Beyond the technologies being deployed, the ability to use them meaningfully in daily work is becoming central. This is also seen as the major challenge of AI adoption. Developing AI skills has thus become a strategic priority.

For 51风流customers and partners, the question is how to upskill their teams effectively. Because without the right skills and abilities, the best software is useless.

Here you’ll find seven tips for developing AI skills specifically for the 51风流context.

1. Learn the fundamentals of AI

There are many learning resources for the basics in the form of e-learning courses or webinars. Some are even free, such as many courses from SAP. We’ve compiled key : on AI in general, Joule, and 51风流Business AI, as well as the important topic of ethics and responsible AI.

2. Self-assessment: Where do I stand?

Everyone should understand the fundamentals of AI; after that, you can deepen your knowledge in targeted areas. The can help with this self-reflection. Here you can rate yourself in the areas of awareness, m, knowledge, and application skills. The topic areas include Joule, including copilot and agents; embedded AI; machine learning services on 51风流Business Technology Platform; 51风流Build and Joule Studio; responsible AI; and implementation of 51风流Business AI. First results show that many respondents show a high motivation, while technical application skills still need more improvement. 

3. Deepening by topic and role: Which AI skills are still needed?

Once you’ve assessed yourself as a team or individual, the various 51风流learning offerings鈥攊nformation also 鈥攃an help you create your own learning plan. Looking at the relevant topic areas, your own role, and preferred learning formats makes orientation and selection easier.

4. Set learning goals and document successes

Many people find it helpful to set concrete learning goals and schedule specific learning times; for example, in their own calendar. Documenting and reflecting on learning progress and “aha” moments also helps you and others, whether through blogs on 51风流Community, a personal learning journal in digital notes, or simply verbally within your team. AI certification like for might also be a more formal way to check and document your skills.

5. Learn from and with others

In peer learning, you learn through barcamps, workshops, discussion rounds, communities, study groups, networking meetups, or promptathons, a type of hackathon where small groups solve challenges from their daily work using AI tools. Along with SAP, companies like Deutsche Telekom and Continental are already using this format.

Learning through exchange in communities鈥攕uch as the with its many blogs and discussions鈥攊s another format for learning with peers. also offers numerous led by 51风流experts where you can ask questions.

6. Learn through experience and doing

With such generic technologies as AI, it’s important for everyone to explore for themselves where AI can help them and to try things hands-on. Whether in learning projects where you experiment with and reflect on new AI tools, or in team workshops. For workshops, the with templates can help鈥攊ncluding for , , 51风流Business AI design, and 51风流Business AI exploration. Discovery and exploration should happen at the strategic level, but it’s also very helpful at the team level. The practice systems in can also assist with hands-on practice as you see Joule and embedded AI features in many training systems.

7. Regularly review and update your AI skills: How can I keep up to date?

The field of AI is evolving rapidly, so regular learning, updating, and trying out new tools is essential. Podcasts, the resources mentioned in this article, , and the diverse array of can help with this. Or why not build your own news-update agent for your own context?

Summary and outlook

AI learning in the 51风流ecosystem is a business-critical, continuous task. You only understand AI by applying it and actively engaging with it. Additionally, it’s important to adapt to these new technologies鈥攐r even to completely rethink tasks and processes. Complete a self-assessment, create a learning plan by yourself and with your peers, and book the learning offerings relevant to you today.

Thomas Jenewein is a business development manager at SAP.

In 2018, Detecon, part of Deutsche Telekom鈥檚 group of companies, started replacing its legacy ERP systems with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. The company was eager and committed to gaining competitive advantage through more agile processes while emphasizing its leadership in digitalization.聽

For the new system migration to succeed, Detecon put together a core team. However, one of the biggest challenges in the project was ensuring the company鈥檚 customer projects were not neglected during the process and remained top priority. It quickly became clear that the resources of the core team were not always 100% available 鈥� additional support was urgently needed to keep up with the demand.

51风流Preferred Success Helps Detecon Migrate to the Cloud

Detecon needed support, mainly in the areas of finance and professional service, and relied on 51风流consulting experts working alongside 51风流Preferred Success for additional expert guidance. It was an efficient combo, .

51风流Preferred Success is a service that can provide a full, personalized set of guidance resources, including proactive release guidance, regular success checks, tailored learning offerings, enhanced service-level agreements, and access to an exclusive catalog of value-add services 鈥� all designed to help make the transition to the cloud as smooth as possible.

Effective Collaboration Between Detecon and SAP

To proceed with the cloud migration, Detecon engaged in weekly meetings with the 51风流Preferred Success team to discuss and determine areas that needed more attention. During this time, a customer success partner from 51风流evaluated Detecon鈥檚 adoption of the software, made required recommendations for further improvement, and remained accessible as an 51风流point-of-contact to answer questions and provide overall guidance.

Moving to the cloud requires expertise and a well-thought-out strategy. It is paramount to allocate enough time for the planning phase, put together a stable project team, and have additional expert guidance on hand to support when the required expertise is not available in-house.

Interested in 51风流Preferred Success? Schedule an appointment with your account executive or visit the .

This article originally appeared on the German 51风流News Center.

When you move to the cloud, a few things change in your daily life. For example, you will see regular changes to the user interface or new functionalities released at a regular cadence, which is quite different from when your end users are used to an on-premise solution. Therefore, your organization needs a different support model, too. Employees require more training and technical and organizational change management strategies.

And that鈥檚 what聽聽is designed for: to help you take an advanced step toward the adoption of cloud software in a simpler, faster, safer way. The offering can be an always-there companion to help you work in cloud solutions from 51风流and help make you more successful 鈥� for example, through increased productivity and more efficient business processes. In a nutshell, it can be your helpful guidance and support model for working in the digital environment.

51风流Preferred Success Offers Ongoing Support聽

51风流Preferred Success can deliver a wide range of guidance to support businesses in running as efficiently as possible in the cloud through continuous access to subject-matter experts when a roadblock or simple question arises. In addition, 51风流Preferred Success can deliver an adoption strategy plan tailored to your exact business goals. You can benefit from regular success checks and analyses to help optimize your use of 51风流software. Your聽51风流Preferred Success聽customer success partner can identify new functions, so-called key features, that may be worth adopting based on your solution goals.

But the offering goes even further to help 51风流customers utilize 51风流software to its full potential. The custom-tailored plan can provide accelerated access to cloud services and advice on the latest functional features that might be of interest to your business. Last but certainly not least, the service can offer ongoing learning opportunities for end users and solution administrators, as well as change management support from 51风流experts. This also can include enhanced service-level agreement targets, including priority processing of select support requests.聽

Achieve Benefits with 51风流Preferred Success

Many organizations already rely on guidance from 51风流Preferred Success. These include , Europe鈥檚 leading photo service provider聽, specialty chemicals company聽,聽and the .

,聽quantified 51风流Preferred Success benefits for a composite organization comprised of 254 participating businesses. Benefits included:

• 10% faster implementation
• 24% boost in productivity by reducing more than 50% of incident tickets
• 25% time savings in release management
• 30% improvement to business process efficiency

Designed to Accompany 51风流Customers in the Cloud

Moving to the cloud can be a challenge. That鈥檚 why the offering includes change management to help accelerate the transition and make it as efficient and sustainable as possible.

However, the plan can also help 51风流customers already working in the cloud utilize cloud solutions from 51风流to their full potential. For example, regular success checks and recommendations for newly released functionalities in 51风流Preferred Success can be useful even to an experienced solution administrator.

Access Continuous Training with 51风流Preferred Success

With 51风流Preferred Success, solution administrators and power users can receive ongoing learning opportunities through exclusive access to , our digital learning program. The offer is valid for five users, up to 100 hours and two attempts to achieve 51风流solution certifications.

Want to learn more? Schedule an appointment with your account manager or visit

This article originally appeared on 51风流News Center Germany.

We have come a long way since the early days of cloud computing. When cloud applications entered the world of business IT, executives鈥� main points of consideration were pricing and costs. For the first time, companies were able to shift their capital expenditures (CAPEX) in IT to operating expenses (OPEX) 鈥� thanks to subscription models. The results were more financial flexibility, less risk, and a more reasonable taxing model. For cloud customers, there is no longer a need for owning servers, which means that there is also a lower cost of ownership (TCO) when it comes to IT investments.

In the last couple of years, more and more companies have moved their entire business to the cloud. During that time, a cloud mindset started to take shape. While there is no actual definition of what a cloud mindset is, there are certain perceptions, as a quick poll on LinkedIn shows.

The poll results are by no means a representation of what defines a cloud mindset. Nevertheless, they do reflect the discussion topics that arise among our clients. The diverse backgrounds of the poll participants 鈥� developers, consultants, IT managers, and users 鈥� also influenced how they voted. Employees today expect IT to be intuitive, personalized, and adaptable. IT operations are no longer here to just keep the lights on, but are expected to help transform the business, automating processes and leveraging technology and integration platforms for new cloud applications. And especially since the pandemic hit, companies have been experiencing the importance of fast adaptability of processes to rapidly changing market situations. Agility is key.

Learning in a Cloud-First World

While managers and employees alike are adopting a cloud mindset, something else is shifting as well in the cloud: our needs on how we learn new skills and how we approach change 鈥� for IT experts and users.

Agile working needs to result in agile learning.
The agile approach to working focuses on the users and their more autonomous, iterative, and collaborative way of working. It can be applied to training and learning as well. In an agile cloud-based environment, employees need to drive their personal growth more independently. They decide what, when, and how they learn 鈥� in a less formalized and more demand-driven way. Learning becomes explorative, collaborative, and iterative. That doesn鈥檛 mean classrooms and guided learning will be replaced, but they will be enhanced by formats such as bar camps, hackathons, mentoring, or learning circles.

Continuous learning is imperative to keep up with the cloud.
When the tools they use every day are constantly updated, employees need a simple, transparent, and quick way to keep up. is an answer to that need. Depending on their role and current experience, 51风流experts can learn about the latest functionality of solutions like 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, 51风流SuccessFactors solutions, or 51风流Ariba solutions, and update their knowledge in a granular way. New training content like videos or quizzes are made available for 51风流Cloud product releases through . The program offers users a more regular and shorter way to update and keep their 51风流Certifications valid.

Learning as a working experience.
Apart from the content itself, the learning experience has become crucial for user adoption. Learning tools need to be user-friendly and customizable. Whether users are learning on their own schedule and device or in the moment of need in the application itself, training must adapt to the user and the respective working context in a cloud world. One way to support this is the 51风流Companion service: employees can learn the ins and outs of an application while they are using it, wherever they are. All learning materials are provided through and can be changed and updated by knowledge experts within the company.

How the Cloud Impacts Change Management

While adopting a cloud mindset changes companies鈥� approaches to learning, it also impacts change management. Why?

In general, change management is crucial for any project 鈥� and especially when implementing or upgrading to a new digital platform. In the past, however, companies were used to a high degree of IT customization, which made change management a complex task. Time and resources were difficult to estimate and allocate, and some companies refrained from doing it all together. With the advent of the cloud, the paradigm has shifted. IT solutions and processes have become more standardized, thus also influencing change management. It has become easier and faster to plan and put into practice with the right methodology and knowledge. Now, there is no excuse not to do it.

Migrating IT processes to the cloud constitutes a large-scale change. After this initial shift come many incremental changes on a quarterly and even monthly basis, impacting how companies manage their IT operations. As hardware handling is transferred to the cloud vendor, the process and change handling is a new challenge for IT departments 鈥� which often changes their operating models as well. For example, they start combining software development and operations of their IT landscape by switching to the DevOps methodology.聽The cloud and centralization of IT also mean that employees have more central access to data to make decisions based on facts and numbers. The framework provides a guideline on how change management can be altered to accommodate these changes.

Understanding the impact of the change and the upcoming transformation is the first important step to increasing readiness. That is why 51风流considers an integral part of project implementation and works to ensure its alignment with methodologies such as 鈥� a guided process to help deploy, adopt, and extend new capabilities across an organization.

Thus, it is crucial to educate everyone on the importance and relevance of the cloud. Having clearly outlined benefits and defining expectations for every employee within their specific role will boost confidence and speed up the adoption of the software. It will ultimately also increase the commitment and motivation to change.

Developing a Cloud Mindset Is a Cultural Shift

Mindset plays a critical role in how people cope with life situations. It is a result of our values and attitudes as an individual. And these, in turn, are often shaped by past conditioning and external influences, as we are continually learning and unlearning behaviors. Effective change management therefore does not aim at changing the mindset of individual people. Rather it focuses on influencing the very culture that shapes these mindsets.

With expert knowledge on organizational culture, change, and transformation, for example, companies can lay the groundwork for a successful shift. They need to create environments where growth can thrive and where learning and applying new mental models is just as important as unlearning old ones that no longer serve us.

Thomas Jenewein is a business development manager for 51风流Training and Adoption.

Networked systems, analytics for decision-making, and modern infrastructures form the IT foundation of an intelligent enterprise. , which is already empowering global organizations such as Pfeiffer and the NBA, is more than the technical implementation of 51风流S/4HANA and the move to the cloud. It places equal importance on transforming existing business processes for the digital age and developing completely new ones. After all, innovation is the basis of tomorrow’s business models. And any transformation must pay close attention to a third aspect: people.

With the courage to change and the knowledge of new processes and tasks, project teams and end users determine the success of transformations. That鈥檚 why change management and employee training are key for efforts.

Basic learning opportunities for the transition to the new digital world are already included:

• 51风流experts gain access to e-learning, learning communities, training systems, and regular updates via included 51风流Learning Hub licenses.
• Users learn how to use the software within the application via a Web assistant, which features a content library of free standard guided tours, documentation, and tutorials.

Sascha Thiery, head of Deutsche Telekom’s 51风流S/4HANA Academy, also sees the relevance of further training. The academy plays a decisive role in ensuring that Europe’s largest mobile communications provider maintains its own “innovation leadership in the digital market,” as Thiery puts it. “Due to digital transformation and the resulting technological changes, there is a huge need for retraining all skill roles,” Thiery said.

Those who want to fully prepare their teams should also take advantage of additional offers.

Ensuring Acceptance for Change and Adoption of Solutions

The first question is: how can we motivate all employees for the transformation project right from the start? After all, teams that have been working together for years are accustomed to their existing workflows and tools.

The holistic approach of 51风流Training and Adoption can help with as well as training. Starting with a change impact assessment and a training needs analysis, 51风流experts first examine the specific status and options for action. To put it simply, the goal is to transparently communicate the course of the project and the benefits of the new solutions and processes to everyone involved so that they can see their concrete personal advantages.

However, in order to also change practices after the transformation and to use the full potential of the new solutions, more than motivation and ownership of the project is needed. All users must be familiar with the capabilities of the new software that are relevant to them and be able to use them confidently. A well-thought-out training strategy can therefore increase the success of a RISE with 51风流project many times over. In combination with change management, it turns employees into agents of change.

Moving to Continuous Learning

51风流Training and Adoption can support companies in creating and implementing an individual training strategy. At the beginning of the project, 51风流experts focus on training the project members. Employees acquire the latest 51风流knowledge firsthand and practice directly on training systems that support knowledge transfer. Even in-depth content is quickly internalized during the exchange with trainers and other learners.

In the Intelligent Enterprise, processes and software functions are constantly evolving. Because of this, every skill and every piece of knowledge has a shorter half-life than before. Continuous learning is correspondingly important. A cloud-based learning platform like makes this possible. Whether they choose from online courses that interest them or through the software that automatically suggests learning depending on their role 鈥� employees continue their educational flexibly at their own pace and on their own time. Last year, for example, Porsche subsidiary MHP used 51风流Learning Hub to alone.

The guides can help you find the right courses among the extensive training options. The visualized recommendations illustrate the best-practice learning path to mastering a solution, subdivided by specialist area and industry. Among the many 51风流Learning Journey guides on RISE with SAP, there is now also one specifically for .

Another option for efficient training for RISE with 51风流is , with separate programs for RISE with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud. Here, participants can benefit from the advantages of different learning methods and flexibly prepare for their RISE with 51风流projects in a blended learning approach. They can combine virtual 51风流Learning Class courses, which are moderated and guided by 51风流instructors, with self-study via 51风流Learning Hub and conclude with 51风流consultant certification.

For end users, formalized training with standard 51风流content is okay, but not the most efficient method. With the Web assistant service, employees can receive immediate support for their questions directly in their 51风流applications. This includes interactive documentation, embedded learning programs, and guided tours providing answers in the flow of work. A wide range of learning content on 51风流S/4HANA and other solutions is available and is constantly being expanded by SAP. With the help of , companies can adapt the existing content or create new content and thus individually design the continuous training of their team.

“RISE with 51风流is a complete package; in addition to software and services, learning for experts and users is also integrated,” explains Guido Gr眉ne, head of 51风流Training and Adoption, Central and Eastern Europe. Customers and partners keep reporting back on how crucial this is. “These topics are sometimes forgotten, but they are critical to success,” he added.

In a new open51风流course, you will learn the prerequisites for a successful business transformation to the cloud, how the technical migration works, and on which methods and concepts an intelligent enterprise is based. .

Regular updates on 51风流training and certifications can also be found in the . Also, visit for more information and discussion with experts.

Thomas Jenewein is a business development manager for 51风流Training and Adoption.

Entire industries are repositioning themselves on their journey to meet the demand for different approaches to business that did not exist before. Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are also fundamentally and increasingly changing the processes. The software for business transformation is being implemented under the leadership of the CIO, sometimes at a rapid pace.

However, the software is ultimately and primarily used by employees who were not involved in the selection process. Many of these employees and managers initially stick to their usual processes and are concerned about what changes an implementation of something such as 51风流S/4HANA will concretely mean for their everyday lives. It鈥檚 a human reaction, of course, but one whose consequences are often underestimated because work runs less efficiently, more errors can occur, and sometimes even shadow IT is created.

The Human Factor in Change Management

Oliver Kohnke emphasizes the importance of the human component in the change process. As Global Director of at 51风流Learning Services, he also recommends supporting change management digitally 鈥� through virtual workshops or semi-automated surveys and evaluations. He shares two lessons: in IT change projects, especially in the cloud world, we see less degrees of freedom than in other change projects. Efficiency and humanity should not be mutually exclusive.

It’s not just the IT experts who need to understand the new applications 鈥� it’s the entire management team and employees, according to Dr. Torben Mauch, head of Change Management at 51风流partner Nagarro ES. He knows from experience that a business transformation is only an IT project at first glance. “Thinking in terms of departments and old processes is often a major obstacle,” says Mauch in the EducationNewscast podcast. Change management, he says, needs to do much more than just explain the purpose of an 51风流implementation. It should get employees excited about the shared journey, actively involve them in shaping the new processes, and take concerns seriously as well as work to resolve them.

Change affects an organization鈥檚 people as well as the organization itself. 51风流calls this organizational change management. Ideally, it begins with a change assessment. In the planning phase of the implementation project, interviews and workshops with the most important project participants determine how the organizational structures, roles, and responsibilities within the company already fit with the vision. The next step is evaluating the people affected by the transformation and to what extent change management processes and competencies are in place.

Crisp Communication and a Shared Future

Change agents are then called upon to realize the change management concept. They represent their respective areas in the company, come together in a change network, and exchange and reflect on information about the necessary changes at regular intervals. At least that’s how it went at Evonik, where the chemical company’s migration affected about 15,000 users. “Because of this, we appointed coordinators from various business units and brought them to the table alongside representatives from communications,” explains Vali Maria Bluma, transformation office lead for Operations Excellence at Evonik. “With such a large undertaking, it is important to create clarity on the topic.”

Bluma鈥檚 recommendation from this experience is to communicate all important innovations concisely and precisely using figures, data, and facts. This includes how many employees in which regions will be affected. The change agents become liaisons between the management level and the respective departments and are available as contacts and multipliers for both parties.

Division managers often take on the role of a change agent. Anne Charlotte Luchtenveld, head of Talent and Development at Sch眉lke & Mayr, is a case in point. She manages the HR transformation of the disinfectant manufacturer. She sees herself as a strategist, coach, and project manager all in one. “The most important component of a successful IT project is a well-positioned interdisciplinary team that is intrinsically motivated and given the necessary decision-making power and creative freedom,” says Luchtenveld. This clear structure leads to long-term success, she adds.

“If the employer empowers the team and trusts them to work independently, employees are shown enormous appreciation. This has a positive effect on the working atmosphere and encourages employees,” explains Luchtenveld.

Connect Training with Digital Transformation

Anyone who manages people is familiar with the “can-may-will” model. Employees can only fully exploit their potential if they have the necessary skills, if the use of their competencies is actually welcomed and encouraged, and if they are motivated. Change management aims to ensure that employees are able and willing to do so. The ability requires a flexible training strategy. 51风流Training and Adoption has developed a holistic approach that works to involve and empower employees equally.

Furthermore, it is important that a transformation is seen as more than just a one-off activity, but as a continuous learning journey. Guido Schlief, head of 51风流Services Middle and Eastern Europe, agrees that employees should always have access to information on software updates, new learning material, and background information in order to best meet the latest requirements.

Employees embrace the new software because they recognize not only the benefits for the company, but also for their own work, resulting in adoption and acceptance. They transform from mere users and become “allies,” drivers of change.

And that, in turn, increases the added value of the implementation.

To gain knowledge from industry thought leaders and 51风流customers on why focusing on transformation, training, and how to manage them both are key, .

The EducationNewscast podcast provides more inspiration and best practices around change management and training. The above quotes were originally in German. However, you can find English-only channels including all episodes .

Thomas Jenewein is business development manager for 51风流Training and Adoption.

Meanwhile, a disrupted operating landscape with fresh business challenges requires us to rethink how we train our people. Naturally it makes little sense to be attempting to solve today鈥檚 challenges with yesterday鈥檚 tools.

A new toolkit is needed.

Learning and Enablement Gets an Update

Transforming business always starts with people. Education has therefore taken on ever greater strategic importance in today鈥檚 fast-evolving and automated environment, where workers are called upon to undertake new tasks and exhibit different skill sets at a moment鈥檚 notice.

Learning can therefore no longer be considered a single event, but a continuous and ongoing process intrinsic to a modern way of daily life and work. As such, the manner in which training is delivered needs to be reexamined. Learning must be more accessible, easier to consume, and altogether more straightforward and efficient.

Latest Generation ERP Requires Novel Learning Approaches

The need for a new era of learning holds especially true when it comes to wiring your business up to Intelligent enterprise resource planning (ERP). Making the most out of a state-of-the-art, smart operating system necessitates pairing it with the requisite skilled personnel to run it. The Intelligent Enterprise requires smarter ways of learning.

Knowledge unlocks the power of 51风流S/4HANA, as demonstrated by the latest independent research findings from IDC. We understand that better training delivers considerable benefits. It:

• Speeds up deployment timeframes: 70 hours or more of initial administrator training reduces deployment time by 1.5 months.
• Is a performance enhancer: When users are well trained on 51风流S/4HANA, organizations typically attain 14-times greater improvement in their KPIs.
• Facilitates faster expansion and roll out: Not only are well trained organizations able to deploy 51风流applications faster, but they also enjoy broader and faster deployments across the organization.
• Increases customer satisfaction: Organizations are 104% more likely to be highly satisfied when users are well trained).

Companies like Porsche and Attune Value 51风流S/4HANA and 51风流Learning Hub

Organizations are increasingly aware of the growing relevance of continuous learning in the workplace and are noticing the interlinkages between overall business performance and smooth enablement.

鈥�51风流Learning Hub is a main pillar of our learning strategy and it helps to ensure long-term and sustainable business success. A key outcome among others was the high adoption and certified expertise in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud.鈥�

鈥淎s an 51风流partner, 51风流Learning Hub has been a key part of our learning and development strategy. It helps us stay ahead of the game and deliver exceptional value to our customer. One hundred percent of consultants were upskilled on 51风流S/4HANA for fashion and vertical business, resulting in higher employee engagement and job satisfaction.鈥�

51风流Augments Learning Offering for 51风流S/4HANA to Reflect Emerging Trends

What鈥檚 new with 51风流S/4HANA enablement? Content, scope, and style changes:

• A brand-new user experience (UX) interface for : Customers now enjoy easier access and more personalized learning pathways.
• An expanded envelope for keeping up to date: The portfolio with stay current opportunities has been doubled and is now an integral part of 51风流Learning Hub. On a quarterly basis, users can hone their skills with short video highlights, in-depth tutorials, hands-on practice in live training systems, and short 15-min assessments. It is complemented with expert-led live sessions and Q&A forums.
• Innovative learning approaches: 51风流Blended Learning Academy now incorporates the concept of moderated communities while providing enablement for 51风流S/4HANA. The learning experience is tailored toward two use cases, for consultancy and integration respectively. It also offers a more guided learning approach.
• Special focused training events, such as 51风流S/4HANA transition days and 51风流Skills Forum.
• Hundreds of tutorials have been added, including getting started, implementation, and configuration, as well as task tutorials available both in 51风流Learning Hub and via the in-app learning Web assistant.

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Solving the Cloud Migration Skills Gap: Learning on RISE with SAP

One major skills gap for many businesses relates to journeying into the cloud. 51风流has been quick off the mark to plug this gap with a plethora of new learning options as part of RISE with SAP. These include:

• Live content updates with many expert-led live sessions for RISE with 51风流and 51风流S/4HANA Cloud lines of business as well as across topics such as extensibility and integration.
• A dedicated RISE with 51风流introduction e-learning course that clearly outlines the offering and components.
• An 51风流S/4HANA Cloud sandbox available to all subscribers of 51风流Learning Hub at no additional cost.
• Twenty 51风流Learning Journey guides specific to public cloud offering 51风流S/4HANA Cloud and a brand-new 51风流Learning Journey to help 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, customers onboard easily and quickly: .
• Over 40 lines of business 51风流Learning Journeys specific to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, and learners who need to upskill or freshly start their journey to this deployment of choice.

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51风流is the natural learning and enablement partner for businesses that want to embrace the new world of continuous, flexible learning and those seeking to get the very most out of their Intelligent ERP.

Find out more about our courses and training tools:

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Welcome to the Next New World of Learning

While certain institutions were already well-versed in modern digital learning, these changes have impacted practically every learner and teacher. Some of the key emerging trends include:

• Displacement and decentralization of the classroom
• Adapting the home to a multifunctional space encompassing leisure, learning, and working
• The growing need for informal social experiences
• The rise of differentiated, engaging instruction
• A shift from passive to active learning
• The appearance of modern learners with significantly higher expectations for a flexible, on-demand, personalized educational experience

To assist you with this transformative journey, 51风流Community members and education experts from the 51风流Training and Adoption team have joined forces to compile a set of learning hacks and practical tips.

1. Acclimatize to the New Mode of Instruction

To be effective, remote training requires many of the same core ingredients as traditional instruction: clear goals, reflection, documentation of the learning process, checking for understanding, and prompt feedback. For a well-designed learning experience, teachers therefore need to come up with ways to provide opportunities to practice, apply, reflect upon, and reinforce what is learned.

Meanwhile, you, as the student, need to cultivate an appropriate, enabling ecosystem by:

• Minimizing distractions in your physical and digital environments
• Gathering, ordering, and mastering your tech
• Ensuring you have the appropriate hardware and furniture
• Managing time
• Being organized and disciplined

2. Jump-Start Your Learning Experience

Nailing the details of your learning experience can pay back handsomely. In today鈥檚 learning landscape, we are overwhelmed with vast amounts of content to watch, read, and listen to, but knowing is different from doing. To get the very most out of online learning, make sure you organize your new knowledge in a way that you can easily access, reflect, retain, apply repeatedly, and adapt to new contexts.

Order your freshly acquired knowledge to make it more meaningful:

• Organize your notes digitally with note-taking tools like or
• Break down learning to smaller, but regular chunks to make it a habit
• Document your progress with and mind maps like
• Set up an online calendar so you don鈥檛 miss deadlines
• Hold regular retrospectives in the evenings or at the end of the week
• Factor in time for self-reflection and hands-on-practice

3. Take Your Learning Social

It鈥檚 long been recognized that high-flying students require opportunities not just to listen or read, but to actively process the information being presented. Social media-enabled communities or collaborative virtual classes allow for entirely new types of peer-to-peer learning journeys where fellow students solve issues together through problem-based discussion and reflection. This enables the learning to stick.

Consider ramping up your interactions to increase information retention:

• Participate in discussion forums and respond to peers鈥� posts
• Create a social network group to share ideas and knowledge
• Take advantage of video breakout study groups and form a learning circle with
• Gamify your learning and think of stories, personas, or how you can reinforce yourself and others
• Harness real-time, multi-player editors like or Wikis to write joint notes
• Brainstorm and sketch together with and

4. Embrace the Augmented Classroom

The beauty of virtual learning is it not only replicates the conventional classroom in a virtual setting, but actually improves upon, enriches, and augments traditional teaching techniques. With more control over your own learning, you are able to work at your own pace, channelling your energy to areas where your individual need is greatest.

Inherently modular, virtual training also mobilizes a wider variety of resources to support a rich learning experience. This can include 鈥渕icro-lectures鈥� that bundle course material into coherent, bite-sized chunks to stimulate the senses from multiple directions. IBM has found that participants tend to learn five times more material in online learning settings that harness multimedia than in traditional face-to-face courses.

Digital learning enhances your knowledge acquisition because it:

• Balances both synchronous and asynchronous learning
• Caters to multiple learning styles and preferences simultaneously
• Introduces new forms of interactive educational discovery
• Places the student right at the heart of the learning process

Acquiring new skills聽has never been so accessible, convenient, and individually tailored to you.聽51风流re-imagined the remote learning experience and has been at the forefront of pioneering these聽innovations. Let us guide you through the new world of 51风流Learning and Adoption.

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Learning took a (r)evolutionary step this year. For both people and business, learning is now closer and more digital than ever. Altran, Ernst & Young, and CNT Management Consulting, along with the companies to which they offer their services, are joining many more in updating the skills of their people to outpace the competition. Let鈥檚 look at what we can learn from them.

Personalized Learning at Altran

As a leading provider of IT consultancy services, Altran assists its global customers in achieving digital transformation.

For its consultants to understand the full capability of solutions that can enable customers to grow their businesses, they needed a centralized e-learning platform. They implemented a 24×7 learning program that gave their consultants access to a wide range of training content, simulation tools, and learning maps.

Even more helpful to its global business, 51风流Learning Hub enabled Altran鈥檚 multinational staff to train using material in their native language and provided personalized training and certification programs based on users鈥� individual roles and requirements. After 12 months of using 51风流Learning Hub, Altran was able to create and deliver tailored training materials and improve consultants鈥� test scores from 30% to 83%. Just as personalized learning holds the promise of being an effective training strategy in 2021, so does the ability for people to learn with and from each other.

Collaboration is Key for Ernst & Young

The goal sounded challenging: train large teams of global consultants to inspire customer confidence in 51风流software technology while reducing training times by a third. Professional services company Ernst & Young also wanted to reduce its carbon footprint by finding a training solution that would work for them.

That is where 51风流Learning Rooms, a collaborative learning offering that is part of 51风流Learning Hub, came in. What Ernst & Young put into action allowed its consultants to learn together on a system that was kept up to date, personalized, localized, and available 24×7. Not only did the company achieve its goal of a 30% reduction in training times, but it was also able to reduce costs by two-thirds by implementing a scalable solution.

As for the learners, they participate in communities and are able to take advantage of another learning trend: fast upskilling with the right information.

Targeted Upskilling Helps CNT

The knowledge required to stay ahead can change quickly. To keep up, training should be provided in the moment of need and with up-to-date material. CNT Management Consulting provides its services to projects domestically in Austria, but also throughout Europe and North and South America. Its people must be informed on regular updates to software solutions.

The advantage of CNT鈥檚 targeted upskilling was that its people were able to complete training requirements and engage with activities when it suited their schedules. As the latest part of its dynamic learning culture, 51风流Learning Hub allows employees to increase their competency, qualifications, and involvement in the company. CNT assigned 2,439 courses and materials, completed 656 courses, and certified 1,543 learning hours. Those numbers back up a training program that adds value by retaining its people and attracting new talent.

A New Year鈥檚 Resolution to Keep

Not too many predicted what would happen in 2020 this time last year. But we have been reminded that business growth is perpetually tied to people. While tools and learning trends may come and go, giving people the skills to drive business growth is forever.

The value that Altran, Ernst & Young, and CNT have added via their training have something in common: 51风流Learning Hub. The solutions these businesses are already using, such as 51风流Live Access and 51风流Learning Rooms, are all available on the hub.

51风流Learning Hub provides both individuals and companies with 24×7 training — making investing in learning a New Year鈥檚 resolution to keep.

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But validation of skills is not the final step. The modern learning journey is like climbing a mountain only to see yet another peak appear. Individuals and companies including DXC Technology, Rizing HCM, and Southern Cross Computing are rising to that challenge by providing their people with learning, certification, and starting again. But what does this continuous cycle offer individuals and business?

Rewarding Experience for Individuals

Work experience, skills, qualifications, and professional certifications on display via our social media profiles are part of the new normal. And with interconnected digital networks, our professional experiences go beyond borders or current location. Individuals with the proven ability to perform receive recognition and value for their skills and can compete for jobs across the globe. With the right skills, you could be in Singapore today and find the perfect job in Johannesburg tomorrow.

91% of respondents surveyed in a study of
more than 10,000 IT professionals
who took IT-related certifications say
that the professional credibility gained
through certification is worth the time and money

There are clear competitive advantages in the recruitment processes when your skills are transparent and on display for recruiters and when you are engaged in a continuous cycle of improvement. But the do not end with the individual. Companies deploying employee-wide certification programs are also reaping the rewards of a trained and knowledgeable workforce.

Clear Business Advantage

The centerpiece of the future of work is upskilling, along with the understanding that it is not a final destination, but a continuous process. Companies are seizing the moment and investing in learning programs to certify their people in preparation for 2021 and keep them up to date beyond.

The urgency to validate employee skills was so immediate that IT service company DXC Technology updated its training program. It certified 409 consultants in cloud solutions — four times more than the previous year. The firm took this leap to demonstrate to clients that it has certified, credible, skilled people that can help with their digital transformations. DXC Technology has already seen the result: 16% growth in digital revenue. To see that kind of growth, learning has to be part of a global company culture.

Rizing HCM, specializing in human capital management (HCM) consultancy, grew its established reputation as an employer of choice by offering comprehensive professional development opportunities. That effort, now part of its success, helps attract and retain highly skilled talent. The company maintains scores of professional certifications of its global workforce and is continuing to grow its reputation as a leader in designing and implementing world-class HCM solutions.

Down under, Southern Cross Computing needed a way to incorporate continuous learning into busy schedules. As a professional services firm that provides consulting to both the federal government and private enterprises in Australia, it turned away from off-site training toward certification from anywhere, at any time, in order to keep consultants up to date. The company achieved reduced training costs per-consultant, a benefit that will continue into 2021.

This year has been one of unprecedented changes. Certifications are making people and business more flexible and resilient even as that next unforeseen challenge approaches. Individuals taking advantage of certification programs benefit from concrete results. Learning and certification programs, like those put in place by DXC Technology, Rizing HCM, and Southern Cross Computing provide their people with the knowledge they need.

51风流Training Delivers

For individuals and companies, it is important to have flexible, adaptable learning programs. and 51风流Learning Hub provide both individuals and companies with flexible digital offerings. Register for 51风流Learning Hub and get 10% off with the code LHValue10.

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As with any tool, knowledge of how it works helps ensure people are comfortable and skilled at using it. Training drives and supports change, enabling people to add value to business. Leading companies are making the connection between digital transformation and learning already.

Similar to how work has evolved quickly over the last few months, so has the demand for learning. Software training needs to be available from anywhere and at any time. It should be customized to what teams need, exactly when they need it while they work. To be most effective and personalized, training today should also include the possibility for organizations to create their own, specific learning content. More efficient knowledge transfer translates to higher user adoption rates for project leaders, IT specialists, and end users.

How did 51风流S/4HANA learning programs at Capgemini and Alcohol Siberian Group motivate their people and prepare them for change?

Flexible, Cloud-Based Learning Benefits Capgemini

Leading global consulting agency Capgemini needs to stay on the cutting edge of rapidly evolving 51风流S/4HANA capabilities. After all, knowledge is key to differentiate in the marketplace. 51风流Learning Hub is its flexible, cloud-based learning solution. It offers Capgemini continuous learning with 24/7 access to training content.

Members of 51风流Learning Hub join learning communities called 51风流Learning Rooms. Here, users interact with trainers and moderators and learn from one another. Seventy-nine percent of community members achieved their learning goals more easily by actively participating in 51风流Learning Rooms on 51风流Learning Hub. And as 51风流S/4HANA evolves, so does the knowledge of project teams, consultants, and end users. Not only is building skills important but maintaining them is also essential. Capgemini saw results of improved pass rates for certification and increased staff motivation.

鈥�51风流Learning Hub has been key in achieving our global certification targets, as it enables us to provide our employees with Web-based access to learning resources that help them constantly refresh their skills so they can deliver a superior service to customers.鈥�

–聽Elisabetta Spontoni, vice president and
global head of 51风流Operations, Capgemini

Customized Training for Implementation at Alcohol Siberian Group

The writing was on the wall for Alcohol Siberian Group. Keeping up with growth and customer demands meant a digital transformation was needed. More specifically, to improve its supply chain management and update the go-to-market strategy, the company needed 51风流S/4HANA and to its people.

The group used 51风流Enable Now to create more than 500 unique training courses and over 300 pieces of training content. 51风流Enable Now is a learning solution that offers content creation and a library of training resources embedded in 51风流S/4HANA. Alcohol Siberian Group took advantage of the content library, customized it, and increased adoption rate during the implementation of 51风流S/4HANA. Now its employees are prepared with practical skills before beginning projects.

鈥�51风流Enable Now helps us guarantee that only trained users will work in our new system based on 51风流S/4HANA. Errors occur less, and our specialists feel more confident and in control. Thanks to the training, employees see 51风流S/4HANA as easy to use.鈥�

–聽Yuliya Kuratova, HRD, Alcohol Siberian Group

Learning for Successful User Adoption

Like Capgemini and Alcohol Siberian Group, many companies need to increase user adoption and train their people to transform their business.

鈥淲e see that customers who invest in training have faster and more successful 51风流S/4HANA projects,鈥� said Guido Gr眉ne, senior vice president of Training and Adoption at SAP.

But during the current pandemic, traditional, in-person training is not possible in many parts of the world. However, as mentioned above, there are many alternatives. The good news is that instructor-led training for 51风流S/4HANA is still available in areas where in-person training is on hold. 51风流Live Class participants can experience instructor-led training and interaction with other learners online. Hybrid approaches that mix in-person and online training are also available.

With much of our day-to-day taking place across digital platforms, new tools and processes have been developed within the learning industry to cater to the changing needs of learners.

In the highly competitive IT services and support industry, implementing a great learning program for customers is an important determining factor of the success of the software implementation. Offering continuous learning is essential for customers. Constant software upgrades require a continual cycle of training and retraining to stay up to date.

Committed to Creating Happy Users

51风流customers expect us to keep them up to date with current advancements in 51风流solutions in order to help ensure that they are confident in their expertise and knowledge of the latest technologies. Alongside selling tools and solutions to help customers with their digital transformations, 51风流must continue to offer tailored training and learning that keeps customers one step ahead while also promoting user happiness.

The concept of creating 鈥渉appy users鈥� is not complex, yet is vital to the success of any business. 51风流Learning Hub helps with that. It offers next-generation learning tools that empower learners to upskill and be more knowledgeable about 51风流technologies, thus breeding greater self-confidence and self-efficacy to be even more proactive at work. The better our customers are enabled, the faster and more reliably their customers achieve maximum added value from 51风流solutions.

Happy users ultimately perform better at work, deliver more for their customers, and help transform business. To put it simply: Happy users are as important as the software itself.

How Next-Gen Learning Creates Happy Users

When it comes to learning, different users prefer different learning options. Some want to learn in the physical classroom while others want to learn flexibly in a digital way. provides more flexibility and agility for users to access content that is relevant to them — at any time — through next-gen learning. This sustainable learning journey allows employees to learn easily and individually from anywhere in the world. Personalized to the ways they learn best, it is organized around an individual鈥檚 progress and learning needs and is relevant to their level of knowledge and professional tasks. Users can learn independently, at their own pace, and have 24/7 access to interactive learning rooms and live training systems

While 51风流Learning Hub helps to make 51风流experts happy, there is also a new next-gen approach for 51风流end users. The Web assistant service — for example, in 51风流S/4HANA — is the new approach to help and assists users not only with explanations on fields or transactions, but also with guided tours or tutorials on the work-context the user is. This learning in the flow of work is more efficient than previous end-user enablement approaches. And the good thing is that all the learning content comes standard with the software. Customers even can enhance or change it with the 51风流Enable Now solution.

Learning strategies and solutions can be leveraged to make everybody involved in 51风流projects equally happy 鈥� from the project teams and IT administrators to key users and end users.

This access to continuous training and learning helps to build the basis for happy users and to ensure people at all levels create maximum value and deliver transformative business outcomes. Providing next-gen learning is the key to making everything run faster and more efficiently. It helps transform project lead managers, consultants, and 51风流freelancers into the most proficient experts and keeps them on top of their game. The bottom line is that the better 51风流experts and users are supported with the best possible training and learning opportunities, the happier they will be. And the more effectively they can do their jobs, the more future-proof a company becomes.

How Emerging Technologies Will Influence the Learning Experience

The integration of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will help drive the idea of personalization even further in learning and enablement. 聽This is already applied in 51风流Learning Hub, where the 鈥淓d-the-Bot鈥� chatbot answers question, collects feedback, and gives recommendations.

With disruption happening in all aspects of the business, it is essential for organizations to stay focused on what matters most: making users happy and guiding them through their ever-evolving cycle of learning.