NEW YORK and LAS VEGAS, Sept. 24,
2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today
announced more powerful platform capabilities and embedded
intelligence in applications, setting customers on the fastest path
to turn data into business value. The announcement was made at the
SAP® TechEd conference being held September 24–26 in
Las Vegas and the Strata Data
Conference being held September 23–26 in New York City.
"There is growing demand from our customers and partners to
easily extend and integrate their solutions as well as build
completely new apps," said Juergen
Mueller, chief technology officer and member of the
Executive Board of SAP SE. "They also want to bring their
infrastructure-as-a-service of choice. With the business technology
platform, we will give customers the highest level of openness and
flexibility to do this — also in terms of deployment
models."
Mueller added: "By addressing the key technology markets of
database and data management, analytics, application development
and integration, and intelligence, SAP will deliver one of the best
technological foundations customers have ever
experienced."
Unique Platform and First Solutions Now Available to Turn
Data into Business Value
Customers are free to focus on business needs rather than
technical building blocks when they have a complete business
technology platform. By connecting business processes and
experiences, customers can make confident decisions with
integrity and continue to drive innovation in the cloud, on
premise, at the edge and in hybrid deployment models. By offering
an open platform, SAP continues to grow its ecosystem and embrace
partner solutions to offer complementary value to our
customers.
SAP Cloud Platform is a key pillar of the business
technology platform. It is SAP's integration and extension platform
that helps bridge the gap between piloting intelligent technologies
such as machine learning (ML) and the IoT and embedding them into
core business processes.
- SAP Data Intelligence is the first enterprise cloud
service with an end-to-end lifecycle for data management and
machine learning. Technologies such as machine learning and
data orchestration deliver a wealth of meaningful business insights
— from understanding customer churn and consumer behavior
to manufacturing predictions. Harnessing this information is
often challenging when it is spread across an array of disparate
tools. Using SAP Data Intelligence, customers can transform data
from different sources into critical insight to drive better
business outcomes. It also allows them to adapt the latest trends
and technology by combining the SAP Data Hub solution and SAP
Leonardo® Machine Learning Foundation into one integrated cloud
offering, making use of established open source frameworks such as
TensorFlow. Announced as a beta offering in May at the
SAPPHIRE NOW® conference, SAP Data Intelligence is now generally
available. Get more information here.
"With SAP Data Intelligence, we see huge potential to speed up
development and operations of machine learning projects and manage
the orchestration of complex data across our landscape," said
Robert Kriehs, senior solution architect, Daimler AG. "We can
ensure our AI/ML projects can make it into production, the data can
be managed and our models can be easily retrained, and we can apply
lifecycle management to the data and the models."
- The SAP Intelligent Business Processes
Management (SAP Intelligent BPM) bundle of services helps
customers transform paper-based processes into digital workflows.
Customers can now use SAP Cloud Platform Workflow, SAP Cloud
Platform Business Rules and SAP Cloud Platform Process Visibility
services together to create process extensions on top of business
applications, orchestrate tasks or build process-centric
differentiating applications. With this new transparency on
workflows, customers can extend their end-to-end process visibility
toward observed business processes across SAP and non-SAP
applications. SAP Intelligent BPM is integrated with the SAP
Conversational AI service to guide customers through workflows,
giving them automatic recommendations for actions. Get more
information here.
- Built on SAP Cloud Platform, business services that use
machine learning and the IoT to address specific business
challenges are now available. These include the Document
Information Extraction service, which applies machine
learning to digitalize unstructured business documents by
extracting information and matching it with relevant business
data. Enhanced capabilities in IoT edge and cloud hybrid
scenarios give customers the ability to "define once, run
anywhere" so they are not dependent on network latency, bandwidth
or connectivity. This hybrid approach offers flexibility and
scalability for customers to easily define their IoT processing
artifacts once and then choose to deploy in the cloud and/or at the
edge to process data.
More than 1,400 partners are building on SAP Cloud Platform,
with more than 750 SAP Cloud Platform–based apps available on
SAP App Center.
The latest release of the SAP Analytics Cloud solution
offers enhancements to augmented analytics and analytics designer
capabilities to help customers make faster, more confident
decisions. Updates include:
- Augmented analytics — Updates
to the search-to-insight extension give users a newly
designed conversational analytics experience to better understand
and use semantics across all business data. Users can now chat live
with their data in SAP HANA® applications and reveal key factors
influencing positives or negatives in a table of metrics with
"smart insights" algorithms enabled to mine data points.
- Analytics designer — With the new data analyzer,
users can now gain insights faster by using a ready-to-run service
for queries in the SAP Business Warehouse application, allowing
users to easily navigate and analyze information. Users can also
build applications faster by creating and reusing customized
widgets in a theme. Get more information here.
SAP Continues to Push Blockchain Boundaries by Joining Forces
with Microsoft
SAP and Microsoft Corporation announce interoperability of
blockchain services in the cloud with a new collaboration. Building
on their long-standing partnership, the companies aim to empower
customers to run their blockchain-based applications on SAP Cloud
Platform directly connected to Azure Blockchain Service. With
this interoperability customers can use the infrastructure and
platform services of their choice embedded in SAP software systems
in an easily consumable way. The cooperation aims to enable joint
customers to bring the trust and transparency of blockchain to
important business processes such as material traceability, fraud
prevention and collaboration in life sciences. For more
information on the partnership, read Microsoft's blog and the
SAP TechEd News Guide.
Embedded Intelligence and Improved Usability for SAP
S/4HANA®
The SAP Best Practices for SAP Intelligent Robotic Process
Automation integration with SAP S/4HANA package is now
available to guide and accelerate customers' implementations with
predefined automation skills, covering key business processes such
as managing sales orders and purchase order confirmations. The
package offers predefined robotic automation skills such as
finance, sales distribution and procurement, as well as
capabilities for industries such as professional services and
manufacturing. Customers can use the package to help reduce
labor-related costs and improve response time to market changes and
other business requirements. Get more information here.
The latest release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud includes
intelligent approval workflow in procurement for
purchase requisitions. The service uses machine learning to
classify important and unimportant purchase requisition approvals
by weighting them with a confidence factor arrived at by analyzing
the approval pattern history based on price, source of supply,
material group, approvers and attachments. It also guides
users to approval items that require immediate attention, which
frees up time to focus on critical work items. Get more information
here.
Quartz light, the new theme in the SAP Fiori® 3 user experience,
is used by the latest release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and all other
SAP applications. Designed and developed by all SAP product teams,
SAP Fiori 3 offers a more consistent and integrated
experience across the entire SAP portfolio. This helps decrease
training time, increases application effectiveness and provides
consistency of use across devices from anywhere. Embedded
artificial intelligence in SAP Fiori 3 provides intelligent home
pages that show everything a user needs to focus on, and supports
proactive business situation handling, which offers explanations,
insights and proposed actions. Get more information here.
SAP solutions including SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud
and SAP S/4HANA Cloud are available to try and buy online here.
To learn more about these announcements and other news from SAP
TechEd Las Vegas, visit www.sap.com/teched-news.
Visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at
@sapnews.
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