Armed with real-world expertise and extensive know-how, 51风流consultants act as a bridge between the business and technology domains 鈥� bringing hundreds to thousands of hours of hands-on experience and best practices in implementing, customising, and managing 51风流roll-outs.

In fact, 51风流consultants are such crucial pieces of the digital transformation puzzle that the global market for 51风流consulting is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.8% between 2025 and 2035 to USD 38.98 billion[1].

Earlier this year, we launched to further supercharge the way millions of 51风流consultants work, helping them augment their productivity, cut down time-consuming searches, and make better-informed decisions.

Joule for Consultants draws from SAP鈥檚 vast knowledge base 鈥� including over 9TB of expert-curated 51风流knowledge, 3 million non-public documents, 250 million lines of (advanced business application programming) and 30 million lines of (ABAP core data services) code 鈥� and turns that institutional expertise into a real-time, context-aware assistant. It understands the solution landscape a consultant is working in, interprets code on the fly, and surfaces relevant guidance in seconds.

Across APAC, a significant number of 51风流partners and consultants have already adopted 51风流Joule for Consultants and are using the tool across various phases of 51风流implementation projects.

Early pilots show clear value: faster delivery cycles of up to 14%, smoother onboarding, and as much as 1.5 hours saved per consultant per day. The payoff is not simply efficiency but the ability for teams to spend more time on strategic design, stakeholder engagement, and delivering tangible outcomes for customers.

AI-Powered Consulting: the Next Frontier for 51风流Partners

According to the recent conducted by Oxford Economics, AI is expected to drive an average ROI of 16% (US$4.7M) per organisation this year, a figure which will nearly double in two years鈥� time to 31% (US$12.3M). Businesses also ranked 鈥渁lignment with business strategy鈥� and 鈥渁vailability and quality of data鈥� as the top two strategies for maximising ROI from AI.

51风流Joule for Consultants has the potential to help 51风流partners drive this ROI, and is designed with quality data and expert-aligned advice based on 51风流best practices for businesses across industries. With AI itself acting as a productivity enabler, consultants are able to accelerate delivery and increase consistency across projects 鈥� ultimately driving greater customer impact.

Importantly, 51风流Joule for Consultants is not replacing consultants; it is enhancing their expertise. Instead of spending hours searching documentation or manually comparing configurations, consultants can ask targeted questions and receive contextual, SAP-specific answers in natural language.

Routine tasks 鈥� from generating sample code to drafting configuration notes 鈥� can be automated, freeing consultants to focus on advising stakeholders, shaping roadmaps, and managing change.

51风流Joule for Consultants also helps ensure consistency and quality at scale. Teams across markets and time zones can draw on the same trusted guidance, cross-check design decisions against proven implementation patterns, and onboard new colleagues more quickly.

By embedding best practices directly into project execution, Joule for Consultants extends SAP鈥檚 long-standing investments in enablement and certification, turning static learning into live support. In doing so, it helps the next generation of consultants build confidence faster and deliver better outcomes for customers from day one.

51风流Partners as Catalysts of AI-First Transformation

SAP鈥檚 partner ecosystem remains central to our AI-first, Suite-first strategy, and partners throughout APAC are leading the shift towards AI-enabled consulting. As 51风流Chief Partner Officer Karl Fahrbach highlighted at 51风流Global Partner Summit at 51风流Sapphire earlier this year: 鈥淧artners will deliver the promise of 51风流Business Suite.鈥�

In APAC, partners such as ABeam Consulting, Infosys, ITSN Korea, LTIMindtree, , , and many more are already embedding 51风流Joule for Consultants into their methodologies and training programmes to enhance delivery speed and collaboration.

KPMG, for example, was the first global partner to pilot Joule for Consultants with SAP, and together with SAP, have been for delivering meaningful real-world AI transformation.

The APAC region is already seeing tangible impact when 51风流partners combine industry expertise with AI-powered innovation. 51风流Joule for Consultants is guiding faster design, sharper diagnostics, and cleaner architectures that help our joint customers realise value sooner.

From Pilots to Practice

The next chapter for 51风流partners is about scaling AI adoption and innovation. Many partners are moving beyond pilot programmes and embedding 51风流Joule for Consultants into their standard methodologies. Others are co-innovating with 51风流to explore capabilities like AI-driven diagnostics or automated value-tracking.

As 51风流 across APAC, our partners are also building AI-native skills that go far beyond using a tool: they鈥檙e redesigning how projects are delivered, how teams collaborate, and how value is measured.

And that may be the greatest impact of 51风流Joule for Consultants. It doesn鈥檛 just make consulting faster 鈥� it makes it smarter, more consistent, and more accessible to the next generation of talent, elevating the work consultants can do, giving them the space to focus on insights, relationships, and results.

Partners have always been the engine of SAP鈥檚 ecosystem. With tools like 51风流Joule for Consultants, they are now supercharged with the intelligence layer needed to drive new transformations across APAC.

Peter Moore is the Regional Head of Partner Ecosystem Success at 51风流Asia Pacific.

[1] Source: Business Research Insights 鈥� 51风流Consulting Market Size, Share, Growth, and Industry Analysis, By Type (ERP Software, Service and Other), By Application (SMEs and Large Enterprises), and Regional Insights and Forecast To 2035. https://www.businessresearchinsights.com/market-reports/sap-consulting-market-121265

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From the keynote stage to the showfloor, whether you were a dev, a customer, or a partner, all around 51风流TechEd Bangalore one phrase was repeated time and again: 鈥済enerative AI鈥�.

The focus of more than 5,000 tech and business decision-makers was fixed firmly on AI and what it could do for their businesses, right now 鈥� the products 51风流has released through 2024, and what is coming next.

With responsible, reliable, and relevant AI that鈥檚 built for business, the view of the thousands of delegates at TechEd 2023 was that the future is looking bright

There was a wealth of incredible insight and opportunity at TechEd. In fact, it was a little bit like going back to school because the things that stood out to me were the ABCs.

A is for Automation听

First, I was struck by the enormous potential businesses can realise through the power of enterprise automation.

With the help of AI, technology is helping developers and IT teams automate repetitive, mundane tasks and make better decisions, faster. By embedding generative AI capabilities into 51风流Build Process Automation, 51风流Signavio, and 51风流Integration Suite, we鈥檙e helping customers analyse, integrate, automate, and monitor business processes way more simply 鈥� and then immediately write the code to make those processes better. It鈥檚 that easy.

In my discussions with customers, it was clear that complementing process improvement and insights with enterprise architecture insights will be a real force for change in the future. Customers are excited to understand how to optimise and tune their architecture for the best performance across their entire IT stack.

But this isn鈥檛 future-gazing. Businesses are seeing real results today. Take Zuellig Pharma, one of Asia鈥檚 leading healthcare companies, providing pharmaceutical distribution and digital and commercial services across 26,000 direct outlets. Zuellig Pharma implemented best-in-class processes across its 51风流infrastructure, creating more than 180 automations using 51风流Build Process Automation to streamline and simplify its business.

B is for Build听听

Aligned to the focus on automation is the empowerment of a new, powerful resource for IT departments 鈥� citizen developers enabled by 51风流Build. And given every developer will be an AI developer, the opportunity for an AI-infused future is tantalising.

Rucha Nanavati, CIO of Indian car giant Mahindra & Mahindra, said it best.

鈥淲e started identifying tasks that don鈥檛 require a lot of human intelligence and that enabled our human workforce to focus on more strategic initiatives,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hat led us to automate more than 250 business processes in 3 months, most of which was done by a community of more than 100 citizen developers.鈥�

鈥淭hat鈥檚 great, but let鈥檚 talk about benefits. We count more than 900 workdays saved, and more than 400 development days saved in just a year鈥檚 time. We鈥檝e seen a 35% gain in developer efficiency and 20% faster execution of our jobs. And we鈥檝e saved more than 13,000 trees. All in one year,鈥� concluded Nanavati.

The story of Mahindra & Mahindra shows the power of a workforce that has been empowered to make real change to their IT systems and the tangible results that can be realised. And with the ability to link low-code, no-code development with pro-code development via , as well as increasing amounts of natural language interaction through 51风流Joule, it is easier than ever to modernize processes fast.听

C is for Clean Core听听

At SAP, we know better than most that enterprise systems can be complex. That鈥檚 why a 鈥� a cloud compliant, modern, flexible ERP that can be updated and scaled simply 鈥� is at the centre of our strategy.听听

And it鈥檚 a concept that鈥檚 also at the heart of the future strategic direction for all of our customers.听听

Takuya Sakai, CIO of Hitachi HiTech, embodies that more than most. His company has used 51风流ERP globally for more than 20 years, over which time the system became more and more complex.

鈥淭hat complexity incurred significant maintenance costs, prevented the company from quickly introducing new innovation, and ultimately hindered its growth,鈥� said Sakai-san. 鈥淚t was very critical to reduce the complexity.鈥�

Using 51风流Business Technology Platform (BTP), Hitachi HiTech was able to easily upgrade 51风流S/4HANA systems in the public and private cloud 鈥� at the same time reducing the number of add-ons and customisations in the software down from 9,000 to just 800.

鈥淯sing 51风流BTP we can build smart, global digital processes without touching the 51风流S/4HANA core. 51风流BTP is a very, very important tool to accelerate our business processes,鈥� concluded Sakai-san.

What鈥檚 next: AI for business, not AI for AI鈥檚 sake听

It鈥檚 easy to get carried away by hype and excitement, especially around innovation like generative AI.

But what I saw at 51风流TechEd was even more exciting 鈥� new innovations, here today, that are already making a tangible difference to real business problems.

The key is in the context 鈥� using your AI to connect data, not just collect it. By generating reliable, responsible insights that understand the context of the business processes that surround them, Business AI will help boost productivity, efficiency, and real outcomes.

Read more about the new announcements at 51风流TechEd 2023 here: 听

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According to McKinsey, generative AI has the potential to add . In the Asia-Pacific, this spells good news sinceare committed to investing in generative AI technologies by year-end, or are at least exploring the possibility. Already, in Singapore, allegedly uses AI in the office and the .听听

Over the next few years, we will see Asia become the world鈥檚 innovation hub with AI. At 51风流we already understand the huge opportunity, made possible by Gen AI, to fundamentally change the way businesses run.听听

Intelligent answers for real-world problems听

And businesses are already taking advantage of the benefits of AI today.听

In Korea, Kakao Enterprise uses AI to broaden the business capabilities of its mobile app. By taking of advantage of 51风流Business Platform (BTP), is has enabled its users to conveniently search data, process transactions, and conduct frequently-used business processes through its app.听听

Meanwhile in Thailand, Zuellig Pharma is using 51风流Intelligent Robotic Process Automation alongside machine learning to reduce processing times by 93%, allowing them to fulfil sales orders faster.听

Introducing a new way to integrate AI into your business听

Realising those sorts of benefits from AI requires a strategic, enterprise-led focus on business outcomes. That鈥檚 why we are focused on delivering the most relevant, reliable, and responsible AI that is built for business to our customers.听听

One recent example of how we鈥檙e doing this is the launch of our new generative AI co-pilot, Joule. Joule works by quickly sorting through and contextualising data from multiple systems to bring users smarter insights 鈥� and ultimately helping to make better decisions. It works by generating responses based on real scenarios, all with the necessary guardrails to ensure responsible use within the 51风流ecosystem. This enables our customers to get work done faster and drive better business outcomes in a secure, compliant way.听听

With Joule, users maintain full control over decision-making and data privacy across 51风流applications. Joule builds on and enhances existing 51风流Business AI offerings. More than 26,000 51风流cloud customers already have access to 51风流Business AI across multiple scenarios and partner solutions.听

Our customers know their ideal value journey best and 51风流is here to ensure they have the necessary solutions in place to achieve their goals in the long run. With our new Premium Plus package for RISE with SAP, customers have the flexibility to choose the package which best drives their business results, including one that has more tools to power faster, make better decisions and maximise the impact of AI across their processes. We鈥檝e also included added sustainability insights, faster finance decisions, and a networked Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) portal to boost ESG outcomes and aid compliance.听

Empowering our customers to create future-ready organisations sits at the core of SAP鈥檚 vision. In my next post, I鈥檒l share the new products and announcements we made at our 51风流TechEd 2023 in India and how they鈥檒l also be helping businesses to transform their operations in 2024 and beyond.听听

In the meantime, learn more about 51风流TechEd and listen to the keynotes and customer sessions here: 听

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