Armed with real-world expertise and extensive know-how, 麻豆原创 consultants act as a bridge between the business and technology domains – bringing hundreds to thousands of hours of hands-on experience and best practices in implementing, customising, and managing 麻豆原创 roll-outs.

In fact, 麻豆原创 consultants are such crucial pieces of the digital transformation puzzle that the global market for 麻豆原创 consulting is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.8% between 2025 and 2035 to USD 38.98 billion[1].

Earlier this year, we launched to further supercharge the way millions of 麻豆原创 consultants work, helping them augment their productivity, cut down time-consuming searches, and make better-informed decisions.

Joule for Consultants draws from 麻豆原创’s vast knowledge base – including over 9TB of expert-curated 麻豆原创 knowledge, 3 million non-public documents, 250 million lines of (advanced business application programming) and 30 million lines of (ABAP core data services) code – and turns that institutional expertise into a real-time, context-aware assistant. It understands the solution landscape a consultant is working in, interprets code on the fly, and surfaces relevant guidance in seconds.

Across APAC, a significant number of 麻豆原创 partners and consultants have already adopted 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants and are using the tool across various phases of 麻豆原创 implementation projects.

Early pilots show clear value: faster delivery cycles of up to 14%, smoother onboarding, and as much as 1.5 hours saved per consultant per day. The payoff is not simply efficiency but the ability for teams to spend more time on strategic design, stakeholder engagement, and delivering tangible outcomes for customers.

AI-Powered Consulting: the Next Frontier for 麻豆原创 Partners

According to the recent conducted by Oxford Economics, AI is expected to drive an average ROI of 16% (US$4.7M) per organisation this year, a figure which will nearly double in two years’ time to 31% (US$12.3M). Businesses also ranked “alignment with business strategy” and “availability and quality of data” as the top two strategies for maximising ROI from AI.

麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants has the potential to help 麻豆原创 partners drive this ROI, and is designed with quality data and expert-aligned advice based on 麻豆原创 best practices for businesses across industries. With AI itself acting as a productivity enabler, consultants are able to accelerate delivery and increase consistency across projects – ultimately driving greater customer impact.

Importantly, 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants is not replacing consultants; it is enhancing their expertise. Instead of spending hours searching documentation or manually comparing configurations, consultants can ask targeted questions and receive contextual, 麻豆原创-specific answers in natural language.

Routine tasks – from generating sample code to drafting configuration notes – can be automated, freeing consultants to focus on advising stakeholders, shaping roadmaps, and managing change.

麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants also helps ensure consistency and quality at scale. Teams across markets and time zones can draw on the same trusted guidance, cross-check design decisions against proven implementation patterns, and onboard new colleagues more quickly.

By embedding best practices directly into project execution, Joule for Consultants extends 麻豆原创’s long-standing investments in enablement and certification, turning static learning into live support. In doing so, it helps the next generation of consultants build confidence faster and deliver better outcomes for customers from day one.

麻豆原创 Partners as Catalysts of AI-First Transformation

麻豆原创’s partner ecosystem remains central to our AI-first, Suite-first strategy, and partners throughout APAC are leading the shift towards AI-enabled consulting. As 麻豆原创 Chief Partner Officer Karl Fahrbach highlighted at 麻豆原创 Global Partner Summit at 麻豆原创 Sapphire earlier this year: “Partners will deliver the promise of 麻豆原创 Business Suite.”

In APAC, partners such as ABeam Consulting, Infosys, ITSN Korea, LTIMindtree, , , and many more are already embedding 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants into their methodologies and training programmes to enhance delivery speed and collaboration.

KPMG, for example, was the first global partner to pilot Joule for Consultants with 麻豆原创, and together with 麻豆原创, have been for delivering meaningful real-world AI transformation.

The APAC region is already seeing tangible impact when 麻豆原创 partners combine industry expertise with AI-powered innovation. 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants is guiding faster design, sharper diagnostics, and cleaner architectures that help our joint customers realise value sooner.

From Pilots to Practice

The next chapter for 麻豆原创 partners is about scaling AI adoption and innovation. Many partners are moving beyond pilot programmes and embedding 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants into their standard methodologies. Others are co-innovating with 麻豆原创 to explore capabilities like AI-driven diagnostics or automated value-tracking.

As 麻豆原创 across APAC, our partners are also building AI-native skills that go far beyond using a tool: they’re redesigning how projects are delivered, how teams collaborate, and how value is measured.

And that may be the greatest impact of 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants. It doesn’t just make consulting faster – it makes it smarter, more consistent, and more accessible to the next generation of talent, elevating the work consultants can do, giving them the space to focus on insights, relationships, and results.

Partners have always been the engine of 麻豆原创’s ecosystem. With tools like 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants, they are now supercharged with the intelligence layer needed to drive new transformations across APAC.

Peter Moore is the Regional Head of Partner Ecosystem Success at 麻豆原创 Asia Pacific.

[1] Source: Business Research Insights – 麻豆原创 Consulting Market Size, Share, Growth, and Industry Analysis, By Type (ERP Software, Service and Other), By Application (SMEs and Large Enterprises), and Regional Insights and Forecast To 2035. https://www.businessresearchinsights.com/market-reports/sap-consulting-market-121265

The post Consulting in the Age of AI: How 麻豆原创 Is Supercharging the Way Our Partners Work appeared first on 麻豆原创 Southeast Asia News Center.

A longtime 麻豆原创 Gold Partner recognized for delivering cloud innovation and managed services, Mindsprint has now embraced 麻豆原创 solutions to transform its own internal operations – accelerating decision-making, increasing efficiency, and creating a platform for future international growth.?

?“With GROW with 麻豆原创, we have upgraded our operational and financial systems to an integrated cloud ERP. This integration provides real-time visibility, supports faster decision-making, and enhances operational efficiency,” said Suresh Sundararajan, CEO and Co-Founder, Mindsprint. “This transformation has improved how we track performance, manage projects, and allocate resources, giving us the foundation we need to expand our global footprint with speed and confidence.”?

Facilitating Collaboration Through an Integrated and Scalable System?

?As Mindsprint scaled its operations, the company recognized the opportunity to streamline and unify its core business processes.?

?Critical operations such as customer relationship management, project staffing, and financial reporting were being managed using a variety of tools leading to limited visibility and manual reconciliations.?

To address these challenges, Mindsprint deployed GROW with 麻豆原创 in six months, bringing together its finance, sales, procurement, and operations under one cloud-based ERP. The implementation included integrations with 麻豆原创 Concur and 麻豆原创 Ariba, along with the deployment of robotic process automation (RPA) to streamline reporting and reduce manual workloads.??

The results have been significant. Mindsprint has accelerated its month-end financial reporting processes by 30 to 50 percent, enabled 100 percent system-based revenue recognition, and established end-to-end visibility into staffing, utilization, and project profitability. With an integrated system and a single source of truth, leaders across the business are empowered to act faster and with greater confidence.?

Internal Transformation, External Advantage?

While the benefits are clear inside the organization, the transformation is also shaping Mindsprint’s broader strategy as an 麻豆原创 partner.?

“By becoming a customer of 麻豆原创 ourselves, we have strengthened our credibility as a partner,” said Suresh. “We now have an even more detailed firsthand understanding of what transformation takes – not just technically, but operationally, financially and more – and that makes our client engagements that much more impactful.”?

As Mindsprint continues to roll out its 麻豆原创 environment to offices across the US and Asia-Pacific, the company sees GROW with 麻豆原创 as a crucial foundation for sustainable growth.?

Eileen Chua, Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Singapore, said, “By implementing GROW with 麻豆原创, Mindsprint has brought together its finance, procurement, sales, and project management operations under a single digital backbone, building a future-ready intelligent enterprise that’s primed to scale. As both a partner and a customer, Mindsprint is in a unique position to walk their talk and show how digital transformation with 麻豆原创 delivers real, measurable impact.”?

The post Mindsprint Taps Grow with 麻豆原创 to Streamline Global Operations and Deepen Partner Expertise appeared first on 麻豆原创 Southeast Asia News Center.

Companies like Singapore Airlines are increasingly seeing the value of Business AI across their organisations. Based on analysis of all 麻豆原创 customers in Southeast Asia (SEA) between May 2024 to May 2025, the most popular AI use cases in SEA are:?

• AI to generate expenses using pictures of receipts?

• AI to verify expenses to ensure compliance with company policy??

• ?Generative AI to help employees write clear, concise copy in HR applications?

• Generative AI to create performance goals?

• Integrating key business documents into co-pilots to improve Q&A responses?

“AI isn’t confined to niche use cases anymore, it’s being embedded in some of the most fundamental parts of business,” said?Liher Urbizu,?President and Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Southeast Asia. “Organisations across Southeast Asia are adopting AI, fast. And, by bringing together enterprise apps and mission critical data, they are realising tangible business benefits in terms of efficiency, growth, and revenue.”?

Optimising contract digitization with 麻豆原创 Document AI???

Supported by Digital Industry Singapore (DISG),?麻豆原创 has recently concluded a successful Proof of Concept (PoC) with Singapore Airlines (SIA), aimed at addressing the complex challenge of digitizing procurement contracts.???

The initiative sought to automate the extraction of contractual rates from PDF-based contracts and migrate them to the Ariba procurement platform. This significantly reduces the reliance on time-consuming and error-prone manual processes. One of the key hurdles in the previous automation efforts was the unstructured, multilingual, and highly varied nature of the contract formats.??

The PoC delivered promising results, achieving 100% accuracy and completeness for less complex contracts, and over 70% for contracts with greater complexity. It also demonstrated multilingual adaptability for non-English contracts, offering greater efficiencies through optimised translation processes.???

The collaboration with SIA was instrumental in refining 麻豆原创 Document AI models to meet evolving business needs.??

Partners and customers across Southeast Asia show AI momentum?

麻豆原创 partners and customers also showcased strong momentum in AI and cloud transformation during 麻豆原创 Now AI Southeast Asia.?

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a 麻豆原创 partner since 2008, continues collaborating with 麻豆原创 to support business transformation in Southeast Asia. Customers like BIG Caring Group in Malaysia and Unilab in the Philippines are leveraging RISE with 麻豆原创 on AWS to integrate multi-store retail operations, modernize pharmaceutical supply chains, and implement AI-powered enterprise applications. AWS and 麻豆原创’s previously announced AI Co-Innovation Program helps partners build generative AI applications and agents that help customers solve real-time business challenges.

“Our long-standing collaboration with 麻豆原创 helps businesses eliminate technology silos by bringing separate systems together on AWS’s secure and scalable cloud infrastructure,” said Kirsten Gilbertson, Partner Organization Leader, AWS ASEAN. “By connecting 麻豆原创’s business applications with AWS’s generative AI services like Amazon Bedrock in 麻豆原创’s GenAI Hub, we’re enabling our customers to transform years of accumulated business data into actionable insights.”?

(“Yinson”), a global energy infrastructure company headquartered in Malaysia, is advancing its people management capabilities as part of a broader effort to support sustainable global growth. With operations spanning multiple countries and subsidiaries – each operating with distinct HR processes – Yinson identified the need to improve consistency, efficiency and strategic alignment across its workforce.?

As part of the digitalisation transformation journey that begun in 2020, Yinson introduced a more unified approach by rolling out Employee Central globally within six months, supported by strong change management and local engagement. The Group expanded in phases by adding key modules; performance, recruitment, onboarding, and compensation throughout 2022 and 2023, and further enhanced efficiency with Generative AI features as part of its global HRIS roadmap. Leveraging digital tools and AI capabilities, Yinson began automating routine tasks such as drafting performance reviews, generating job descriptions, and developing role-specific interview questions. These changes are helping Yinson improve its ability in people analytics by streamlining HR workflows, improving the candidate experience, and supporting more consistent and professional employee feedback.?

“Our goal is to be a future-ready employer of choice,” said Louisa Brady, Yinson Group Chief Human Resources Officer. “Partnering with 麻豆原创 throughout the years has supported our ongoing transformation by helping us streamline HR processes, embrace and embed AI tools which drive greater efficiency and effectiveness. This enables our teams to focus on strategic initiatives that drive value and support Yinson’s global growth.”?

Investing in people AI as the foundation of SEA’s AI future?

As part of its ongoing commitment to empowering SEA’s workforce, 麻豆原创 has also announced an update to its 麻豆原创 Skills University to include .?

麻豆原创 Skills University is a joint initiative with SkillsFuture Singapore and Temasek Polytechnic to design specialised training programmes that equip fresh graduates and mid-career professionals with hands-on learning in key technology skills.?

The refreshed 麻豆原创 Skills University program will empower students with skills in critical emerging innovations, including cloud, data analytics, Business AI, and emerging
麻豆原创 technologies.?

“The future of Southeast Asia will be shaped not just by technology, but by the people who bring it to life. As AI fundamentally changes the way businesses operate and the requirements of employees, it is crucial that we foster both innovative technical skills and agile mindsets. Looking on display at our 麻豆原创 NOW AI Tour, I’m confident that Southeast Asia’s future is in capable hands” concluded Urbizu.??

The post 麻豆原创 helps SEA organizations unleash their future with Business AI appeared first on 麻豆原创 Southeast Asia News Center.

Singapore, 18 September 2024 – Successful Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) midmarket organisations are more likely to prioritise generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) than those who are seeing lower revenue growth – and they are adopting new AI innovations in every corner of their business.

A recent study of 12,003 businesses by 麻豆原创 found APJ , defined as companies with between 250 and 1,500 employees, with high revenue growth[1] are more likely to put a moderate or strong priority on the adoption of Gen AI (94%) than those with lower revenue growth (86%).

“Business AI is the biggest technology opportunity of the 21st century for businesses in Asia Pacific and Japan,” said Utkarsh Maheshwari, Chief Partner Officer and Head of MidMarket, 麻豆原创 Asia Pacific & Japan.

“But the benefits of Business AI are not restricted to large enterprises. Organisations of every size can realise the opportunities that relevant, reliable, and responsible AI can provide. That isn’t just image generation or making videos. It’s automating everyday pain points, providing great insights quickly, and reliably solving simple business problems.”

Adopting AI is a top organisational priority in APJ

The study, which surveyed 3,400 people in five APJ markets, found use of artificial intelligence is a top organisational priority for midmarket businesses.

Adopting standard business applications of AI like machine learning for data analysis and predictive analytics and adopting Gen AI are top organisational priorities across APJ (92% moderate and high priority). Other key priorities include cybersecurity threats and addressing gaps in supply chains (all 92%).

Importantly, improving or expanding supplier and partner networks (43%) is the top priority for achieving growth. Yet, artificial intelligence is seen as a priority to transform organisational processes in every corner of the business.

Over half of APJ midmarket organisations surveyed place a high priority on AI to transform their data security and privacy (52%), and to drive accurate decision-making (50%). Other key areas AI can transform include creating new business models (48%), improving customer experience (48%), enhancing training and skills (48%), and optimising supply chains (47%).

AI is creating value for APJ businesses today

But AI isn’t just being planned to achieve future benefits. It is being implemented today.

AI is already in use to a moderate or strong degree in midmarket APJ businesses to create marketing and sales content, gathering market intelligence, app development and testing, and for customer or vendor interactions (all 83%).

“AI is not new. In fact, we’ve been using it for decades,” continued Maheshwari. “More than 27,000 customers are already using 麻豆原创 Business AI today, including thousands across Asia Pacific and Japan. We’ve released more than 70 Generative AI use cases in the past year, already infused across our platforms and solutions, and we expect more than 100 use cases to be available by the end of 2024, which means that 80% of the most-commonly used scenarios will be AI enabled. The time to explore the benefits of Business AI is now.”

APJ midmarket businesses see data as key risk to growth – and AI adoption

Yet challenges remain to drive growth in APJ midmarket businesses.

Respondents noted lack of quality data (37%) and lack of integration between systems (33%) as key internal challenges to growth, alongside issues with supply chains (40%) and siloes in their business (33%).

And data is also cited as an organisational risk when it comes to AI. Midmarket businesses in APJ said the biggest risks to their company from AI were acting upon incorrect information (36%), finding and retaining talent (34%), lack of transparency in results (34%) and insufficient data size and quality (31%).

“The better the quality and scale of your data, the better the results of your AI,” concluded Maheshwari. “That’s why working with a technology partner like 麻豆原创 is critical, because it is already built into the applications that power the most critical business processes. Only then can APJ businesses of every size make the promise of Business AI a reality.”

About this research
麻豆原创 Insights collected data from 12,003 respondents across 20 nations and 28 industries. Respondents were from organisations with between 250 and 1,500 employees, with director to C-suite titles. The study was conducted in March-April 2024 via an online survey.

[1] High revenue growth is defined as companies in the top quartile of respondents outlining revenue growth during 2024.

Visit the 麻豆原创 News Center. Follow 麻豆原创 at .

Media Contact:
Paul Thompson, paul.thompson03@sap.com, GMT+10
Celest Lim, celest.lim@sap.com, GMT+8
麻豆原创 麻豆原创 Room; press@sap.com

The post 麻豆原创 Reveals Successful Asia Pacific and Japan Midmarket Businesses More Likely to Prioritise Gen AI appeared first on 麻豆原创 Southeast Asia News Center.

• 麻豆原创 Business AI, the Green Ledger and Business-Ready Innovations Across the Portfolio Underscore 麻豆原创’s Ability to Help Customers Solve Their Most 麻豆原创ing Problems

Breakthrough announcements included responsible AI built into business solutions, ledger-based accounting for carbon tracking and industry-specific networks to bolster supply chain resilience. With these advances, 麻豆原创 is helping customers transform their business models in the cloud, put sustainability at the center of their operations and boost agility to succeed amid ongoing change.

“In a world of geopolitical tensions, product and skills shortages and new regulations, our customers continue turning to 麻豆原创 for the solutions they need to solve their most pressing challenges,” said Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE. “The innovations we’re announcing at 麻豆原创 Sapphire build on our heritage of responsibly developed technology and decades of industry and process expertise to ensure our customers’ success today and in the future.”

AI Built for Business

At the dawn of a new AI era, 麻豆原创 is strengthening its commitment to embed powerful AI capabilities across its portfolio to help customers solve business-critical problems in the flow of work.

Customers can use 麻豆原创 Business AI with confidence because it is built responsibly. Today, 麻豆原创 is announcing a raft of advancements to 麻豆原创 Business AI, including innovations that personalize customer engagement, make procurement more productive and expand organizations’ abilities to find and develop critical talent across their entire workforce.

麻豆原创 also draws on the strength of its rich ecosystem to benefit customers. Yesterday 麻豆原创 announced the next step in its long-standing?partnership with Microsoft. The companies will collaborate on integrating 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Viva Learning as well as with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service to access powerful language models that analyze and generate natural language. The integrations will enable new experiences designed to improve how organizations attract, retain and skill their people.

“South East Asia digital economies are at an inflection point, and to truly enable businesses to drive sustainable success, data is key to give organizations that competitive advantage. Companies will also need to harness the power of generative AI to solve their most complex problems with data-driven insights, automate processes, innovate faster, and build resilient and agile supply chains while putting sustainability at the center of their operations,” said Verena Siow, President and Managing Director, 麻豆原创 South East Asia.

Moving Toward a Green Ledger

Fifty years ago, 麻豆原创 revolutionized financial accounting with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Today, 麻豆原创 reinvents the “R” in ERP by extending the definition of resources to include carbon.

Amid rapidly changing regulatory requirements and rising stakeholder pressure to operate sustainably, enterprises need an accounting system for emissions that is as auditable, transparent and reliable as their financial data accounting. With 麻豆原创’s new green ledger initiative, which moves companies from carbon estimates to actual data, companies can manage their green line with as much visibility, accuracy and confidence as their top line and bottom line.

麻豆原创 is announcing an update to the??solution, a single solution that calculates and manages the full range of corporate, value chain and product-level emissions. 麻豆原创 is also announcing the 麻豆原创 Sustainability Data Exchange application, a new solution for enterprises to securely exchange standardized sustainability data with partners and suppliers so they can decarbonize supply chains faster.

麻豆原创’s green ledger initiative is planned to become part of the??and??solutions.

Innovations Across the Portfolio, Platform and Ecosystem Shore Up Customers’ Resilience

麻豆原创 also announced a host of innovations across the rest of its portfolio. For example, drawing on the success of 麻豆原创 Business Network, a comprehensive B2B collaboration platform where some US$4.5 trillion of trade is conducted annually, 麻豆原创 announced 麻豆原创 Business Network for Industry. This offering combines the benefits of networked supply chains with 麻豆原创’s unique industry expertise to help customers across consumer products, high tech, industrial manufacturing and life sciences boost supply chain resilience quickly.

Innovations launched across 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform dramatically accelerate business process organization and enable enterprise automation at scale. Advancements in 麻豆原创 Signavio solutions mean customers get critical process insights in hours, not days. Updates to 麻豆原创 Integration Suite bring together holistic processes across 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 systems on-premise and in the cloud. And new event integration capabilities in 麻豆原创’s low-code offering, 麻豆原创 Build solutions, give business experts the power to trigger automations across all business processes.

As customers face increasingly fractured data landscapes, 麻豆原创 also recently built on its commitment to open data that increases customers’ ability to uncover deep, actionable business insights with an extensive expansion of its?partnership with Google Cloud. The comprehensive open-data offering enables customers to build an end-to-end data cloud that brings data from across the enterprise landscape using the 麻豆原创 Datasphere solution together with Google’s data cloud.

麻豆原创 also doubled down on??as the need for top-notch professional developers continues rising along with the increasing pace of technological innovation. The company announced new programs to meet the growing demand for 麻豆原创 experts across its ecosystem to continue driving customers’ ongoing business transformation in the cloud.

Read the?.

Visit the?麻豆原创 News Center. Follow 麻豆原创 on Twitter at?.

The post 麻豆原创’s Vision for Future-Proofed Business in the Age of AI Comes to Life: 麻豆原创 Sapphire in 2023 appeared first on 麻豆原创 Southeast Asia News Center.