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.

Although this use case for BPI has been largely adopted, most companies still fail to recognize its full potential, which can only be realized by processing large volumes of operational data. However, recent advances in process mining, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, process automation, and other intelligent technologies are turning BPI into the next frontier for business growth. These new capabilities not only show bottlenecks from “raw” data, but they also enable organizations to quantify and understand deviations, predict future events and outcomes, and recommend immediate and proactive actions to seize opportunities and fend off risks without human intervention.

How can businesses take the leap from business process management to this more prescriptive model 鈥� enabling them to see and predict points of failure early or take advantage of new opportunities strategically? By using an enterprise-wide, connected framework of open and cloud-based solutions, services, tools, and content resources 鈥� all supported by a unified platform.

Binding the Enterprise with BPI

Companies are digitalizing processes with cloud solutions to tackle critical operational and market challenges, such as shortages in supply, labor, lead time, and bandwidth. This approach has channeled what would have been years of innovation and change into months. And more importantly, it has allowed organizations to take their processes and BPI to new levels as they extend their sphere of influence and become a more interconnected contributor across their supply chains and industry ecosystem.

麻豆原创 partners can take advantage of this opportunity by leveraging the application development, integration, data and analytics, process automation, and AI capabilities of聽聽(麻豆原创 BTP). The platform is designed to provide the latest BPI services and automation while maintaining critical 麻豆原创 business context across different data models, systems, and lines of business.

With 麻豆原创 BTP, BPI can be used to provide customers with predictive insights and drive automation with greater transparency and accuracy. Take, for example, the seemingly continuous loop of design-to-operate processes in manufacturing. Multiple steps and touchpoints are required to help ensure qualified people, relevant skills, and quality checks are in place to deliver products that keep customers impressed. Traditionally, technologies covering product and quality management, business planning and analysis, digital manufacturing, and environmental sustainability and safety were used to understand performance gaps and find the root cause.

Today, 麻豆原创 partners and savvy manufacturing industry customers are working with 麻豆原创 BTP to implement automation with BPI. They’re extending the intelligence generated along the design-to-operate process by embedding a聽聽(RPA) service at four critical points: component procurement, inbound delivery, production, and logistics.

Once the product is designed, quantity is set, and a master production timeline is defined, these customers can use an automated learning assistant or chatbot to create plans and schedules and pass them over to the procurement organization. An Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled alert triggers a workflow to check supplier availability and capacity; locate the appropriate components across multiple applications, Web sites, spreadsheets, catalogs, and documents; and then create a purchase order for materials needed. Using this chatbot before purchasing supplies for subassemblies helps ensure that the correct part is ordered at an optimal price point and from a supplier that can deliver as requested.

Another chatbot can be created to support the automated triggering of inbound deliveries and tracking. The bot reviews supply shipments with pending updates, logs on to the transportation providers’ Web site to check real-time status, and updates the business system. It also notifies stakeholders when exceptions emerge, details potential outcomes of delays or shortages, and recommends steps to mitigate any risks.

Automation with BPI can also help ensure manufacturing plants can scale production as quickly as customer demand and business requirements shift. For instance, a connected plant can facilitate intelligent manufacturing execution by scanning orders and customer service requests to update enterprise data. This information on detected changes or exceptions is then immediately sent to demand planners, so they can assess forecasts and decide how to boost or lower capacity across multiple plants.

One more use case gaining attention is route determination automation, especially as organizations seek to fulfill increased pressure for better sustainability performance, controlled costs, and on-time delivery. When a customer order is picked and packed on the production floor or at the warehouse, a chatbot can trigger an assessment of the best route to deliver the package. These recommendations are based on existing logistics plans, newly placed orders, and other orders waiting to be picked up by the logistics provider.

Driving Progress by Reimagining the Value of BPI

Even though the potential for process improvement with BPI is well-known, most organizations have yet to turn that knowledge into tangible systems driving insights and real-time automation. They have consistently and transparently documented their processes, but many still need to translate these early steps into process intelligence solutions and automation across key lines of business 鈥� including design to operate, procure to pay, and order to cash 鈥� to gain greater resilience, agility, and responsiveness.

For that reason, there is a significant opportunity for 麻豆原创 partners. They can use 麻豆原创 BTP to support fact-based optimization, proactive shifts, and well-informed decision-making across their customers’ critical lines of business. But more importantly, the automation potential of BPI can be fully leveraged to provide immediate, tangible benefits that drive future business growth.

To learn more about how 麻豆原创 partners help businesses transition to the cloud with a unified technology platform, read “Turning the Cloud into a High-Powered Innovation Engine” and “Business Planning and Analytics: The Difference between Surviving and Thriving.” 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.

With every market challenge or global crisis, the interest level and awareness around planning and analytics also grows. Gartner has seen a rapid increase in the number of client organizations seeking to integrate and link financial and operational planning processes wherever possible. Gartner estimates that, of FP&A implementations will be extended to support operational finance processes.* This new 鈥榚xtended planning and analysis鈥� (xP&A) category is the evolution of financial planning and analysis, creating and connecting strategic, financial, and operational plans across the enterprise to optimize performance.

This increasing interest comes after five or more years of no investments in new FP&A technology for 26% of departments, according to the .

Most companies may already feel they are at their tipping point in terms of managing change and responding effectively. But for 麻豆原创 partners and their customers, the exponential pace of change and complexity can be answered through the business intelligence, augmented and predictive analytics, and enterprise planning capabilities of the solution, 麻豆原创鈥檚 xP&A offering and part of .

Transitioning All Planning to the Cloud

麻豆原创 partners are enabling customers to replace legacy analytics and planning tools with 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud across their global enterprise. For instance, partner expertise and guidance enables customers to redefine and with a focus on the most strategic needs of their business.

Using a well-defined approach, these partners can help their customers address and resolve challenges commonly encountered with outdated planning and analysis solutions. For example, planning processes can differ considerably across the business, with some departments using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and others relying on a patchwork of in-house solutions. This can disconnect decision-making across lines of business 鈥� from HR decisions on employee salaries to operational conclusions related to capital asset depreciation 鈥� and limit the automated generation of accurate reports and forecasts.

To eliminate data silos and crowdsource plans enterprise-wide, 麻豆原创 partners can use 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud and integrate it with , , , and other intelligent technologies. By reducing the need for extensive IT support for everyday administration requests, our partners enable customers to generate strategic insights to accelerate planning cycles and drive precise decisions and actions with up-to-date, accurate planning information.

Building Greater Agility with Prototypes

To align finance, operations, and the corporate strategy, 麻豆原创 partners unify organization-wide planning processes using an extended planning and analysis methodology. They can guide customers through their implementation of 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud, refining planning and forecasting models business-wide to achieve faster, more efficient responses to changing market requirements.

The combination of the user-friendly planning features of 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud and the coaching support of our partners can empower 麻豆原创 customers with the skills to develop and deploy planning projects without additional IT assistance. The intuitive features can also help the team create prototypes quickly and flexibly, so that different stakeholders can easily provide input and planning models can be adjusted as required.

In addition, our partners work with customers to , working to accelerate project deployments and incorporate stakeholder ideas over time. In return, customers can develop solutions that work best for all business areas in a short time frame.

Optimizing Forecasts with Predictive Analytics

Driven by a commitment to groundbreaking advancements in business processes and technologies, 麻豆原创 customers rely on partner expertise to . They often seek more efficient ways to execute forecasting processes 鈥� that were initially manual and time-consuming 鈥� across their decentralized business units.

Drawing on historical data, 麻豆原创 partners are helping customers take advantage of the embedded predictive planning capabilities of 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud to help generate faster and more trusted forecasts. Customers can leverage these new forecasting abilities to automate tens of thousands of previously manual tasks to streamline the overall planning process and free their workforce to focus more on value-added activities. More importantly, they can leverage powerful analytics to further the success of their business outcomes while achieving operational efficiencies and realizing the ultimate vision for their business and industry.

Planning for Growth with Continuous Improvement

If there was ever a good time to improve planning and analytics, it鈥檚 now.

With the expertise and support of 麻豆原创 partners, organizations can attain the assistance necessary to get started with 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud and move forward 鈥� continuously improving their planning and analytics capabilities. And no matter how profoundly complex or challenged their marketplace, these new capabilities can enable them to make sound decisions, resulting in accelerated agility and growth.

To learn more about how 麻豆原创 partners are helping businesses transition to the cloud with a unified technology platform, read 鈥�Turning the Cloud into a High-Powered Innovation Engine.鈥� If you鈥檙e interested in software partnership opportunities with 麻豆原创, check out . If you鈥檙e already a partner, explore these exciting initiatives: and .

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

*Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud, Extended Planning and Analysis Solutions, Robert Anderson, Greg Leiter, 29 July 2021. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

According to , public cloud spending is expected to continue to grow 鈥� consuming nearly half of all enterprise IT budgets by 2026, up from less than 17% this year. However, cloud investments will now focus more on strengthening operations, building differentiation, and improving sustainability with intelligent technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and process automation.

Increased investments in the cloud will undoubtedly encompass a desire to innovate across the enterprise without being locked into a single cloud provider or set of cloud offerings. To keep options open, organizations may want to adopt a technology platform that provides open cloud services and enables them and their partners to innovate with greater control over their data, solutions, workflows, and user experiences.

Opening Up New Possibilities with Cloud Services

Savvy decision-makers who seek to differentiate and grow their organizations must find ways to accelerate the creation and modification of business models, experiences, processes, and applications. To make that happen, they need access to the latest database and data management, analytics, integration, and extension capabilities.

A unified technology platform 鈥� such as (麻豆原创 BTP) 鈥� works to answer that need by delivering accelerated business outcomes with integration, data and analytics, and extensibility within the context of business domains to empower business centricity. It can enable organizations to solve unique business process challenges and create more meaningful outcomes.

麻豆原创 BTP also offers prebuilt integrations and analytics with workflows for line-of-business and industry processes to help accelerate the realization of these benefits by reducing development and innovation cycles.

Transforming Digitally Through Connected Systems and Prebuilt Content

For many organizations, adopting an open business technology platform is the key to accelerating their digital transformation journey. This journey is only possible by connecting data-driven enterprise processes, extending core business solutions, and allowing a consistent experience across different processes and workflow customizations.

Take, for example, the lead-to-cash process. With a unified technology platform, businesses and their partners can design an application that creates sales contracts capable of referencing agreed pricing terms and recommending relevant promotions, incentives, and rebates. This connected, process-aware application enables sales teams to benefit from workflows that are joined across marketing, finance, supply chain, and operations.

Other key components of speeding the digital transformation journey are prebuilt integrations and packaged content. For example, prepackaged contracting capabilities, configurable proposal creation rules and templates, guided self-service sales contract wizards, and adaptable approval workflows can enable lead-to-cash business stakeholders to accelerate design, development, and implementation cycles.

Integrating, Extending, and Keeping the Core Clean

The first step in this cloud-based innovation process is leveraging integration services to bridge disconnected systems, making the lead-to-cash process flexible and agile. For example, 麻豆原创 customers and partners use , which offers a choice of more than 1,800 prebuilt integrations, 2,100 APIs, and 160 third-party connectors to smoothly integrate on-premise and cloud-based applications and processes.

By complementing these integration services with application extensions available through , customers and partners can simplify application development and extend line-of-business solution capabilities. Additionally, they can quickly adapt and innovate across a heterogeneous mix of private cloud, public cloud, hyperscaler, and on-premise landscapes.

These extension services enable partners to transition away from classic extensions that directly customize primary business solutions, enabling them to keep the digital core clean through side-by-side innovations that decouple their intellectual property. As a result, customers can achieve a better long-term outcome with applications that benefit from consistent upgrades to core solutions. Plus, by combining integration and extension services with prebuilt business content and native APIs, organizations can build and connect applications and data with less technical complexity 鈥� accelerating the time to results.

Transforming with a Balance of Control and Flexibility

When laying the groundwork for more stable operations and more predictive growth, nothing beats having real-time, accurate data from connected systems to make decisions confidently. And with a truly unified, business-centric technology platform, companies of all sizes and industries can turn their cloud into a high-powered innovation engine, producing better outcomes and experiences for their employees and customers.

As a next step, explore or, if you鈥檙e interested in software partnership opportunities with 麻豆原创, learn more at . If you鈥檙e 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.