In the first half of this year, the major milestone of cloud revenue becoming its largest revenue stream. Cloud revenue was up 25% at constant currency and 33% at nominal levels. But more notable is the recent rise in current backlog, accelerating at 25% and exceeding 鈧�10 billion.

Top-line cloud performance is clearly ahead of plan 鈥� and for a good reason. Businesses are seeking reliable solutions to address the current macroeconomic environment and currency tailwinds. Intensifying geopolitical conflicts, regulatory fragmentation, sustainability awareness, and inflationary challenges are compelling organizations to advance their timelines on digital business initiatives, such as modernizing work environments, improving system reliability, and supporting hybrid work models.

As mentioned, a big part of the cloud momentum story for 麻豆原创 is related to our PaaS technology,聽 (麻豆原创 BTP). Revenue from the platform by an impressive 43% at constant currency, up 50% in nominal levels.

Why PaaS Adoption Is on the Rise

The growing interest in 麻豆原创 BTP reflects the 鈥渦nlearning鈥� organizations experience when transitioning to the cloud. 麻豆原创 Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer聽Julia White, the cloud forces people to 鈥渜uestion and unlearn [on-premise approaches] and start from a fresh perspective knowing what they now have and the tools available [to them].鈥�

Unlike other PaaS and hyperscaler solutions, 麻豆原创 BTP is business-aware, apps-aware, and process-aware. As a result, our customers can gain that business context they need 鈥� which is difficult to attain any other way.

The platform pulls together traditionally fragmented master data 鈥� such as employee, vendor, and material information 鈥� into one centralized system and uses it to drive business processes with embedded analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). For example, organizations can handle processes, including compliance with local tax laws, employee regulations, data privacy laws, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) requirements, with greater ease and speed.

In addition to data, analytics, and artificial intelligence, 麻豆原创 BTP provides a range of application development, automation, and integration services 鈥� all in a unified, on-demand environment. The platform also delivers a developer-ready framework of solutions, services, tools, content, and templates that are simple to integrate and can be customized to meet unique business needs.

For many 麻豆原创 customers and partners, this cohesive framework can improve their ability to leverage native 麻豆原创 connections and services, speed time to value, and accelerate the benefits of the cloud. They can achieve foundational changes critical to their long-term digital transformation journey, such as breaking through the gridlock of data silos and democratizing development, integration, automation, and advanced analytics capabilities. More importantly, the boundaries of existing technologies can be expanded to reimagine employee and customer experiences, line-of-business processes and business models, and the possibilities of data-driven intelligence.

That capacity to speed innovation and infrastructure integration makes 麻豆原创 BTP a compelling choice for 麻豆原创 customers. With the platform, they can overlay business context through native APIs and connectors and streamline the process of leveraging new technology services.

For example, 鈥淗eidelbergCement decided to move from its on-premise ERP to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud on Microsoft Azure, [and] will be using 麻豆原创 BTP as an integration and development platform to provide access to 麻豆原创 services,鈥� .

Such digitalization supports the distinctive ways companies must operate while becoming more efficient and productive across their business processes.

On a Trajectory of Transformation and Growth

麻豆原创鈥檚 first-half results show that PaaS 鈥� specifically 麻豆原创 BTP 鈥� resonates with organizations as they confront and compete in an increasingly challenging external environment.

麻豆原创 customers are capitalizing on the platform to help unlock substantial value from their digital investments. And as 麻豆原创 BTP continues to evolve with new capabilities, technologies, services, and best practices, that transformation trajectory will bring to life a platform-centric future 鈥� supporting sustained growth and profitability.

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Jagdish Sahasrabudhe is CTO of the Global Partner Organization at 麻豆原创.

Thousands of companies have pledged to build more diverse and inclusive workplaces in recent years. However, most have yet to drive the internal alignment and action needed to create measurable change that resonates across various perspectives and experiences.

According to , 75% of targeted employees do not feel the impact of diversity programs, despite approximately 70% of companies in many countries implementing them. And the reason is clear: their focus is too narrow or overly simplistic to genuinely address underlying employee needs and expectations.

Cultivating a Multidimensional Approach

One of the most widespread myths about workplace diversity is that it鈥檚 鈥渢he right thing to do,鈥� even if it limits a company鈥檚 ability to grow. This belief couldn鈥檛 be further from the truth. The relationship between diversity and business growth is not one of oppositional forces.

The more deeply a business values the knowledge and views of underrepresented groups, the stronger its bottom line. A BCG survey of employees in 1,700 companies 鈥� spanning Austria, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Switzerland, and the United States 鈥� revealed that more diverse management teams gain from innovation. In addition, three-quarters of those same employees underscored that 鈥渄iversity is gaining momentum at their organization鈥� as their organizations shape business decisions.

play a unique role in helping companies gain the full promise of workplace diversity while eliminating conscious and unconscious biases around age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and personal health in everyday decision-making. For instance, managers can provide equitable and actionable feedback during performance reviews with the help of our writing assistant in the 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Performance & Goals solution. In addition, the calibration tool in the 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Compensation solution helps identify the presence of unconscious bias in employee compensation decisions.

However, some 麻豆原创 customers are going further in their efforts to tackle employee diversity and extend value to all people by creating new functionalities for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions through (麻豆原创 BTP). By uniting BCG鈥檚 expertise, tools, and services and 麻豆原创鈥檚 technology, the platform offers the , , , and countless other applications, tools, and methodologies that 麻豆原创 partners need to reimagine each element of an agnostic work experience.

Through their innovation efforts with 麻豆原创 BTP and 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions, 麻豆原创 partners help create an environment where unconscious and conscious discrimination is removed from HR processes, including recruitment, onboarding, performance evaluation, development, compensation and bonuses, and succession. Doing so frees 麻豆原创 customers to foster a culture of meritocracy that addresses the entire career and personal journey of each employee with nuanced, holistic solutions.

One prime example is how organizations improve talent acquisition and retention while giving employees agency over their careers. Integrating sentiment data into workforce management analytics helps managers understand underlying causes of departure and discontentment and the emotional and functional needs that matter most to their employees. This analytics capability makes it easier to recognize well-defined cohorts with similar physical and emotional needs by identifying clusters of demographic and attitudinal patterns. As a result, managers can more accurately predict their people鈥檚 challenges and expectations and create supportive communities with unique experiences.

Unlocking Business Value across the Evolving Employee Journey

As businesses seize the moment to fundamentally rewrite the rules of their workplace, the bold intents and aspirations of employee diversity are beginning to take center stage. Organizations that want to unlock what they believe are long-term, sustainable business advantages must also enable each employee to thrive with purpose and meaning.

With 麻豆原创 BTP, companies can bring this vision to life by thinking differently when developing new capabilities that enhance 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions. They can recognize identity differences that matter to employees, understand broad groups with similar needs and values, and fulfill employees鈥� underlying needs systematically with the right digital and process experiences.

And as more refined, bias-free solutions are adopted, organizations can ensure employees benefit in ways that are meaningful to them within a high-value culture of unity, empowerment, and support.

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Jagdish Sahasrabudhe is CTO of the Global Partner Organization at 麻豆原创.