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Integrate To Innovate
Integrate To Innovate
Integrate To Innovate
Speaking with our customers, partners, and SAP User Groups, one topic is always‚
front and center: integrated business processes. Integration is a strategic imperative for
customers, and for us at SAP. Over the past years, we have laid a strong integration
foundation, and our roadmap for 2024 is loaded with even more integration innovations.
With our deep enterprise knowledge and market-leading technology, we can simplify every step
of your business transformation journey. Our entire team is fully committed to help customers
future-proof their business by running on truly integrated end-to-end processes.
SAP SuccessFactors solutions and SAP S/4HANA Cloud as Consolidated all seven ERP systems in one solution based on
the foundation for a people-centric approach to HR and better SAP S/4HANA Cloud, integrating the suite with the SAP ERP
employee experiences at hundreds of store locations, with application: with one, scalable, standardized, and cloud-
SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) as the based system connected to core ERP
backbone for simplified and scalable integration
Need only five days for monthly closing, down from
seven days, with all subsidiaries now comfortably
1,000 new hires onboarded each month
making the deadline
400 event data changes managed daily, including
Automated 42% of sales orders automated in one
for promotions and separations
country, up from 18% and increasing rapidly
15 hours saved per week in labor related to manual
Expanded its user base by 500%, boosted Google
data entry and analysis of integration errors
conversion rates, and significantly increased
website functionality
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Process Transformation
Lead to Cash
Cover the entire business process from initial contact with a prospective
customer, to order fulfillment and service delivery, driving revenue opportunity
and optimizing the experience along the entire customer journey.
Partner Third-Party
SAP Customer Data Solutions SAP Subscription Billing
Solutions Solutions
ROAD MAP
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Process Transformation
Design to Operate
Encompass the entire lifecycle ranging from design to planning, manufacturing,
delivery, and finally operations. Leverage the interoperable and modular framework of
SAP Digital Supply Chain solutions to run a resilient and sustainable supply chain.
SAP S/4HANA
SAP Enterprise Product SAP Integrated Business SAP Digital SAP Extended Warehouse SAP Intelligent Asset
Development Planning for Supply Chain Manufacturing Management Management
ROAD MAP
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Process Transformation
Source to Pay
Optimize, simplify, and effectively manage all spend processes and spend
categories to drive business outcomes – facilitating the transition from digital
to autonomous procurement with lower TCO and leveraging the collective
intelligence and network effect of the marketplace.
Source & Contract Plan & Forecast Buy & Deliver Invoice & Pay
SAP S/4HANA
Partner Third-Party
SAP Fieldglass solutions
Solutions Solutions
ROAD MAP
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Process Transformation
Recruit to Retire
Understand, manage, and optimize all aspects of workforce (employees and
external workers) in line with business objectives, and with clear financial impact
– facilitating exceptional workforce experience and business transformation.
Enable Transparent
Help Ensure a Secure Make HR Work
Organization and
and Viable Workforce Flow Better
Quick Hiring
Integration between SAP SuccessFactors, Organizations must ensure workforce continuity SAP now provides a central inbox for workflow
SAP Fieldglass, and SAP S/4HANA solutions and system security during both normal and tasks across SAP SuccessFactors, SAP S/4HANA,
leverages a common people data model, helping abnormal times. The integration of SAP S/4HANA, SAP Concur, and SAP Fieldglass solutions with
to ensure consistency and transparency of SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Concur, and SAP Task Center. It provides a unified view in
organizational charts. It also streamlines the SAP Fieldglass solutions allows for standardized one place, resulting in a superior user experience
processing of requisition-to-work orders and single sign-on and user identity and access and increased productivity.
process orders to accelerate the hiring process. management to help companies be more
secure and plan for the unexpected.
Partner Third-Party
Solutions Solutions
ROAD MAP
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Underpinning Technology
INTEGRATE TO INNOVATE
SAP’s integration approach goes far beyond technical integration of applications: Holistic integration of
data, technology, and business processes delivers significant value to your business. It accelerates the
speed of innovation, lowers the efforts for integration, shortens time to value, reduces the complexity of
operations, and allows for real-time insight. SAP’s integrated application portfolio connects your supply
and demand chain to deliver an integrated process experience.
SUITE QUALITIES
Inconsistent Seamless
User experience
Multiple One
Workflow inbox
Unaligned Aligned
Domain models
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Underpinning Technology
SUITE QUALITIES
Integrated enterprises offer a consistent experience along end-to-end key processes. In 2020, SAP introduced
distinct suite qualities that characterize SAP’s seamlessly integrated applications.
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Underpinning Technology
As the underlying technology for the suite qualities, SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP)
integrates your processes and data, as well as SAP, partner, and third-party applications. You can build
new or extend your SAP applications, transform your data into value, and drive desired business outcomes.
SAP Integration Suite is key technology in SAP BTP that can help you integrate your their distributed
and hybrid landscapes to support your end-to-end process automation, innovation
and business transformation initiatives.
Many of SAP BTP services that are now available with the SAP BTP free tier model allowing customers to test and explore
platform services for integration, app dev, AI, data, and analytics use cases, with an easy path to productive use.
API Regulatory
management compliance
Business- Guided
to-business integration
integration practice
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Mobile Experience
MOBILE EXPERIENCE
We combine the robust industry expertise of SAP with an attractive mobile experience that people want to use
to enable business anywhere. Whether a customer adopts native apps from SAP or builds their own using
SAP technology, mobile offerings from SAP, such as SAP Mobile Start, help simplify processes from
supply chain to workforce management, boosting efficiency, resilience, and sustainability.
FRoSTA AG Deloitte
"SAP Mobile Start will support us in our mission to become a digital "In a world where mobile app proliferation consumes our
champion by offering our employees the best possible user experience. always-connected lives, SAP Mobile Start provides you with an
It will help us access applications like SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors intuitive, personalized platform from which you can launch
solutions using a smartphone from anywhere in the world." your business-relevant experiences."
Apps that
Mobile solutions for end-to-end business processes
change how
people work. Optimize supply chains, spend management, human resources, or
Optimized finance. Only SAP mobile solutions offer the unparalleled industry power
Out-of-the-box for easy-to-use apps that really make a difference.
Business and custom-built.
Processes
SAP Business Technology Platform
Tools and Integrate custom processes and adapt specific enterprise mobility
Platform needs by building and enhancing native apps with simple-to-use
development kits and services.
SAP Mobile Start is the native entry point to Well-packaged mobile solutions from SAP SAP mobile users can rely on highest data
a holistic mobile experience that goes all the get companies to productive use quickly accuracy and security. Notifications, insight
way to a true suite design across business and securely with integrated industry best cards, or workflow processing cater people’s
scenarios. Native apps from SAP integrate practices and consistent experiences based individual needs, exactly when and where it
with partner apps and custom apps, supported on SAP Mobile Start and SAP Integration matters. SAP utilizes the best of what’s possible
by development kits and services from SAP. Suite. Streamlined ways for IT departments on consumer-friendly mobile devices, including
to introduce SAP mobile apps into their sensor technology and on-device AI.
organizations help accelerate
enterprise adoption.
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Artifical Intelligence
SAP BUSINESS AI
At SAP, we are already riding the AI wave. The SAP Business AI portfolio including AI Assistant Joule is deeply
embedded into applications and process flows that rely on decades of relevant business data curated from huge
customer data sets with the highest levels of concern for security, privacy, compliance, and ethics, which our
customers have come to expect. Today, more than 24,000 customers have implemented over 130 AI use cases,
and there are more than 360 partner apps infused with AI available on the SAP Store site.
Make agile decisions by leveraging Use AI trained on your industry and company Run responsible AI built
AI designed with your business data, driven by SAP process expertise, on leading ethics and data
context in mind and in the solutions you use daily privacy standards
Harness the immense power of Generative AI for your business by leveraging built-in AI capabilities in
SAP applications that have been developed using industry-specific data and deep process knowledge.
9x more planning combinations using >2.7 million documents automatically 91.5% of employees use the
algorithms to reduce forecast errors evaluated and classified reskilling application
Manage capital effectively with Improve quality with intelligent Recommend quality suppliers Help your workforce reach its
improved reporting accuracy anomaly detection and visual with guided sourcing that potential with personalized
inspections matches your unique needs development paths
Mitigate fraud risk and reduce
with the right supplier
losses with anomaly detection Streamline operations and Simplify workflows and focus
maximize efficiency with Suggest products and services on critical tasks with intelligent
predictive maintenance to help your employees workforce management
remain compliant
Predict customer behavior and minimize Increase customer conversation by Manage the AI model lifecycle in
customer churn maximizing engagement one central place
Classify service cases automatically and Drive revenue by guiding sales teams to Run AI responsibly with transparency
provide solution recommendations the most promising opportunities and compliance
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Architecture
To extract maximum value from your business data and adapt to evolving business needs, you need
to design a consistent digital architecture.To that end, SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology provides
a systematic and guided approach to the design and execution of your enterprise integration strategy.
The methodology includes integration patterns, reference architectures, and additional support
for best practices for cloud and hybrid landscapes.
Learn more
Introduction
of an agile
integration practice
(roles, governance)
Reuse of reference
architectures,
adapting them to
your needs
Application of proven
patterns for process-,
data-, analytics-, and
user- integration
Guided scoping of scenarios
your integration
requirements
Integration not
recognized as a
key differentiator
in your
organization
SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology is part of SAP BTP Guidance Framework, which provides a central
access point for decision guides, methodologies, and best practices. The framework serves as your compass
to find the content you need for architecting, implementing, and operating solutions on SAP BTP.
COMPLEMENTARY SERVICES
In addition, SAP has a well-structured portfolio of Enablement service for SAP Integration Suite
professional and support services to advise and support Integration planning service
you on how to adopt and deploy the rich plethora of Integration infrastructure service
SAP BTP services. These include: Integration implementation service
visit www.sap.com/services-support
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Adoption Journey
Whether you’re aiming to be more productive, working to be more effective, or pushing to improve innovation
in a constantly evolving market, we offer multiple ways to help ensure your SAP solutions deliver the value you
need. Every journey is unique, as each business has its own requirements, challenges, and capabilities.
We provide methodologies, guidance, and templates with a timeline on how to make
adoption decisions and take advantage of adoption journey templates.
Journey
As a best practice we provide guidance with a timeline on how to make adoption decisions.
Customers may take advantage of adoption journey templates.
Activity map
Discuss your business transformation activities, when they will occur and who will drive them.
Adoption checklist
This is a list of touch points and deadlines to help ensure stakeholders are properly aligned.
Whether adopting your first ERP or migrating from an existing one to the cloud, you can gain a comprehensive,
modular solution with the AI and analytics capabilities to move your business forward.
with industry innovation for top-line, with continuous insight to optimize with a trusted partner for your business needs,
bottom-line, and green-line growth business processes at every step of the way
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