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Digital adoption has become a major concern for corporations as the worldwide pandemic radically altered the way we operate and made firms impervious to uncontrollable situations.
The successful adoption of digital technology by end users and workers is crucial for business success. A digital adoption platform like SAP Enable Now can be useful in this situation.
Adoption of digital technology gives businesses a competitive edge thanks, among other things, to improved operational efficiency. To address inadequate application user experiences, 70% of enterprises are anticipated to deploy digital adoption platforms across the full technology stack by 2025. It has also been demonstrated that enhancing continuing training by 10% can boost corporate value by twice as much. In order to maximise return on investment, implementing digital adoption solutions as part of the digital transformation strategy is a business necessity rather than just an incentive (ROI).
A consistent, intelligent, and tailored user experience with pertinent product assets in the necessary languages is one of SAP's key factors in driving product adoption. Every firm may become an intelligent, sustainable enterprise thanks to the company's in-house digital adoption platform SAP Enable Now, which serves as the digital adoption layer. In order to enhance the potential ROI for enterprise software, SAP Enable Now helps to ensure that all employees' knowledge levels and productivity remain high through the use of next-generation features like on-screen translation and integration with business process modelling tools.
Many SAP applications, such as digital supply chain, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, SAP Concur, SAP Marketing Cloud, and SAP Sales Cloud solutions, among others, have quick access to learning materials directly within the applications. These applications incorporate embedded, adaptable SAP content that is available in the chosen language and provides learning at the point-of-need to assist individuals in acquiring the skills required to do their jobs successfully.
By connecting with SAP Signavio and other products, SAP Enable Now also helps process transformation and project management. It promotes systematic learning for users, who carry out a variety of intricate business operations, through which businesses operate. The application of choice also offers next-generation in-app support with the SAP Companion service, including context-sensitive help, embedded learning, and process guidance.
Adoption of any software depends on its language. End users may access enablement information with SAP Enable Now in more than 40 languages, powered by machine intelligence and including an integrated SAP Translation Hub. The solution also gives users the option to export educational materials in formats that work with the majority of learning management systems. Along with automated translation and content services maintenance, it also provides change management with content lifecycle management. For instance, partners can offer enablement as a service and customise content from SAP or pre-build based on industry and solution best practises. Through the robust authoring suite for developing e-learning courses, software tutorials, and support guides, as well as flexible, template-based content production, businesses can scale with their partners.
SG - Singapore Regional Strategic Services Partner (RSSP) is an initiative launched by SAP Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) today to expand the skills and influence of established partners in the APJ area that are experiencing significant growth. Through this initiative, SAP will offer qualified partners strategic support, such as coordinated solutions that are aligned with certain industries, a shared go-to-market plan, and access to SAP regional and market unit industry experience.
With the help of the RSSP initiative, partners will be able to expand their SAP practises more swiftly throughout the APJ area and work more closely with SAP to achieve shared client success. The RSSP initiative seeks to promote collaboration among partner entities based in the region that demonstrate capability and capacity requirements specific to APJ. This is in contrast to the company's current Global Strategic Services Partner (GSSP) programme, which includes a select group of SAP's most strategic global partners in the consulting, infrastructure, and technology space.
Candidate partners must satisfy or exceed a defined set of SAP requirements, including regional presence, vertical industry capabilities, and alignment on a shared sustainability strategy, in order to be eligible for the RSSP project.
ABeam Consulting, an integrated management consulting business with its headquarters in Japan, was also named by SAP as the first partner to join the RSSP programme.
"APJ is one of SAP's fastest-growing markets, and the transformation of customers is fundamentally influenced by our partner ecosystem. There is a sizable SAP-certified community that may assist clients and the larger ecosystem, according to Paul Marriott, president of SAP APJ, with over 24,000 registered partners worldwide and almost 20% in APJ. "Congratulations to ABeam Consulting for joining the Regional Strategic Services Partner initiative as our first partner. We look forward to expanding ABeam's SAP knowledge throughout the area and fostering further customer-focused solutions. And I'm eager to welcome more regional partners to the RSSP project."
Source: https://news.sap.com/sea/2023/02/sap-announces-new-regional-strategic-services-partner-initiative/
In order to hasten its digital transformation, BMW Group has increased its strategic cooperation with SAP.
BMW Group will use RISE with SAP to transfer its whole SAP software landscape once the agreement is confirmed on January 25. In order to enable cooperative innovation for crucial business areas, including finance, parts supply, warehousing, supply chain, and production, the company will integrate its cloud strategy with its current SAP S/4HANA systems. The BMW Group will be able to digitalize more quickly, thoroughly, and effectively as a result of this change.
Applications, platforms, tools, and services are all included under one contract under RISE with SAP, which is designed to promote company transformation. As a result, BMW Group will be able to integrate cutting-edge SAP technology with cloud solutions to spur corporate innovation. Both businesses will use a model that covers operations, infrastructure, and cloud applications in place of the conventional licencing model.
The executive board member for SAP SE who oversees SAP product engineering, Thomas Saueressig, continued, "Our two firms have a strong relationship thanks to 30 years of dependable collaboration. We are taking a major move toward a digital future by increasing our partnership. This demonstrates how SAP S/4HANA Cloud and our wide range of solutions lay the groundwork for businesses to foster innovation and guarantee our customers' long-term success in a cutthroat environment.
CIO and senior vice president of BMW Group IT Alexander Buresch stated: "This strategic choice will help us advance our leadership in digitalization even more quickly. Our infrastructure is becoming more adaptable, and we are achieving maximum global scalability. Most significantly, it enables us to much more quickly introduce business ideas to our users and customers. I am thus eagerly anticipating the following phases in our collaborative adventure with SAP.
Source: https://erp.today/bmw-group-drives-new-growth-with-rise-with-sap/
In a fragmented environment, SAP Responsible Design and Production Aids Businesses in Managing Plastic Taxes
Plastic is widely used because it is durable, useful, and abundant. We are oblivious to it since it is so ingrained in our daily activities. The majority of it—from the plastic-wrapped vegetables in supermarkets to the containers for creams, lotions, pills, and medications—is used just once before being thrown away in landfills or worse.
For instance, the European Union (EU) introduced the European Green Deal in 2019 as part of global efforts to combat climate change. This initiative aims to shift the economy from a linear one to a circular one that eliminates waste and pollution. The plastics tax imposed on single-use plastic, plastic packaging, and microplastics is an important step in combating plastic pollution.
However, the EU has imposed a national contribution from each of the 27 member states depending on the quantity of non-recycled plastic packaging trash it produces, as opposed to a local tax. States have very different tax structures; some concentrate on packaging in general while others solely tax single-use items. For plastic goods made in the United States or elsewhere, some countries have varying taxes. In other words, member states are free to impose the tax in their own manner and under their own set of laws.
The end consequence is a very dispersed landscape. It calls for the appropriate approach, resources, and knowledge, particularly in the areas of compliance and global supply chains. For instance, Spain's Special Tax on Non-Reusable Plastic Containers went into force on January 1 and imposes a fee of €0.45 per kilogram of Non-Reusable Plastic.
A Workable Solution
Technology has become a crucial component in aiding businesses in finding solutions to their problems, as has been the case with many difficulties in recent years. A cloud-based tool called SAP Responsible Design and Production was developed expressly to make it easier to design items for a circular economy and to aid with the entire process associated with the new levies.
SAP Responsible Design and Production gives businesses access to data on logistics and materials, including specifics on the composition of packaging, in addition to striving to automate tedious reporting processes. According to Monasor, "with this tool, businesses will be able to calculate and submit reports in relation to the Spanish plastics tax and lower the risks of non-compliance."
The Goal
Over time, SAP Responsible Design and Production may help organizations improve their capacity for measuring and managing sustainability KPIs as well as their ability to see material flows more clearly across all business processes. Improved traceability reduces compliance risks and aids in improving the accuracy of plastic tax payments. In order to lower these taxes and increase circularity, which is the tax's main objective, the answer can also reform laws and taxes, as well as optimize the materials used in packaging.
Source: https://news.sap.com/2023/01/sap-responsible-design-and-production-manage-plastic-taxes/
Businesses need a way to innovate more quickly with less resources as consumer demands and operational requirements rise and talent resources continue to be insufficient. SAP Build at SAP TechEd is a low-code tool that anybody can use to quickly build and enhance enterprise applications, automate procedures, and create professional websites with drag-and-drop ease.
By reducing processing times, enhancing service quality, and minimizing manual errors, the SAP Build Process Automation solution enhances the processes that are currently in place and interacts seamlessly with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Automation Starter Pack for SAP and RISE
The RISE with SAP for S/4HANA Cloud, public version comes with the beginning pack of SAP Build Process Automation at no extra cost. This deal is meant to get businesses started on the road to automation and to foster productive communication between process experts and IT staff. The starter kit contains:
- Two knowledgeable users who can design procedures and automate processes
- Twenty regular users that can start workflows and take part in those that the advanced user creates
- Unattended automation that can be started without a person's help
How SAP Build Process Automation Benefits Customers Using SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Customers using SAP S/4HANA Cloud are able to cut expenses, get rid of manual errors, boost customer happiness, use KPI process dashboards to make crucial decisions, and optimize processes even in the absence of APIs.
Source: https://news.sap.com/2023/01/new-automation-starter-pack-sap-s4hana-cloud-public-edition/
Together, SAP and Amazon Web Services (AWS), the most complete and widely used cloud platform in the world, are accelerating digital transformation to better serve their clients.
By combining the technology, solutions, and flexibility that customers require to support them in succeeding in the digital economy, this collaboration builds on the success of the long-standing SAP and AWS partnership. With thousands of consumers, the companies have been in a strategic alliance for almost ten years.
With the help of this technology-driven project and combined investment, two strong engineering companies will be brought together to spur innovation and support clients' transitions to sustainable, intelligent businesses. In reality, SAP has advanced its sustainability goal to 2030 and is a signatory to Amazon's Climate Pledge, which commits to net-zero carbon emissions.
The companies have made it a priority to offer the value of RISE with SAP on AWS as we go into the new year by giving customers the tools to hasten their adoption of the cloud along with a top-notch selection of innovation and extensibility options. The following is a list of the partnership's future steps:
- To handle complicated customer requirements, a joint reference architecture is used.
- Demand generation campaigns, conferences, SAP marquis events, and other multichannel marketing strategy initiatives
- A single framework for international sales actions that will allow the teams to collaborate with systems integrator partners
- There are devoted individuals working on the SAP/AWS go-to-market throughout the world
The utilization of the internationally accessible SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) on AWS serves as an illustration of the capabilities of this cooperation. Together, the firms have created a reference architecture that supports more complex use cases and exemplifies the benefits of federated SAP and AWS services. Customers will receive advice on how to best combine SAP and AWS to achieve digital transformation from the joint reference architecture. To encourage innovation and increase its warehouse capabilities, Ally Logistic Property (ALP), Taiwan's leading institutional property developer, integrated SAP BTP along with a number of AWS services.
AWS and SAP enter 2023 more prepared than ever to assist customers in adopting cloud solutions that enable them to innovate more quickly and take advantage of the digital disruptions occurring in their industries. This is thanks to a partnership that is focused on transformation, innovation, and delivering for our customers.
Source: SAP and AWS Accelerate Digital Transformation | SAP News
A new co-innovation approach was launched by PwC and SAP with the goal of integrating sustainability into everyday company operations. The goal of the strategy is to develop dependable answers to the major business problems associated with environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). It covers supply chain emission reductions, climate risk, and competitive analysis in addition to carbon measuring, reporting, and steering.
The current partnership between PwC and SAP, which has successfully provided business transformation solutions to clients in more than 80 countries, forms the foundation of the new ESG approach.
The strategy comprises co-innovated solutions made possible by PwC's extensive ESG and accounting knowledge, with the goal of empowering businesses to use reliable, auditable, and verifiable ESG criteria throughout their operations. Together with the SAP Sustainability Control Tower and SAP Product Footprint Management solutions, the solutions make use of SAP® Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises. Collectively, PwC and SAP assist businesses in utilising the solutions necessary to meet regulatory standards, stimulate growth, and meet the rising demands of consumers and investors. Additionally, they help clients shape the direction of their sustainability reporting and net zero approach.
Solutions for an enterprise wide ESG strategy are included in the PwC and SAP plan, spanning from third-party risk management to competitive analysis and trade optimization. There will also be discussion of the following three key ESG, net zero, and sustainability reporting issue areas:
- Submitting and disclosing aiding in meeting the needs of lenders, investors, regulators, and customers for materially reporting and disclosing investor-grade carbon measurement data.
- Operationalizing sustainability encourages the direct integration of ESG factors, particularly those related to carbon concerns, into corporate processes including trading, capitalisation, and tax.
- Support for ESG measures is extended through supply chain risk management, monitoring, and compliance to include the effect of suppliers on organisational performance.
PwC and SAP are committed to assisting businesses in meeting the reporting and auditability standards set by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) (ISSB). Additionally, they assist businesses in adhering to a similar rule that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has suggested (SEC). The real-time, data-driven environment that customers need to run and expand the sustainable enterprise of the future is made possible by solutions from PwC and SAP.
Review Results: SAP Achieves "Best Software" Ranking from TrustRadius for Numerous Solutions
The first TrustRadius Best Software List, which comprises goods catering to the changing market and offering end users products and service to satisfy their business needs, included five SAP solutions to the list. Topping both the For Mid-Sized and Overall Best Software Lists, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud received badges. The For Enterprise List also recognised SAP SuccessFactors, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and SAP HANA Cloud.
Here are a handful of the customers' evaluations of the five products listed on the Best Software List.
The SAP Business Technology Platform's SAP Analytics Cloud combines analytics and planning with a special connectivity to SAP applications and easy access to diverse data sources.
The multisource business intelligence service of the SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, offers data modelling, networking, virtualization, and access throughout the company.
With a single database-as-a-service (DBaaS) foundation for modern analytics and applications among all enterprise data, SAP HANA Cloud enables security, privacy, and anonymization with demonstrated enterprise reliability, giving businesses access to trustworthy actionable information from a single solution.
With the help of AI and analytics, SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a fully modular cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution created for every business need. It enables companies to run mission-critical operations in real time from any location, introduce new industry business models, and grow internationally.
Including basic HR and payroll, talent management, HR analytics and workforce planning, and employee experience management, SAP SuccessFactors offers a comprehensive, international suite of HR solutions.
Source: https://news.sap.com/2022/11/sap-earns-trustradius-best-software-list/
The landscape of purchasing digital solutions is changing, with a greater concentration on speed, ease, and transparency in purchases. According to a new SAP internal study, 79% of SAP customers would like to make further purchases through an easy, quick e-commerce process for the cloud solutions they are already using.
In July 2022, SAP developed a self-service indirect digital upgrade solution that enables speedy repurchasing of cloud products to further simplify this procedure. The remedy can be found on the current SAP for Me customer portal on SAP Store for clients and partners, our customer portal designed to streamline customer product portfolios.
The respective self-service platform enables to electronically repurchase current cloud solutions within the conditions and terms of their original purchase, drastically cutting the time to repurchase and streamlining the repurchasing process, and ultimately facilitating faster and easier digital transformation, a global trend that is on the rise. Additionally, it makes it simpler for partners to manage their current SAP cloud software subscriptions, improving their ability to interact with clients and identify their needs as they develop.
Advantages for the Partners
With SAP for Me, SAP partners will profit because it allows them to easily extend client contracts and purchase licences online. While allowing partners to add new users to active client contracts, utilising already existing reductions and terms, partners can manage "carts" for consumers with current products visible at once.
Benefits for the Customers
This new partner functionality replicates the digital upsell motion that was introduced for all client segments in 2021 and expands on SAP for Me's current features.
Customers don't need to go through a protracted procedure or complicated preparation to swiftly and easily purchase more SAP products that their employees are already utilising.
Digital transformation is an effective choice for businesses wishing to continuously grow and update their services since customers can extend and update services in the cloud more quickly than they can with on-premises upgrades.
Additionally, teams can align new licences with previous contracts and receive the same or better agreed pricing for current SAP systems.
The average sales time is cut in half, from six hours to six minutes, giving customers more resources and time to focus on the more complicated deals, more sales conversations with SAP, and other needs as they emerge.
Finally, this new method enables clients to prevent copies of a solution within their company, conserving priceless resources and removing the worry of unintentional purchases.
Source: https://news.sap.com/2022/11/sap-for-me-on-sap-store-cloud-software-repurchases/
Why SAP Partners Spend Money on Certification
Prior to investing in the services of a software platform or partner, business executives often put in a lot of time and effort to make sure they will get the service quality and performance they require. Since such technical certification is thought of as a direct mark of approval, accreditation swiftly communicates that proof of expertise.
Getting new clients is one thing; keeping them is quite another. In both situations, being up to date on the newest certifications—from hot issues to specific skills—reassures clients and motivates them to initiate contact and return visits. According to IDC, certified consultants perform projects with less rework and more client satisfaction than their noncertified counterparts. They also accelerate implementation timeframes by up to 15%.
The capacity to draw in, nurture, and maintain the excellent talent pool that clients demand is another benefit of certification. According to a global survey by Pearson VUE of more than 10,000 IT professionals, certification in this field is more valuable than simple training. Benefits include a culture that encourages self-assurance in one's talents, improved job satisfaction, increased respect among co-workers, more autonomy and independence at work, opportunities for promotion and progress, and higher pay and earnings.
A Framework of Competencies for Competitive Certification
Fast access to the learning materials required to get certified comes as an added bonus for partners working with SAP. In addition, they receive a graphic badge that they can display on their websites and in their marketing materials.
Additionally, by certifying a certain number of their consultants and developers, SAP partners can acquire competences and specialisations using the recently unveiled Competency Framework, allowing them to achieve essential, progressed, or expert competency categories. In order to assist potential clients in making well-informed partner selections based on the necessary solution knowledge, these competences and associated specialties are subsequently made public on SAP Partner Finder.
For partners to develop specialised skill sets and provide highly specialised advising and implementation services, SAP offers a wide range of certifications. A vast array of skills and knowledge levels are covered by more than 100 certifications for a variety of SAP systems and services. In reality, the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) offers eight specialised certifications, including ones for the SAP Integration Suite, SAP Extension Suite, SAP HANA Cloud database, SAP Analytics Cloud solution, and low- and no-code development apps and automation tools.
The SAP Learning website offers free access to learning materials for certification tests for SAP BTP. Additionally, as SAP technology solutions as SAP BTP—continue to advance and add new features, partners can maintain their skill sets through ongoing certification training and examinations that are updated to incorporate each new SAP cloud release.
True Transformation Is Driven by Proven Competence
Technology is developing at a rapid rate. People of all levels of experience must adapt to this reality by expanding their knowledge and considering how these new talents may be used to increase production and efficiency, address current problems, and achieve transformative results.
Source: https://news.sap.com/2022/11/sap-partners-invest-in-certifications/
