Building on SAP鈥檚 initial 鈧�1/4 billion UK investment, to drive innovation and digital transformation in the UK, the Sovereign Cloud offering is now fully operational and available to customers. This launch supports the UK鈥檚 Data Protection Act 2018, aligns with the National Cyber Security Centre鈥檚 security principles, and provides solutions that meet Cyber Essential Plus standards. This further demonstrates SAP鈥檚 commitment to the UK’s data sovereignty and security needs.

The demand for sovereign cloud services has grown significantly as businesses and government bodies increasingly prioritise data sovereignty and security in a rapidly changing global landscape. 51风流re-emphasised its commitment to customers with dedicated sovereignty requirements with the establishment of its Sovereign Services & Delivery organisation on October 1, 2024. The unit consolidates expertise and experience in operating sovereign cloud solutions across 51风流and will serve as an umbrella for the company鈥檚 global sovereign cloud business.

“At SAP, we are committed to protect the security and well-being of the societies we serve. With more than 20 years of experience in operating sovereign cloud solutions, today marks a significant milestone for us. We are proud to commence 51风流Sovereign Cloud capabilities in the UK and will support government and businesses alike to innovate, transform and harness the benefits of the cloud”, said Martin Merz, President Sovereign Services & Delivery, at SAP.

SAP鈥檚 Sovereign Cloud is designed to meet the highest standards of data residency, security, and compliance within the UK. This makes it an ideal solution for public sector organisations, defence contractors, utilities, and other highly regulated industries. It is particularly relevant for organisations in the Aerospace and Defence (A&D), Central Government, Ministry of Defence (MoD), and Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) sectors.

The offering initially includes 51风流S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition, 51风流SuccessFactors HCM, 51风流Business Technology Platform (BTP), 51风流Analytics Cloud, Fieldglass and Digital Supply Chain, including IBP. These solutions provide customers with a robust and secure foundation for managing critical business processes and sensitive data, while ensuring compliance with UK regulations.

“The launch of 51风流Sovereign Cloud in the UK is a pivotal moment for organisations that demand the highest levels of data security and compliance,鈥� said Leila Romane, Managing Director, 51风流UK & Ireland. 鈥淚n today鈥檚 complex global environment, it is vital for our customers to understand that their data, as well as our solutions and services, are secure. These are managed by security-cleared personnel in dedicated, local, secure facilities. Sovereignty is essential in protecting against unlawful data access, ensuring compliance, and mitigating risk. With this offering, we鈥檙e empowering UK businesses and public sector bodies to innovate and thrive, confident in the sovereignty and resilience of their data.鈥�

Looking ahead, 51风流plans to expand the capabilities of the UK Sovereign Cloud to include additional services and solutions, further empowering our customers to achieve their strategic goals.

鈥淭his launch also reinforces SAP鈥檚 ongoing commitment to investing in the UK, as we continue to develop cutting-edge infrastructure, invest in facilities and talent, and create new opportunities that drive growth and digital transformation across the nation,” Leila concluded.

For more information about SAP鈥檚 Sovereign Cloud, please visit .

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Building a solid data foundation and achieving information excellence is essential to delivering the business agility needed to navigate change and rapidly make business decisions. Helping business teams harness their data assets and the responsiveness to adjust the collection and communication of these valuable resources is extremely relevant to support the improved efficiencies needed within the organisation in times of change.

So, we鈥檝e brought together experts in data management and strategy to discuss key topics and trends that are reshaping the way companies leverage data, to unlock the full potential of this valuable enterprise asset.

Listen to this podcast series on all things data!

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This episode describes 51风流Signavio Process Intelligence: why, what and how. It also discusses the integration between 51风流Signavio Process Intelligence and 51风流Data Intelligence.
Speakers: Senior Director 51风流Signavio Process Intelligence, ; and Senior Director Data Management Solution Marketing at SAP, .

This episode introduces you to 51风流Signavio. You will gain a good introduction to Siganavio, the key elements and how 51风流and Signavio work together for process improvement.
Speakers: Senior Director 51风流Signavio Process Intelligence, ; and Senior Director Data Management Solution Marketing at SAP, .

This podcast is about the foundation that Board members, particularly those of non-data-native companies, need so they can address the most important opportunities and risks, probe more deeply, and fulfill their oversight responsibilities around data. Join , 鈥渢he Data Doc,鈥� President of Data Quality Solutions, and , Enterprise Data Management & Data Strategy Innovator at SAP, as they share their insights.

Join this interactive discussion with women who have spent their careers in data-related positions, including VP of Global Marketing and Solutions at SAP, 听Senior Director in Data Management at SAP, Product Marketing Manager at AWS, and Senior Director in Data Management at SAP, . You will hear their opinion of where data management is today, some tips if you want to get into a data-related career, and some insight on the importance of data-focused advocates across industries.

This episode explains document processing, the partnership with OpenText and a recent ROI study on the reduction of costs, improved performance and effective migration to S/4HANA.
Speakers: Senior Global Director for Marketing and Solutions, ; and Senior Director 51风流Solution Marketing, .

This podcast builds on Ep 51 where we discussed data management services available in 51风流Business Technology Platform. In this episode we learn about a company with siloed and disconnected data that lacked business context. This podcast shares how the 51风流Business Technology Platform, and specifically the data and analytics services, were used to add business context to the existing data sprawl to enable confident decisions.
Speakers: Senior Director Platform & Technology Product Strategy at SAP,; Data Management Solution Management Lead at SAP, Axel Schuller; Senior Director Data Management Solution Marketing at SAP, .

Did you know that financial data reconciliation is a must-have for every 51风流implementation project? What is it and why does every organisation need to pay attention to it? Join Syin Tan, Kevin Zheng, Lucas Morris and Sam Bannigan, representatives from Deloitte鈥檚 Data Practice, as they discuss the costs, risks and compliance requirements of financial reconciliation, and how they leveraged 51风流Data Intelligence to stay on top of this critical success factor.
Speakers: Data Specialist at Deloitte Consulting, Kevin Zheng; Finance and Data Specialist at Deloitte Consulting, ; Finance Specialist at Deloitte Consulting, .

This podcast explores the most important data management services available in the 51风流Business Technology Platform. These services include data cataloguing and metadata management, data integration, and data processing. We will also discuss how these services are used across the data and analytics portfolio within the 51风流Business Technology Platform. Listen in to get the latest on data management services and how you can use them.
Speakers: Senior Director Platform & Technology Product Strategy at SAP, ; Data Management Solution Management Lead at SAP, Axel Schuller; Senior Director Data Management Solution Marketing at SAP, .

Sodales Solutions builds solutions for a company’s health, safety, and environment management 鈥� and they do so by using 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP). Through their ongoing innovation and reliance on 51风流BTP, Sodales is making the most out of the white spaces they identify. Listen to what the “51风流BTP role model” has to say and learn more about their innovation approach, thoughts about the 51风流store, hiring criteria and more.

Data volume growth is accelerating. The costs and risks to manage all that data go beyond just storage. Join CEO of Auritas, ; and Senior Director for Solution Management, Business Technology Platform at SAP, , as they discuss how and why to manage the lifecycle of data while balancing the cost of resources, ownership, risk and legal compliance.

In this podcast episode, you will hear from executives at SAP, IDC and 51风流partner Rizing, on the value partners derive from SAP鈥檚 Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP). Led by (Director, Software Channels & Ecosystems at IDC), an informed discussion with (CTO, Rizing) and (Global VP Partner Solution Advisory, SAP) expands on the findings of the IDC Partner Success Guide, which explores the business and technology accelerators available to partners through 51风流BTP. The executives cover topics such as how Rizing is innovating with 51风流BTP, the scope and impact the platform has on the customer lifetime value, and the 51风流programmes offered to ensure partner success with 51风流BTP.

Ratan Yedla and from VASPP Technologies discuss how Commodity Price Prediction works with 51风流Data Intelligence. They discuss the use of AI () and ML (Machine Learning) models to predict future prices based on previous patterns, external events and IoT data. This听 predicts prices with less forecast error to enable better buying decisions which helps yield cost savings for organisations. VASPP Technologies did this work during the 51风流Data Intelligence content sprint.

and from DataXstream discuss building Intelligent Automation (IA) and the advantages of using 51风流Data Intelligence for MLOps. The team goes over the problem wholesale distributors face with trying to fulfill large quotes and orders accurately and efficiently. Traditionally, this required Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) who understood 51风流GUI and had years of industry experience, spending hours inputting data. With Intelligent Automation, optical character recognition (OCR) is used to read text into the machine learning models built by Xilin. He discusses the natural language processing (NLP) techniques used in addition to the advantages of developing machine learning pipelines in 51风流Data Intelligence. Kathleen and Xilin then wrap up with the future of Intelligent Automation and the potential of using machine learning to win more deals and improve customer buying experience.

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That informs the way we approach our customers鈥� needs. Rather than first asking how an organisation can use our products, we ask: 鈥楬ow can we help this organisation succeed? How can we help it achieve its purpose? How can we help it run better and how can our software and services improve the lives of its employees, customers and stakeholders?鈥�

The purpose of the UK public sector is to provide the public services that benefit all citizens and to manage these, day to day.听Yet many organisations within the public sector can鈥檛 do this as efficiently as they should, because they don鈥檛 have a full view of their data assets, business processes or their end users 鈥� us citizens. They may not have the skills, tools or permission to access and interpret data that could help them achieve their purpose more effectively.

This is a big reason why the Government announced its in 2021. The strategy has three key objectives: One, to provide a better user experience with systems that are
intuitive, easy to use, and mobile-enabled. Two, to achieve greater efficiency and value for money through better systems and services, which support productivity and reduce costs. And three, to standardise processes and data to support interoperability, making it easier to understand and compare corporate data.

It鈥檚 that third objective that interests me the most鈥� how SAP, with its nearly 50-year history in the public sector, can help the UK Government use data to better serve citizens. In this article, I鈥檒l look at three of the main hurdles standing in the way of the public sector achieving its purpose and how they can be overcome.

1. Inconsistent data architecture

In 2013, the government announced its , which led to the transition of most front-facing, citizen-centric services to the cloud. However, many back-office systems were left untouched, never upgraded or moved to the cloud. Those organisations are still working with this aged, on-premise software. It鈥檚 no surprise, then, that the old technology can鈥檛 manage or keep pace with the data and processing power of the front-end cloud-based systems.

As an example, I was recently speaking with a customer who couldn鈥檛 understand why her department鈥檚 HR software wouldn鈥檛 work properly on a new iPad. I had to explain that iPads were first launched in 2010 and that her new device was the latest 9^th generation of the iPad, whilst her HR software dated back to 2005! No wonder that these older, legacy IT systems can鈥檛 perform tasks that our own smartphones could easily manage. They were implemented before much of today鈥檚 technology even existed, and never changed.

The solution: The Shared Services Strategy will ensure that nearly all departments in the public sector make their own cloud journeys soon, enabling them to share data across departments. With solutions like SAP鈥檚 Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), government organisations can bring together next generation, modular cloud business applications (e.g. software for finance, human experience management, procurement and supply chain, etc) with database and data management, analytics, and integration. They will also be able to extend the capabilities of these business applications to meet their individual department needs, within one platform for both cloud and hybrid environments. This includes hundreds of pre-built integrations for 51风流and third-party applications like Oracle, ServiceNow, Microsoft, SalesForce, Pega etc.

2. Lack of internal resources

The technology skills gap is as real a challenge for the government as it is for the private sector. According to a recent report, 66% of digital leaders in Britain say that a lack of talent is primarily responsible for slower digital transformation in their organisations. The government simply can鈥檛 find employees with the skills or training needed to implement new technology systems fast enough. New technology systems are needed to remove the significant technical debt that exists across the government, which in turn makes the challenge of leveraging data a real blocker. The government relies on bringing in external resources to implement new technology systems, but as a by-product of the skills shortage, vendors are forced to pay more for talent and must pass the additional cost on to the organisation. The longer it takes to see the benefit of the solution, the harder it is for organisations to justify the expense.

The solution: The key to mitigating this problem is to speed up the time it takes for an organisation to recognise the value it is gaining from new technology. 听In this way, the organisation can validate its investment much more quickly. The 51风流Activate Methodology enables the organisation to benefit from reduced time to value. This modular, cloud and agile focused framework supplies project teams with detailed steps to be delivered in each phase throughout the project, provides accelerators which makes work easier to accomplish, and clear workstreams which span across various phases.

Combining 51风流Activate Methodology with SAP鈥檚 next generation, modular cloud ERP business applications, means that organisations can 鈥楽tart Anywhere, Go Everywhere鈥�. What this means is that you can deploy and consume the cloud technologies that are most pressing for your business needs and thereby reduce your upfront costs and realise value quicker. For example, think about being able to deploy and consume a next generation cloud Human Experience Management solution within 6 months, without having to wait for a programme plan for a monolithic and complex ERP solution. SAP鈥檚 unique modular approach means the organisation can start experiencing real value much sooner.

3. Overcoming the complexity

Replacing one technology platform with another is not always a simple 鈥榬ip and replace鈥� solution. The systems currently in use by the public sector have been customised and modified over time to meet the very specific needs of each department, with workarounds implemented along the way. It has seemed easier to repeatedly put sticking plaster on what鈥檚 wrong than to attempt end to end business transformation. However, GSS has confirmed that we鈥檙e at a stage where we have too many sticking plasters and we need to tackle the issue from the ground up.

The complexity can be daunting. For example, the UK Government鈥檚 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been told to urgently review its IT strategy, as it was revealed that outdated systems can be held responsible for historic underpayments of over 拢1 billion. The Pension Service Computer System, introduced in 1988, has not subsequently been updated but instead run alongside new systems that together manage millions of records, and now will be incredibly complex and risky to update.

The solution: Organisations need both expert guidance and a holistic, collaborative approach to simplification. SAP鈥檚 business process intelligence (BPI) solutions provide end-to-end capabilities for strategic process transformation, while supporting business users in the change to new systems and processes. By truly understanding their end-to-end business processes, organisations can benchmark and simulate processes for alternative business scenarios. This helps them surface their current data challenges and needs whilst prioritising opportunities for automation. In addition, SAP鈥檚 Signavio鈥檚 collaboration hub can support in building a single source of truth across teams and break down data silos.

The solutions that underpin all these challenges rely on a focus on outcomes. Data and systems can feel far removed from achieving purpose, but it is in the intersections of data that we can identify ways to better serve an organisation, its employees and citizens. In my next article I鈥檒l look to some of the transformations we鈥檝e supported in the past, to show how our Shared Services Strategy can move organisations from process to purpose, while absorbing some of the risk in replacing outdated technology.

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In collaboration with key partner SAP, as well as a consortium of industry leading enterprises, such as Transport for London (TfL), East West Rail Company, HS2 and Network Rail, called the 鈥楾ransport Infrastructure Efficiency Strategy Living Lab鈥� (TIES Living Lab)听 the Intelligent Infrastructure Control Centre (IICC) will harmonise the vast quantities of intelligence that UK infrastructure projects generate and help drive greater productivity and resilience through the capture of efficiency and innovation. This will contribute to a radical culture change in how the industry designs and delivers projects and will offer a completely different way of managing operations that will save money and time.

The IICC takes comprehensive operational data from an infrastructure project portfolio and then synthesises this onto one digital platform. At a project level this data is essential to effectively manage operations, while at an enterprise level it informs numerous processes including budgeting, and external reporting. For organisations with responsibility for national infrastructure across the UK, complete visibility of enterprise performance is a fundamental capability the IICC system can deliver.

One of the first initiatives to come out of the TIES Living Lab, a partnership between UK Government and leading infrastructure companies with funding from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, delivered by UK Research and Innovation, the IICC can be used across all sectors and industries.

鈥淢any of our clients across all the sectors we work in, whether it be energy, defence, water or transportation, face challenges with having consistent and accurate data on critical factors such as commercial, carbon, safety, as well as complete cost transparency,鈥� said Tim Embley, director research, innovation and development at smart infrastructure solutions company Costain. 鈥淏ut of course optimising the design, delivery and operation of infrastructure schemes requires access to the right data at the right time to help inform decision making and look for opportunities to increase the whole life value of any programme or asset, including things like social value which can sometimes remain hidden.

鈥淲ithin the system you can bring different data sets to life 鈥� what gets collated and tracked is decided collaboratively with the client. It brings full data transparency to empower the key decision makers and significantly reduces risk, thereby cutting costs and increasing efficiency. With its built-in analytics functionality it can also literally predict the future. 鈥淲here data isn鈥檛 easily available, it uses artificial intelligence to deep mine the existing data to manufacture data that means you can start to predict the outcomes and look at scenarios and decisions that are going to be made. This helps reduce the unknowns and significantly reduces risk, thereby cutting costs, increasing efficiency and giving greater delivery certainty.鈥�

鈥淭he IICC will provide organisations with a real-time view of what鈥檚 happening with their data, enabling them to make fast, effective and targeted decisions,鈥� said Francesco De Toma, Head of Construction and Real Estate Advisory at SAP. 鈥淐ostain was looking for ways to bring added value to its customers. Thanks to the latest business technology platform they can implement new business models, enjoy faster time to innovate and scale applications quickly from project to enterprise level through a system agnostic approach.鈥�

Another issue faced at both a company and industry level is that of 鈥榠nnovation siloes鈥�, where great ideas can become buried and are not shared. This represents a huge loss of potential value. Using the IICC, innovations can be identified and transferred on a live basis. For example, there could be an innovation on a road project where the use of 3D machine control has achieved 30% savings on the earthworks. Network Rail might be looking for some efficiency savings on a big new railway project, something like HS2, and could achieve 30% efficiency savings through the earthworks with the same innovation.

鈥淭he data collated on the Costain-led IICC makes it easier for organisations like us to understand and shape the business case for investing in and adopting that innovation elsewhere,鈥� adds Tim Embley. 鈥淭his means it can be transferred quickly from one chain or sector to another, helping to drive those savings at scale a lot more quickly than ever before. This leads to more success for owners and operators of infrastructure and ultimately better results for our communities who need the critical infrastructure.鈥�

Costain鈥檚 Chief Digital Officer, Nathan Marsh, believes rapid industry transformation is now on the cards: 鈥淭he IICC brings together our deep domain experience and technology integration expertise with the unbelievable firepower in the sort of things that infrastructure needs like data visualisation, predictive analytics, machine learning, coding and customer intimacy from partners like SAP. They are working in other industries so they not only bring a fresh perspective and challenge ways of doing things, they bring insights from those industries so we can benefit from lessons learned and innovate faster.

鈥淲hat we鈥檒l see in the infrastructure sector, as this technology becomes embedded, is very rapid transformation: better data ensuring better, faster and greener delivery of infrastructure that will improve productivity and build resilience across the sector.鈥�

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