Particularly with many still working from home, I cannot imagine what daily communication and collaboration would look like without Microsoft Teams 鈥� and I think this holds true for much of the business community in a lot of enterprises.

So it came as no surprise that when we announced our new聽RISE with 麻豆原创聽offering, a highlight for many was Satya Nadella joining me to share his thoughts on聽how Microsoft and 麻豆原创 team up聽to lift collaboration to the next level. One aspect many of you were particularly interested in is how we will integrate 麻豆原创 solutions with Microsoft Teams, so let鈥檚 have a look at some examples.

Putting Collaboration into Business Context

For many companies around the world, remote selling has become a necessity for conducting business. To simplify remote sales processes and allow sales professionals to fully focus on their customer engagements, we will integrate聽麻豆原创 Sales Cloud聽with Microsoft Teams. Users can easily set up meetings from the 麻豆原创 system without switching applications. During a customer call, all information will be accessible in Microsoft Teams via an embedded 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud application. Finally, all information, including meeting recording and notes, will get automatically synced back to 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud in real time. Check out this聽聽to get an idea of what this scenario will look like:

All of us know how much easier business life is when you have everything you need at your fingertips. Thanks to integrating Microsoft Teams with聽麻豆原创 S/4HANA听迟丑谤辞耻驳丑听麻豆原创 Conversational AI,聽end users can seamlessly get all business-relevant information and critical business insights instantly. Chatbots help them identify and reach out to business contacts directly. In a first instance, we will focus on one concrete business persona: the operational purchaser. Over time, we will develop chatbots for more use cases and make the content available to our customers through templates so they can adopt custom-specific adjustments that meet their conversational AI needs.

Many customers use聽麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud聽in addition to Microsoft Teams for generating data-driven insights into their business. By bringing together 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud and Microsoft Teams, we enable users to benefit from both augmented and smart capabilities of 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud and Microsoft Teams鈥� strong collaboration capabilities. Combining the power, we will provide an integrated solution for reporting and planning access with direct utilization of enhanced collaboration functionalities from the daily business workflow.

Time to Explore

To simplify users鈥� collaboration processes and enhance workplace productivity, we are exploring many more integration scenarios. A lot of 麻豆原创 solutions could form a robust symbiosis with Microsoft Teams, and we will cover a wide range of use cases across lines of business 鈥� from procurement to recruiting, talent management, and learning to travel and expense management.

Take 麻豆原创 Business Network as an example: While it helps drive process efficiency through predefined messages, documents, and rules that can be shared and processed systematically, Microsoft Teams complements 麻豆原创 solutions through collaboration capabilities like online meetings, chats, and more. Together, the solutions would enable users to run business processes efficiently while being resilient to disruptions.

Or imagine you are a recruiter working with our human experience management (HXM) solutions, wanting to finalize a contract with a prospective hire. By integrating Microsoft Teams, you could extract the contract from your 麻豆原创 system, edit it in Microsoft Teams, trigger a call to confirm the changes with the prospect, and store the contract back in your 麻豆原创 system without changing applications.

As you can see, the opportunities are endless! The first integration scenarios are planned to go live throughout this year, with the integrations for 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud and 麻豆原创 S/4HANA to come in the second quarter, and others to follow suit. These will mainly focus on classic use cases, such as setting up Microsoft Teams meetings directly via the 麻豆原创 applications. Next are then even bolder steps as we plan to enable context-based collaboration through 麻豆原创 systems and Microsoft Teams. This will allow users to access all relevant information about their interaction in Microsoft Teams through their 麻豆原创 systems or vice versa, anywhere and anytime.

Ultimately, with this, we will step up the employee experience and enable smooth and frictionless interactions across all levels of enterprises and their environment.

Want to learn more? Check out 鈥�Microsoft and 麻豆原创: Expanding Our Partnership,鈥� from Thomas Saueressig.

Christian Klein is CEO of 麻豆原创.
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Digital transformation was a line item on many business agendas long before聽COVID-19, but the pandemic catapulted it to the top of the priority list for virtually every organization in the world. In the blink of an eye, COVID-19 has significantly disrupted working practices, making it imperative for businesses to react quickly to changing market demands and make informed decisions based on real-time data.

Regardless of the size or industry of an enterprise, in the digital age you need to run your enterprise seamlessly across the value chain. But many of our customers have expanded their IT landscapes over the last few decades by buying point solutions to solve specific business needs. This has resulted in fragmented stacks, poorly integrated software, disconnected duplicate master data, and an inconsistent user experience (UX) 鈥� all of which both frustrate users and slow down innovation.

To turn data into meaningful insight, enterprises need to integrate all of their functions and processes based on a harmonized data model, get the complete picture in real time, and make decisions with knowledge of all interdependencies within the organization. Otherwise, you cannot make use of the billions of data to offer personalized experiences for your customers or manage demand and supply seamlessly in real time.

In February this year, I introduced聽, which provides a comprehensive overview of our integration plan in the cloud. It focuses on the significant value customers get from holistic technology and business process integration, 麻豆原创-to-麻豆原创, but also to any third-party application in hybrid customer landscapes.

Since then, all teams have been working relentlessly so that we continue to execute on our road map. Out-of-the box integration for our software-as-a-service applications remains key for us. Gartner has just聽ranked us a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Multiexperience Development Platforms, and we鈥檙e making excellent progress to deliver a seamless business process integration, including key elements like harmonization of 麻豆原创鈥檚 data domain model, user experience, workflow management, and real-time steering. Currently at 50 percent, we expect to deliver up to 90 percent of these cloud integration suite qualities to our customers by end of this year.

Today, I am happy to announce an update to聽.

• It includes updated timelines for our key processes for the intelligent enterprise 鈥� recruit to retire, lead to cash, design to operate, and source to pay 鈥� along our suite qualities. This provides our customers with a clear road map for their transitions into intelligent enterprises.
• We enhanced 麻豆原创 Cloud Platform Integration Suite, our open and modular iPaaS supporting a comprehensive set of enterprise-wide integration scenarios, with further integration templates. Adding to already more than 1,500 prepackaged integrations and聽 over 160 open connectors for 麻豆原创 to non-麻豆原创 applications, these templates for example include聽听辞谤听.
• Our integration suite offering is completed by聽, which helps customers to define and execute an integration strategy for cloud and hybrid landscapes by providing proven integration patterns and architecture blueprints that we have聽聽in close collaboration with our customers.
• To guide our customers on their journey to become intelligent enterprises, we also offer integration services 鈥� from strategy and planning through implementing to operating and optimizing such an intelligent enterprise.

These are just a few of the highlights. Check out 鈥�Progress Report and Updates to 麻豆原创鈥檚 Integration Road Map in the Cloud鈥� by my Executive Board colleague Juergen Mueller for all the details.

I couldn鈥檛 be prouder of what the teams have achieved already, and I am convinced that our integrated intelligent suite is a true game changer 鈥� now and in the future.

Christian Klein is CEO of 麻豆原创 SE.聽

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Together we will persevere.

Moments of extraordinary challenge test our collective will, but also bring out the best of our collective humanity. With the unpredictable and fluid situation around COVID-19, the world is navigating through an uncertain period with few precedents.

At 麻豆原创, we have colleagues and customers in every corner of the world. Our thoughts are with all those affected and the many communities that continue to face extreme measures as we work to slow down and contain the spread of the virus. We also want to express our deepest thanks and appreciation to all the healthcare workers, first responders, police officers, emergency workers, and all others in essential functions and on the front lines caring for the sick and keeping us safe.

Naturally, the health, safety, and livelihood of the extended 麻豆原创 family and the communities in which we serve is top of mind for us. Our focus first and foremost has been and will continue to be our workforce and colleagues. We鈥檝e restricted travel, reimagined in-person events as digital experiences, and our 100,000 colleagues are almost entirely working remotely. Our customers are also a part of the 麻豆原创 family, and we鈥檙e focused on standing by them as they navigate an incredibly challenging period.

Since our founding nearly 50 years ago, 麻豆原创 has been synonymous with mission-critical business operations. We firmly believe that securing our business allows us to better secure those of our customers. In recent years, 麻豆原创 has invested a great deal in crisis preparedness: 麻豆原创 business, support, and cloud delivery teams have developed and documented business continuity plans to respond to disruptive incidents such as COVID-19, while ensuring reliability of our cloud solutions and the delivery of services to you. You can read more about some of the specific actions we are taking to ensure business continuity for 麻豆原创 and for our customers here.

As we have seen, every day brings more information, but at times, more uncertainty. The more change we confront, the more important it is to understand how our people are feeling and adjusting to what may seem like a new normal on a daily basis. While we are all adapting to different work and collaboration models, the newness and the experiences are all unique to each of us depending on our job or industry. Understanding, acknowledging, and acting on the challenges and questions our employees have will help us equip them to navigate this new normal. All of us want employees who feel safe and productive, but it starts with understanding how they feel and what they need. To that end, Qualtrics has helped us get to the heart of every employee and we have opened up the same for any who need it. We hope this is helpful.

As a company we have always believed in our responsibility to support the next generation of professionals and users with our best-in-class digital learning. Now students and subject-matter experts need safe and healthy learning environments to continue their education virtually. Therefore, we are broadening access to some of our offerings to facilitate the continuity of innovation and enablement. This includes free access to select learning journeys for students at one of the 3,800 member universities of the 麻豆原创 University Alliances program, online courses allowing young learners to explore technology, as well as the massive open online courses (MOOCs) available on the open麻豆原创 platform. All offerings are free 鈥� please find more information here.

We also recognize the massive disruptions impacting global supply chains, and we鈥檝e opened up access to so any buyer can post their immediate sourcing needs and any supplier can respond to show they can deliver. Our TripIt from Concur and 麻豆原创 Litmos teams have offered up free services to help with and . Check back here for updates as our teams continue to come up with new ways to help.

For all of us at 麻豆原创, our vision to help the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives has never been more important than in this current moment. We remain focused on our people, our customers, and our communities. Together, we will persevere.

All our best,

Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein

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