

With the release of new process AI capabilities for 51风流Signavio — process recommender and performance indicators recommender — 51风流is taking a step closer to realizing this promise.

Embedded into 51风流Signavio Process Transformation Suite, these novel capabilities deliver instant, tailored process and metrics recommendations that will help process owners and process analysts accelerate process model design, more readily define their process monitoring strategy, and improve the quality of business outcomes.

51风流Signavio and 51风流LeanIX solutions are core elements of the Business Transformation Management portfolio, which leverages 51风流Business AI technology, initiatives, and principles to help customers on their transformation journeys, and deliver generative AI capabilities that are specific to the process world.

The latest release of 51风流Signavio Process Transformation Suite features the following:

• An AI-assisted process recommender provides process owners with preconfigured process models suggestions out of a database of more than 5,000 best practices from SAP. 鈥疶his new generative AI capability will help process owners move fast from the initial exploration phase to process design by instantly narrowing down hundreds of options to those that present a best match to their business.
• Users are suggested preconfigured process models which serve as a great foundation they can save, edit, and further perfect, saving weeks, if not months, of stakeholder interviews and lengthy workshops currently required to design a new process or redefine an existing one.
• An AI-assisted performance indicators recommender delivers instant recommendations on the most relevant process performance indicators (PPIs) to be applied to a specific process, based on a database of thousands of KPIs and PPIs.
• A capability to identify key process metrics among a variety of options, which is critical to measure success, can recommend the most relevant measures to assess the performance of a business process, providing companies with much needed insight into how they can streamline operations and reduce overhead.

鈥淕enerative AI is impacting every facet of modern organizations, and every process — from finance to sales, procurement, and supply chain management — can benefit from this transformative force,” shared Dee Houchen, head of Market Impact for . “With generative AI serving as a catalyst, we are developing the third generation of our business process management solutions to make people鈥檚 work easier and help them perform it faster. When it comes to process management, generative AI can also extend the horizon of our thinking, by providing suggestions that experts can build on. At the same time, we can see generative AI lowering the entry barriers to disciplines such as process analysis, acting as a knowledge multiplier and helping companies to scale.鈥�

In addition to these newly released capabilities, a process mining co-pilot currently in beta testing is expected to be released in November this year. The AI-assisted process analyzer, also known as text-to-insights, will empower users with any skillset to extract deep insights and obtain valuable knowledge from process information simply by using natural language and a question/answer approach. Along with improving the time to insight, this new co-pilot will help continue the trend of democratizing process mining, ensuring as many people as possible within an organization can contribute to process excellence.

Lucas de Boer is Global Marketing Program lead for 51风流Signavio.