Sapphire is 麻豆原创鈥檚 top customer annual customer event, bringing together customers, partners and business leaders to discover the latest 麻豆原创 innovations. This year鈥檚 event unveiled several innovations that put the power of Business AI in every user鈥檚 hands, revolutionising the way work gets done.

Nazia Pillay, Interim Managing Director for South Africa at 麻豆原创, says: 鈥淥rganisations are leveraging powerful new technologies and integrated business applications to drive innovation-fuelled growth across the enterprise. The growing power of Business AI applications that draw on trusted business data is already proving to be a transformative force for companies seeking enhanced decision-making and greater efficiency.鈥�

Unleashing power of Business AI

听Several brands unveiled successful Business AI initiatives built on 麻豆原创 technologies. Global brewer Heineken was looking to streamline data access so business users could quickly find and analyse data in their preferred language. The company developed Hoppy, an AI-driven chatbot that runs on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP), representing a significant leap forward in Heineken鈥檚 commitment to streamline internal processes and empower its workforce.

Since Hoppy was introduced within the company’s collaboration platforms, Heineken has seen the time knowledge workers need to retrieve information fall to 1 minute from 15 minutes. With 麻豆原创 Business AI capabilities at Hoppy鈥檚 core, Heineken also is exploring automating repetitive tasks to enhance business processes and streamline communications and decision-making. And with a unified view across its data, Hoppy can now flag missing cost centre information in purchase orders to improve efficiency and accuracy.

Competitive gaming organisation Team Liquid is using 麻豆原创鈥檚 Joule agents to provide instant access to game statistics, player performance trends and strategic comparisons using natural language. Team Liquid runs its data analysis through its Next Level Esports Centre dashboard, built entirely on 麻豆原创 BTP.

The team鈥檚 analysts rely on the dashboard to equip coaches and players with insights about upcoming opponents, managing high-pressure situations under short turnaround times and frequent data requests between games.

Victor Goossens, co-CEO and founder of Team Liquid, says: 鈥淭his partnership is changing the way we utilise our extensive database, proving that AI and data integration are becoming a vital part of our game preparation and success in esports.鈥�

Scaling new heights with cloud

Moving from a heavily customised on-premises landscape to a standardised one in the cloud, CAF, a global leader in urban rail and bus systems, has successfully migrated to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. CAF has smoothly integrated 麻豆原创 solutions into core business functions including master data management, record to report, source to pay, and sales and transport.

鈥淐AF is now set for future success, as our new technology landscape allows us to better comply with business requirements in a complex and fast-changing market,鈥� said Guillermo Apell谩niz, CAF鈥檚 digital transformation director.

Companies RISE to business transformation challenges

For companies still operating with on-premise solutions, RISE with 麻豆原创 offers the optimal path to a cloud ERP landscape. RISE with 麻豆原创 helps companies confidently transform their business, enable continuous innovation, and realise value faster.

Global medical technology company Siemens Healthineers selected RISE with 麻豆原创 to support its digital transformation journey.

Stefan Henkel, Chief Information Officer at Siemens Healthineers, says: 鈥淏y embracing 麻豆原创 technology, we will be able to reduce complexity and highly standardise our processes while delivering on our promise to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare.鈥�

Xerox also chose RISE with 麻豆原创 to move to the cloud and embark on the clean core approach to streamline operations across markets and business processes. The company expects to reduce IT costs and enable the delivery of new business models in line with the changing demands of the industry.

Louie Pastor, Executive Vice President, Chief Transformation and Administrative Officer at Xerox, says: 鈥溌槎乖� is a strategic partner helping us meet the evolving needs of our clients and partners as we increase our speed, agility and cost-effectiveness while providing the entire enterprise with modern tools and improved support. 鈥�

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Gaming is something that keeps inspiring me. I鈥檓 amazed by the speed, accuracy, and level of concentration of professional players. It鈥檚 impressive how this industry has evolved and grown over just a couple of decades.听

commands an imposing presence in the esports world, boasting over 160 professional players across more than 15 different games and a staggering fan base of over 10 million followers on various social media platforms. With more than 75 premier events won, Team Liquid is one of the most successful organizations in competitive gaming.听

The game with the highest viewership and extensive fandom is League of Legends. Team Liquid successfully competes with their League of Legends team, which recently won the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) 2024 Spring tournament.听

In League of Legends, the goal is to create a strong and balanced team consisting of five characters, called 鈥渃hampions,鈥� in order to outplay and outsmart the opponents during the game by being one step ahead of competition.听

Teams participate in a pre-game draft process to select champions before a match. This involves banning and picking champions from a pool of 166 choices to create a strong team.听

Champions are the in-game figures controlled by each player. Each champion has particular skills and areas in which they excel. Putting the champions together allows the team to play in various strategic directions to win the match.听

After choosing five champions (鈥減ick鈥�), each team is also allowed to remove five champions from the pool (鈥渂an鈥�). Those players cannot be picked by either side. This can be utilized to remove specific parts that would otherwise counter a strategy or hinder the other team from playing their favorite style and/or composition.听

Esports teams and their analysts need to prepare for the draft process, as it requires knowledge of the opponent鈥檚 favorite picks and strategies. Imagine a five-a-side dodgeball match, but before the match begins, the five players from each team draw their champions from a pool of 166 individual champions.听

With bi-weekly updates to the game (鈥減atches鈥�), especially affecting the champions as well as indirectly teams practicing and developing new strategies, competitive League of Legends is an ever-changing game. It creates the need to constantly adapt your draft to a new environment, to analyze both your own and the opposing team鈥檚 behavior.听

Furthermore, the nature of the draft process and the varying strategies of opponents make accurate predictions difficult. Esports teams have only a week to prepare for the game and gather knowledge about the other team鈥檚 favorite champion picks, strengths, and weaknesses.听

Previously, Team Liquid coaches prepared draft scenarios based on manual analysis of the opponent team鈥檚 draft behaviors and champion preferences. However, the challenge was that manual analysis is done before the draft, with the best potential pick or ban changes based on the decisions of the other team. Additionally, the sheer number of potential matches to choose from and the different strategies employed by opponent teams make manual draft prediction very difficult.听

麻豆原创 Helps Change the Game听

What if Team Liquid could analyze in seconds the best choice for upcoming drafts, including picks and bans, while considering more than 6,000 professional esports matches from the past year? What if the analysis would also consider the impact of game patches from the publishers by taking an additional 1.6 million amateur matches into account to assess changes in the power attributes and strengths of the champions? With 麻豆原创, this is now a reality.听

By using 麻豆原创 AI Core to train a generative AI model that takes data from past matches and puts them into context of the upcoming game, Team Liquid gets suggestions of the best draft picks and bans to maximize the chances to win.听

The solution is built on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP), and the data is stored in 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud to cope with the 1.6 terabyte game data from past games. The result is an intelligent draft bot training, an application that runs on 麻豆原创 BTP, visualizes the predictions, and provides Team Liquid with the current winning probability after each pick and ban.听

Manual Analysis Is a Thing of the Past听

With the AI draft bot, Team Liquid can train for draft situations against any professional team they face in a matter of seconds. This is achieved by incorporating multiple influencing factors based on an unprecedented number of matches. The coaches and players benefit from the opportunity to conduct what-if analyses and derive valuable knowledge from the data to simulate new strategies. This is also reflected in the time saved compared to the previous manual analysis: Team Liquid saves approximately 10,000 hours per year per year with the solutions from 麻豆原创.听

Relying on 麻豆原创 BTP and 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud, 麻豆原创 Business AI provides Team Liquid with the opportunity to further improve their game by leveraging data to make more informed decisions. Here is where fun and business meet.听

This is how the power of business AI is made tangible in a perfect way 鈥� not just for gamers.

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