For more details on the 麻豆原创 Build announcement, read Unleashing Business Expertise with 麻豆原创 Build, from JG Chirapurath, chief marketing and solutions officer for 麻豆原创 BTP.

With this new low-code offering, we are evolving our strategy from visual prototyping — known to many customers as Build.me — to designing, deploying, and running enterprise-grade applications fully visually. Learnings from Build.me around project ideation and discovery are being leveraged for the new 麻豆原创 Build offering.

The worldwide market for low-code tools ballooned almost 23% in the last year and these days, 41% of non-IT employees are building or customizing applications, . So, if it is widely accepted in the industry that low-code platforms will help accelerate business transformations, it is unclear to many what can be achieved with visual development.

Let鈥檚 take a deeper look at 麻豆原创 Build capabilities and how they help 麻豆原创 customers deliver new, innovative solutions quickly.

Unified Developer Experience

麻豆原创 Build provides a unified experience for users of all skills levels. They can collaborate on creating applications, automating processes, and deploying business sites by using visual tools and a rich set of services and pre-built content.

麻豆原创 Build users can share reusable artifacts such as user experience (UX) components, workflows, automations, data models, and business logic among team members and across projects. When it comes to accessing business data from other systems, developers can encapsulate APIs as simplified service interfaces, so called 鈥渁ction projects,鈥� and make them available in the 麻豆原创 Build library.

From there, non-technical users can use them without the need to handle the underlying complexity of APIs, while at the same time complying with IT security requirements. Similarly, citizen developers can use 麻豆原创 Build solutions to access artifacts, such as data models, created in our professional integrated development environment (IDE) 麻豆原创 Business Application Studio.

All this greatly facilitates the creation of composable and sophisticated applications leveraging the skills, expertise, and resources from fusion teams.

Let鈥檚 have a deeper look at what can be achieved in 麻豆原创 Build.

麻豆原创 Build Apps

Today鈥檚 enterprise users are widely accustomed to modern, fast, and responsive user interfaces. With 麻豆原创 Build Apps, the evolution of 麻豆原创 AppGyver, we can deliver both mobile and web applications with pixel-perfect design using the drag-and drop functionality and a rich component library. Business users create business logic visually and build beautiful user interfaces without coding.

But there is more: With 麻豆原创 Build Apps 鈥渃loud functions,鈥� we introduce a way to visually create a cloud-deployed back end for your application. These new cloud functions provide a way to define and run custom business logic and manage persistency and integrations in the cloud, without the need to provision or manage underlying computations. With 麻豆原创 Build Apps and the cloud functions capability, now everyone can become a full-stack cloud developer.

The cloud functions capability has two components: business logic and a data persistence layer.

Business services are built from individual logic nodes with inputs and outputs. An individual node can perform an action, such as updating a data entity or receiving data via the node鈥檚 input parameters. These nodes can then be connected to perform a series of activities, enabling visual building of business logic in the cloud.

A data entity defines the field structure and data types of the data being managed by the application. The native data entities are building blocks of the visual cloud functions project. Extended data entity expands the native entity by allowing users to modify data taken from the native entities using formula expressions. Furthermore, with extended entities, data transformations can be performed on the cloud side.

麻豆原创 Build Process Automation

Often, applications are just the start of extensive enterprise processes, including approval steps and additional data collection. 麻豆原创 Build Process Automation offers task and process automation leveraging robotic process automation (RPA) bots, workflows, forms, embedded artificial intelligence (AI), business rules, and decisions.

In order to accelerate a business transformation from process insights to process automation, 135 tailored process improvement recommendations from 麻豆原创 Signavio Process Intelligence can directly be leveraged in 麻豆原创 Build Process Automation. Also, 麻豆原创 Signavio Process Intelligence can trigger automated actions through APIs to perform process automations with workflows and bots. In addition, 麻豆原创 Build Process Automation complements 麻豆原创 Signavio Process Governance, managing approvals of process model changes in 麻豆原创 Signavio Process Manager.

With this integration, 麻豆原创 has now the most comprehensive set of capabilities needed for business transformation and automation.

Regarding openness with third-party tools, Google Workspace integration allows to automate around products such as Google Sheets, Google Calendar, and Google Drive. It improves document-based processes by leveraging Google Vision AI with OCR and Google Document AI, in addition to Document Information Extraction from 麻豆原创 AI Business Services.

麻豆原创 Build Work Zone

Finally, with 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone, users can create beautiful, custom business sites using new capabilities such as a flexible page builder and context-aware integrated UI cards. They can easily deploy the new applications and processes created in 麻豆原创 Build Apps and 麻豆原创 Build Processes Automation to an 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone business site.

With 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone, we bring together 麻豆原创 Launchpad service and 麻豆原创 Work Zone into a unified solution with two editions:

• 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone, standard edition, is an evolution of 麻豆原创 Launchpad service. It features an enhanced workspace navigation experience, UI integration cards that support 麻豆原创 Fiori design system, low-code page building capabilities, and pre-packaged business content. 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone standard is planned for general availability in early 2023 with the new enhanced experience. (.)
• 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone, advanced edition, formerly 麻豆原创 Work Zone, provides additional advanced features for content management, web content, interactive and engaging work spaces, enhanced menu builder, and integration with third-party solutions.

麻豆原创 Build Work Zone allows end users to access all relevant applications from a single place. Users can easily build simple-to-consume and engaging digital workplace experiences that drive productivity and business agility for themselves, colleagues, suppliers, customers, partners, etc. — without writing any code.

In addition, we are announcing the beta of 麻豆原创 Start, an out-of-the-box central access point for 麻豆原创 public cloud solutions. It includes pre-configured business content from 麻豆原创 applications to simplify access to 麻豆原创 apps, processes, and tasks. Customers will be able to use 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone to extend 麻豆原创 Start to their needs.

Security and Compliance

麻豆原创 Build relies on existing 麻豆原创 BTP services for security and compliance.听 For secure user management, this includes the identity authentication, user authorization, and provisioning services. The 麻豆原创 Audit Log service is leveraged to keep records of all activity in the tools, helping ensure full transparency and compliance.

麻豆原创 Build safeguards operations with built-in centralized lifecycle management, monitoring, and governance. It provides robust DevOps framework with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), automated testing, security, and performance checks to ship production-ready software confidently. IT admins can rely on the known platform capabilities, while at the same time empowering their business users with the agility of 麻豆原创 Build.

Glimpse of the Future: What Are the Key Priorities in Our Road Map?

With the announcement of 麻豆原创 Build today, we鈥檙e just at the beginning of a new journey. We have defined an ambitious road map. Our key priorities for the next quarters are to integrate 麻豆原创 Build deeper with the portfolio of advanced cloud technologies available on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform. Our endeavors in that direction include:

• will provide 麻豆原创 Build users with straightforward access to semantically connected data entities across all 麻豆原创 applications.
• will integrate more and more 麻豆原创 AI Business Services to allow the extensive use of AI in both design time and run time. This includes auto-identification of application changes to suggest corrections in design time. For run time, it contains root-cause analysis of failures, self-healing corrections to automations based on best-recommended action, and soliciting human-in-loop or auto-adjusting job distribution.
• will be leveraged as a service. It will enable IT experts in fusion teams to build comprehensive data logic and leverage this in 麻豆原创 Build Process Automation.

Become an 麻豆原创 Builder

Ready to become an 麻豆原创 Builder and build your next great idea without writing code? I have two recommendations for you on how to get started:

• Check out our new , which helps customers ramp up quickly on 麻豆原创 Build and connect with their peers. The program offers learning with interactive hands-on sessions and hackathons and gives 麻豆原创 and community experts a forum to share best practices.
• Get started with 麻豆原创 Build right away, as it is available on , which enables you to start for free and without time limits. You can test your scenarios up to a specified capacity limit. When you鈥檙e ready to go, you can easily switch to the paid service plan, without losing your work. Check out our and get started right away.

Juergen Mueller is CTO and member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE.

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While this has always been the case for implementation of 麻豆原创 applications, the opportunity is even greater for partners to extend, integrate, and build with 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP).

Let鈥檚 look at it in more detail.

What Is 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform?

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent pressures on the global supply chain demonstrate even more urgently how important it is for companies of all sizes to digitally transform their business. Today鈥檚 businesses need to be able to adapt quickly to volatile markets and changing business requirements. For this, they need a modern technology platform that enables integrated applications and processes, helps users create value from data, and supports easy extensibility and ecosystem access while offering development agility and speed.

麻豆原创 BTP is the unified, business-centric, and open business and technology platform for the entire 麻豆原创 ecosystem. It is the unified foundation for the Intelligent Enterprise, integrates and extends 麻豆原创鈥檚 intelligent suite, and is central to the industry cloud as well as partner applications.

In a nutshell, what 麻豆原创 BTP offers is all about business centricity:

• Integration that connects applications, data, and business processes across 麻豆原创 and third-party solutions, including hyperscaler technology
• Data to value, with actionable insights and automation across enterprise data and processes
• Extensibility and ecosystem access, thanks to rapid configuration, plug-and-play extensions, and business content from partners
• Development agility and speed, with intuitive tooling and interfaces that create an engaging developer and user experience

What Is In It for Partners?

Let鈥檚 step back for a second and look at the market potential. 麻豆原创 solutions touch 77% of the world鈥檚 transactions. Because of that reach, we can offer , such as lead-to-cash, design-to-operate, source-to-pay, and recruit-to-retire. And within those processes are hundreds of specific components or sub-processes supported by 麻豆原创 partners.

So when our partners build on, integrate with, or extend 麻豆原创 technology using 麻豆原创 BTP, they have a unique opportunity to help customers by delivering solutions that reach across business processes, often tapping into data sources across various master data domains. Connecting and enriching the business processes increases the value and impact that each sub-process brings to an organization.

Let me give you an example: Within the , partners are adding value with solutions that extend the core 麻豆原创 offering, including supplier certification, sustainability ratings, as well as search and data lookup. With those, customers are creating new revenue streams as a service business models using 麻豆原创 BTP.

麻豆原创 BTP offers opportunities for all types of 麻豆原创 partners. It enables partners to stay competitive and innovative while keeping service practices, software sales, and margins secure. Software partners can build and sell complementary applications that extend and integrate with 麻豆原创鈥檚 end to end business processes. Value-added resellers can package data, analytics, workflow, and other automation content as accelerators to differentiate their businesses and drive new revenue streams. Services partners can continue to maintain ABAP practices, develop custom extensions on 麻豆原创 BTP, build integrations to customer鈥檚 non-麻豆原创 systems, and deliver specific data-to-value business requirements.

A good example is 鈥檚 work with 麻豆原创 and 麻豆原创 partners Bourne Digital and Bluetree, each of which played an essential role in Taronga鈥檚 digital transformation journey. As a strategic advisor for the customer, 麻豆原创 provided expert guidance and support to identify the right technology and approach according to its strategic objectives. From the beginning of the 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud journey, 麻豆原创 experts helped develop a proof of concept and integration approach in partnership with Bluetree. Bourne Digital helped design and implement the using 麻豆原创 Workflow Management and other services in 麻豆原创 BTP, leveraging design thinking and agile development to quickly deliver an easy-to-use application in a short time frame.

Recently, in a commissioned survey conducted on behalf of 麻豆原创, , Forrester Consulting concluded that partners benefit greatly from building solutions as part of . The integrated industry portfolio puts partner蝉鈥� offerings front and center alongside 麻豆原创-built solutions. 麻豆原创 BTP also provides a framework, technologies, and additional features such as artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics that help ensure interoperability with 麻豆原创 while enabling the creation of replicable industry-specific solutions.

What Is the Role of the Partner Ecosystem in RISE with 麻豆原创?

We cannot speak about the importance of 麻豆原创 BTP for our partner ecosystem without addressing our latest offering: .

RISE with 麻豆原创 is about helping customers transform their businesses to an intelligent enterprise that is flexible, resilient, and built for continuous innovation. For many customers this transition will include a journey to the cloud at a pace that supports their business and industry requirements.

麻豆原创 BTP, as the platform for the Intelligent Enterprise, is one part of the RISE with 麻豆原创 offering. It helps partners and customers further innovate in the cloud with in-app extensions to fill small gaps, side-by-side innovations to extend the core, and integrations to bring the business processes together.

What Lies Ahead?

To meet the current and future needs of our customers and partners, we want to firmly establish 麻豆原创 BTP as the unified, business-centric, and open business and development platform for the entire 麻豆原创 ecosystem. Partners that adopt the platform can develop more efficiently, provide foundational functionality, and commercialize products faster. Lower entry burdens will encourage our partners to develop applications that run on 麻豆原创 BTP.

Going forward, all 麻豆原创 line-of-business and industry solutions will be built on 麻豆原创 BTP. Partners can efficiently innovate and extend core solutions, create integrations, and deliver new content.

Let鈥檚 deliver innovation together — faster and with less complexity.

Want to Learn More?

For all the news from the 麻豆原创 Global Partner Summit, see 鈥�Why Partners RISE with 麻豆原创,鈥� by Karl Fahrbach, global partner officer at 麻豆原创. And read 鈥�How Partners Enable Customer Success Through a Unified Technology Platform,鈥� by Jagdish Sahasrabudhe, CTO of the Global Partner Organization at 麻豆原创.

Visit for more information on how to partner with 麻豆原创. Partners can find details on .

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As we create a unified, business-centric, and open platform with a marketplace for the Intelligent Enterprise, customers, partners, and cloud users can count on 麻豆原创 for future-proofed听resilience.听

Juergen Mueller is CTO and a member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE.
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