Partner enablement through coaching has become a mainstay for 51风流partners, changing the dynamics of innovation with 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP). Individual, real-time, and live access to 51风流expertise provides continuous assistance with unique use cases 鈥� ranging from advisory, architecture review, and technical guidance to prototyping, realization support, certification, and demand generation programs.

The Opportunity to Overcome Challenges Faster

While innovation, at its core, is about solving problems, the discovery of new use cases can bring new questions and challenges. Examples include which best-practice architecture can help realize a scenario faster and deliver the expected outcomes? What should be included in the bill of materials to help ensure a new process or technology runs without disrupting the rest of the business?

Unfortunately, the answers to these and many other case-by-case questions are not always readily available through existing learning tools and documentation. But with the introduction of a portfolio of partner coaching services for 51风流BTP, 51风流partners can get the insight they need for a specific use case from 51风流experts. They can short-circuit the challenges and complexities of their use cases and resolve their development or implementation milestones more quickly and with confidence.

Partner Co-Innovation Desk and Coaching Service Portfolio

Let’s take a look at the coaching offerings that are on the menu for 51风流partners.

End-to-end partner co-innovation support

When unsure of where to start on a co-innovation journey, 51风流partners can request support from the partner co-innovation desk by requesting the free , available within the (login required).

Our team of experts subsequently engages with partners in one-on-one coaching sessions to discuss how to get started and which enablement, resources, and coaching services can best support them. With this level of assistance, partners can realize a productive co-innovation journey along a comprehensive lifecycle.

Coaching support of use cases for 51风流BTP

To answer specific requirements for an innovation journey with 51风流BTP, partners can select individual offerings from the coaching portfolio.

Take, for example, the program that helps 51风流partners productize and take their ideas and intellectual property (IP) to market 鈥� from idea to certified solution. In a one-to-one model, the comprehensive program provides 51风流experts who can guide partners through each phase of the co-innovation process from concepts and design to build and monetization.

While the co-innovated with 51风流program supports the co-innovation journey, 51风流also offers tailored coaching to assist partners at specific steps of their innovation journey.

Community of partner and 51风流experts

For specific solutions or use cases, partners can ask any and all questions in the , under the ONE 51风流Community, monitored by 51风流experts.

Use case advisory
High-level counseling guides our partners on the development of extension applications using 51风流BTP and the creation of business models to commercialize them. In these advisory sessions, 51风流experts help our partners with advice on how to take their applications to market, including:

• Extensibility advisory: This one-to-one extensibility guidance is available to help partners develop and go to market with extensions for solutions within 51风流BTP. The offering covers extensions for , , , , and the .
• : This one-to-one advisory service is for partners that already have a tangible use case and a development plan for an offering based on 51风流BTP and want to take the next step of commercialization.

Architecture review and technical guidance
51风流partners can request a , an online session with an 51风流expert. Partners can gain solution architecture guidance or validation, best practices for extension and integration development, and data-to-value scenarios. In addition, they can work with 51风流experts to troubleshoot specific issues or acquire conceptual understanding of certain topics.

Prototyping support
51风流Co-Innovation Lab experts offer support to our partners on their journey from an idea to a prototype running on 51风流BTP. Partners can participate in to create a prototype around a technology theme, or engage in the program to focus their efforts on a dedicated industry or business theme with curated use cases. Through hackathons and the support of 51风流experts, partners can learn the necessary code and present their final prototype. The 51风流Co-Innovation Lab team provides subsequent support to mature the prototype into a final product.

Solution realization support
Support is also offered to partners in the technical realization stage. This entails support and provisioning of the required system landscapes. For example, can provide access to highly complex system landscapes configured by 51风流experts and help partners successfully port, construct, or integrate their solutions to 51风流products and platforms.

Certification and demand generation
After completing their solution development, partners can certify their solution through . While optional, this step is strongly recommended to gain additional accreditation featured on 51风流Store, SAP鈥檚 online marketplace. Partners can also be accredited by 51风流as outsourcing partners for operations enabled by 51风流technologies, such as 51风流BTP. Another bonus is the demand generation support through the service when solutions are added to 51风流Store.

Advancing the Future of Innovation 鈥� Together

Worldwide, 51风流partners perform more than 80% of 51风流solution implementations. And as you can see, with a comprehensive coaching service portfolio, we strive to help ensure our partners get the right level of support 鈥� on their terms.

The portfolio of partner coaching services can give partners and our joint customers the support they need to transform organizations, industries, and economies for everyone鈥檚 benefit. The more partners share and grow their knowledge, the more impressive their future growth becomes as they give our joint customers innovation experiences that deliver immediate results and long-term outcomes.

If you have not done so already, please join us on the journey with 51风流BTP, attend the partner certification academies, and get certified today! You can also engage with your peers through 听(login required). We look forward to driving successful business outcomes together.

• (51风流partners only)
• (51风流partners only)
• (51风流partners only)
• (51风流partners only)

Pavel Penaz is global head of Partner Solution Adoption Strategy and Execution for 51风流Business Technology Platform at SAP.

Acquiring new customers is one thing; retaining them is another. In both cases, continuously attaining the latest certifications 鈥� from trending topics to specialized capabilities 鈥� reassures customers and inspires them to make that first contact and keep coming back. Compared to their noncertified counterparts, certified consultants speed implementation times by up to 15% and deliver projects with less rework and higher customer satisfaction, according to听.

Another advantage of certification is the potential to attract, develop, and retain the strong talent pool that customers expect.听^听of more than 10,000 IT professionals indicated that the value of IT certification surpasses that of training alone. Benefits include a culture that promotes confidence in abilities, greater job satisfaction, increased respect among peers, more work autonomy and independence, promotion and advancement, and higher salary and wages.

A Competency Framework for Competitive Certification

When working with SAP, partners have the added benefit of fast access to the learning content needed to prepare for and attain certification. They are also rewarded with a visual badge that can be included in their marketing materials and on their Web sites.

In addition, through the recently announced , 51风流partners can achieve competencies and specializations by certifying a required number of their consultants and developers, enabling them to reach essential, advanced, or expert competency tiers. These competencies and corresponding specializations are then visible on to help prospective customers make informed partner selections based on the desired solution expertise.

51风流provides a broad set of certifications so partners can build specific skill sets and offer highly specialized consulting and implementation services. More than cover a wide range of expertise and skill levels across an expansive set of 51风流solutions and services. In fact, are available for 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), including 51风流Integration Suite, 51风流Extension Suite, the 51风流HANA Cloud database, the 51风流Analytics Cloud solution, and low-code and no-code development applications and automations.

Partners can promote their certifications by using . This real-time verification demonstrates that the partner鈥檚 certification is valid and contains a description of the SAP-backed expertise.

Learning content for certification exams for 51风流BTP is available free of charge on the site. And as 51风流technologies, such as 51风流BTP, continue to evolve and bring new capabilities, partners can keep skills current with continuously updated for every cloud release from SAP.

51风流partners can also attend for 51风流BTP. The academies are online, interactive trainings delivered by 51风流experts who guide you through the content of selected learnings for 51风流BTP and help prepare partners to pass the associated certification exams. After completing an academy and passing the related certification, partners are equipped with the skills, knowledge, and tools needed to efficiently implement future projects on 51风流BTP.

Proven Proficiency Drives True Transformation

Technology is advancing exponentially. This reality requires people of all experience levels to grow their knowledge and take stock of how these new skills might be applied to improve productivity and efficiency, resolve existing challenges, and produce transformative outcomes.

The more we share and grow our knowledge of technologies, tools, and platforms, the more significant the impact of innovation and the faster we can achieve our goals. But most importantly, our partners are well-positioned to drive future growth, better experiences, and more sustainable and profitable outcomes.

With , our partners have the power to innovate with 51风流BTP, among other 51风流technologies, in ways that lead to true business transformation with unparalleled skill, confidence, and trust.

If you have not done so already, please join us on the journey with 51风流BTP, attend the partner certification academies, and get certified today! You can also engage with your peers through听 (login required). We look forward to driving successful business outcomes together.

• (available to 51风流partners only)
• (available to 51风流partners only)
• (available to 51风流partners only)
• (available to 51风流partners only)

Pavel Penaz is global head of Partner Solution Adoption Strategy and Execution for 51风流Business Technology Platform at SAP.

Although able to meet most challenges, HR leaders recognize that a traditional management system based on data silos, bureaucratic thinking, and hierarchical control is no longer effective. Instead, their workplaces need a more flexible and responsive organizational model built around four critical trends: data accuracy, interconnectivity, process automation, and low transaction costs.

A more modern approach to workforce modeling and organizational charting requires HR teams — and the organizations they serve — to reconsider how they use available data. Business leaders need to visualize their organizational structures and key metrics based on today鈥檚 data. This way, they really understand the dynamics of their workforce and make informed decisions about their organizational design or reorganizations.

For 51风流gold partner Ingentis, this line of thinking inspired an innovation initiative that would provide a higher level of flexibility when visualizing, modifying, and transforming organizational structures with HR data.

Amplifying the Value of Organizational Change

Drawing from more than 25 years of experience in organizational charting and HR data visualization, Ingentis used (51风流BTP) to build an add-on application for the solution.

The 51风流endorsed app — — pulls data directly from 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central and visualizes it in various forms. Key metrics can be displayed along the organizational structure, as well as in dashboards for a quick overview. Big Data graphs in combination with custom visualization rules help HR organizations stay on top of their massive volumes of data.

The application can also improve data quality by checking data according to individually defined conditions and automatically reporting on them. Furthermore, its powerful modeling feature allows for what-if scenario planning through a drag-and-drop capability. With affected KPIs being assessed and updated during the process, Ingentis org.manager provides a solid basis for informed business decisions.

While Ingentis鈥� decision to build its app on 51风流BTP was influenced by the opportunity to build its partnership with SAP, it also helped create the best possible user experience for 51风流customers. The company delivered a solution that integrates smoothly with 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central and can be launched directly from the solution鈥檚 user interface.

The combination of Ingentis鈥� expertise and 51风流BTP led to SAP鈥檚 approval of Ingentis org.manager as a premium-certified application. The add-on passed a series of in-depth testing — from the strength of its security controls to performance measurements against benchmark results — for fast deployment and limited IT intervention to integrate and maintain.

Earning this level of certification from 51风流gives customers the confidence that Ingentis provides solutions designed for 51风流solutions and delivers desired outcomes to resolve significant challenges. That鈥檚 the kind of trust that wins over business leaders who are unsure about augmenting existing digital investments.

The results experienced by 51风流customers when integrating Ingentis org.manager with 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central also speak for themselves. According to a survey conducted by Ingentis and SAP, the add-on can lower the cost of strategic resource planning by up to 20%.

Innovating New Possibilities with a Single Platform

Whether focused on improving diversity and inclusion, balancing headcount, or assessing succession potential or flight risk, HR organizations can get the answers they need with the integrated blend of Ingentis org.manager for 51风流SuccessFactors solutions and 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central.

Best of all, Ingentis is seizing a moment that鈥檚 available to every 51风流partner when using 51风流BTP. By delivering everything from fundamental tools to the most cutting-edge solution, partners can set the standard for the workforce of tomorrow — turning work into a human experience of inspiration, collaboration, and purpose.

Tom Le is global vice president of Partner Solution Advisory at SAP.
Markus Eckl is global head of Strategic Alliances and Partnering at Ingentis.

By empowering employees with little to no development skills to play a key role in their organization鈥檚 success, businesses can tap a fresh community of innovators to personalize workflows, automate processes, and create new applications. And while increasing their organizational capacity to innovate, they are joining a LCNC movement that will likely produce 65% of new applications by 2024, according to .

Giving Everyone the Power to Reimagine Everything

When organizations first consider letting employees participate in innovation without IT intervention, questions about the difference between low-code and no-code inevitably arise. The main difference between the two approaches lies in how much coding knowledge is needed.

Low-code development allows users to develop and integrate complex applications with intuitive graphical tools and embedded functionalities, requiring only some basic coding skills. On the other hand, no-code development methods apply the same user experience without any need for coding and programming knowledge.

There are countless LCNC tools available that promise to deliver on those capabilities with easy-to-use interfaces. However, most of them can only be used for very well-defined use case scenarios, such as the development of mobile apps, machine learning applications, or workflow automation.

With the low-code and no-code tools available through听听(51风流BTP), 51风流partners and customers do not need to worry about such restrictions. Instead, they can access a combination of LCNC tools on one platform, along with intelligent processes and technologies, to build critical solutions quickly and profitably.

Accelerating the Pace of Meaningful Innovation

Many 51风流partners are taking this opportunity to 鈥渋nnovate big鈥� by tackling challenges that, when solved, can significantly improve their customers鈥� business opportunities and operating models. They are setting new bars for a variety of industries, despite the increasingly fast-paced, dynamic nature of today鈥檚 markets.

For example, an 51风流partner created a fashion rental solution that integrates with e-commerce platforms and core 51风流solutions, such as听, , and the听 portfolio. The partner鈥檚 solution enables retailers and their manufacturers to create and operate under a business model that reduces waste and preserves resources 鈥� improving sales, driving sustainable operations, and helping preserve our planet’s future.

By leveraging LCNC services available through 51风流BTP, the partner underpinned the solution’s processes with intelligent technologies. It included: 1) machine learning to improve decision-making and quality checks and 2)听artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled听image recognition to identify damages, support the returns process, and provide accurate billing. The听services are also leveraged to help accelerate transaction processing and automate return cycles and other back-office operations, enabling orders to be booked or returns to be processed within seconds.

Integrating the cloud solution with automated store pickup, return, and billing capabilities makes the fashion rental model simple enough to manage from beginning to end transparently, efficiently, and profitably. Best of all, the user experience 鈥� for employees and customers alike 鈥� is meaningful and productive, an industry benchmark for efficiency and sustainability.

Turning Business Challenges into Long-Term Opportunities

As the hype about LCNC tools intensifies, organizations can get lost in the excitement. So rather than choosing a platform that can expand their innovation potential, hasty decisions can result in platforms that pigeonhole use case scenarios and open potential issues down the line.

51风流partners can play a critical role in leveraging LCNC technologies in ways that go beyond accelerating innovation. They are also helping customers fulfill their potential by improving operational performance, service quality, and revenue growth while addressing their resource challenges. And when you think about it, that influence is incredibly powerful as it empowers employees, regardless of their skill, to deliver personalized experiences that build long-term business success.

To learn more about how 51风流partners help businesses transition to the cloud with a unified technology platform, explore these articles:

• 鈥�Turning the Cloud into a High-Powered Innovation Engine鈥�
• 鈥�Business Planning and Analytics: The Difference Between Surviving and Thriving鈥�
• 鈥�Turn Business Process Intelligence into the Next Frontier for Growth鈥�

If you’re interested in software partnership opportunities with SAP, check out听. If you’re already a partner, check out these exciting initiatives:听听and听.

Tom Le is global vice president of Partner Solution Advisory at SAP.

Although this use case for BPI has been largely adopted, most companies still fail to recognize its full potential, which can only be realized by processing large volumes of operational data. However, recent advances in process mining, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, process automation, and other intelligent technologies are turning BPI into the next frontier for business growth. These new capabilities not only show bottlenecks from “raw” data, but they also enable organizations to quantify and understand deviations, predict future events and outcomes, and recommend immediate and proactive actions to seize opportunities and fend off risks without human intervention.

How can businesses take the leap from business process management to this more prescriptive model 鈥� enabling them to see and predict points of failure early or take advantage of new opportunities strategically? By using an enterprise-wide, connected framework of open and cloud-based solutions, services, tools, and content resources 鈥� all supported by a unified platform.

Binding the Enterprise with BPI

Companies are digitalizing processes with cloud solutions to tackle critical operational and market challenges, such as shortages in supply, labor, lead time, and bandwidth. This approach has channeled what would have been years of innovation and change into months. And more importantly, it has allowed organizations to take their processes and BPI to new levels as they extend their sphere of influence and become a more interconnected contributor across their supply chains and industry ecosystem.

51风流partners can take advantage of this opportunity by leveraging the application development, integration, data and analytics, process automation, and AI capabilities of听听(51风流BTP). The platform is designed to provide the latest BPI services and automation while maintaining critical 51风流business context across different data models, systems, and lines of business.

With 51风流BTP, BPI can be used to provide customers with predictive insights and drive automation with greater transparency and accuracy. Take, for example, the seemingly continuous loop of design-to-operate processes in manufacturing. Multiple steps and touchpoints are required to help ensure qualified people, relevant skills, and quality checks are in place to deliver products that keep customers impressed. Traditionally, technologies covering product and quality management, business planning and analysis, digital manufacturing, and environmental sustainability and safety were used to understand performance gaps and find the root cause.

Today, 51风流partners and savvy manufacturing industry customers are working with 51风流BTP to implement automation with BPI. They’re extending the intelligence generated along the design-to-operate process by embedding a听听(RPA) service at four critical points: component procurement, inbound delivery, production, and logistics.

Once the product is designed, quantity is set, and a master production timeline is defined, these customers can use an automated learning assistant or chatbot to create plans and schedules and pass them over to the procurement organization. An Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled alert triggers a workflow to check supplier availability and capacity; locate the appropriate components across multiple applications, Web sites, spreadsheets, catalogs, and documents; and then create a purchase order for materials needed. Using this chatbot before purchasing supplies for subassemblies helps ensure that the correct part is ordered at an optimal price point and from a supplier that can deliver as requested.

Another chatbot can be created to support the automated triggering of inbound deliveries and tracking. The bot reviews supply shipments with pending updates, logs on to the transportation providers’ Web site to check real-time status, and updates the business system. It also notifies stakeholders when exceptions emerge, details potential outcomes of delays or shortages, and recommends steps to mitigate any risks.

Automation with BPI can also help ensure manufacturing plants can scale production as quickly as customer demand and business requirements shift. For instance, a connected plant can facilitate intelligent manufacturing execution by scanning orders and customer service requests to update enterprise data. This information on detected changes or exceptions is then immediately sent to demand planners, so they can assess forecasts and decide how to boost or lower capacity across multiple plants.

One more use case gaining attention is route determination automation, especially as organizations seek to fulfill increased pressure for better sustainability performance, controlled costs, and on-time delivery. When a customer order is picked and packed on the production floor or at the warehouse, a chatbot can trigger an assessment of the best route to deliver the package. These recommendations are based on existing logistics plans, newly placed orders, and other orders waiting to be picked up by the logistics provider.

Driving Progress by Reimagining the Value of BPI

Even though the potential for process improvement with BPI is well-known, most organizations have yet to turn that knowledge into tangible systems driving insights and real-time automation. They have consistently and transparently documented their processes, but many still need to translate these early steps into process intelligence solutions and automation across key lines of business 鈥� including design to operate, procure to pay, and order to cash 鈥� to gain greater resilience, agility, and responsiveness.

For that reason, there is a significant opportunity for 51风流partners. They can use 51风流BTP to support fact-based optimization, proactive shifts, and well-informed decision-making across their customers’ critical lines of business. But more importantly, the automation potential of BPI can be fully leveraged to provide immediate, tangible benefits that drive future business growth.

To learn more about how 51风流partners help businesses transition to the cloud with a unified technology platform, read “Turning the Cloud into a High-Powered Innovation Engine” and “Business Planning and Analytics: The Difference between Surviving and Thriving.” If you’re interested in software partnership opportunities with SAP, check out听. If you’re already a partner, check out these exciting initiatives:听听and听.

Tom Le is global vice president of Partner Solution Advisory at SAP.

Removing Barriers

51风流is working to make it easier for all software companies to work closely with SAP. To achieve this, we have created a scalable benefit model and allow partners to choose where they fall on this scale 鈥� while keeping revenue share (between 51风流and providers) consistent across the scale. In addition, we eliminated store-specific transaction fees for partners participating on , down from 15%.

A simplified revenue-sharing model within the 51风流PartnerEdge, Build, program spans three tiers*, as follows:

• Content Tier: Revenue share has been reduced from 15% to zero, giving partners the option of publishing solutions for free on 51风流Store.
• Integration Tier: Revenue share has been reduced from 20% to 15%, which includes access to 51风流Integration Suite, basic edition, as well as the ability to publish solutions and complete transactions on 51风流Store.
• Platform Tier: Revenue share remains at 25%. This tier includes all 51风流Business Technology Platform services on 51风流PartnerEdge, as well as the ability to publish solutions and complete transactions on 51风流Store.
• 51风流Store: Store-specific transaction fees have been eliminated for partners.

We are excited to launch this updated pricing structure, as we expect most vendors to benefit greatly from free access to our content model platform, allowing complimentary access to 51风流Store. These changes will make it as easy as possible for all partners to make the most of the cloud-based software that we offer.

Growth of 51风流Store

Due to our strong partner ecosystem, we have seen immense success and growth of 51风流Store. Year-over-year, 51风流Store has experienced 163% growth. In the past two years, the number of orders of partner solutions has multiplied sixfold. Additionally, it enabled over a third of 51风流partners to expand their reach outside of their base country.

Now more than ever, we recognize that the future of 51风流is ecosystem-led. To help ensure we are providing partners with opportunities for increased visibility, 51风流Store provides multiple performance recognition levels with increased benefits based on activity around partner solutions, meaning partners can attain and be recognized through strong performance. The details of this can be found as part of the .

New Offerings in the Partner Ecosystem

As customers lean on 51风流to thrive, we continue to evolve with new models and offerings to support the continued agility and success of our partners and customers.

For the latest in the partner ecosystem, take advantage of , a world-class training program that develops the next-generation workforce by delivering an energizing and inspiring experience within a globally diverse environment. For 2022, the dynamic nine-month program builds a foundation for a successful career at SAP.

51风流is also enhancing 51风流PartnerEdge, Build, to include grants for 51风流technology, enabling partners to build and integrate to 51风流solutions.

Tom Roberts is senior vice president of Software Partner Solutions at SAP.

There are correlations between these areas and 51风流partners are experiencing benefits through 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), which brings together application development, data and analytics, integration, and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, optimized for 51风流applications.

As part of a January 2022 IDC study: *, IDC spoke with select 51风流partners that were engaged with 51风流BTP. The partners communicated seeing a steady rise in customer interest and adoption of 51风流BTP.

While 51风流BTP benefits customers with an accelerated time to value and increase in agility, 51风流partners also revealed that engaging with 51风流BTP resulted in longer term customer relationships, which in turn led to more satisfied clients.

Today鈥檚 uncertain business climate is making solution time to market and time to value increasingly important, as customers try to keep pace through more frequent changes to their operating models. Whether introducing new services or technologies, or implementing updates to existing business models, customers need to be able to move quickly from idea to execution. They need to stay agile in order to adapt and stay on top of market challenges. Their partner and partner technology must also support that agility. 51风流partners participating in the IDC study called this out as a key value of working with 51风流BTP, citing the platform鈥檚 strength in speeding their time to market.

One way 51风流BTP helps customers and partners increase agility is a notable decrease in implementation times. By replacing custom processes with prepackaged content, solution implementations that used to take months have been reduced to days. By reducing development and deployment times, as well as costs, customers are seeing their business needs addressed much sooner, leading to higher satisfaction and partner retention.

Not only are 51风流partners able to reduce development and deployment times using 51风流BTP pre-packaged content, but they are also able to build out their own repeatable and documented offerings, further accelerating the implementation and integration process for customers or even enhancing existing capabilities of 51风流BTP.

51风流partner , a global systems integrator focused on enterprise asset management, human capital management, and consumer industries solutions, has multiple service packages or accelerators to meet specific customer needs relative to 51风流BTP, and five software applications built using 51风流BTP that are available on .

鈥淥ur products are using 51风流BTP components as the foundation and then building business content and/or wrapping the 51风流BTP components into SaaS solutions,鈥� said Rizing CTO Martin Stenzig, adding that the company is closely aligned with SAP鈥檚 product road map and using 51风流Store as another channel for serving its solutions up to clients or to 51风流sales.

As part of the IDC study, partners cited that working with 51风流BTP led to higher customer satisfaction, software and service renewals, and future projects. The 鈥渟tickiness鈥� of the platform helps partners to develop a lifelong relationship with customers, moving away from a 鈥渙ne-and-done鈥� sales and implementation model to one of continuous improvement for clients, in line with their business鈥檚 long-term goals.

These more holistic customer engagements help extend 51风流BTP related partner contracts into new areas, enabling an 51风流partner鈥檚 focus to shift from finding new customers to retaining current customers for life, driving increased customer loyalty and profit. And the longer term monetary benefits can be substantial, as outlined by Harvard Business Review: 鈥淥rganizations at the top of their industries in Net Promoter Scores or satisfaction rankings for three or more years tend to grow revenue roughly 2.5 times as fast as their industry peers.鈥�**

To learn more about how 51风流partners are realizing and fostering customer lifetime value through 51风流BTP, check out the IDC Success Guide, . Or explore the results in other formats:

• IDC infographic: ““
• IDC blog: “,” by Paul Edwards, director of Software Channels & Ecosystems at IDC
• Let鈥檚 Talk podcast episode 48: ““

Jagdish Sahasrabudhe is CTO of the Global Partner Organization at SAP.

*.
**.

With every market challenge or global crisis, the interest level and awareness around planning and analytics also grows. Gartner has seen a rapid increase in the number of client organizations seeking to integrate and link financial and operational planning processes wherever possible. Gartner estimates that, of FP&A implementations will be extended to support operational finance processes.* This new 鈥榚xtended planning and analysis鈥� (xP&A) category is the evolution of financial planning and analysis, creating and connecting strategic, financial, and operational plans across the enterprise to optimize performance.

This increasing interest comes after five or more years of no investments in new FP&A technology for 26% of departments, according to the .

Most companies may already feel they are at their tipping point in terms of managing change and responding effectively. But for 51风流partners and their customers, the exponential pace of change and complexity can be answered through the business intelligence, augmented and predictive analytics, and enterprise planning capabilities of the solution, SAP鈥檚 xP&A offering and part of .

Transitioning All Planning to the Cloud

51风流partners are enabling customers to replace legacy analytics and planning tools with 51风流Analytics Cloud across their global enterprise. For instance, partner expertise and guidance enables customers to redefine and with a focus on the most strategic needs of their business.

Using a well-defined approach, these partners can help their customers address and resolve challenges commonly encountered with outdated planning and analysis solutions. For example, planning processes can differ considerably across the business, with some departments using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and others relying on a patchwork of in-house solutions. This can disconnect decision-making across lines of business 鈥� from HR decisions on employee salaries to operational conclusions related to capital asset depreciation 鈥� and limit the automated generation of accurate reports and forecasts.

To eliminate data silos and crowdsource plans enterprise-wide, 51风流partners can use 51风流Analytics Cloud and integrate it with , , , and other intelligent technologies. By reducing the need for extensive IT support for everyday administration requests, our partners enable customers to generate strategic insights to accelerate planning cycles and drive precise decisions and actions with up-to-date, accurate planning information.

Building Greater Agility with Prototypes

To align finance, operations, and the corporate strategy, 51风流partners unify organization-wide planning processes using an extended planning and analysis methodology. They can guide customers through their implementation of 51风流Analytics Cloud, refining planning and forecasting models business-wide to achieve faster, more efficient responses to changing market requirements.

The combination of the user-friendly planning features of 51风流Analytics Cloud and the coaching support of our partners can empower 51风流customers with the skills to develop and deploy planning projects without additional IT assistance. The intuitive features can also help the team create prototypes quickly and flexibly, so that different stakeholders can easily provide input and planning models can be adjusted as required.

In addition, our partners work with customers to , working to accelerate project deployments and incorporate stakeholder ideas over time. In return, customers can develop solutions that work best for all business areas in a short time frame.

Optimizing Forecasts with Predictive Analytics

Driven by a commitment to groundbreaking advancements in business processes and technologies, 51风流customers rely on partner expertise to . They often seek more efficient ways to execute forecasting processes 鈥� that were initially manual and time-consuming 鈥� across their decentralized business units.

Drawing on historical data, 51风流partners are helping customers take advantage of the embedded predictive planning capabilities of 51风流Analytics Cloud to help generate faster and more trusted forecasts. Customers can leverage these new forecasting abilities to automate tens of thousands of previously manual tasks to streamline the overall planning process and free their workforce to focus more on value-added activities. More importantly, they can leverage powerful analytics to further the success of their business outcomes while achieving operational efficiencies and realizing the ultimate vision for their business and industry.

Planning for Growth with Continuous Improvement

If there was ever a good time to improve planning and analytics, it鈥檚 now.

With the expertise and support of 51风流partners, organizations can attain the assistance necessary to get started with 51风流Analytics Cloud and move forward 鈥� continuously improving their planning and analytics capabilities. And no matter how profoundly complex or challenged their marketplace, these new capabilities can enable them to make sound decisions, resulting in accelerated agility and growth.

To learn more about how 51风流partners are helping businesses transition to the cloud with a unified technology platform, read 鈥�Turning the Cloud into a High-Powered Innovation Engine.鈥� If you鈥檙e interested in software partnership opportunities with SAP, check out . If you鈥檙e already a partner, explore these exciting initiatives: and .

Tom Le is global vice president of Partner Solution Advisory at SAP.

*Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud, Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions, Robert Anderson, Greg Leiter, 29 July 2021. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

As data volumes increase, the creation and ingestion of that data also need to accelerate, expanding the variety of information services, automation, and analytics tools available. This has triggered a promising trend in how organizations use and share data. A survey, commissioned on behalf of SAP, reported that two-thirds of decision-makers prioritized the integration of data and analytics platforms (65%), establishment and improvement of the use of automation technologies (67%), and engagement with external providers for data and analytics or insights services (64%).

It鈥檚 welcome news that companies are starting to generate much-needed value from their business processes 鈥� supporting their recovery and growth in the face of a global crisis. But most of them are still somewhere in the middle of this transformation. In fact, Forrester Consulting reported that 48% use a point-solution approach, compared to 18% that have established a pre-integrated platform.

51风流partners are helping our customers worldwide overcome this obstacle with (51风流BTP). Whether a customer is just starting to develop a data valuation framework or seeking guidance to further its digital transformation, 51风流partners can accelerate the journey through innovative content and services based on years of domain, project, and consulting expertise.

Driving Transformation with Real-Life Intelligence

Just like how data gains value when shared and put to good use, so do the real-world insights and services available from our partner ecosystem. And when using a unified platform of applications and services like 51风流BTP, it鈥檚 clear the ecosystem of partner best practices, templates, methodologies, road maps, and adoption patterns are critical in helping our customers transform more effectively.

Leveraging this partner content directly allows our customers to resolve challenges faster, uncover new opportunities proactively, mitigate risk early, and construct the system architectures to meet current and future challenges. Organizations can incorporate 51风流and third-party data sources with the platform鈥檚 applications and services to address critical transformation requirements, including data management, robotic process automation (RPA), APIs, chatbots, cloud migration, process intelligence, governance, and collaboration. To help customers realize these benefits more rapidly, 51风流partners can speed innovation and adoption of their content by customizing and contextualizing it through engagement models such as hackathons, coaching, and go-to-market guidance.

Accessing the Right Insights Anytime, Anywhere

In today鈥檚 high-tech world, it is easy to get caught up in the complexities of data extraction, transformation and enrichment, and the expertise needed to model data, machine learning algorithms, and analytics. 51风流BTP offers capabilities that can package integration flows, pipelines, graphs, data models, and industry templates alike in the form of business content 鈥� tremendously simplifying these complexities regardless of the myriad of cloud, on-premise, or hybrid landscapes.

For example, marketing organizations are known for receiving large volumes of data generated by various sources at an ever-accelerating pace. Like many lines of business, as they try to aggregate and consume this data, they face the risk of using distorted insights that can negatively influence decision-making and impact their ability to uncover new opportunities.

Our partners help customers overcome this common challenge by harmonizing and integrating all data with ready-made connectors, delivering clean, consistent, and available information through a single location. Once stored in as part of 51风流BTP, the data can then be analyzed and visualized quickly, accurately, and meaningfully in .

This content-driven approach to automatically extracts, transforms, and loads data from company and commerce Web sites, social media, ad platforms, affiliated networks, Web and TV audience tracking systems, offline files, and other sources. Its underlying technology scales enterprise-wide to fulfill future data processing and analytics needs and automates data operations in ways that save time and resources while focusing on delivering strategic outcomes. Best of all, marketers have the visibility they need to weigh their campaign investments by measuring their contribution to overall business success.

Infusing Trust with External Data to Safeguard Operations

The finance function is another area that can benefit from augmenting data management capabilities with 51风流BTP content and services. In one use case, 51风流partner content and services help the line of business meet regulatory obligations with trusted external information 鈥� protecting the customer鈥檚 operations from the inadvertent laundering of proceeds from financial crimes or association with corrupt business practices.

For example, when used within 51风流Data Warehouse, the World-Check Risk Intelligence database connects and analytics with the most stringent research guidelines. The database is supported by hundreds of specialist researchers and analysts across the globe who collate information from reliable and reputable sources, such as watch lists, government records, and media searches.

Building a Data-Informed Business Culture

One of the most significant advantages of data management and analytics-related content and services is time savings. As the right people get the information they need faster, it takes less time to make the right decisions to capitalize on emerging opportunities and mitigate potentially damaging risks.

Our partners can deliver on that promise with business content from , which is available as part of 51风流BTP. They have created packages to jump-start the implementation and use of the advanced analytics solution, leveraging their real-world experience with customers.

Their experience and the resulting solution implementations leverage front-office content such as visualizations, key performance indicators, analytics, and digital boardrooms, as well as hidden back-office process modelling and logic. These combined sets of tools are often embedded within line-of-business workflows, mapping directly to 51风流solutions. And it鈥檚 the combination that delivers the time savings and business value customers need 鈥� aligning to meet the requirements of specific departments, industries, and, in some cases, both.

Sharing and Thriving with a Collaborative Ecosystem

When considering the factors that account for business growth, the power of shared experiences, industry expertise, innovation, and lessons learned are some of the most important drivers. And that is why our partners鈥� collective content for 51风流BTP is so impactful in our customers鈥� transformation journey to becoming data-driven and intelligent enterprises.

The pool of 51风流BTP partner content, services, and intellect can offer a significant competitive advantage to customers that want to extend and amplify their applications, business processes, and workflows with the power of data and automation. It can create new possibilities to operate more effectively and efficiently through analytics, workflow triggers, artificial intelligence, and the development of new, data-driven intelligent applications. It can give organizations the peace of mind of knowing that even the most ambitious initiatives are achievable and the biggest hurdles are attainable.

To learn more about how 51风流partners are helping businesses succeed with a unified technology platform, explore my other articles. If you are an 51风流customer, you may want to check out or for use cases that fit your business goals. If you鈥檙e interested in software partnership opportunities with SAP, check out . And if you鈥檙e already a partner, check out these exciting initiatives: and .

Jagdish Sahasrabudhe is CTO of Global Partner Organization at SAP.

The concept of process automation may not be new, but it鈥檚 now fueling a wide assortment of business scenarios that go beyond simple processes, tasks, and workflows. Companies are now digitalizing their operations 鈥� reaching into their vendor networks, business partners, and customers 鈥� to address organizational needs more holistically and strategically.

At SAP, many of our partners are using 听(51风流BTP) to help customers take advantage of this trend to build applications that drive revenue growth. By embedding modern automation capabilities in line-of-business systems, they can improve information usability and process efficiency with automation capabilities such as verification workflows, approval processes, content integration, or the retirement of outdated materials and inventory.

These examples are only a small glimpse into the automation use cases that 51风流BTP can support. Through its operational layer, the platform provides a portfolio of low-code development tools and prebuilt content that can enable our partners and their customers to drive critical improvements with automation.

Setting the Foundation for Performance Improvement

When first considering automation, most organizations often think about their processes. Why? To increase their operational efficiency, make better decisions, improve performance and customer satisfaction, and, better yet, allow employees to focus on more strategic work.

51风流BTP supports this entry into the automation world by providing , empowering users with a low-code and no-code platform, workflow capabilities, robotic process automation (RPA), and machine learning. Our customers can transform their business safely and predictably with proven methodologies for project and process governance and a simulation engine that evaluates the impact of change.

With these capabilities, organizations can adopt a range of use cases. For example, has automated job requisitioning, streamlined processes for requesting and approving time off, and accelerated role authorization, registration, and authentication. In return, the energy market powerhouse realized 50% time savings on plant inspections and 10 times faster data entry for job requisitions.

Meanwhile, companies such as have offloaded rule-based tasks, including the checking, classification, and processing of thousands of documents. This approach freed up employees to focus on nonroutine activities that help maximize business value and improve customer experiences.

Cultivating a Portal That Unifies Work Experiences

When using legacy workflows or out-of-date portals, maintaining a cohesive operation of multiple departments, suppliers, partners, and service providers can be difficult. But 51风流BTP can help companies overcome that challenge by providing quick and intuitive mobile access to essential functions, documentation, and resources 鈥� everything a business needs to support organizational processes and strengthen information management company-wide.

The platform delivers an expanding set of services that enable customers and partners to maximize the value of existing 51风流applications 鈥� combining access to external data and systems through integration. Our partners can then leverage their expertise and knowledge to extend those digital assets to develop capabilities that, for example, introduce automation into complex processes and workflows and connect internal and external stakeholders.

By pulling all these innovations together into a user-friendly portal, the entire business can collaborate and access information anytime and anywhere and use that intelligence to take decisive action on risks and opportunities. Administrative processes and workflows are further simplified with a streamlined user interface, while systems and data are kept secure with authentication.

By adopting this use case for 51风流BTP, food exporter teamed up with 51风流partner Bourne Digital Pty. Ltd. to extend existing systems and enhance its growers鈥� portal.

Inspiring Lasting Connections Between People and Business

On a journey to modernization, most companies choose to overhaul their aging legacy systems, cumbersome processes, and paper-based reporting to improve operational efficiency so they can adapt quickly to changing market conditions.

One approach that many customers follow is migrating to听听and implementing the听听service and the听听solution, all of which are part of 51风流BTP. With the help of a partner, customers can embed analytics capabilities into existing business applications and establish enterprise-wide governance to help optimize the management of general ledgers, revenue, and expenses. Then, they can quickly transform their enterprise resource planning (ERP) data to automate tasks such as financial and management reporting.

The benefits of system automation can quickly add up as individual process efficiencies are combined, resulting in reduced administration and reporting times, consolidation of financial results, and elimination of manual processes. Business planners can also leverage strategic dashboards generated by 51风流Analytics Cloud to gain near-real-time insights into critical performance indicators. Additionally, with the inclusion of 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, they can analyze scenarios, create forecasts, and predict future growth.

Emulating the above path, and its software partner Bluetree Pty. Ltd. automated financial and management reporting, streamlined data-driven decision-making, and delivered a superior user experience.

Improving the Customer Experience from Lead to Order

Automating lead-to-order processes is particularly interesting to companies that characterized their customer experiences with fast response times, little to no fulfillment errors, and inventory accuracy. Yet, even more compelling is the opportunity to enhance order visibility, efficiency, and integration from early marketing touchpoints to deal closure and beyond 鈥� accelerating customer loyalty and fueling profitable business growth.

51风流customers can adopt this use-case scenario with a听听鈥� developed and maintained by one of our partners, IBM. The package spans multiple solutions such as 51风流S/4HANA Cloud and the , which spans sales automation and configure, price, and quote (CPQ) solutions.

Similar chatbot-enabled scenarios enable organizations to benefit from the automatic and rapid dissemination of relevant sales intelligence, price optimizations, and a real-time outlook into sales and pipeline performance. Furthermore, they can create lead and CPQ processes integrated with customer self-services, providing a collaborative customer experience beginning with the first interaction.

Taking Business Intelligence to the Next Level

The more companies digitally transform, the more agile, efficient, and innovative they expect to be. And of course, they see digital process automation as a critical milestone in their journey to becoming an intelligent enterprise.

But this form of digitalization is much more than automating basic processes and workflows. It also expands existing systems and data and adapts them to meet new regulatory requirements, innovative business functions, emerging customer expectations, and more.

By using 51风流BTP as their unified and open platform for innovation, partners can help customers increase their business agility while adapting and responding to changing requirements and conditions. Furthermore, the addition of intelligent automation can boost customer satisfaction as new efficiencies are gained through the redirection of resources toward higher-value activities and the reinvention of workflows that enable a continuous stream of process improvements.

Most importantly, our partners and customers are supported by the business, industry, and technical knowledge of a global ecosystem.听Together, with 51风流BTP and our enablement services, they can optimize the use of our back-end technology and understand our application life cycle and road map 鈥� all with a focus on shaping their unique vision of an intelligent enterprise.

To learn more about how 51风流partners are helping businesses succeed with a unified technology platform,听explore my other articles. If you鈥檙e interested in software partnership opportunities with SAP, check out听. If you鈥檙e already a partner, check out these exciting initiatives: 听and听.

Jagdish Sahasrabudhe is CTO of Global Partner Organization at SAP.

According to , public cloud spending is expected to continue to grow 鈥� consuming nearly half of all enterprise IT budgets by 2026, up from less than 17% this year. However, cloud investments will now focus more on strengthening operations, building differentiation, and improving sustainability with intelligent technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and process automation.

Increased investments in the cloud will undoubtedly encompass a desire to innovate across the enterprise without being locked into a single cloud provider or set of cloud offerings. To keep options open, organizations may want to adopt a technology platform that provides open cloud services and enables them and their partners to innovate with greater control over their data, solutions, workflows, and user experiences.

Opening Up New Possibilities with Cloud Services

Savvy decision-makers who seek to differentiate and grow their organizations must find ways to accelerate the creation and modification of business models, experiences, processes, and applications. To make that happen, they need access to the latest database and data management, analytics, integration, and extension capabilities.

A unified technology platform 鈥� such as (51风流BTP) 鈥� works to answer that need by delivering accelerated business outcomes with integration, data and analytics, and extensibility within the context of business domains to empower business centricity. It can enable organizations to solve unique business process challenges and create more meaningful outcomes.

51风流BTP also offers prebuilt integrations and analytics with workflows for line-of-business and industry processes to help accelerate the realization of these benefits by reducing development and innovation cycles.

Transforming Digitally Through Connected Systems and Prebuilt Content

For many organizations, adopting an open business technology platform is the key to accelerating their digital transformation journey. This journey is only possible by connecting data-driven enterprise processes, extending core business solutions, and allowing a consistent experience across different processes and workflow customizations.

Take, for example, the lead-to-cash process. With a unified technology platform, businesses and their partners can design an application that creates sales contracts capable of referencing agreed pricing terms and recommending relevant promotions, incentives, and rebates. This connected, process-aware application enables sales teams to benefit from workflows that are joined across marketing, finance, supply chain, and operations.

Other key components of speeding the digital transformation journey are prebuilt integrations and packaged content. For example, prepackaged contracting capabilities, configurable proposal creation rules and templates, guided self-service sales contract wizards, and adaptable approval workflows can enable lead-to-cash business stakeholders to accelerate design, development, and implementation cycles.

Integrating, Extending, and Keeping the Core Clean

The first step in this cloud-based innovation process is leveraging integration services to bridge disconnected systems, making the lead-to-cash process flexible and agile. For example, 51风流customers and partners use , which offers a choice of more than 1,800 prebuilt integrations, 2,100 APIs, and 160 third-party connectors to smoothly integrate on-premise and cloud-based applications and processes.

By complementing these integration services with application extensions available through , customers and partners can simplify application development and extend line-of-business solution capabilities. Additionally, they can quickly adapt and innovate across a heterogeneous mix of private cloud, public cloud, hyperscaler, and on-premise landscapes.

These extension services enable partners to transition away from classic extensions that directly customize primary business solutions, enabling them to keep the digital core clean through side-by-side innovations that decouple their intellectual property. As a result, customers can achieve a better long-term outcome with applications that benefit from consistent upgrades to core solutions. Plus, by combining integration and extension services with prebuilt business content and native APIs, organizations can build and connect applications and data with less technical complexity 鈥� accelerating the time to results.

Transforming with a Balance of Control and Flexibility

When laying the groundwork for more stable operations and more predictive growth, nothing beats having real-time, accurate data from connected systems to make decisions confidently. And with a truly unified, business-centric technology platform, companies of all sizes and industries can turn their cloud into a high-powered innovation engine, producing better outcomes and experiences for their employees and customers.

As a next step, explore or, if you鈥檙e interested in software partnership opportunities with SAP, learn more at . If you鈥檙e already a partner, check out these exciting initiatives:听听and听.

Tom Le is global vice president of Partner Solution Advisory at SAP.

Leveling up business efficiency and performance are two critical strategies for staying competitive in today’s increased market volatility and disruption. For most businesses, this means delivering modern, data-driven processes that go beyond merely adding custom functions or tweaking screens within existing business applications. In fact, for many organizations, delivering on this goal requires radically innovating solutions 鈥� adding new capabilities and workflows that address evolving needs and bring a new vision.

Meanwhile, 51风流partners can benefit from this growing desire for future-proofing businesses, with intelligent and workflow-aware applications opening new revenue streams driven by cloud adoption. By counteracting declining income from on-premise implementation and operations, savvy partners can recover and grow profits with larger engagements and the conversion of the latest applications into packaged solutions, driving repeatable business across multiple customers.

At SAP, we see a growing number of companies realizing this potential, bringing to life incredibly inventive business cases. With a portfolio of application development services, such as听听and听, which power听 (51风流BTP), customers and partners can access the tools to support new levels of innovation. They can leverage the platform and its services to integrate 51风流and third-party processes, manage data, and deliver modern, intelligent, data-driven capabilities that enable them to digitally transform.

Let me share some of my personal favorites across various lines of business 鈥� such as HR, finance, commerce, and operations 鈥� where people are experiencing more streamlined, intelligent, and human-centered work.

Customizing Cloud-Based HR Integration for Tax Credit

A great example of how our customers and partners extend HR capabilities in the cloud relates to the听听and听听solutions, which are part of听. The suite provides powerful cloud-based solutions for core HR and payroll, talent management, employee experience management, and people analytics.

By directly integrating 51风流SuccessFactors solutions with APIs and intelligent services, HR organizations can assess, validate, and process new hires while determining whether their business qualifies for a Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC). WOTCs allow U.S. companies to receive federal tax credits every year they hire employees who systematically experience significant barriers against employment.

Although the recruiting and core HR solutions do not include the means to track and validate individual new hires, they contain the framework to build those capabilities. 51风流partners can leverage integration workflows available in 51风流BTP and use them to connect the two 51风流SuccessFactors solutions to the digital job application. Our customers can then schedule assessments with frequent intervals, read applicants’ qualifications, and prompt candidates to complete a WOTC assessment, and the results from that evaluation are updated in the related 51风流SuccessFactors solution.

This scenario exemplifies how partners can leverage 51风流BTP to introduce capabilities 鈥� which may not be a standard function in the existing software 鈥� into current business processes. Many of our customers and partners have taken advantage of this opportunity to streamline related workflows, connect relevant business entities, and deliver an experience-first approach to HR.

Closing the Gap in Dispute and Grievance Resolution

An under-served area in most HR technologies is the employee dispute and grievance resolution process. For example, one of our partners helped a customer develop an application that settles and handles grievance cases with greater transparency.

By tightly coupling听听and 51风流BTP, the partner solution emulates the core solution experience. When launched from an 51风流SuccessFactors solution, the look and feel of the partner application is consistent for the user. The interface is developed with听听and the听听design system, while the integration is enabled by the 51风流Platform Identity Provider service for 51风流BTP and the Identity Authentication service.

Through this co-innovation effort, our customers can address various grievance types that represent unique workflows, approval processes, and business scenarios 鈥� operated smoothly with the听听service. As a result, our customers can improve auditability and accelerate the entire resolution process. They can trace a grievance throughout its lifecycle from the complaint to resolution, standardize information gathering, and conduct an organizational-level review of complaints and their progress in real time.

Optimizing the Use of Talent, Anytime and Anywhere

By extending the core HR capabilities of 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central, our partners also develop applications that help improve resource management and utilization. In return, our customers can assign the right talent to the right projects with a real-time schedule, built by reading a project-related business system, such as 51风流S/4HANA.

In this case, 51风流BTP smoothly integrates employee leave data, skill set information, and details on organizational needs. Plus, different approval processes are made available through 51风流Workflow Management.

Extending core HR capabilities in this manner allows details, including assignment duration and employee proficiency, to be considered when assigning employees to projects and roles 鈥� helping to ensure every person can contribute to their fullest potential. Similar implementations of this use case can also help customers develop workflow applications related to security clearance, visa applications, and work permit processes, to name a few.

Maximizing the Product Life Cycle with a New Business Model

Speaking of improved resource contribution and utilization, the fashion industry is discovering a better way to recapture US$460 billion in value lost to discarded clothing each year. In this use case, retailers embrace an online rental business model that adds new revenue streams, making the business more competitive, and reduces their carbon footprint, resulting in improved consumer trust and loyalty.

Under a similar product lifecycle use case, one of our customers integrated its back-office system with an e-commerce portal by using intelligent technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA). Using听听and 51风流BTP, the retailer integrated and automated its rental order fulfillment and return processes.

Detecting Anomalies in Business Operations to Prevent Fraud

Historically, procure-to-pay processes are fraught with excess payments, operational risks, rising costs, incomplete audit verification, arduous recovery efforts, and noncompliant purchasing behaviors. But 51风流BTP enables our partners and customers to overcome these challenges with tip-based alerting, rules-based detection, and pattern-based prediction.

Organizations focused on tackling these issues integrate their offerings with the听听solution, 51风流Fiori user experience, runtime application self-protection for 51风流BTP, and 51风流BTP, Cloud Foundry environment. They can then decipher data-driven patterns to identify new anomalies and fraud types and customize red-flag thresholds based on criticality and risk tolerance. Furthermore, finance decision-makers can learn from user feedback by using the intelligent data capture and processing solution to continuously improve fraud detection practices.

Outcomes from this procure-to-pay approach include 70% savings in compliance effort, 95% straight-through processing, 100% audit coverage, and more on-time payments.

Using Powerful Technology Today, Evolving for Tomorrow

Most applications come with their own stack of tools, methodologies, and workbenches that enable companies to make fundamental changes to the user experience. But with 51风流BTP, 51风流partners and our customers can come together to build more intelligent, workflow-aware solutions that solve more complex customer process challenges.

By building intelligent solutions with the unified, business-centric, and open platform, our partners can access the technology foundation, tools, and development practices necessary to extend the boundaries of digitalization and cloud architecture. As a result, they can increase their average engagement sizes, convert their IP into repeatable, packaged software offerings, and generate new revenue streams under new business models. And more importantly, these technology and business experts can help customers of all industries and sizes become more agile, future-proof their processes, and realize their full potential as intelligent enterprises.

Jagdish Sahasrabudhe is CTO of the Global Partner Organization at SAP.

Analytics solutions have advanced considerably over the past few years. Various options support strategic decision-making, including data visualizations, executive dashboards, predictive tools, and artificial intelligence (AI). However, most analytics still require the assistance of IT and data professionals. As a result, use of these valuable tools is often limited to executives, key decision makers, and select operational personnel.

According to a sponsored by SAP, approximately 60% of highly desirable analytics tasks require support from IT or data professionals. This situation puts employee engagement and the delivery of targeted outcomes at risk, especially since a growing number of users demand reliable visibility into all processes and factors that influence their daily workflow.

Why is this such a concern today? Organizations have too much at stake not to be truly data-driven and intelligent. Given the challenges caused by rapid market shifts, economic fluctuations, social factors, technology advancements, and climate change, they must transition to analytics solutions designed and available for everyone, not just for executives making strategic decisions.

The Beginning of the 鈥淎nalytics for Everyone鈥� Era

It鈥檚 not unusual for an employee to pull up a list of overdue accounts, an accounts receivable statement, and a sales performance view. But those capabilities are not analytics by today鈥檚 standards. Instead, they are aging glimpses into a past that will eventually become irrelevant.

Today, the realm of decision-making needs to extend beyond solely reporting static operational data 鈥� evolving to include real-time, intelligent analysis of next steps and future possibilities. In fact, surveyed organizations shared with Forrester that the top benefits of augmented analytics include detecting anomalies, automating data quality, using natural language to answer questions and explain results, and identifying, predicting, and forecasting trends.

With cloud-based, predictive analytics — such as the solution, part of — many companies are empowering people of all ranks and skill sets to make decisions that lead to consequential outcomes for their business and community.

, for instance, has improved its brand equity with retail buyers and consumers through greater transparency and facilitated a market premium for fair-trade products. The company analyzes fish buying trends and data to identify historical performance and improve current-day catches in fishing villages together with nongovernmental organizations. This predictive approach is improving the livelihoods of local fishing communities.

User Potential Soars with Embedded Analytics

One of the most compelling capabilities of 51风流Analytics Cloud is the ability to embed analytics tools directly into existing applications and drive improved business processes based on enterprise data. This design lets employees keep on top of every situation and make the right choices quickly as part of their daily workflow and interactions. And ultimately, the entire workforce moves together as one entity 鈥� knowing what the company needs and which underlying risks should be addressed, as well as when, where, and how outcomes can be realized.

This advanced approach to analytics can turn everyday decision-making into a potent force for business success, while reducing the risks that organizations face in these challenging times. Nowhere is this level of transformation more evident than in companies with business models, product portfolios, operations, and supply chains designed to satisfy customer and investor preferences for environmentally and socially responsible operations.

Allbirds Inc. is a prime example of a sustainability-first business model. Holding themselves accountable to 鈥渃reate better things in a better way,鈥� the shoemaker labels every product with its carbon footprint to inform consumers on the environmental impact of the supply chain. More impressive, this level of visibility is still happening as Allbirds experiences rapid growth, allowing it to track its inventory in real time and seek new opportunities to minimize waste.

Allbirds鈥� success as a sustainable operation points to the power of analytics embedded in 51风流S/4HANA. Recognizing that employees and business leaders do not have the time to search for relevant data or manipulate it to get what they need, users can access 51风流Analytics Cloud by logging in their core applications. In return, decision makers across the company can acquire relevant insights within traditional workflows and within the same interface, take action, and move on to the next task.

Quick Starting Point for Critical Analytics Scenarios

Another aspect of 51风流Analytics Cloud that most organizations enjoy is access to pre-configured, best-practice, industry, and functional . Free access to a of end-to-end scenarios for specific industries and lines of business lets 51风流customers quickly develop their analytics systems and tailor applications with packages and templatized content from 51风流and our partners.

Pre-configured, best-practice offerings, content, and technical objects available through 51风流Analytics Cloud help organizations jump-start their implementation and adoption of individual analytics scenarios. The open-innovation technology behind the cloud-based analytics solution and ready-to-use analytical applications and content from 51风流partners can be leveraged immediately and tailored as needed.

Multiple Tools for Intelligent Enterprise Planning in One Solution

51风流Analytics Cloud gives every employee real-time visibility into their business with data-driven insights. From operational reporting and predictive analytics to integrated planning and what-if analysis, the workforce can benefit from this high-performance, in-memory analytics solution under a single, engaging user experience.

The cloud-based analytics solution extends a live connection to on-premise applications, replacing the need for uploading data manually to the cloud. These hybrid analytics, combined with an ecosystem of existing local solutions and new cloud applications, enables employees to discover insights and pass them along to other decision makers in context and with minimal investment and risk.

Meanwhile, comprehensive data management and analytics capabilities help ensure and analysis are underpinned by a consistent model of trusted information. Machine learning capabilities, for example, can be embedded in existing applications to enrich and accelerate decision-making within daily enterprise resource planning (ERP) functions. Additionally, advances decision-making to consider potential benefits and side effects before action is taken and more people are involved in the process.

At SAP, our partners are playing a key role in solving customer challenges by delivering unique line-of-business and industry solutions. They are constantly developing and innovating using 51风流Business Technology Platform and the 51风流Analytics Cloud solution.

For example, one such partner, Bourne Digital, helped Taronga Conservation Society Australia design and implement a new cloud solution using 51风流S/4HANA Cloud and 51风流Analytics Cloud. The application gave Taronga a unified digital experience for employees and streamlined business processes across its conservation research, animal welfare, and environmental education services.听 With greater transparency, flexibility, and scalability, the organization can now take full advantage of its data to improve operations and expand its impact.

Designing a Cloud Environment with the Customer in Mind

At SAP, we take great pride in enabling this new era of 鈥渁nalytics for everyone鈥� and helping people of all roles and skill sets drive impactful outcomes for their business, their community, and the entire world. This mindset is what led to the development and continuous evolution of 51风流Analytics Cloud.

From the boardroom and office desk to a customer meeting, users can trust their business logic and formerly hidden insights can become well-advised actions that enhance corporate outcomes. More importantly, every person can be a part of the data-to-value chain 鈥� evaluating enterprise data, asking the right questions, getting real-time answers, and moving forward to help the business succeed and even improve humankind.

Find out how your organization can track carbon targets and with .

Jagdish Sahasrabudhe is CTO of the Global Partner Organization at SAP.