鈥淐apturing data to make better decisions is an enterprise technology imperative that鈥檚 become increasingly critical as AI 鈥� which relies on quality data 鈥� revolutionizes every aspect of business,鈥� said Juergen Mueller, 麻豆原创 Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board. “Our newest 麻豆原创 Datasphere innovations, as well as an expanded partnership with Collibra, represents a quantum leap in our ability to help customers drive intelligent business transformations through data.鈥�

At the heart of these announcements is the business data fabric, an architecture that helps ensure data is not just an asset but also the core underpinning of strategic initiatives. The innovations and partnership announced today equip organizations to deliver meaningful data to data consumers 鈥� with business context and logic intact.

“We have decided to leverage 麻豆原创 Datasphere for a modern business data fabric architecture in conjunction with our 麻豆原创 S/4HANA landscape. It allows us to effectively establish a modern data analytics platform that enables a business self service capability on the basis of trusted data and data models,鈥� said Achim Welter, Senior Director ERP, Digital & IT Strategy, Hershey鈥檚.

Today鈥檚 麻豆原创 Datasphere innovations help customers achieve a unified data view that simplifies their data landscapes while retaining context and logic 鈥� enabling them to adapt faster to market changes and make more-efficient decisions. From new copilot and vector database capabilities that help ensure business context remains constant in generative AI outputs to a new knowledge graph that helps uncover insights and patterns in complex data, 麻豆原创鈥檚 data innovations help ensure customers have the full power of their data at their fingertips.

Today鈥檚 key innovations include:

Generative-AI Copilot and AI Governance

麻豆原创鈥檚 generative-AI assistant, the copilot, is now coming to the 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud solution to automate the creation and development of reports, dashboards, plans and more. This automation is enabled by the 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud vector engine capabilities, which combine the power of large language models with the relevant data of your organization 鈥� helping ensure business context is a constant for generative-AI outputs.

Incorporating generative AI across the business isn鈥檛 possible without trusted and governed data. To provide organizations with a solution to govern the policies, processes and practices of AI, 麻豆原创 is announcing an expansion of our partnership with Collibra to integrate Collibra鈥檚 AI Governance with 麻豆原创 data assets. This can help provide transparency and accountability for organizations and help ensure regulatory, compliance and privacy policies are met.

Discover Hidden Insights and Patterns with Knowledge Graph

With the new 麻豆原创 Datasphere knowledge graph, organizations can discover hidden insights and patterns across their applications and systems. This enables both technical and business users to deeply understand the relationships between data, metadata and business processes, as well as boost the effectiveness of machine learning and large language models.

Unified and Advanced Planning and Analytics

The new 麻豆原创 Datasphere integration with 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud offers a single data management system and advanced analytics to power cross-organizational planning. Planners can leverage a single flexible model to break down silos between planning using one tool for data preparation, modeling and planning.

Additionally, business users can use the new compass capability in 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud to realize better outcomes in planning and analytics through data-driven simulation. It enables organizations to run complex simulations using a chat interface to evaluate predictive outcomes and continually adjust controllable variables to find the optimal plan.

This supports customers to transform their planning by unifying financial, operational, supply chain and workforce planning with native connection to 麻豆原创 applications and third-party data.

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麻豆原创 SE unveiled a comprehensive suite of generative AI capabilities and innovations, intending to empower developers of varying skill levels to elevate their businesses in the age of AI during the 2023 麻豆原创 TechEd event.

Today鈥檚 dynamic technology and business landscape means every developer needs to be an AI developer,鈥� said Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淭he innovations we鈥檙e launching at 麻豆原创 TechEd, from AI-infused pro-code tools to a one-stop shop to create generative AI extensions and applications on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, supporting the developers at the heart of the AI revolution and providing them with resources they need to transform the way businesses run.鈥�

麻豆原创 has introduced 麻豆原创 Build Code solutions, designed to enhance collaboration between developers and business experts. These AI-powered tools streamline productivity, focusing on Java and JavaScript development, and leverage 麻豆原创鈥檚 generative AI co-pilot, Joule, to embed code generation features for data models, application logic, and test scripts.

In the realm of AI, quality data is paramount. 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud enhances its data offerings by adding new vector database features to its multimodel offerings at no extra cost. These vector data stores effectively manage unstructured data, such as text, images, or audio, providing long-term memory and improved context for AI models. These enhancements allow users to quickly locate and retrieve similar objects, facilitating tasks like searching for suppliers based on language within contracts. The vector database features foster better interaction between large language models and a company鈥檚 critical data, enhancing data insights within a secure, private framework.

To further empower developers, 麻豆原创 introduces the AI Foundation on 麻豆原创 BTP, a comprehensive platform for creating AI- and generative AI-powered extensions and applications on 麻豆原创 BTP. This platform includes everything developers need, from ready-to-use AI services and access to large language models to vector database capabilities and AI runtime and lifecycle management.

To meet the growing demand for skilled developers amid rapid tech innovation, 麻豆原创 is enhancing learning with role-based certification and free resources for ABAP Cloud developers, promoting agility and cloud compatibility.

麻豆原创 joined Stanford HAI, fostering collaboration between 麻豆原创 experts and Stanford academics in the field of Human-Centered AI. This collaboration focuses on the intersection of generative AI and business, furthering advancements in this field.

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础迟听 in Bangalore, India, the company announced AI-powered pro-code tools and the AI Foundation, offering developers the means to create GenAI extensions and applications on the 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform.

Juergen Mueller, 麻豆原创’s CTO and executive board member, said in today鈥檚 technology and business landscape, every developer needs to be an AI developer.

The newly announced AI tools provide developers with the resources they need to 鈥渢ransform the way businesses run鈥�, he said.

The enterprise software company also introduced 麻豆原创 Build Code solutions which aim to facilitate collaboration with business experts, complementing their low-code 麻豆原创 Build solutions from 2022.

The upgraded 麻豆原创 Build Code offers AI-powered productivity tools optimised聽 optimised for Java and JavaScript development.聽 It draws on the power of 麻豆原创鈥檚 new GenAI copilot Joule, embedding code generation capabilities for data model, application logic and test script creation.

麻豆原创 maintains that good data is the foundation of good AI.

To support AI development, the company鈥檚聽麻豆原创 HANA Cloud now includes vector database features in its multimodel offerings. Vector data stores handle unstructured data like text, images, or audio, improving AI context and quick object retrieval.

These features enhance interactions between large language models and聽an organisation鈥檚 mission-critical data. According to 麻豆原创,聽 using industry-specific customer data reduces聽the risk of AI ‘hallucinations’ or false information being generated.

麻豆原创 aims to upskill two million software developers by 2025.

In addition to the AI Foundation, it has also announced role-based certification and free learning resources for ABAP Cloud developers. Released in 2022, ABAP (advanced business application programming (ABAP) is said to聽simplifies the development of business applications within 麻豆原创 environments.

麻豆原创 has also partnered with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centred AI to collaborate on research into the intersection of generative AI and business.

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Juergen Mueller, chief technology officer of German software giant 麻豆原创, used the phrase during his keynote address this week at the 麻豆原创 TechEd 2023 conference in Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley of India, when he described the endless uses of AI that had suddenly become possible.

A few days earlier the world鈥檚 biggest PC maker, Lenovo, unveiled a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities and an 鈥淎I for all鈥� strategy at its Tech World 2023 event in Austin, Texas. Lenovo chair and CEO Yuanqing Yang was joined on stage by the CEOs of two of the world鈥檚 biggest chip makers, Nvidia鈥檚 Jensen Huang and AMD鈥檚 Lisa Su. The event was addressed via video by Microsoft chair and CEO Satya Nadella, Qualcomm CEO and president Cristiano Amon, and Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger.

Yang announced that expanded partnerships with these organisations would help businesses deploy custom generative AI applications. The generative AI revolution sparked by the launch of ChatGPT at the end of November last year has also sparked fears of economic and social disaster. This prompted British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to convene this week鈥檚 summit in England that led to more than 25 countries and the EU signing the 鈥淏letchley Declaration鈥� establishing a common approach to AI oversight on Wednesday.

On the same day, Microsoft began selling its highly anticipated Copilot AI add-on for its Office software, targeting large enterprises. It is expected to add billions of dollars in annual revenue for the world鈥檚 biggest software company.

麻豆原创, ranked number three globally in software sales, works closely with Microsoft, but has developed its own AI platform, Joule, with the catchphrase: 鈥淭he AI copilot that truly understands your business.鈥�

On Thursday, Mueller announced a comprehensive series of new generative AI capabilities aimed directly at developers. Combined with the Microsoft Copilot release and the Lenovo announcements, it underlined the extent to which software and hardware giants are pushing the AI envelope.

鈥淭oday鈥檚 dynamic technology and business landscape means every developer needs to be an AI developer,鈥� said Mueller in his keynote address. 鈥淭he innovations we鈥檙e launching at 麻豆原创 TechEd [are] supporting the developers at the heart of the AI revolution and providing them with resources they need to transform the way businesses run.鈥�

He unveiled 麻豆原创 Build Code, which draws on Joule to boost productivity by embedding code generation capabilities for AI systems and applications. He also announced a 鈥渧ector database鈥� that would manage unstructured data, such as text, images or audio, and provide long-term memory and context to AI models.

鈥淔or example, users can search for suppliers based on the language in their contracts to examine payment history and trace聽 individual orders. These powerful new vector database features enhance interactions between large language models and an organisation鈥檚 mission-critical data.鈥�

麻豆原创 chief marketing officer Julia White joined Mueller on stage and revealed that most developers creating and extending 麻豆原创 solutions were working at partner organisations. Of the more than 2,000 partner solutions available in the 麻豆原创 software store, she said, more than 400 already offered AI as part of the solution.

鈥淚f I look where AI is going, I imagine that every person working across the world has that smartest colleague right by their side, helping them” – 麻豆原创 chief marketing officer Julia White

She told Business Times that AI promised a bright future for any working person. 鈥淚f I look where AI is going, I imagine that every person working across the world has that smartest colleague right by their side, helping them, like the AI serving up those insights that you might not have discovered otherwise, or connecting dots in a new way to unlock new insights and making everyone more productive or capable. And also, of course, doing it responsibly.鈥�

Five years from now, she said, everyone will have 鈥渢hat partner at our side, that AI capability, with us. And it’s going to be very natural 鈥� I think it’s going to become almost invisible 鈥� but in a way where there’s still humans at the wheel but the technology is invisibly powering us.

鈥淥ne of the fundamental problems of the world today is communication breakdowns, and not everyone is a brilliant communicator. That leads to a lot of animosity and difficulty that, if we had fantastic communications across the globe, we wouldn’t face. What if we all were brilliant at it, and we can understand each other better? I think we’re all learning fast and we’ll adjust from there. We’re trying to create an experience that is more assisting a human than doing it on behalf of a human.鈥�

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BANGALORE, India 鈥� Nov. 2, 2023 鈥�At the 麻豆原创 TechEd event in 2023, (NYSE: 麻豆原创)聽announced a comprehensive series of generative AI capabilities and advancements aimed at聽empowering developers of all skill levels to supercharge their businesses in the age of AI.

鈥淭oday鈥檚 dynamic technology and business landscape means every developer needs to be an AI developer,鈥� said Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淭he innovations we鈥檙e launching at 麻豆原创 TechEd, from AI-infused pro-code tools to a one-stop shop to create generative AI extensions and applications on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, supporting the developers at the heart of the AI revolution and providing them with resources they need to transform the way businesses run.鈥�

As organisations aim to derive business value from generative AI, effective collaboration between聽professional and citizen developers is essential. 麻豆原创 is launching 麻豆原创 Build Code solutions, which streamline cooperation with business experts who use the low-code 麻豆原创 Build solutions launched at 麻豆原创聽TechEd in 2022. Uniquely built for 麻豆原创 applications and the 麻豆原创 ecosystem, 麻豆原创 Build Code solutions聽offer AI-powered productivity tools for developers and are optimised for Java and JavaScript聽development. 麻豆原创 Build Code also draws on the power of 麻豆原创鈥檚 new generative AI co-pilot Joule 鈥� the聽co-pilot that truly understands business 鈥� to further boost productivity, embedding code generation聽capabilities for data model, application logic and test script creation.

Good data is the foundation of good AI, and 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud continues to pioneer innovation in the data space by adding new vector database features to its multimodel offerings at no additional cost. Vector聽data stores manage unstructured data 鈥� such as text, images or audio 鈥� to provide long-term memory and better context to AI models. This makes it easy to find and retrieve similar objects quickly. For example, users can search for suppliers based on the language in their contracts to examine payment history and trace individual orders. These powerful new vector database features enhance interactions between large language models and an organisation鈥檚 mission-critical data. The innovation helps put 麻豆原创 developers at the forefront of delivering radically new levels of data insight within a secure, private framework that uses industry-specific customer data to reduce hallucinations.

AI Foundation on 麻豆原创 BTP, a new one-stop shop for developers to create AI- and generative AI-powered extensions and applications on 麻豆原创 BTP, will further help increase developers鈥� impact and efficiency. AI foundation includes everything developers need to start creating business-ready AI tools on 麻豆原创 BTP 鈥� from ready-to-use AI services and access to the top large language models to vector database capabilities and AI runtime and lifecycle management.

The rapid pace of technological innovation has driven up global demand for skilled developers 鈥� and 麻豆原创 is increasing its learning opportunities in tandem. As part of a commitment to upskill two million professionals by 2025 and complement free AI learning content already available, 麻豆原创 today launched and free learning resources for back-end developers using the ABAP Cloud development model. The two new learning resources covering ABAP development tools on 麻豆原创 BTP and 麻豆原创 S/4HANA are available on the . They are designed for agile and cloud-compliant business transformation, providing developers with skills to build cloud-ready extensions that are aligned with 麻豆原创鈥檚 clean core strategy.

麻豆原创 has joined the Stanford HAI (Institute for Human-Centered AI) . Researchers and engineers at 麻豆原创 will work with the Stanford academic community, including research faculty and students, on the intersection of generative AI and business.

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The event ran concurrently with the company鈥檚 business innovation days for media in San Francisco.

Low code platforms provide business users with little to no technical knowledge the ability to build apps to supplement their enterprise solutions.

麻豆原创 customers can build an app, an automated process or a website using a drag-and-drop function without coding knowledge. This allows system integration without moving data to an external system.

Julia White, the chief marketing and solutions officer at 麻豆原创, says every company is now a technology company. 鈥淭here鈥檚 not a single industry, a single discipline that doesn鈥檛 have technology at its core. As a result of this, the competition for professional developers is intense. Every industry is competing for this finite talent.鈥�

The next wave of transformation is going to be powered by people who create business value such as the finance analyst, supply chain operator, procurement specialist and marketers, says White. 鈥淎nd today, their expertise is untapped by the companies that need to drive digital transformation forward.鈥�

麻豆原创 Build will provide the tools to remove unhelpful repetitive tasks, says White, so processes can be automated to be more efficient and users can innovate in areas that have unmet needs.

鈥淏y doing this, we address that shortage of professional developers to unlock digital experiences, and we tap into the expertise of those business users.鈥�

Juergen Mueller, the chief technology officer at 麻豆原创, says clients who put the low-code build product to test have achieved a 30% faster time to market because development time was reduced.

鈥淚f you can use Excel or PowerPoint, you can use 麻豆原创 Build. It鈥檚 all about collaboration and invitation between business users and IT working together.

鈥溌槎乖� build connects previously disconnected solutions through a unified development environment. The back-end requires a little technical knowledge but we created a common project repository so you can have one project using all of these capabilities.鈥�

Mueller adds that the 麻豆原创 business technology platform can connect to 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 systems, and it has more than 1聽300 ready to use automated workflows and use-case specific workflows.

麻豆原创 Build is a visual experience, with a new visual cloud functionality that lets users create in a simple way, says Mueller. 鈥淵ou don鈥檛 need to know anything about databases, coding, security or networks.鈥�

According to the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)鈥檚 research VP of software development, Arnal Dayaratna, the demand for contemporary digital solutions is greater than the ability of professional developers to supply them thus business professionals will become increasingly involved in initiatives to create digital solutions to solve pressing business problems.

鈥淲orldwide, IDC expects more than 100聽million business professionals will become involved in the production of digital solutions over the next 10 years. 麻豆原创 Build鈥檚 low-code development solutions empower business users to harness their domain expertise to rapidly build and iterate on digital solutions at scale.鈥�

Low-code development is not new, but these visual tools help businesses optimise their software development processes at speed. Similar services exist through Microsoft Power Apps, Google AppSheet, Salesforce Lightning, Zoho Creator, OutSystems, and Quickbase. According to聽, the global low-code platform market revenue was valued at $19bn in 2021 and is forecast to reach $69bn in 2026.

Technology research and consulting firm Garter says 80% of technology products and services will be built by professionals outside of IT by 2024. It predicts that low-code development will account for more than 65% of app development by the end of 2024.

VP of research at Gartner,Rajesh Kandaswamy says, 鈥淒igital business is treated as a team sport by CEOs and no longer the sole domain of the IT department. Growth in digital data, low-code development tools and artificial intelligence assisted development are among the many factors that enable the democratisation of technology development beyond IT professionals.鈥�

Upskill 2 million by 2025

Max Wessel, the chief learning officer at 麻豆原创 says, 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 change business if you don鈥檛 change the systems underneath that process.鈥�

鈥淭he pandemic accelerated our shift to a digital economy; coming back into a hybrid world, we are changing business processes again, and all of that requires us to think about how we drive innovation quickly, flexibly.鈥�

The only way to solve the talent gap is to increase the number of people who are getting scaled up, and that is where we need to step in,鈥� says Wessel, who recognises that science, technology, engineering and maths jobs have historically been inaccessible to underrepresented minorities.

麻豆原创 has pledged to upskill two million people worldwide by 2025. The initiative will include tripling the free learning offering through the 麻豆原创 Learning聽聽and a partnership with online platform Coursera.

The new free entry-level professional certification on聽聽is called the 麻豆原创 Technology Consultant Professional Certificate that requires no prerequisites, minimising the barrier to entry.

The company will also offer free role-based learning resources to women and other underrepresented groups in the tech sector through relevant training and certification. The self-paced courses will let participants develop skills for roles like developers, data analysts, and technology consultants.

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Last week, software giant 麻豆原创 told a global audience of developers 鈥� those IT high priests who know the secrets of the universe 鈥� that it is giving those secrets up. 麻豆原创 used its annual TechEd conference in Las Vegas to go low code, launching 麻豆原创 Build, an anyone-can-do-it platform to develop applications faster and make automation easier.

Low code is a way of creating an app by drag-and-drop. Instead of writing actual software code, this uses a much simpler interface that lets people with any skills level make their own business apps.

Low code is not a new idea, and 麻豆原创 Build combines three existing 麻豆原创 solutions into one. So why is this so important?

For one thing, the German giant is the third-largest publicly traded software company by revenue in the world. It says 77% of the world鈥檚 transaction revenue touches an 麻豆原创 software system. For another, it鈥檚 responding to changes that affect businesses profoundly.

鈥溌槎乖� Build brings together the world鈥檚 most powerful business applications with a platform that鈥檚 been designed to rapidly unleash business users鈥� expertise,鈥� says 麻豆原创 chief technology officer Juergen Mueller. 鈥溌槎乖� Build and the full suite of innovations we鈥檙e launching today … help customers future-proof their business and extract maximum value from their technology investments.鈥�

One development it鈥檚 intended to future-proof against is a predicted global shortfall of 4-million software developers by 2025.

鈥淲e have to unleash the expertise of those who know the business best 鈥� the business users,鈥� Mueller told his audience of IT professionals.

鈥淲e can鈥檛 just rely on a finite resource of professional developers 鈥� we need to find a new approach,鈥� 麻豆原创 executive board member Julia White tells the FM.

That鈥檚 also why 麻豆原创 is committed to training 2-million people worldwide by 2025 to develop with 麻豆原创 tools, tripling the number of free courses available on 麻豆原创 Learning, in partnership with the Coursera learning platform.

Low code has the potential to change the shape of most technology businesses. They鈥檒l hire tech skills, but they won鈥檛 always go into the IT department. Those skills and talents will also be used in聽human resources, sales and procurement. They will augment rather than replace professional developers, who will be needed more than ever; older IT directors, maybe not so much. The gatekeeper role large IT departments enjoy will be eroded, with some coding and buying decisions managed by business users themselves. According to Gartner, by 2025 about 70%-80% of all apps will be built by nondevelopers.

Geoff Scott of the US 麻豆原创 Users鈥� Group was blunt about this shift: 鈥淥ne of the things that has to happen is convincing the IT community that it can give back some of this control.

鈥淪ome of this can be given back to the business users to do on their own. I don鈥檛 think that happens tomorrow, that鈥檚 a journey in itself. But I think we finally have the tools and capabilities to make a credible claim to the IT community: can you give some of this back? Please?

鈥淭hey don鈥檛 have to hold on so tight. Because they鈥檙e not going to get the headcount they need to accomplish everything that needs to be done in a rapidly changing environment.鈥�

麻豆原创 presented a good case and a clear roadmap for 麻豆原创 Build at TechEd. But as Mueller pointed out, 鈥渋t takes customers a long time 鈥� much longer than we give them credit for 鈥� to make these changes. They can move in five-year cycles, not five-month cycles.鈥�

Which makes it curious that Mueller was talking to the wrong audience for his big announcement: developers.

If they鈥檙e going to convince organisations to change, they鈥檒l have to lobby directly the business users they want to empower. Or what happened in Vegas last week may stay in Vegas.

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Amid the ongoing shortage of technical skill sets in businesses in Africa, 麻豆原创 Africa says it is already engaging with local developers to tap into the rolled out low-code solution 麻豆原创 Build, designed to help business users gain control over tech 鈥� irrespective of their level of technical expertise.

麻豆原创 Build, launched at the company鈥檚 TechEd event in Las Vegas recently, ties up three previously separate solutions including 麻豆原创 Build Apps, 麻豆原创 Build Process Automation, and Build Work Zone, 麻豆原创 Africa said it is already engaging with local developers on how to tap into the unified platform to drive innovation forward.

One of the main objectives behind the launch is to address the global issue of a shortage of skilled technical personnel. In Africa, this is a major problem.

麻豆原创 Africa says: 鈥淚n Africa, we have distinct challenges 鈥� one is a lack of technical skills to drive the transformation necessary on the continent, and the other is a migration of tech skills to other markets. Amid a shortage of technology talent, 麻豆原创 Build unleashes business expertise: It empowers the people who create value, run processes and solve actual business problems to drive the next wave of digital transformation within organisations. This also frees up highly skilled developer resources in market to focus on more complex projects and grow their own skills so that these resources no longer have to be outsourced.鈥�

The company says skills development is a major focus and underlined the value of initiatives that include Africa Code Week, Dual Study program, Skills for Africa and the latest announcement of collaboration with learning platform provider Coursera Inc.

鈥溌槎乖� is committed to upskilling two million developers worldwide by 2025 by tripling free learning offerings on the , partnering with world-class learning platform provider Coursera Inc. to help people launch careers within the 麻豆原创 ecosystem, and empowering underserved audiences in technology.鈥�

鈥淏y working with Coursera, we are able to provide training beyond the formal education system that directly addresses the skills shortage. We will continue to look for opportunities like this to partner on creating the skills needed 鈥� in this case specific developer skills,鈥� the company adds.

A snapshot of demographics linked to these skills development initiatives, shows that there are 27,000 麻豆原创 Learning site learners from Africa (10% of world total), 4500 certified individuals in Africa (1,6% of world total), 7 500 certification exams taken this year in Africa (6% of world total) .

The top three taken in Africa include 麻豆原创 Certified Application Associate 鈥� 麻豆原创 S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associate; 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central Core; and 麻豆原创 Certified Application Associate 鈥� 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement.

麻豆原创 Africa says it has recently commissioned research in three key African markets to understand the current state of digital skills availability and challenges, and will release findings in early 2023.

鈥溌槎乖� Build brings together the world鈥檚 most powerful business applications with a platform that鈥檚 been designed to rapidly unleash business users鈥� expertise,鈥� said Juergen Mueller, member of the Executive Board and Chief Technology Officer of 麻豆原创. 鈥淚n a volatile business landscape, 麻豆原创 Build and the full suite of innovations we鈥檙e launching – from our new partnership with Coursera to enhancements across our enterprise portfolio – help customers future-proof their business and extract maximum value from their technology investments.鈥�

Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera Inc., adds, 鈥淚鈥檓 happy to announce that 麻豆原创 is launching an entry-level professional certificate on Coursera. This certificate is designed for learners of all backgrounds, with no college degree or industry experience required. It will prepare learners for entry-level job roles and in some of the most in-demand fields. We鈥檙e honoured to partner with 麻豆原创 to increase access to job-related skills and to expand economic opportunity for everyone.”

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鈥淢any customers I have spoken with have expressed the need for agility and quick time to value, made even more urgent by the COVID-19 pandemic,鈥� 麻豆原创 CTO and Executive Board member Juergen Mueller said. 鈥淭o achieve both, technology becomes even more important, and 麻豆原创 can help meet those challenges. We鈥檝e added significant enhancements to every major component of our Business Technology Platform to help customers across all industries overcome obstacles stemming from ubiquity of data, complexity of IT and business volatility.鈥�

Organizations such as聽聽in Dallas are using 麻豆原创鈥檚 Business Technology Platform combined with聽聽for experience management to perform analytics and to plan for sufficient patient capacity, a critical need during the COVID-19 crisis.

鈥淲e at Parkland are dedicated to the health and well-being of individuals and communities that we serve by setting the standard of excellence for public and academic healthcare systems,鈥� said Parkland Health and Hospital System鈥檚 chief data officer Scott Harrison. 鈥淥ur clinical staff utilizes electronic dashboards built with 麻豆原创鈥檚 Business Technology Platform for analytics and planning, and Qualtrics XM Platform for sentiment analysis. We understand that a fully integrated technology foundation is critical for the 240,000-plus emergency room patients we care for yearly, and for supporting our future growth and innovation.鈥�

罢丑别听聽business unit Adhesive Technologies, the global market leader for adhesives, sealants and functional coatings, is building an app for its some 4,500 sales representatives based on 麻豆原创鈥檚 Business Technology Platform.

鈥淲e aim to create a modern and effective digital workplace environment, increasing speed and efficiency for sales activities and thus strengthening the experience of customers globally,鈥� said Sascha Latzberg, corporate director, Sales & Channel Excellence CRM at Henkel Adhesive Technologies. 鈥淥ur digital CRM platform enables us to be fast and flexible and increases the independence of sales representatives as they travel and work from home. With the help of 麻豆原创鈥檚 Business Technology Platform and our advanced analytics we can leverage CRM data for insights that help us create additional customer value.鈥�

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Data Excellence
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of 麻豆原创 HANA, which now has more than 32,400 customers. The latest version,聽, is planned for delivery at the end of June. It will support hybrid scenarios with the 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud data platform and provide new capabilities, including the enhanced 麻豆原创 HANA native storage extension for simplifying data management and lowering total cost of ownership. According to聽, 麻豆原创 HANA customers will realize a 679 percent average five-year return on investment. 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud provides a powerful data management and analytics foundation for innovation solutions such as 麻豆原创 Data Warehouse Cloud. It is now available on Amazon Web Services, in addition to Microsoft Azure, to provide greater flexibility and choice to customers moving to the cloud. 麻豆原创 plans to have an聽聽for early July.

聽and 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud include an expansive lineup of聽聽packages consisting of end-to-end business scenarios that answer key business and technical questions for companies looking to quickly gain insights from data.聽聽includes business content centered on the retail industry. A rapidly growing ecosystem with hundreds of partners is expected to provide more prebuilt content and data connectors for 麻豆原创 Data Warehouse Cloud on聽.

To help business users and analysts more easily create understandable data models using business terms, the聽聽of 麻豆原创 Data Warehouse Cloud is planned for release in the early third-quarter 2020. 麻豆原创 Data Warehouse Cloud also will offer built-in and deeply integrated聽, allowing customers to select from a broad range of connectors for building highly scalable data integration processes to and from any data source.

To offer customers even more value and benefits, 麻豆原创 has been integrating more products and functions. 麻豆原创 Data Warehouse Cloud is more聽聽for a more unified data and analytics environment. This allows for a clear, accurate picture of all data for turning analytics into real business insight.聽聽platform was聽聽on June 12, 2020, and is more tightly integrated with 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud for an easier transition to the cloud.聽聽functionalities are further integrated in the latest update of聽聽for faster, more powerful planning, and is currently available for a聽.

Read how聽today鈥檚 intelligent enterprises, such as Geberit AG, Porsche AG and Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd., plan to use the power of 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud, 麻豆原创 Data Warehouse Cloud, 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud and 麻豆原创 Cloud Platform.

Integration
奥颈迟丑听聽of 麻豆原创 Cloud Platform Integration Suite, customers can benefit from value-based packaging and attractive pricing as well as simplified purchase and consumption of integration services. Customers can now sign up once to use all capabilities instead of going through licensing multiple services. This offers them the flexibility to consume a service within the suite on demand at any point in time with streamlined, message-based metering. Further, 麻豆原创 is delivering prebuilt聽聽between 麻豆原创 applications with standard messages at no additional charge.

Extension
聽with 麻豆原创 Cloud Platform Extension Suite and new聽聽will help customers adapt and extend their business processes on the fly and in real time to meet changing demands and increase efficiency. Business process experts can now manage workflows on live running processes such as for capital expenditure approvals by using dedicated tooling to discover, configure and run application extensions, all without help from an IT department. This results in faster time to value and lower implementation costs.

聽and 麻豆原创 recently announced that they have teamed up to create a joint cloud-based solution for the real estate industry. The solution is planned to be based on Honeywell Forge and 麻豆原创 Cloud Platform and aims to streamline operational and business data to drive greater efficiencies, improve company performance by gaining valuable business insights, and improve employee experience management through powerful sentiment data analysis. Read more details聽here.

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