4 February – London, UK: 51风流today launches its Supercharging Growth with AI in the UK – a Pathway for High-Growth Businesses report, which considers the scale-up opportunities and challenges facing UK businesses in 2025.

Published as the UK accelerates efforts to position itself as a hub for global innovation and enterprise growth, SAP鈥檚 report shows that as many as 8-in-10 businesses are prioritising growth over improving customer experiences. In addition, over a third (37%) have suggested that they will be turning to technology to help them manage their spending and increase automation across their businesses.

Spotlighting the value of AI

AI is a recurring theme throughout SAP鈥檚 report as UK high-growth businesses indicate that it is critical to long-term growth, with data highlighting:

路 92% rank the adoption of standard AI applications as a high or medium priority in the next 12 months

路 A similar number (91%) are actively exploring the use of emerging applications like generative AI

路 39% are prioritising AI-led business automation this year

路 1-in-2 are actively investing in advanced analytics to refine their decision-making capabilities

The UK鈥檚 high-growth organisations have also highlighted AI鈥檚 role in addressing macro-barriers to growth, like supply chain issues. As many as 91% see closing supply chain gaps as a pressing priority and 39% rank supply chain disruptions as one of the top three business challenges in 2025. To that end, more than 1-in-3 (37%) are turning to AI and automation to help them weather economic uncertainty and build supply chain resilience.

“AI is revolutionising the renewable energy sector, driving smarter decisions and operational efficiency to support growth and resilience,” said Simon Duckett, Chief Digital Officer at Sonnedix, a global renewable energy producer and 51风流customer. “In a rapidly evolving market, AI’s predictive models and advanced analytics help us strengthen our supply chain, adapt to economic uncertainty, and seize new opportunities. By combining cutting-edge technology with human innovation, AI ensures we remain agile and prepared to scale and adapt to change sustainably.鈥�

Digital immaturity remains a barrier to growth

But digital immaturity, in terms of talent, data and infrastructure readiness, continues to hold back successful AI implementation and opportunities for growth.

SAP鈥檚 report shows that legacy technology was cited by 27% of UK high-growth organisations as a key barrier to scale, underscoring the difficulty of integrating cutting-edge solutions into outdated systems. Talent gaps further amplify the problem, with more than one third (34%) struggling to attract and retain professionals with the expertise needed to harness AI effectively. That鈥檚 why 40% now prioritise skills development as a cornerstone of their growth strategy.

Data continues to be highlighted as a key growth obstacle. As many as 1-in-3 indicate that insufficient datasets are hindering AI model training, while 34% point to poor data and limited planning tools as significant barriers to progress.

“Addressing barriers to growth, like digital immaturity, must be a priority for the UK鈥檚 high-growth organisations if they wish to reach their potential,鈥� said Wesley Doyle, Head of New Business, Corporate, 51风流UKI. 鈥淎s our report shows, many have identified AI as the key that unlocks business agility, resilience and efficiency, and enables innovation at scale. As we look ahead to 2025 and beyond, organisations that make bold moves in AI will position themselves to flourish in today鈥檚 data-driven economy and lead the way in shaping the UK鈥檚 growth agenda.”

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WALLDORF, Germany 鈥� October 8, 2024 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled groundbreaking AI innovations across a technology foundation that drives 87% of global commerce, putting its generative AI copilot Joule at the center of a new way of doing business. At its annual 51风流TechEd conference, 51风流announced powerful new capabilities that complement and extend Joule, including collaborative AI agents imbued with custom skills to complete complex cross-disciplinary tasks. Other innovations include the 51风流Knowledge Graph, a next-generation solution poised to help developers unlock the full value of 51风流data by connecting it with rich business context, and new tools to ensure developers can continue driving Business AI innovation.

鈥淪AP鈥檚 innovation drives real business outcomes, and today’s advancements help customers harness the power of AI, data and new development solutions to catalyze growth,鈥� said Muhammad Alam, member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE, 51风流Product Engineering. 鈥淒rawing on SAP鈥檚 unmatched business and technology expertise, the AI innovations we鈥檙e announcing at TechEd forge a new human-AI partnership to transform the landscape of modern business.鈥�

Supercharging Joule

On the eve of its first birthday, Joule marks a watershed in how business gets done. 51风流introduces collaborative AI agents to a copilot that truly speaks the language of business, expands Joule鈥檚 capabilities to support 80% of SAP鈥檚 most-used business tasks and embeds Joule more deeply within the company鈥檚 portfolio.

Collaborative multi-agent systems deploy specialized AI agents to tackle specific tasks and enable them to collaborate on intricate business workflows, adapting their strategies to meet shared objectives. 51风流is infusing Joule with multiple collaborative AI agents that will combine their unique expertise across business functions to collaboratively accomplish complex workflows. These AI agents enhance productivity by breaking down silos and freeing workers to concentrate on areas where human ingenuity thrives.

Two use cases debuted at TechEd showcase the agents鈥� transformative power:

• A dispute management use case employs autonomous AI agents to analyze and resolve dispute resolution scenarios including incorrect and missing invoices, unapplied credits and denied or duplicate payments.
• A financial accounting use case employs autonomous AI agents to streamline key financial processes by automating bill payments, invoice processing, and ledger updates while quickly addressing inconsistencies or errors.

Harnessing the Power of Data

SAP鈥檚 AI innovations also draw on the company鈥檚 unmatched business data expertise. The new 51风流Knowledge Graph solution, accessible through 51风流Datasphere and Joule in Q1 2025, will give users a deeper layer of business understanding by seamlessly mapping relationships and context across SAP’s vast data landscape, empowering organizations to make better decisions with their data. By offering ready-to-use relationships between business entities like purchase orders, invoices, and customers, the solution can significantly reduce the complexity of manual data modeling. 51风流Knowledge Graph grounds AI in SAP-specific business semantics, which reduces the risk of inaccurate or irrelevant results and makes it easier for organizations to build intelligent applications and leverage generative AI more effectively.

Empowering Developers

51风流also launched a swathe of innovations for developers to continue driving Business AI innovation. New generative AI developer capabilities such as code explanation and documentation search in 51风流Build, the company鈥檚 platform for extending its solutions, will reduce development time for Java and JavaScript developers. 51风流Build is also adding an Extensibility Wizard feature that will let developers access 51风流Build directly from 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, simplifying the extension process. Meanwhile, ABAP developers and fusion teams will get seamless access to ABAP Cloud development tools from 51风流Build.

Finally, 51风流announced that it has already fulfilled its pledge to upskill 2 million people worldwide by 2025. Through its , the company has lowered the world鈥檚 digital skills gap through role-based certifications, free training materials, hands-on opportunities for developers, and more. 51风流continues to expand its growing portfolio of AI-related learning opportunities, including courses on generative AI, AI ethics, and SAP鈥檚 advanced AI tools and platforms.

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London, UK 鈥� 4 October, 2023 – (NYSE: SAP) has today announced that Plc, the leading contract and private label manufacturer for cleaning products, has selected to improve customer experience, optimise manufacturing operations, enhance efficiency and drive overall business success.

Partnering with 51风流and systems integrator NTT DATA Business Solutions, the introduction of the new ERP system is McBride鈥檚 largest critical project in terms of cost investment and scale. It will enable McBride to react quicker to its retail and contract manufacturing customer demands, produce at higher volumes and improve internal efficiencies.

Retailers require new product development at pace to remain competitive and the five-year project will allow McBride to adapt quickly to customers鈥� needs. Designed to add consistency to thinking and processes, the system will be harmonised across the entire McBride estate, seeing all departments working with one data source.

The introduction of standard and cohesive business processes will enable McBride鈥檚 12 European manufacturing sites to all work in the same way. This agile approach will realise greater efficiencies, whether that鈥檚 a future adaption to the internal system, or changes to adapt to market pressures.

Other benefits include using and for improved order processing, supply chain visibility, quality control and compliance and reliable product availability. Easy integration, including the sharing of essential and beneficial data to customers, will also enable more accurate production planning.

Commenting on the new ERP system, Group IT Director at McBride, Paul Boardman said: 鈥淭his is a once in a generation opportunity to transform McBride鈥檚 system landscape and improve its capability for staff and customers.

鈥淲e currently have seven streams of transformation, of which ERP is one. The ERP system is critical to our transformation journey at McBride, as it underpins all our programmes and goals. Every transaction, every department, and every factory at McBride goes through ERP, so it really drives the heart of the organisation.

鈥淚t is essential to have a system that will grow with McBride and support our ambitions as a company. A huge amount of time has been invested upfront to get the principles correct before deployment. As well as improving our service to our customers and staff productivity now, it is vital that the ERP system is scalable and will futureproof McBride.

鈥淭here is excitement and appetite for the new system across McBride; employees will benefit from working with the latest technology and be able to deliver a better service to their customers. This is one of the many reasons why McBride is committed to this significant investment in technology and people.鈥�

James Bates, Head of RISE, 51风流UKI, adds: 鈥淎s a longstanding 51风流customer and leader in its industry, the transition to RISE with 51风流marks a significant move for McBride in becoming a truly digitally led, forward-thinking and resilient business. At a time of socio-economic flux, McBride will have enhanced visibility into its operations and unrivalled data insights to intelligently adapt and react to a constantly changing market and ultimately, ensure its ready for the future.鈥�

This significant investment from McBride is not only a sign of its future ambitions but will play a vital role in optimising manufacturing operations, enhancing efficiency and driving overall business success. This will provide McBride and its customers with the tools and insights necessary to navigate the complexities of modern manufacturing and maintain a competitive edge in the retail market.

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SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 51风流customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

About McBride

McBride is the leading European manufacturer and supplier of Private Label and Contract Manufactured products for the domestic household and professional cleaning and hygiene markets.

McBride sells one billion products every year, supplying 49 of Europe’s top 50 grocery retailers.

99% of its packaging is recyclable, and McBride products are used 850 times per second every day.

McBride employs over 3,400 people across 18 locations in 12 countries, with a diverse, inclusive, and engaging culture at all levels. Divisions include Liquids, Unit Dosing, Powders, and Aerosols, in addition to its Asia Pacific division that produces a range of personal care products for consumers across the region. For more information, visit

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New processes will be based on 51风流standard best practice and streamlined with unnecessary steps removed and automation implemented where possible. In addition, system analytics will aid continuous improvement, as well as scalability to accommodate the growing needs of customers.

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The importance of every role

The honey bee is one of nature’s most successful superorganisms. The nature of a superorganism means that they work in perfect synergy at all times.

There are three roles of a bee in the hive:

1. The queen

2. The worker

3. The drone

Each role assumes various, equally crucial responsibilities. Without the support of the drones and the workers, the queen bee is unable to establish new colonies. No single role can survive without the support of the entire colony.

Collective Intelligence

This is where the phenomenon of the听Hive Mind听comes in. Bees avoid a total collapse of operations through a biological programming that provides them with total visibility – constantly – of what is happening in the hive. This collective intelligence is referred to as the hive mind. I will return to this phenomenon shortly.

The Rise of the External Workforce

Through speaking to many of our customers, it is evident that businesses often have a system in place to manage their internal workforce with a close eye. However, an average of 42% of the workforce is actually external to the main business and is consequently not being managed through the usual HR systems and processes. Similarly to a network of superorganisms, the importance of each role should not be underestimated, whether internal or external to your business.

We have all seen how unprecedented global events have highlighted the importance of agility in business. The ebbs and flows of supply and demand in light of such disruption mean easy and efficient access to temporary skilled workers is more important than ever before.

The Artificial Hive Mind

Unfortunately, unlike bees, we do not have an innate biological computer to determine who is doing what, and when. What we can have in its place, however, is a Vendor Management System like . A Vendor Management System can provide us with a computerised Hive Mind and equip us with that superorganism level of visibility and granularity.

Who, what, where, and when?

As I mentioned earlier, despite the undeniable importance of having control over the external workforce, most customers with whom we speak have blind spots in their data – or worse – absolutely no solid source of data whatsoever. By identifying these blind spots, and keeping tabs on听who听is doing听what,听where听they are doing it and听when听it was done, businesses are able to take advantage of the following opportunities:

• Financial visibility 鈥� simply fit the external workforce category into the wider jigsaw of your total spend
• Tracking assets 鈥� making sure costly assets are returned when a worker is off-boarded to avoid leakage of this capital from your business
• Market rates 鈥� ensure you are paying in line with the market rate for a particular skill set
• Overtime costs 鈥� identify where a high amount of your spend is going on workers working overtime and validate if this can be remedied
• Discount capture 鈥� do you have big services contracts that could benefit from negotiation?
• Onboarding and offboarding happens a lot more frequently with external workers, automating this allows efficiency and time savings on this process
• Certifications 鈥� be sure you are vetting and hiring workers who have all necessary qualifications for the role and keep a paper trail of this for compliance audits

In summary, your External Workforce is a glaringly obvious first port of call if you’re looking for ways to improve your bottom line and drive compliance. Make sure it doesn’t go overlooked.

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LONDON, UK 鈥� 16 August 2022 – (NYSE: SAP) has today announced that Central Bedfordshire Council is the latest UK public sector organisation to select to modernise its IT and technology infrastructure in order to deliver efficient services to its local residents.

Having witnessed a boom in its number of residents the council is investing in technology to transform the ways it supports this growing community.

A long-time 51风流customer, having first started using 51风流in 2006, the Central Bedfordshire Council moved to the latest version of 51风流software, in September 2019. And now, with a stable 51风流service in place, the council is looking to upgrade to the latest cloud version of S4/HANA , deployed via a scalable, secure and highly resilient Microsoft Azure cloud-based infrastructure platform.

In addition to transforming its core ERP via the latest cloud version of 51风流S/4HANA, Central Bedfordshire Council will be leveraging , a new generation of cloud analytics combining all capabilities 鈥� including planning, predictive analytics & business intelligence in a single-software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

Cllr David Shelvey, Executive Member for Corporate Resources at Central Bedfordshire Council, comments: 鈥淐entral Bedfordshire Council aims to become a visionary within local government. Alongside delivering cost-savings and efficiencies, we want to enable fast and continuous adoption of future innovations that allow our employees to create the types of services that best suit the needs of our residents.鈥�

Satpal Biant, Head of Public Sector at , added: 鈥淥ur partnership with Central Bedfordshire Council is one we鈥檙e greatly proud of. It constantly wants to push the boundaries of what it can provide its residents, and with RISE with SAP, is ideally placed to meet that objective. They are one of many UK councils that use the latest 51风流technology and innovation, to make the most out of the investment in technology that it makes.鈥�

With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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How does cloud computing translate into better business transformation in the heart of your enterprise?

Across the board, CEOs are on the hunt for better business performance. They know that in a VUCA world yesterday鈥檚 performance is a distant memory and tomorrow鈥檚 success is never guaranteed. They must grow – profitably and sustainably while building a culture, organisation, and systems that foster flawless execution, innovation, agility, and resilience. In these inflationary times they must balance growth against margin protection and liquidity management. They must do all of this through a strategic blend of differentiated customer experiences, talent deployment, financial performance, supply chain, and ecosystem design and innovative products and services. This is the essence of business transformation – it鈥檚 not new, but it is getting more complex, more urgent, and more dynamic. And leaders know this rests on exploiting data with digital technologies which can be delivered fast and at scale via the cloud.

So, what if any, is the connection between ERP and cloud computing?

To do all the above tasks, you need a robust digital core and powerful digital technologies to fuel data driven insights and decision making. You need highly automated, yet flexible business processes to deliver outcomes and productivity. And you need an information-empowered workforce able to do what humans do best – strategy, relationships and solving complex problems. And by the way those processes and the people who work with them, extend beyond the boundaries of your organisation – so you need a platform that enables secure process and people collaboration across your ecosystem.

This is the world of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) – translating the possibilities and potentials of a myriad technologies into business capabilities that the CEO needs for their strategy to succeed.听Historically CIOs have done this in their on-premise data centres – buying, assembling, and running all the different elements of the technology 鈥渟tack鈥� needed to run their businesses with ERP systems as the foundation. And then customising, augmenting, and integrating those monolithic ERPs to suit the way 鈥渂usiness gets done here鈥�. It鈥檚 been a complex and arduous business, even with the help of systems integrators. It takes time, which businesses don鈥檛 have, and talent which is hard to come by. And in many cases, those old approaches to customisation have cut organisations off from the innovations that their vendors deliver.

Legacy ERP systems, constrained by the limitations of yesterday鈥檚 technologies, are no longer fit for purpose and struggle to keep up with the pace of innovation demanded. Simply lifting and shifting them to the cloud will not deliver the step changes in required business performance.

It is now time to modernise and replace those old ERP systems with a simple, future-ready business foundation. A modern ERP with comprehensive and powerful business processes, infused with AI and machine learning for greater productivity. An ERP offering an engaging consumer-grade user experience. An ERP that enables business model innovation and comes with embedded analytics and predictive capabilities to steer the organisation in an agile manner. This is the essence of . In mid-2022 some twenty thousand customers have chosen 51风流S/4HANA and 72% of those are live and reporting significant and wide-ranging business benefits.

RISE with 51风流鈥� the answer to crucial questions

RISE with 51风流answers a couple of key questions. How do we help companies reap the benefits of 51风流S/4HANA and the advantages of cloud? How do we do this whilst also recognising that ERP does not live in a vacuum and each company鈥檚 situation is different?

To do all this, RISE with 51风流brings together, in a single, subscription-based contract (built for each customer鈥檚 unique journey) relevant 51风流software including 51风流S/4HANA (as a service), cloud infrastructure, tools and accelerators and 51风流technical services.

While each RISE with 51风流contract is customer-specific, common to all of them is that 51风流takes accountability for providing all these elements as a service with a 99.7% SLA. This frees customers up to focus on applying this 51风流solution to their business to achieve their transformational objectives.

RISE with 51风流is now 18 months old with a growing cohort of projects and live customers 鈥� hear from some of them.

SAP鈥檚 customers are embracing RISE with 51风流as the solution to the challenges of moving to 51风流S/4HANA in the cloud. It enables them to reduce risks and costs and deliver ongoing business transformation, process optimisations and digital innovations.

The videos below will give you additional insights into why companies have elected to go with RISE with SAP, and will help you plan your own journey to a better future for your business.

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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!

Watch for new podcasts and catch up on topics you might have missed.

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Season 6 Preview: Podcasts on data strategy, use cases and related 51风流solutions

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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Andy talked to us about his career in technology, Gavdi鈥檚 company culture and how they are helping their customers innovate. He also offered some advice for mid-market organizations looking to transform their HXM.

51风流UKI: Tell us a little about yourself, Andy.

I live Hampshire, close to Winchester, with my wife, three teenage boys and our two black Labradors. Two of my boys have just finished their A-Levels and GCSEs respectively and we are now waiting for the results.

In lockdown, I discovered a keen interest in gardening and have turned my garden from a wilderness into a nice place to sit and enjoy a barbecue. Most of our family life is dominated by sports, whether that鈥檚 playing (I still play tennis) or ferrying my boys to various events at school and local rugby clubs.

51风流UKI: How did you get into technology as a career?

I was working in recruitment in the early to late nineties and decided in 1997 that this 鈥榠nternet thingy鈥� was really interesting, especially how it could be applied to what I did. I then made a conscious move into the 鈥楨-recruitment鈥� space. I spent about two years in E-recruitment, mainly consulting organizations on how it would benefit them. 51风流approached me to assess their new 51风流E-recruiting system, which was part of the 51风流HCM solution. As part of that contract, 51风流then introduced me to Pecaso, an 51风流partner in the UK and I started working for them and, as they say, the rest is history.

51风流UKI: How did you come to join Gavdi?

I was working for one of the Top Four consultancies which was great, but I generally prefer working with smaller boutique specialist firms as it suits me better. In 2012, just at the time 51风流acquired SuccessFactors, I met the CEO of the Gavdi Group, S酶ren Koppelhus in a chance meeting in 51风流UK. We had a chat and he asked if I would be interested in running their UK business. I was really impressed with their whole work ethic, focused on customers, I thought 鈥榯hat’s a company I want to work for鈥�. Ten years later, I鈥檓 still here and both S酶ren and I are 鈥榮till in the trenches鈥�.

51风流UKI: What are Gavdi鈥檚 core values and personality?

Valuing people and relationships is at the core of everything we do. That encompasses relationships with our colleagues, our clients, and with partners like SAP. All these relationships need to be maintained and improved through good communication, transparency and honesty. It has to be a Win-Win or relationships risk breaking down.

Honesty and transparency are at the heart of our culture, especially when it comes to engaging with customers. We partner, and I really do mean partner, with customers over a long period of time. We partner with customers as equals, as colleagues, all working to the same ends and goals. Trust is essential to our long-term relationship. Too often, Systems Integrators focus only on the Go Live. We don鈥檛 just focus on the Go Live, we are looking at the entire journey, and are always looking to improve things and help customers get more out of their 51风流systems. We are committed to being their long-term digital transformation partner. It鈥檚 essential that they can trust us to always recommend solutions that are right for them.

Innovation is also a core value at Gavdi. After delivering over 500 successful 51风流SuccessFactors projects we have learned that there are certain things that almost every client asks for. Taking these common requirements into account, we developed our own packaged solutions using 51风流SuccessFactors technology. We offer these to our customers as which give them a faster implementation and a quicker 鈥榯ime-to-value鈥�. This not only saves time and money, it also enables our customers to innovate and improve their businesses using industry-accepted best practices.

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Our business is evolving, not just in the UK and Ireland but also across our EMEA-based business. We continue to develop our 51风流Qualified Partner-Packaged Solutions along with our own product line, PXMSOFT, to help customers become more efficient. One example is a service line we offer called , which is mainly aimed at SMEs. It鈥檚 based on 51风流SuccessFactors as a platform with our packaged solutions at its heart. It enables smaller businesses to get into the Cloud with a Tier 1 product like SuccessFactors at a very reasonable cost. We are so confident of this that we publish the pricing for these solutions openly on our website. Through our PXMSOFT, we have also extended SuccessFactors鈥� capabilities to enable organizations to keep up-to-date with changes in global data protection regulations and data protection acts, ensuring much-needed compliance in an ever-increasingly regulated world.

In recent years, we鈥檝e also seen real innovations in terms of AI helping to automate certain transactional HR processes. We鈥檝e been applying AI to our recruitment solutions, especially for the mobile environment, which helps organizations to transact processes faster. As part of our PXMSOFT suite, we offer which goes onto SuccessFactors and makes it easier for managers in a retail environment to recruit via their mobile devices where they have no, or , access to PCs or Laptops.

We make it easier for companies to buy, use and make the most of 51风流SuccessFactors, streamlining the entire process. Candidates also benefit from a faster recruitment process, which means they are more likely to join. Candidate Experience Management, CXM, is our next adventure so watch this space!

51风流UKI: Is there a particular project you鈥檙e proud of?

It鈥檚 hard to pick just one, but the work we did with the renowned Sports Retailer, , encapsulates everything that we try to do as an 51风流partner. Not just in terms of the solutions we provide but also because of the excellent collaboration between SAP, ourselves, and the customer.

We went live with 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central, Recruitment and Onboarding, 51风流Payroll, and a third-party time and attendance solution within an eight-month period from project kickoff using our Gavdi Packaged Solutions. That is very impressive for an organization of approximately 1,300 people. The collaboration between our two organizations, with a total commitment to quality, ensured we worked together for the same goal. It鈥檚 all about teamwork at the end.

We find it really rewarding to help our customers transform their HR and payroll processes so they are more effective and easier to manage. Equally important is that we also save them time and reduce their overall costs using best practices.

Decathlon is really happy with our work as witnessed recently at the 51风流UKI HXM summit which they presented at. That鈥檚 what I鈥檓 most proud of – seeing our customers genuinely happy and satisfied after working with us because they鈥檝e reached their goals and enjoyed the process along the way.

51风流UKI: What is Gavdi鈥檚 vision for the next few years?

We鈥檙e constantly trying to help our existing customers by demonstrating new product and service lines that might help them. We are committed to continual innovation based on our customers鈥� changing needs. As I mentioned, AI is really important, and CXM is one of the areas we are developing now 鈥� which goes back to where I started my career, recruitment.

Gavdi is also growing as an organization. We鈥檝e been working mostly in Europe and the Middle East, but we want to become more global and plan to extend into the Americas and Asia Pacific to see if our customer-focused approach works there too. We believe it will.

51风流UKI: What one piece of advice can you give to midmarket organizations looking to transform their HXM?

There really is no single answer or 鈥榤agic bullet鈥�. Everything good requires hard work and good organization. I agree with Thomas Edison 鈥� it鈥檚 one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

However, what I would say to a customer is that there are lots of excellent partners within the 51风流ecosystem who can help you to understand, learn and help you transform. It鈥檚 important to find one that complements your own organizational culture and structure so you can work really well together.

A good HXM technology partner will understand your business and ensure you鈥檙e buying and implementing solutions that will provide tangible business benefits. Good partners have your best interests at heart and a win-win mentality and culture. It has to be that way to be mutually beneficial. I personally have always found that customers only look at the costs of something when they don鈥檛 see its value. It鈥檚 important that we emphasize the value of what we are doing in relation to reduction in costs (though doing things more effectively) and the Return on Investment (by reducing actual costs).

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SAP听has ranked听9th听in the super large size听category and is among 263 UK-based听organisations recognised as a Best Workplace for Women™ by Great Place to Work UK^庐.

Our position on this prestigious list is driven by our annual employee engagement survey. The results are based on what women across all 263 organisations, including SAP, have anonymously reported to Great Place to Work UK^庐. about their workplace experience and how well represented they are in the workforce and management.

As an organisation, we commit to ensuring employees are able to reach their full potential, no matter who they are or what they do. There is always work to be done 鈥� but only by first identifying the gaps in your experiences can we truly take action to close them, which is why analysing employee experience and benchmarking ourselves against other organisations is important.

Thank you to everyone across the organisation who engaged with the survey and who help us every day to ensure that people aren鈥檛 discriminated against, that we place positive value on our differences, that we create fair access and advancement for all, and continue to foster a sense of value and empowerment for all employees.

We are very proud to support you all and thank you for being part of such a tremendous team! If you have any questions at all about the recognition, please don鈥檛 hesitate to get in touch.

You can find the full list ranking, along with the annual UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Women publication here:

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Paul talked to us about his career in technology, trends in the mid-market, excelerateds2p鈥檚 company culture and vision, how the business is transforming its customers鈥� spend management.

51风流UKI: Tell us a little about yourself, Paul.

I live in Liverpool, in North-West England, with my wife, who runs her own accountancy business for SMEs, and our two kids. We鈥檙e a sporty family so I鈥檓 often watching matches: my son plays football at elite academy level and my daughter is on the school netball team.

During the first lockdown I bought a bike which I use most mornings. I鈥檝e done over 12,000 miles so far, which is the equivalent of cycling the equatorial diameter of earth one-and-a-half times.

51风流UKI: Give us a brief overview of your career.

I spent the first part of my career as a Business Process Consultant at KPMG, where I built a technology practice. I was focusing on using technology to enable innovation and to automate business processes.

After ten years at KPMG, I joined excelerateds2p when the company was around five years old. The co-founders had created a small, innovative company and had really ambitious growth plans. The opportunity to get in at that point and help build the organization to the next level was too good to miss.

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51风流UKI: What are ExceleratedS2P鈥檚 core values and personality?

We’re a small but beautifully formed Source-to-Pay organisation with innovation at the heart of everything we do. We’re constantly trying to innovate, either in the way we do things, by creating our own products, or in how we use 51风流technologies.

When I first joined the organization, most of our revenue was from services. We鈥檝e now shifted 20% of our revenue into recurring SaaS revenue with our 3-year business plan aiming for 50%. A large part of that move was down to the employee innovation forum we created a few years ago. Anyone in the company can bring ideas, business problems or customer pain points to the forum and we鈥檝e built 12 products as a result.

We鈥檙e now doing something similar with SAP. The presales team brings us pain points, which we solve by creating apps for the 51风流App Store which we can turn around in a matter of weeks, thanks to the . We build all our products on 51风流BTP and have been using the platform for many years, before it was known as 51风流BTP. We鈥檙e true pioneers in this area. We now advise and help our clients to use 51风流BTP for their own app development. It’s a fantastic platform with a lot of power and capabilities.

Empowering people is another key value for us. Our approach is always people first, and technology second. I’m proud of creating a completely flat organisation: no levels, no job titles, just a philosophy of empowering everybody in the company to do what needs to be done.听 It鈥檚 a hugely rewarding and enjoyable environment to work in.

51风流UKI: What is excelerateds2p鈥檚 vision for the next few years?

Our vision for the next three years includes growing and scaling our business in the US.

We鈥檙e also strategically moving into the space. We鈥檝e just signed our first 51风流S/4HANA customer, , a mid-market telecoms company that鈥檚 a big supplier to British Telecom. Over a ten-year period, MJ Quinn has increased their turnover from 拢10 million to 拢200 million, and has outgrown their existing ERP and processes. We’re excited to be bringing them into the 21st Century with 51风流S/4HANA Public Cloud.

51风流UKI: Which recent project are you especially proud of?

is a pharmaceutical company that manufactures products in Japan and distributes them across Europe. They have lots of individual country-based affiliates, all using different processes which were mainly manual, and with different regulatory requirements.

The CFO came to us with a vision of finance and procurement transformation, and we helped them to bring in a common way of working which has freed them for more value-added work. We underpinned both an ERP solution, , and then an 51风流Ariba solution so they can manage their third-party spend and cost base in a more efficient way.

They were running manual reports off Excel, which didn鈥檛 leave much time for interpreting the data. With much of that now automated, their finance business partners can focus on making strategic decisions using 鈥榦ne source of truth鈥� data across the business.

Otsuka was keen to establish a technology baseline that will scale as the company continues to grow. We provided this, but also made sure the organisation achieved immediate benefits, such as a 10% decrease in the cost of processing purchase orders and invoices. We always deploy systems in an iterative and phased way so our customers get value from it right away.

We’re also starting to look at product extensions and how we can use some of our innovative applications to solve their main regulatory pain points. For example, our incorporates two-factor authentication and Public/Private Key encryption technology to securely capture and store sensitive data from suppliers. It sits within the 51风流Cloud Platform, in between 51风流Ariba and the ERP and fully integrates with 51风流Ariba Supplier Lifecycle Management (SLP) for supplier onboarding and management.

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51风流UKI: What technology trends are you noticing in the mid-market?

We mostly work with two types of clients in the mid-market. Those that have grown significantly in a short period of time and outgrown their original technology and processes. They find themselves in a position whereby they must invest to automate, drive efficiency, and prepare their organization for the next stage of growth.

Then you’ve got the companies that are just starting out. They want to get the right technology in place from the outset. These companies grow more efficiently, and with fewer overheads, because they鈥檝e got agile technology and processes to support them as they mature and expand.

In both cases, the investment that mid-market clients are making in ERP is not insignificant and they expect to see tangible benefits fast.听 That鈥檚 why we focus on driving speed-to-value and quick business outcomes.

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51风流UKI: Do you have any advice for mid-market companies that are in the early stages of their digital transformation journey?

A common mistake I see companies making is adding technology in a piecemeal way. Over several years, they can spend a huge amount of money to fix isolated issues. By the time they get to a certain size, this patchwork approach is no longer workable. The solutions aren鈥檛 integrated, the systems don鈥檛 talk to each other and a lot of processes are still manual. With that in mind, my advice is to start with the end goal in mind. Don鈥檛 be afraid to invest in a technology roadmap that supports what you鈥檙e trying to do.

It鈥檚 also important to think about what the business looks like in its entirety, rather than viewing it as individual functional silos of manufacturing, finance, sales, HR etc. Instead, invest in technology that supports the organisation to function seamlessly as an integrated unit.

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