Modern business resilience and growth depend heavily on technology, so it stands to reason that having the right technology foundation is critical.聽According to , firms that have a flexible technology foundation and a business operating model that can change quickly grow nearly three times faster than their industry average.

For 麻豆原创 partners and their customers, the journey toward achieving that level of confidence begins with choosing聽 (麻豆原创 BTP). The business-centric platform provides building blocks 鈥� including prebuilt content, integration accelerators, business semantics, data models, industry and line-of-business best practices, and intelligent technologies and services 鈥� that can accelerate innovation outcomes that help positively impact business performance. And those that innovate faster score higher on customer satisfaction, brand perception, and talent management, according to 麻豆原创 research.

Expanding the Capacity for Ingenuity

Digital technology has steadily moved from on-premise landscapes to a dynamic cloud environment 鈥� changing the fundamental nature of innovation. Initially, pure software-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies launched. Then came platform-as-a-service (PaaS), a growing market that includes hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba.

This growing mix of SaaS and PaaS has created a hybrid scenario of stand-alone microservices, point solutions, and processes that lack centralized control. estimates that enterprises use more than 175 unique SaaS applications and deploy 15% more year over year. As a result, 83% of global IT professionals will prioritize enterprise integration over the next one to two years, based on research conducted by .

麻豆原创 partners can demystify this decentralization of the cloud with 麻豆原创 BTP. This approach provides application development, process automation, integration, data and analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on a single, integrated platform. Organizations can then optimize their innovations’ business value, compliance, and customer satisfaction with trusted data, best-practice processes, and reliable infrastructure.

Pushing New Ideas on a Synchronized Platform

At the core of the integration philosophy of 麻豆原创 BTP are seven suite qualities that contribute to a more simplified and synchronized innovation process:

• An integrated user experience that includes a harmonized look, feel, and navigation pattern
• A single workflow inbox to centralize task management
• End-to-end business blueprints supporting reference architectures suitable for implementation
• Aligned domain models with business objects across applications
• Consistent security and identity management for centralized provisioning and authentication
• Coordinated lifecycle management for harmonizing provisioning setup and operations
• Embedded intelligence and analytics that provide a holistic view of the business and customers

These suite qualities serve as a technical building plan for all integration needs, including processes, data, user experiences (UX), and analyses. 麻豆原创 partners can then apply their unique expertise and services to help our joint customers accelerate innovation and become more agile 鈥� uniting their systems, processes, and data. Users can create personalized UXs that instantly work with 麻豆原创 applications, build solutions faster with business context, and deploy them in a cloud environment that’s trusted, secure, and connected.

By using 麻豆原创 BTP as the backbone for simplified and scalable integration, our customers are benefiting from a holistic approach that yields measurable outcomes. Take, for example, . The sustainable closed-loop manufacturer engaged 麻豆原创 partner avato consulting AG to pull information from disparate data sources and harmonize it into a single integrated and unified vision 鈥� minimizing manual processes while providing real-time KPIs.

More importantly, 麻豆原创 partners can help their customers open the door to more diverse, multifaceted business innovations to improve competitiveness. For example, revenue sources can be adapted or invented by transforming existing business models and sales channels with solutions and services in 麻豆原创 BTP.

Delivering Innovation with Simplicity and Trust

Innovation is a critical part of growing a business. But resulting outcomes mean little to a company if they are misaligned with established needs, impractical for existing processes, or not a tangible improvement compared to previous experiences.

With 麻豆原创 BTP and its integration tools and services, users can leverage decades of experience in mission-critical innovations in application development, industry problem-solving, and line-of-business excellence to deliver connected solutions efficiently. For example, the platform provides more than 2,000 predefined integrations between 麻豆原创 solutions and third-party software that are readily configured and deployed, fully managed, and supported by 麻豆原创.

That kind of support gives 麻豆原创 partners and our customers the confidence they need to combine their knowledge of unique business requirements with an open platform of trusted data, synchronized processes, and integrated technologies and services. And together, they鈥檙e overcoming their latest challenges with highly impactful innovations.

To learn more about how 麻豆原创 partners help businesses transition to the cloud with a unified technology platform, explore these articles. If you’re interested in software partnership opportunities with 麻豆原创, check out . And if you’re already a partner, check out these exciting initiatives:聽听补苍诲听.

Tom Le is global vice president of Partner Solution Advisory at 麻豆原创.

Although able to meet most challenges, HR leaders recognize that a traditional management system based on data silos, bureaucratic thinking, and hierarchical control is no longer effective. Instead, their workplaces need a more flexible and responsive organizational model built around four critical trends: data accuracy, interconnectivity, process automation, and low transaction costs.

A more modern approach to workforce modeling and organizational charting requires HR teams — and the organizations they serve — to reconsider how they use available data. Business leaders need to visualize their organizational structures and key metrics based on today鈥檚 data. This way, they really understand the dynamics of their workforce and make informed decisions about their organizational design or reorganizations.

For 麻豆原创 gold partner Ingentis, this line of thinking inspired an innovation initiative that would provide a higher level of flexibility when visualizing, modifying, and transforming organizational structures with HR data.

Amplifying the Value of Organizational Change

Drawing from more than 25 years of experience in organizational charting and HR data visualization, Ingentis used (麻豆原创 BTP) to build an add-on application for the solution.

The 麻豆原创 endorsed app — — pulls data directly from 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central and visualizes it in various forms. Key metrics can be displayed along the organizational structure, as well as in dashboards for a quick overview. Big Data graphs in combination with custom visualization rules help HR organizations stay on top of their massive volumes of data.

The application can also improve data quality by checking data according to individually defined conditions and automatically reporting on them. Furthermore, its powerful modeling feature allows for what-if scenario planning through a drag-and-drop capability. With affected KPIs being assessed and updated during the process, Ingentis org.manager provides a solid basis for informed business decisions.

While Ingentis鈥� decision to build its app on 麻豆原创 BTP was influenced by the opportunity to build its partnership with 麻豆原创, it also helped create the best possible user experience for 麻豆原创 customers. The company delivered a solution that integrates smoothly with 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central and can be launched directly from the solution鈥檚 user interface.

The combination of Ingentis鈥� expertise and 麻豆原创 BTP led to 麻豆原创鈥檚 approval of Ingentis org.manager as a premium-certified application. The add-on passed a series of in-depth testing — from the strength of its security controls to performance measurements against benchmark results — for fast deployment and limited IT intervention to integrate and maintain.

Earning this level of certification from 麻豆原创 gives customers the confidence that Ingentis provides solutions designed for 麻豆原创 solutions and delivers desired outcomes to resolve significant challenges. That鈥檚 the kind of trust that wins over business leaders who are unsure about augmenting existing digital investments.

The results experienced by 麻豆原创 customers when integrating Ingentis org.manager with 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central also speak for themselves. According to a survey conducted by Ingentis and 麻豆原创, the add-on can lower the cost of strategic resource planning by up to 20%.

Innovating New Possibilities with a Single Platform

Whether focused on improving diversity and inclusion, balancing headcount, or assessing succession potential or flight risk, HR organizations can get the answers they need with the integrated blend of Ingentis org.manager for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions and 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central.

Best of all, Ingentis is seizing a moment that鈥檚 available to every 麻豆原创 partner when using 麻豆原创 BTP. By delivering everything from fundamental tools to the most cutting-edge solution, partners can set the standard for the workforce of tomorrow — turning work into a human experience of inspiration, collaboration, and purpose.

Tom Le is global vice president of Partner Solution Advisory at 麻豆原创.
Markus Eckl is global head of Strategic Alliances and Partnering at Ingentis.

By empowering employees with little to no development skills to play a key role in their organization鈥檚 success, businesses can tap a fresh community of innovators to personalize workflows, automate processes, and create new applications. And while increasing their organizational capacity to innovate, they are joining a LCNC movement that will likely produce 65% of new applications by 2024, according to .

Giving Everyone the Power to Reimagine Everything

When organizations first consider letting employees participate in innovation without IT intervention, questions about the difference between low-code and no-code inevitably arise. The main difference between the two approaches lies in how much coding knowledge is needed.

Low-code development allows users to develop and integrate complex applications with intuitive graphical tools and embedded functionalities, requiring only some basic coding skills. On the other hand, no-code development methods apply the same user experience without any need for coding and programming knowledge.

There are countless LCNC tools available that promise to deliver on those capabilities with easy-to-use interfaces. However, most of them can only be used for very well-defined use case scenarios, such as the development of mobile apps, machine learning applications, or workflow automation.

With the low-code and no-code tools available through聽聽(麻豆原创 BTP), 麻豆原创 partners and customers do not need to worry about such restrictions. Instead, they can access a combination of LCNC tools on one platform, along with intelligent processes and technologies, to build critical solutions quickly and profitably.

Accelerating the Pace of Meaningful Innovation

Many 麻豆原创 partners are taking this opportunity to 鈥渋nnovate big鈥� by tackling challenges that, when solved, can significantly improve their customers鈥� business opportunities and operating models. They are setting new bars for a variety of industries, despite the increasingly fast-paced, dynamic nature of today鈥檚 markets.

For example, an 麻豆原创 partner created a fashion rental solution that integrates with e-commerce platforms and core 麻豆原创 solutions, such as聽, , and the聽 portfolio. The partner鈥檚 solution enables retailers and their manufacturers to create and operate under a business model that reduces waste and preserves resources 鈥� improving sales, driving sustainable operations, and helping preserve our planet’s future.

By leveraging LCNC services available through 麻豆原创 BTP, the partner underpinned the solution’s processes with intelligent technologies. It included: 1) machine learning to improve decision-making and quality checks and 2)聽artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled聽image recognition to identify damages, support the returns process, and provide accurate billing. The聽services are also leveraged to help accelerate transaction processing and automate return cycles and other back-office operations, enabling orders to be booked or returns to be processed within seconds.

Integrating the cloud solution with automated store pickup, return, and billing capabilities makes the fashion rental model simple enough to manage from beginning to end transparently, efficiently, and profitably. Best of all, the user experience 鈥� for employees and customers alike 鈥� is meaningful and productive, an industry benchmark for efficiency and sustainability.

Turning Business Challenges into Long-Term Opportunities

As the hype about LCNC tools intensifies, organizations can get lost in the excitement. So rather than choosing a platform that can expand their innovation potential, hasty decisions can result in platforms that pigeonhole use case scenarios and open potential issues down the line.

麻豆原创 partners can play a critical role in leveraging LCNC technologies in ways that go beyond accelerating innovation. They are also helping customers fulfill their potential by improving operational performance, service quality, and revenue growth while addressing their resource challenges. And when you think about it, that influence is incredibly powerful as it empowers employees, regardless of their skill, to deliver personalized experiences that build long-term business success.

To learn more about how 麻豆原创 partners help businesses transition to the cloud with a unified technology platform, explore these articles:

• 鈥�Turning the Cloud into a High-Powered Innovation Engine鈥�
• 鈥�Business Planning and Analytics: The Difference Between Surviving and Thriving鈥�
• 鈥�Turn Business Process Intelligence into the Next Frontier for Growth鈥�

If you’re interested in software partnership opportunities with 麻豆原创, check out聽. If you’re already a partner, check out these exciting initiatives:聽听补苍诲听.

Tom Le is global vice president of Partner Solution Advisory at 麻豆原创.