Day: March 4, 2018

We are in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution, known in common parlance as 4IR, wherein technology is disrupting organizations across the world at a rapid pace.

Organizations need agility and access to the latest technologies to innovate and compete against digital native companies. This requires moving the organization’s core business processes to the cloud to enable fast deployment, rapid innovation cycles and decreases time to value.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the intelligent cloud ERP offering from SAP, will help you to achieve the benefits. Here, we help you understand in detail the benefits of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and enable you to benchmark your organization’s perceptions of benefits of cloud ERP.

Understanding the Value of SAP S/4HANA Cloud

The whitepaper “Top Five Value Areas for SAP S/4HANA Cloud and How to Start the Cloud Journey” provides a deep dive into the value proposition of cloud. It explains in detail how SAP S/4HANA Cloud can help with faster return on investment (ROI), increase business agility, lower total cost of ownership, and improve governance and compliance for your organization. It also provides guidance on starting the cloud journey along with customer references of existing users.

Benchmark Your Awareness of Cloud ERP

After taking cognizance of the benefits provided by cloud ERP, customers might want to understand where their organization currently stands in its cloud adoption journey. The Value of Cloud ERP survey will help to benchmark customer perceptions of the benefits public cloud ERP against peers. A detailed report with key insights on important value areas such as business agility, cost, business continuity, and security will enable you to recognize the appropriate business needs that can be fulfilled by SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Hopefully, this will enable you to understand, benchmark, and prepare an appropriate business case for SAP S/4HANA Cloud to facilitate any customer’s cloud ERP journey. http://bit.ly/2CWEHqF #SAP #SAPCloud #AI

Hi,

I receive frequent questions on the status of our Early Adopter Program for the SAP Business  ByDesign / SAP Concur Expense (Professional Edition) integration.

Here is what you need to know.

What happened so far?

End of 2017 we started engaging with customers that volunteered as early adopters (EAs). We had a list of EA applicants in the lower double-digit range. Out of this, we created a short list with 10 customers which we considered a best fit. Eventually we kicked-off the first EA projects in December 2017.

The collaboration with our first EA clients is both very productive and fruitful. We have already received valuable feedback how to enhance our integration solution to provide our clients with more flexibility in the exchange of master data.

Please note: The flexibility features in the area of master data exchange are currently in evaluation by our development colleagues. Thus, currently,  we cannot guarantee that early adopters will be able to use the integration in their productive Concur tenant. Making the integration run in the early adopter system – a  tenant copy of the early adopters’ productive Concur tenant – still needs a case by case assessment of the individual situation.

What are the next steps?

We are close to kicking off the next EA projects.

Furthermore, we would like to especially encourage those of you being live with SAP Business ByDesign and in the midst of their first Concur implementation project  to reach out to us at SAPConcurIntegration@sap.com, should you be interested in being an early adopter. For functionality and boundary conditions, please watch this video on our Youtube channel.

Why this new call to action? While we were taking applications for the EA phase it was interesting to see that mostly existing Concur and ByDesign clients were interested in this EA program. SAP Business ByDesign customers going for a new Concur implementation, however, were not. Still, for us it is essential to gather experience for both types of implementations.
Especially, since considering the integration in an early stage of the Concur integration project helps to streamline the configuration in Concur. This reduces the time to go-live with the ByDesign/Concur native integration.

Best regards
Otfried

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Next week is the BI + Analytics Conference in Huntington Beach, California.  Earlier in January, I downloaded the conference agenda and did some quick text analysis to see what the top topics were in the agenda. I’ve done similar text analysis before a previous iteration of this conference here.

Top 2 word expressions include SAP Mentor, Product Manager, Product Management – this is no surprise as SAP Mentor Ingo Hilgefort has several sessions including

Hands-On: Lumira Discovery Beginner Session (session repeats)

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Hands-On: Lumira Designer Beginner Session (session repeats)

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WORKSHOP: Your Road to BI Cloud: Experience SAP Analytics Cloud & Digital Boardroom Live

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Raquel Seville has a session How to Improve ROI & User Adoption for Your BI Implementation and Learn How SAP OpenUI5 Mobile Apps Can Complement Your BI Roadmap

Derek Loranca and Jamie Oswald have a session BI + Analytics in Healthcare: Panel Discussion

    The top “single” word was SAP, followed by analytics; no surprise as this is a SAP Analytics conference. You can also see it as a graph in SAP Analytics Cloud “build my story”: The 2+ word top expressions include “exhibition viewing” which means it is time to visit the sponsors who make the conference possible: Source: Eventful Conferences With last week’s announcements it is more important than ever to attend this conference.  If your schedule frees up join us.  Limited spots left for 1-on-1 time with an SAP Expert on your topic of choice – register while spots last says Rachel Ho Source: SAP Don’t miss this week’s askSAP call to ask question about last week’s announcements.  Register here. Source: Eventful Conferences Eventful gives you top 5 reasons to attend here: Source: Eventful

Reference

Join us for these upcoming webcasts:

* Feb 14 How to Become a Visualization Guru: Tips & Tricks on Web Intelligence Charts
* Feb 22 SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP BW/4 HANA  – Ready for the Future
* Mar 1 How to upgrade to Lumira 2.1 / best practices

Any surprises in the text analysis? http://bit.ly/2FdoRKh #SAP #SAPCloud #AI