Thinking about the technical and business challenges that executives face every day, two conclusions come to mind. First and foremost, ERP systems are fundamental platforms for digital transformation. And secondly, modernizing the technology to meet the demands of today’s fast-paced, ever-evolving market dynamics is a time-consuming, complex, and sustaining commitment.

When companies are prepared to move their legacy processes to our intelligent ERP, , a wide variety of challenges inevitably arise. All organizations may not share the same goals. Shifting from a fully flexible model to one rooted in standardization may lead to confusion about the ability to adapt and modify the technology as needed. Complex discussions on integration, extensibility, data migration and management, regulatory compliance, and the cloud provider’s role may fall to the wayside among some business leaders.

The offering enables our customers to productively overcome these challenges with targeted recommendations for optimizing and maximizing the value of their investment in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud. The offering helps customers fully adopt the cloud mindset necessary for deployment and rapidly plan ongoing adoption of capabilities that bring specific value to their line-of-business priorities and align with their overall business goals.

Trusted Guide to Agility and Intelligence

By aligning expectations for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud with desired business outcomes early in the life cycle, our customers can map their transition to the cloud and understand the importance of standardization with some adaptation of existing processes.

But this standardization should also be liberating. This foundational concept simplifies support for operational processes and focuses the implementation on the capabilities and functions that truly differentiate our customers from their competitors. The initial phase of 麻豆原创 Preferred Success allows our customers to fully understand how the modern ERP model fills existing gaps and continues to scale at the same pace that organizational change happens.

More importantly, our customers can further build out their digital strategy by considering new capabilities and tools available that they didn’t know existed. For example, live virtual events and expert-led sessions give insight into a range of intelligent technologies embedded in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, including robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI). This targeted content uncovers the connection between what 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud provides and what can be achieved as their ultimate vision.

Although these experiences with 麻豆原创 Preferred Success are early in the overall implementation of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, the information provided can be an eye-opener that impacts the entire digital transformation journey for years to come. Executives are better prepared to lead their workforce through every change along the path to go-live while knowing how to minimize costs and risk and focusing on value.

Unlike some offerings, 麻豆原创 Preferred Success stays engaged with 麻豆原创 customers throughout the life of their deployment of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud. Dedicated customer success managers help steer organizations through quarterly updates, determining which new capabilities are needed to further their digital strategy and address unique business needs. They recommend the capabilities that customers should consider enhancing or adopting and assist in the creation and completion of a minimally disruptive plan to implement relevant innovations. Adoption planning sessions are offered to dive into these new ideas, weigh their viability, and choose the best options to deliver a better technology or process experience.

Continuous Support for Scaled Digital Transformation

Many businesses are digitally transforming themselves with impressive speed. However, speed alone is not the key to a successful digital transformation. What鈥檚 needed is an agile and intelligent foundation that unlocks their true potential 鈥� whether navigating economic uncertainty, exploring new business models, ramping up toward a recovery, or paving the way to growth.

While change doesn鈥檛 come without risks, 麻豆原创 Preferred Success helps prepare 麻豆原创 customers to navigate them all 鈥� with the agility and intelligence of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

For more real-life insights on 麻豆原创 Preferred Success, read the rest of the series, 鈥�Heading to the Cloud with 麻豆原创 Preferred Success鈥� and discover how your entire company can accelerate cloud adoption and business outcomes with insight-driven, prescriptive, and personalized guidance and support.

Chris Lewis is global director and product manager for 麻豆原创 Preferred Success, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud at 麻豆原创.

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鈥淲丑别苍 COVID-19 and the lockdowns took the headlines, we at 麻豆原创 naturally gave it a lot of thought,鈥� says Uwe Grigoleit, senior vice president and general manager for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. 鈥淗ow would our customers cope with it? What would that mean for ongoing implementation projects with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA?鈥�

It did not take long for the answers to arrive. Projects would continue as planned almost without exception. Decision-makers from a wide range of companies and industries have recognized that they not only have to react quickly to the crisis and its consequences, but also must build resilience and potential for the future.

Unleash Possibilities Quickly

In this unprecedented situation, many organizations need to reorganize critical processes and map them digitally. It has become apparent that legacy enterprise management systems can be more of a burden than a help. There is a lack of necessary financial and operational transparency to safely adjust to the new normal.

鈥淢any companies have realized that they now need to focus all the more on their core business and strengthening their resilience, instead of spending valuable time and resources on managing IT systems and running their own data centers,鈥� Grigoleit says.

麻豆原创 and its partners are well prepared for this. Every implementation project and go-live of 麻豆原创 solutions can be supported and executed remotely. It therefore came as no surprise that 75 percent of all 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud customers that had planned to go live in the second quarter of 2020 went live. Currently, there is one go-live of an 麻豆原创 customer with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA every hour of every business day.

More Resilience and Innovation Through the Cloud

While the on-premise edition of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA is functionally very comprehensive and modular, the cloud solution is more straightforward. This can be a big advantage, especially if time is of the essence. Standardization allows companies to more efficiently establish end-to-end processes based on best practices. This way, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud provides value faster and offers superior flexibility, scalability, and agility compared to traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. This results in more resilience and capability for innovation.

In financial terms, too, moving to the cloud solution offers major advantages. Traditional, in-house models for data centers require a huge investment 鈥� capital expenses or CAPEX 鈥� in equipment, software, and a workforce to run and maintain everything. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud switches IT spending to a pay-as-you-go model. From an accounting point of view, this means that only operating expenses (OPEX) arise. These expenses, unlike CAPEX, do not have to be depreciated or amortized over their useful life, but can be directly deducted in the relevant tax year. Less CAPEX also means that companies have more budget available for other important business investments.

Combining the Best of Both Worlds

Depending on individual business requirements or strategic vendor relationships, existing 麻豆原创 customers can choose between public and private cloud or hybrid models with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. 麻豆原创 can serve hybrid, or two-tier, ERP scenarios from one common code base and one single semantic model. This allows 麻豆原创 customers to set new strategic priorities and to move individual capabilities to the cloud quickly while other areas of the business remain on premise.

From the user’s perspective, the transition to a hybrid model is hardly noticeable. Unified user interfaces (UI) help ensure that the user experience remains consistent when switching between cloud and on-premise systems. They can find their way around immediately and work productively because, for example, the capabilities for analytics and reports look and function the same.

To support companies in their decision to become intelligent enterprises with decisively more resilience, agility, and responsiveness, 麻豆原创 offers custom-made , which create perspectives and inspiration for process optimization and innovation. Proven best practices of 麻豆原创 customers illustrate what can be achieved with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, namely making companies more resilient and fit for the future.

Oliver Schoenborn is interim head of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Product Marketing.

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There鈥檚 no substitute for just getting on with the task at hand, whether training for the first leg of the Tour Du France or crossing the actual finish line. But getting on with it also requires preparation and planning, including the benefit of advice, insight, and experience. It is the same when plotting a digital transformation journey.

Like any multi-stage event, each of us will take our own route, change gears at our own pace, and make pit stops along the way based on our own specific circumstances and environments.

In the same way that there are multiple stages and routes to get each of us across our own finish line, the multi-stage journey to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA is unique to each company.

This is why 麻豆原创 has been running a comprehensive , outlining the step-by-step map for transitioning to the modern digital platform of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA 聽at your own pace.

Leading authorities on making the move to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA came together to help ensure each transition is as straight-forward as possible, regardless of IT landscape or legacy overheads. This five-part series shows how to make the transition with less risk and at a higher speed, as well as the best ways to tackle common issues around data quality and data migration, carrying over custom code and business partner conversion 鈥� all within budget and timeline constraints.

The data transformation requirements that help get data clean 鈥� including data preparation, quality, and migration 鈥� before you go live with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA are explained in depth, as well as how to keep data clean in day-to-day activities and operations through master data management once live.

Protecting and moving customizations, integrating the landscape, and managing extensions and innovations in the cloud with low code development are all looked at. And the series shows how to modernize a data strategy and platform, factoring in the data lake, as well as reporting directly from within applications.

To grease the digital wheels of business automation, new ways of integrating enterprise data with disparate types of Big Data across different data stores are mapped out, while preserving data security, integrity, and consistency.

But 麻豆原创 knows there is no substitute for customer experience. So three customers 鈥� all at different stages of their own digital journey toward 麻豆原创 S/4 HANA 鈥� share their experiences, tips, and advice.

• Tetra Pak outlined its successful data Transformation journey around mastering automation and data efficiencies, which is now the foundation for the next stage.
• Neste discussed how it is becoming an intelligent enterprise through real-time analytics and automated business processes.
• Vinci Energies showed how it has embraced data-driven innovations in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, such as robotic process automation, next-generation analytics, and mobile business processes.

The response from customers who have watched the webinars and implemented the advice has been hugely positive. If you did not catch the full series the first time, you can .

In addition to how-to steps from 麻豆原创 experts, partners, and customers, you can also see just how easy it is to create intelligent, mobile-ready applications to better serve customers, modernize business processes, and compete more effectively.

When the world is busy transforming around you, it鈥檚 never too late to start but it鈥檚 always too late to wait. Have a great journey!

Gerd Danner is vice president of the EMEA Center of Excellence for Information Management and Intelligent Suite Surround lead at 麻豆原创.

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