And today, as we鈥檙e amid global socioeconomic and environmental paradigm shifts, our mission to help every company become a best-run business and improve people鈥檚 lives is more relevant than ever before.

In this spirit of designing聽in the open, iterating faster, and delivering simpler and better experiences,聽I鈥檓 excited to share the next steps in the evolution of 麻豆原创鈥檚 user experience (UX) with you.

Where We Stand, and Where We Go From Here

In the vastness of our offerings lies our strength, but also our complexity. We鈥檝e heard and understand the challenges that users often face onboarding into and managing their work with a variety of product experiences given the immensity of 麻豆原创鈥檚 product portfolio. Over the past decade, 麻豆原创 Fiori 鈥� our design language for all 麻豆原创 products 鈥� has taken monumental steps to solve this problem by bringing consistency, intelligence, and integration to dozens of technologies and hundreds of thousands of screens.

We鈥檝e come a long way, and yet our work is still cut out for us. To ensure we deliver competitive experiences for all generations of people now and in the years ahead, we need to reinvent how we build products.

Adopting an Experience Mindset to Solve the Problems that Matter

As we look toward the future direction of the 麻豆原创 experience, we know one thing is clear: our job is to help every person to make business decisions faster, more intuitively, and with better outcomes than ever before. Rethinking, listening to, learning from, and working collaboratively with our end users, customers, and partners is the only way forward.

Just like designing our products, we need to look at our design system as a human-centered design challenge. As a first step on our new journey, we immersed ourselves deeply in our global user research. After all, how can you design a solution if you do not understand the problem? User research is the basis of our experience mindset, and it has allowed us to create an initial聽framework of four pillars to help our design and development community prioritize聽and execute with high velocity as we鈥檙e improving all vectors of the 麻豆原创 experience:

• Aesthetics:聽Making each product more approachable, modern, and delightful, ensuring all our products feel as if they come from one family
• Usability:聽Making our applications feel more effortless and intuitive, so people get their work done faster, more easily, and with better outcomes
• Performance:聽Optimizing perceived performance, starting with our most-used interactions, flows, and applications
• Accessibility:聽Accessibility and inclusive design as a core pillar of our design approach, ensuring that all people can do their best work using 麻豆原创 services

Introducing Horizon

We are starting with the first pillar,聽aesthetics. Why? Because first impressions matter. Our users and customers tell us that they want our experiences to look, feel, and sound approachable, friendly, easy to use, and modern. Horizon represents a significant step in the evolution of our aesthetic and the 麻豆原创 Fiori design system.

Horizon exemplifies a new set of design principles聽that are based on our research on how people want to work in the Intelligent Enterprise. We like to think of it as:

• Intentional and exceptional, meeting users鈥� intentions with relentless attention to detail, resulting in exceptional product experiences.
• Effortless and intuitive,聽making work feel like second nature while eliminating friction and surprises.
• Seamless and cohesive, delivering a cohesive, cross-platform experience throughout the 麻豆原创 solution family and all touchpoints for our users.
• Bold yet friendly, making users feel relaxed and inspired by using bolder colors and typography, with a friendly, approachable, and contemporary look and feel.
• Inclusive and ethical, opening up enterprise software for everyone with a deep commitment to accessibility and strong ethical framework that will flex with the times. Designing聽飞颈迟丑听people instead of only聽for听辫别辞辫濒别.

To execute on these principles, we are also evolving our design system to be simpler and more modular with a strong, 鈥渄istinctly 麻豆原创鈥� core, adapting to all types of use cases, applications, and technologies. More than just a theme, Horizon represents a new way of building products at 麻豆原创.

Putting End Users in the Center, Starting Today

With Horizon, end users will gain an unprecedented role in the way we develop our software going forward. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud 2111 customers can register via聽聽to let their users try it out and provide feedback, directly in the system through a build-in survey based on Qualtrics software or by participating in a desirability study. The preview will also be available to developers on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP), as an experimental theme, not yet for productive use.

As we release this preview, we鈥檒l continue to iterate on it in cooperation with our users and prove that we are standing by our mission 鈥� to test and learn in an effort to continuously improve the design. Every user can share with us what works, what doesn鈥檛, and how we can make things better for them.

The introduction of the Horizon theme at 麻豆原创 TechEd is just the beginning. The next evolution of the 麻豆原创 design system has a large scope and will be delivered in steps across all 麻豆原创 cloud products over the next months and quarters. Going into 2022, we are already lining up more products to carry the new design language; for example, as a future update for聽, along with many more products to come.

And as we update our product experiences, we intend to move through our work transparently and systematically, looking to learn from user input, live user insights, and telemetry every step of the way.

Transforming Our Design and Development Culture

At 麻豆原创, we are lucky to work with a vast network of talented designers and developers from all across the globe. Because products are a reflection of the people who made them and聽丑辞飞听they鈥檙e made, we have also redesigned the way we design at 麻豆原创 over the past six months.

In May this year, we鈥檝e introduced our employees at 麻豆原创 to a new way of working, building on our global design community across all business units and embracing open source methodology with one shared tool set to allow everyone to contribute so that all can benefit from the best ideas. Our federated model of working will take a centralized, tested design language and spread it over any of our 麻豆原创 products. The different units will be able to adopt, customize, and share components, maximize telemetry, and truly move forward together as a networked organism. It is time to redesign how we design and build products 鈥� together.

What you see in Horizon today and what we will release over the coming quarters is the result of the聽incredible ongoing collaboration of designers, researchers, and UX engineers from more than 11 product areas聽all coming together to define, design, and implement 麻豆原创鈥檚 new design language based on the needs of our users as well as our engineering teams.

Moving Forward, Openly and Together

The most common statement uttered in our virtual halls is 鈥渢he devil is in the details,鈥� and our success is reliant on our attention to those details. These details are not found solely in the aesthetics, but in the overall聽quality of the user experience shaped by usability, accessibility, and performance orchestrated in harmony.

We know what we have to do, and we are ready to deliver the product experience our users and customers deserve. We are excited to share our first step in this journey and explore together with you 鈥� openly and earnestly. And we cannot wait to hear your feedback.

To learn more about our new strategy, tune into the 麻豆原创 TechEd session聽聽today, and join the rest of the聽聽for more UX content.

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The pandemic spotlighted talent as a key challenge for organizations around the world. 鈥淭he worldwide shortage of full-time developers will increase from 1.4 million in 2021 to 4.0 million in 2025,鈥� according to IDC.* 麻豆原创鈥檚 announcements tackle the talent gap with new tools, integrations, embedded AI and learning programs to help both employees and applicants build new skills for the cloud-first era. The announcements were made at聽, 麻豆原创鈥檚 global developer conference, taking place online Nov. 16鈥�18, 2021.

鈥淔or our customers and partners all over the world, the future is in the cloud,鈥� said Juergen Mueller, CTO and Member of the Executive Board at 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淎ccessing the right talent, skills and capabilities for this journey can be a challenge. 麻豆原创鈥檚 announcements not only empower citizen developers but also support professional developers in their continuous learning efforts so customers can innovate today and continue building the foundation for success tomorrow.鈥�

Everyone Can Be a Developer

麻豆原创 announced a聽听辞苍聽(麻豆原创 BTP) that lets both professional and citizen developers create new applications, enhance existing ones and automate complex tasks. By adding no-code development and automation with the 麻豆原创 AppGyver development environment, enhancing low-code development with 麻豆原创 Business Application Studio, and offering a聽, 麻豆原创 provides new ways for customers to do more by drawing on technology talent throughout their organizations, whether in or out of traditional IT departments.

, a global leader in the logistics industry, uses 麻豆原创 AppGyver to digitalize processes and streamline employee operations for fleet management. 鈥淲ith 麻豆原创鈥疉ppGyver,鈥痺e created a mobile app on iOS and Android to better manage鈥痙amage reports for our trailer fleet鈥痑cross Europe,鈥� said Ilari Aarikka, Director, Trailer Pool & Fleet, DHL. 鈥淭he app helped us to increase the鈥痳eliability of reporting while making鈥痠nspections more convenient for鈥痚mployees in the field.鈥�

For professional developers,聽聽now includes 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud and 麻豆原创 Integration Suite. 麻豆原创 also offers a聽聽for its 麻豆原创 Fiori design system.

Toward Composable Enterprise Solutions

麻豆原创 announced聽聽their business with modular, agile solutions that address individual challenges. The聽听迟辞听, the integration layer of 麻豆原创 BTP, provides additional prepacked integration content and adapters 鈥攁vailable on聽聽鈥� to integrate 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 applications. By the end of 2021, 麻豆原创 Integration Suite is expected to be available on Google Cloud Platform. 麻豆原创 is expected to release聽聽to help customers move workloads to the cloud from their on-premise systems in near-real time. 麻豆原创 also introduces new ways to facilitate migrations聽聽solution and聽.

Embedded AI Offerings Across the Portfolio

麻豆原创 expanded embedded artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that make it easier for developers and customers to harness AI and boost productivity.聽聽service simplify building and monitoring chatbots to automate tasks and workflows. 麻豆原创 is expected to聽聽service, a novel neural network-based recommendation engine that delivers highly personalized recommendations across a wide range of business scenarios. And many聽聽to, for example, automate intercompany document matching, recommend actions in workflows, extract and process data from business documents, or provide learning recommendations.

Learning From Classroom to Boardroom

麻豆原创 launched an聽. It addresses 麻豆原创 developers at all levels with a simple, intuitive design that makes it easier to upskill or reskill in key innovation areas 鈥� for free. The聽聽includes a comprehensive array of learning content available in various formats, from expert-led sessions and hands-on training to microlearning videos. 麻豆原创 also introduced an聽聽and a program to provide聽聽and professors.

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About 麻豆原创

麻豆原创鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 麻豆原创 customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 麻豆原创 helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 麻豆原创 helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit聽.

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*Source: 鈥淨uantifying the Worldwide Shortage of Full-Time Developers,鈥� Doc # US48223621, IDC, September 2021
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