The new capability simplifies access to semantically rich 麻豆原创 data products through bi-directional, zero-copy sharing with Microsoft Fabric, enabling enterprises to gain instant access to trusted, business-ready insights for advanced analytics and AI.

鈥淲e are excited about continuing to strengthen our partnership with Microsoft to create more value for our customers,鈥� said Muhammad Alam, member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE, 麻豆原创 Product & Engineering. 鈥淏y bringing 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud and Microsoft Fabric closer together, our customers can seamlessly leverage the power of data to generate real business value through AI and analytics.鈥�

鈥淥rganizations across every industry are accelerating their AI transformation by bringing together data from operations, analytics, and applications,鈥� said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Microsoft Cloud and AI. 鈥淲ith 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud and Microsoft Fabric, we鈥檙e delivering a trusted foundation for analytics and AI, and helping our customers move faster, make smarter decisions, and turn insight into real business outcomes.鈥�

Unlocking the true potential of your enterprise data

麻豆原创 BDC Connect for Microsoft Fabric empowers organizations to fully harness their data and applications by delivering secure, rapid access to 麻豆原创 data products at scale鈥攚ithout the delays of data replication.

Through bi-directional, zero-copy sharing between 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud and Microsoft Fabric, customers can realize use cases that previously required moving and managing copies of data.聽麻豆原创 data products will be seamlessly integrated into Microsoft OneLake, Microsoft Fabric鈥檚 AI ready data lake, and data sets shared from Microsoft OneLake will also be available in 麻豆原创 BDC to supplement intelligent applications.

By utilizing Fabric鈥檚 data engineering, data warehousing, and Power BI capabilities, organizations can effectively integrate 麻豆原创 data with their broader ecosystem, establishing a unified foundation for their enterprise data. OneLake integration into Microsoft AI Foundry can also help customers leverage their 麻豆原创 data in building AI applications, and as OneLake is built into Microsoft 365, hundreds of millions of users can get secure access to their 麻豆原创 data through the products they use every day such as Excel and Teams.

Accelerating business insights and AI with 麻豆原创 and Microsoft Fabric

麻豆原创 BDC Connect for Microsoft Fabric enables a unified data foundation that helps organizations get insights faster and accelerate their AI strategy. Through this bi-directional integration, customers can:

• Build a semantically rich data foundation on harmonized 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 data
• Perform advanced analytics and interact with enterprise data in natural language with Copilot in Microsoft Power BI.
• Develop intelligent AI applications and agents grounded in mission-critical business data using Fabric data agents, Copilot studio, and AI Foundry
• Enable multi-agent collaboration between M365 Copilot and Joule, leveraging a unified enterprise data and productivity platform to provide a seamless experience for business users

Availability

麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud Connect for Microsoft Fabric is planned to be generally available in Q3 2026.

Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer for 麻豆原创 Data and Analytics.
Arun Ulag is president of Azure Data at Microsoft.

To ensure sovereignty, OpenAI for Germany will be supported by 麻豆原创鈥檚 subsidiary Delos Cloud, running on Microsoft Azure technology. The collaboration will enable millions of public sector employees to use AI safely and responsibly while meeting strict data sovereignty, security, and legal standards.

Christian Klein, CEO of 麻豆原创 SE, said, 鈥淎pplied AI is what truly creates value. As a Business AI company with decades of experience serving public sector organizations, we believe OpenAI for Germany represents a huge step forward. We鈥檙e bringing together 麻豆原创 Sovereign Cloud expertise with OpenAI鈥檚 leading AI technology to pave the way for AI solutions that are built in Germany, for Germany.鈥�

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said, 鈥淕ermany has long been a pioneer in engineering and technology, so it鈥檚 no surprise that millions of Germans already use ChatGPT to make their lives easier, drive scientific breakthroughs, and build new businesses. With OpenAI for Germany, we鈥檒l work with local partners to extend this potential to the public sector鈥攈elping to improve services and ensuring that the benefits of AI are shared across the country, and doing so in line with German values of trust and safety.鈥�

Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, said, 鈥淲ith this partnership we are looking forward to bringing more AI capabilities to Germany鈥檚 public sector. Azure as the platform for Delos Cloud will power this, helping to ensure AI is deployed with the highest standards of sovereignty, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience鈥攅mpowering public institutions to adopt AI confidently and responsibly.鈥�

Through this collaboration, planned for launch in 2026, OpenAI, 麻豆原创 and Microsoft will focus on helping employees in German governments, administrations and research institutions accelerate their daily work and spend more time on people, not paperwork. OpenAI for Germany also serves as a cornerstone for developing customized public sector applications and integrating AI agents directly into existing workflows to automate and improve processes such as records management and administrative data analysis.

In support of this approach, 麻豆原创 plans to expand the existing infrastructure of Delos Cloud in Germany to 4000 GPUs for AI workloads. Subject to future demand, 麻豆原创 plans to further invest in applied AI capabilities in Germany, scaling through existing 麻豆原创-owned infrastructure as well as through new collaborations with co-location providers and other partners. These efforts aim to extend the sovereign offering to additional industries and markets across Europe.

OpenAI for Germany directly supports Germany鈥檚 national AI ambitions. The German Federal Government鈥檚 High-Tech Agenda targets AI-driven value creation of up to 10% of GDP by 2030, signaling a major push to adopt AI across the economy and public sector. Meanwhile, the 鈥淢ade for Germany鈥� initiative, which is now backed by 61 leading companies and global investors, including 麻豆原创鈥攈as pledged more than 鈧�631 billion in investments to accelerate growth and modernization. 麻豆原创 also recently announced an investment of more than 鈧�20 billion to strengthen Europe鈥檚 digital sovereignty.

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First introduced at 麻豆原创 Sapphire in 2024, this vision takes a significant leap forward as our companies expect to announce a limited preview of the integration by the end of the year.

This partnership bridges 麻豆原创 and Microsoft 365 business applications to deliver a unified experience that maximizes productivity. With Joule and Microsoft 365 Copilot integrated, users will soon experience a world where they can perform tasks and surface insights from both systems through either , eliminating the need to switch between applications. Imagine a future where the most-used 麻豆原创 tasks can be accomplished directly from Microsoft 365 鈥� and vice versa. This is the vision 麻豆原创 and Microsoft are advancing.

How the Integration Works

The end goal of this integration is a seamless user experience where employees can access either or to complete tasks and retrieve data across both 麻豆原创 and Microsoft environments. This means that users in Microsoft 365 can rely on Copilot to pull 麻豆原创 tasks and data through Joule, while those in 麻豆原创 applications can leverage Joule to access Microsoft 365 information and workflows. This two-way integration allows employees to work in the environment most effective for the task at hand, helping to ensure they have everything they need to get their work done efficiently.

Previewing the Potential at Ignite

At Microsoft Ignite, attendees are experiencing demo previews that showcase the early stages of this integration. For example, within Microsoft Teams, users can harness the combined power of Copilot and Joule to review tasks across both 麻豆原创 and Microsoft 365, engage in chats, exchange emails, check the delivery status on sales orders recorded in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, submit employee promotion requests to 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions, and more. These demonstrations provide a glimpse of how Joule and Microsoft 365 Copilot together can simplify complex workflows and empower users to manage tasks seamlessly across systems.

Expanding Possibilities with Joule鈥檚 Reach

With Joule鈥檚 skills rapidly expanding to support 麻豆原创鈥檚 most-used tasks, this integration can unlock new productivity potential across both 麻豆原创 and Microsoft environments. Imagine HR, finance, and supply chain professionals seamlessly accessing Microsoft 365 tools within their 麻豆原创 workflows, while Microsoft users gain access to 麻豆原创鈥檚 powerful data and task automation. From onboarding employees in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions to checking delivery statuses in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA or scheduling meetings in Outlook, users can accomplish critical tasks directly within their chosen environment.

Together, Joule and Microsoft 365 Copilot set a new benchmark for cross-functional productivity, making it easier than ever to drive real-world business impact.

Looking Ahead: Limited Preview

At Microsoft Ignite, we鈥檙e setting the stage for this integration鈥檚 next phase. With the expectation to announce a limited preview before the end of 2024, we are eager to showcase how Joule and Microsoft 365 Copilot will come together to empower users and redefine productivity across 麻豆原创 and Microsoft 365 applications. Those interested in experiencing this groundbreaking integration firsthand can register their interest for the limited preview at . Spots are limited; don鈥檛 miss this opportunity to explore how 麻豆原创 and Microsoft are reshaping the workplace.

Brenda Bown is chief marketing officer for 麻豆原创 Business AI at 麻豆原创.

The deep bi-directional integration will allow employees to get more done in the flow of their work through seamless access to information from interactions with business applications in 麻豆原创, as well as Microsoft 365.

I often get asked the question, 鈥淗ow many copilots do I need for my business?”

The answer is not about how many, but which you use when.

By integrating two of the leading for business, users can use both simultaneously to get work done. And future plans for bi-directional integration will allow users to benefit from one experience, no matter which copilot they use.

鈥淯nlocking the massive potential AI has to offer requires capabilities that are high value, reliable, and available in-context in the applications that people use today,鈥� said Muhammad Alam, member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE and head of 麻豆原创 Product Engineering. With the bi-directional integration of Joule and Copilot for Microsoft 365, we鈥檙e enabling employees to get more done in the flow of their work through seamless access to information from business applications in 麻豆原创 as well as Microsoft 365.鈥� 

“Microsoft and 麻豆原创 are committed to providing world-class solutions to help our customers solve their most fundamental business challenges,鈥� said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Cloud + AI at Microsoft. 鈥淭he integration of Microsoft Copilot and Joule brings together the power of generative AI to unlock greater employee productivity and will enable enterprises to accelerate customer-centric innovation in a unified experience.鈥�

麻豆原创 and Microsoft will start integrating their Joule and Copilot for Microsoft 365 later this year, combining enterprise data residing in 麻豆原创 with contextual knowledge from Microsoft 365, including Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, and more, delivering richer insights for better decision-making. 

With this integration, 麻豆原创 and Microsoft are creating entirely new ways to boost productivity.

For example, by bringing Copilot for Microsoft 365 into Joule, a user can book a flight using 麻豆原创 Concur and Joule, and Joule can block their calendar in Microsoft Outlook.

Or, consider a product manager working on a new product launch with a cross-functional team: they have regular meetings on Microsoft Teams and collaborate with Microsoft 365. Joule can connect to the team鈥檚 individual skill profiles stored in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors software and core business information that resides in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud. The new integration enables product managers to coordinate business activities with the team, simply by using a few queries.

Today鈥檚 collaboration, as well as the last week, is the next step in a long-standing partnership between 麻豆原创 and Microsoft, using the latest in enterprise-ready generative AI innovation to help solve customers鈥� most fundamental business challenges.

Philipp Herzig is chief artificial intelligence officer of 麻豆原创.

These announcements were made at , the flagship conference for 麻豆原创 Concur users and experts, from March 19-21 in Las Vegas.

AI is only as good as the quality and breadth of the data it draws upon. 麻豆原创 Concur is one of the global market leaders in travel and expense solutions with more than 92 million end users booking travel and/or processing expenses.

麻豆原创 debuted new business AI capabilities in 麻豆原创 Concur solutions to help customers save time and improve accuracy when managing business travel and expenses:

• Concur Request: Now uses generative AI to provide intelligent cost estimates for trip planning.
• ExpenseIt solution: Customers can upload receipt images to ExpenseIt web, where it taps AI to automatically create a new expense with several key fields prepopulated. Plus, ExpenseIt now itemizes hotel folios using generative AI.
• Generative AI search: A new capability within Concur Support allows 麻豆原创 Concur customers to type questions in natural language and get quick answers using generative AI without having to submit a support ticket.

The evolution of Concur Travel, featuring a consumer-grade user experience, now offers new content and features:

• Hotel and rail content: New direct integrations to American Express GBT, BCD, CWT RoomIt, FCTG and HRS designed to enhance the traveler鈥檚 shopping experience by providing more options, clarity and transparency. Additionally, users can search, book and purchase UK rail content.
• Microsoft Teams integration: Travelers can share a reservation from their Concur Travel trip list to a Microsoft Teams chat, so that coworkers can book the same trip.
• Sustainability-based travel decisions: Through an integration with , one of the travel industry鈥檚 leading independent sustainability intelligence platforms, evolution of Concur Travel users can view and sort the greenhouse gas emissions of each flight segment, as well as rail and car rental options, and browse hotel providers by emissions, certifications and sustainability scores.

The new, reimagined Concur Expense experience is AI-powered, optimized for mobile and already being used by early adopter customers. In the new experience, expense reports are automatically created and easily managed thanks to the following capabilities and a :

• Automatic expense entry, itemization, and categorization with ExpenseIt
• Timeline view of expenses
• Intelligent notifications such as missing receipts, missing attendees or expense reports ready for submission
• Attendee suggestion based on expense type and amount
• Automated expense creation for Mastercard transactions

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That is what we solve at 麻豆原创 with our unique approach to AI.

Built-In, Relevant, Responsible Business AI

At 麻豆原创, we deliver AI that is available from day one, as it is already built into the 麻豆原创 applications that power the most critical business processes. It works for an entire business because it is developed using extensive industry-specific data and deep process knowledge. Organizations can use it with confidence, as it is created using responsible AI practices. In essence, 麻豆原创 AI is AI built for business.

Today at 麻豆原创 Sapphire, we are announcing 15 new business AI capabilities, many powered by generative AI. We have also expanded our partnership with Microsoft on generative AI.

Let鈥檚 have a closer look at a few of these new capabilities.

Strengthening Human Capital Management

A company鈥檚 greatest asset is its workforce. Our focus for human capital management (HCM) is to use AI to help organizations attract, retain, and skill their employees. New generative AI capabilities in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Recruiting enable hiring managers to create compelling and accurate job descriptions that capture the desired skills and attributes of each role. Integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word allows them to fine-tune further and then seamlessly publish back in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors software. Generative AI capabilities in the 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solution also generates interview questions tailored to specific job descriptions and candidates鈥� resumes, helping ensure inclusive language. The combined effect of these business AI capabilities saves hiring managers precious time and improves interview quality, maximizing the effectiveness of the hiring process.

We are also announcing talent intelligence hub in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors software, which leverages people鈥檚 skills, competencies, capabilities, interests, work styles, and learning preferences to formulate recommendations that help employees develop and grow. These recommendations inspire, guide, and support employees by suggesting learning choices, roles, mentoring programs, and peer connections. Organizations also gain a better understanding of skill sets in their workforce to improve internal mobility, retention, and workforce agility.

Both of these business AI scenarios are planned for availability this year.

Growing Supply Chain Resilience

In supply chain, we are using AI to help predict, prepare, and respond to rapidly evolving demands. New generative AI capabilities in 麻豆原创 Transportation Management enable automotive and manufacturing companies to automatically process the tens of thousands of delivery notes they receive daily in different formats. The automation avoids data entry errors and works out of the box without requiring curated training data.

Additionally, in 麻豆原创 Extended Warehouse Management, we are introducing an intelligent slotting capability that uses AI to suggest how to optimize warehouse organization, stocking, and replenishment based on a product鈥檚 characteristics, demand, or forecasts. This capability helps maximize warehouse space and increase the efficiency of warehouse management.

Users can take advantage of the intelligent slotting capability today; intelligent goods receipt is planned for availability later this year.

Increasing Efficiency and Compliance in Procurement

In procurement, we are using AI to help users contain costs and increase compliance across different markets. The new intelligent invoice conversion capability in 麻豆原创 Business Network makes it easier for procurement teams to onboard new suppliers by automatically extracting and processing relevant information from supplier invoices. A close feedback loop improves the mapping accuracy over time, further expediting invoice processing and accuracy.

We are also using AI to enhance the employee purchase experience with personalized recommendations in 麻豆原创 Ariba Buying. The guided buying capability uses data, such as employees鈥� roles, to suggest products and services chosen by peers and other pertinent products from the company catalog to improve the buying experience and curb maverick spend.

The guided buying capability in 麻豆原创 Ariba Buying is available today; the intelligent invoice conversion on 麻豆原创 Business Network is planned for availability later this year.

Reducing Risks and Controlling Costs in Finance

In finance, we are using AI to transform all finance operations with insights, recommendations, and automation. The new intelligent collections in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA helps collection specialists forecast the risk of a late payment on an invoice and better prioritize which customers require follow up. This not only streamlines an extremely time-consuming task, but also simplifies risk management and makes it easier for corporate treasury to manage liquidity and capital levels.

Intelligent collections in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA is available today.

Improving Employee & Customer Experience 聽

麻豆原创 Digital Assistant provides a unified natural language interface for 麻豆原创 solutions. We are adding new generative AI capabilities to provide users with tailored assistance based on their context, helping new and experienced users be more productive with the tasks at hand.

麻豆原创 Digital Assistant is also expanding its capabilities to provide users with proactive and contextual assistance inside their applications, starting with 麻豆原创 Customer Experience solutions. With the new 麻豆原创 Digital Assistant for customer experience, sellers and support teams can easily get holistic insights, create recommendations, and automatically generate content to personalize customer experiences.

Both these capabilities are planned for availability later this year.

Increasing Agility and Foresight Across your Business

We have covered just a few of the many business AI capabilities we are announcing at 麻豆原创PHIRE. The figure below summarizes all of them — including the ones that bring value to several business functions, such as generative AI scenarios in 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud and 麻豆原创 Signavio Process Manager.

New AI Capabilities

Delivering AI with Trust and Transparency

Responsible AI has been integral to our AI strategy since its inception. We follow a holistic approach to delivering AI that puts humans at the center of our products and processes. To do so, we have established an ethics policy and compliance processes to put responsible AI into practice. The AI in our applications is transparent, so we can understand how it makes inferences and builds recommendations. It respects the privacy of sensitive data and helps users avoid bias in your decisions. Altogether, we ensure you remain in control.

Learn more about these announcements and how 麻豆原创 AI is built for business:

Bharat Sandhu is senior vice president of Application Development and AI at 麻豆原创.

• 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Solutions Integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Viva Learning Will Bring the Power of AI to People Leaders, Helping Them Recruit and Develop Their Teams

The companies will collaborate on integrating 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Viva Learning, as well as Microsoft鈥檚 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.

鈥淔or years, Microsoft and 麻豆原创 have worked together to help drive their customers鈥� transformation journeys forward,鈥� said Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥溌槎乖� has long embedded AI into our solutions, and we鈥檙e very excited about the opportunities generative AI unfolds for our industry and our customers. Today鈥檚 announcement is one example of how we are bringing the power of generative AI to business, building on 50 years of trusted innovation for companies worldwide.鈥�

鈥淲e have an incredible opportunity to deliver next-generation AI that will unlock productivity growth for every individual, organization and industry, including the human resources function,鈥� said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. 鈥淲e鈥檙e building on our long-standing cloud partnership with 麻豆原创 and bringing together the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot with 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions to transform how organizations attract and develop their most important resource 鈥� their people.鈥�

Addressing the Skills Challenge 鈥� One of Today鈥檚 Toughest Business Problems

Across the world today, companies are facing a growing challenge as they manage the gap between the skills they have in their work force and the skills they need for the future. Closing that gap means optimizing how they recruit and hire new talent in today鈥檚 competitive market, as well as how they deliver learning and development programs to help employees grow.

Today, these functions require a lot of manual, repetitive work and often end up missing the mark. Companies are constantly reinventing the wheel each time they create a new position, updating requirements based on the rapidly changing skills landscape, ensuring job descriptions are market competitive and developing interview questions to unearth the potential in every candidate.

Another concern is closing the gap between each employee鈥檚 unique career aspirations and the cross-skilling and upskilling opportunities offered by the organization. With today鈥檚 announcement, Microsoft and 麻豆原创 will collaborate to enable 麻豆原创 customers to benefit from the power of generative AI to attract the most qualified candidates for key roles and generate personalized insights to keep them engaged once on board.

Streamlining Recruitment and Employee Learning

Through this collaboration and 麻豆原创鈥檚 use of the Azure OpenAI Service API, 麻豆原创 and Microsoft will work together on new experiences that streamline recruiting and employee development processes, including:

• Recruiting: 麻豆原创 will leverage the Azure OpenAI Service API and data from 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions to create compelling and highly targeted job descriptions. Through an integration between the 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Recruiting solution and Microsoft 365, people leaders will be able to fine-tune job descriptions using Copilot in Microsoft Word with additional content and checks to detect bias. The final job descriptions will then be published in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions to complete the workflow, without people leaders having to leave their normal flow of work. 麻豆原创 will also leverage the Azure OpenAI Service API to offer prompts to interviewers within Microsoft Teams with suggested questions based on a candidate鈥檚 resume, the job description and similar jobs.
• Learning: Integration between 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions and Microsoft Viva Learning will enable employees to use Copilot in Viva Learning to conduct natural language queries to create personalized learning recommendations based on data and learning courses in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions that align with the employee鈥檚 career and development goals. As learning is completed, the 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors portfolio will update automatically, providing companies an up-to-date view of the skills landscape in their organization. This enhancement builds on an already robust integration with content, assignment, permissions and SSO sync, available now, and an automated admin setup Experience available to customers later this year.

A Rich Data Foundation for Effective AI

Given 麻豆原创鈥檚 worldwide footprint, the company鈥檚 immense data estate provides the potential to significantly enhance the capabilities of large-language models across many industries. As such, today鈥檚 announcement is also a model for how AI tools can work to enhance the power of data and systems in any field.

A Responsible Approach to AI

麻豆原创 AI abides by the highest industry standards on responsible AI. It is transparent, so organizations can understand how it makes inferences and builds recommendations. It respects the privacy of sensitive data and helps avoid bias. As one of the first companies to define guiding principles for using AI in its software, 麻豆原创 works with leading ethics experts as part of its AI ethics advisory panel to explore the implications of deploying AI in the enterprise.

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麻豆原创 and Microsoft are excited to announce that they have teamed up to take collaboration in to the next level — easier, faster, more effective — with the integration of Microsoft Teams.

The shift to a hybrid working model in most companies makes collaboration tools and business process efficiency more critical than ever before. Tools that support communication and remote work help build a clear process around collaboration. We help our business users to manage their daily activities in the work environment that is most convenient to them, supported by collaborative enterprise resource planning (ERP) features in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

With the latest 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud update, we released the preview of a collaborative ERP feature that allows business users in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud to share links to live business data in Microsoft Teams chats. By minimizing context switching between different applications — for example, downloading reports in Microsoft Excel and sending them around via mail — people can get more done in less time and with fewer errors. Our customers in the Early Adopter Care program are using a preview of the feature and are already leveraging efficiency gains in their productive environments. .

This is just the first step. As featured at , during his keynote, the work we are doing together, and we plan to build even more collaborative features.

We are enabling business users of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud to share their most relevant business data using Adaptive Card-based Loop components in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook. The data in Loop components is always live and up to date, allowing users to take action and complete tasks while in the flow of their work. Users will also be able to embed 麻豆原创 Fiori elements-based apps as tabs in Microsoft Teams to collaborate. .

To access the new collaboration features as they are released, including share as Teams tab and share as Adaptive Card-based Loop components, join the Early Adopter Care program for Microsoft Integration in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud. to actively influence the next collaborative ERP features in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

The future of work is one led by collaboration: it means less overhead and more productivity. We need to deeply integrate our various modes of communication into organizational processes and workflows and this is central to enhancing cross-team or cross-app collaboration.

With our next-level ERP collaboration, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud understands this need to jointly determine the future of work and enable a frictionless enterprise.

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

RISE with 麻豆原创 will allow Microsoft to deploy new capabilities and technologies faster and run its business on a flexible cloud-first solution that is integrated with the other cloud solutions from 麻豆原创 that Microsoft uses.

Microsoft is the first public cloud provider to adopt RISE with 麻豆原创 internally to transform some of its large 麻豆原创 ERP deployments. The decision to adopt RISE with 麻豆原创 builds on its wide adoption of 麻豆原创 solutions. These include 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions, the 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution, 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform and other 麻豆原创 solutions running on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft鈥檚 implementation of RISE with 麻豆原创 will deepen Microsoft鈥檚 expertise with 麻豆原创 solutions and establish best practices that can be shared to the benefit its and 麻豆原创鈥檚 joint customers.

鈥淥ur goal is to simplify and accelerate our own journey to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud,鈥� said Charlotte Yarkoni, President, Commerce + Ecosystems, Microsoft. 鈥淢odernizing highly complex, legacy 麻豆原创 systems is directly relevant to us at Microsoft and to many of our customers. Leveraging the power of the RISE with 麻豆原创 solution on Azure will give us the flexibility and agility needed to scale quickly, meet the needs of our own business and share that experience with our customers.鈥�

麻豆原创 has also migrated several of its business-critical IT landscapes to Microsoft Azure, an open and flexible cloud computing platform. As part of its own transformative journey and to gain operational efficiencies, 麻豆原创 will optimize IT operations for some critical internal business systems under the operations model used for the RISE with 麻豆原创 solution hosted on Microsoft Azure.

鈥淢icrosoft鈥檚 move to RISE with 麻豆原创 is a testament to the commitment and strength of 麻豆原创 and Microsoft鈥檚 ongoing partnership to simplify customers鈥� journey to the cloud by accelerating adoption of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud on Microsoft Azure,鈥� said Florian Roth, Chief Digital and Information Officer, 麻豆原创. 鈥淟ikewise, 麻豆原创 has optimized its critical internal business systems running on Microsoft Azure to benefit from its security, flexibility and scalability. We will be sure to use the learnings from these deployments and share best practices with our customers.鈥�

麻豆原创 and Microsoft have a long-standing partnership of co-innovation and engineering, which forms the basis for the mutual support of both companies鈥� products. They are each other鈥檚 customers.

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This cloud infrastructure is designed to meet the unique national requirements set out in the German cloud strategy. There will be no network dependencies on systems outside Germany, and the independent operation of all services is ensured. All data will be processed and stored in Germany, and all services will be delivered from within Germany.

A completely new company is to be established to provide a sovereign cloud for the public sector in Germany. The aim of the new company is to drive digital transformation in Germany. It is planned that, in addition to 麻豆原创, Arvato Systems will also become a shareholder and additionally will take over operations.

The offering will be based on the broadly adopted Microsoft Azure platform and related Microsoft services, including cutting-edge collaboration and productivity solutions of Microsoft 365 along with industry-leading 麻豆原创庐 business applications and tools. Approved third-party providers can also offer their applications on the platform.

The planned new company will provide a broad catalog of digital solutions to support the digitalization efforts of the German government to accelerate the use of cloud technology in the German public sector and will meet the strict requirements put in place by the Bundesamt f眉r Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI).

The offering of this new company will be a vendor-neutral stack built on an open platform based on Microsoft鈥檚 secure cloud technology, and it will offer full interoperability with other tools. With that, the infrastructure can support a variety of cloud solutions from independent vendors including open source software. Already today, 60% of the workloads on Azure are Linux-based.

A Sovereign Cloud Platform from a Technical, Operational and Legal Perspective

This offering is designed to meet the technical, operational and legal sovereignty requirements of the German government. It will be governed by German law and address the data sovereignty needs of the German public sector.

The cloud infrastructure will be owned by the new German entity. Furthermore, it is planned that the technical operation will be taken over by Arvato Systems as an experienced infrastructure operator. The infrastructure will be strictly separated from Microsoft鈥檚 global data center infrastructure and the existing public cloud infrastructure in Germany.

“This partnership represents a breakthrough approach for cloud-based innovation,鈥� said Christian Klein, CEO of 麻豆原创. 鈥淭ogether we’ll provide a unique solution that not only meets the highest standards of cloud-based technology but also meets the strictest requirements of data sovereignty. This one-of-a-kind collaboration unlocks the potential of digital transformation for the German government and beyond.鈥�

“We are very pleased about the expansion of our partnership and the joint plans with 麻豆原创,鈥� said Matthias Moeller, CEO of the Arvato Systems Group and CIO of Bertelsmann. 鈥淎t Arvato Systems, we have been supporting large infrastructures, including those in the public sector, for many years and understand their unique requirements. The intended partnership offers the best outcome from various perspectives: to use the best available technology and secure German sovereignty interests while accelerating digitalization for citizens and employees alike.鈥�

鈥淎s digital technology continues to rapidly transform work and life, we have a critical opportunity to ensure these advancements benefit people and organizations everywhere, including in Germany,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “Together with 麻豆原创 and Arvato Systems, we will create a cloud platform that meets the requirements of the German public sector to help drive digital transformation across the country.”

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Global IT specialist Arvato Systems supports major companies in Digital Transformation. About 3,000 staff in over 25 locations stand for in-depth technology expertise, industry knowledge, and focus on customer requirements. Working as a team, we develop innovative IT solutions, transition our clients into the Cloud, integrate digital processes, and take on IT systems operation and support. As a part of the Bertelsmann-owned Arvato network, we have the unique capability to work across the entire value chain. Our business relationships are personal; we work with our clients as partners so that together we can achieve long-term success.聽

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In today鈥檚 world, 鈥渞emote selling鈥� is no longer an exception, it has become the norm. Sales professionals across the globe use Microsoft Teams to meet with customers and engage in sales activities. The integration of 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud and Microsoft teams enables users to access customer and sales information instantly from Microsoft Teams. While in customer meetings, they can update records in real time without ever leaving the Microsoft Teams environment.

鈥淭raditional sales automation solutions are record-keeping tools that focus on performing administrative tasks,鈥� said Sameer Patel, chief marketing and solutions officer of Customer Experience at 麻豆原创. 鈥淭hey can distract sales professionals from high-value activities. 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud is different because it removes complexities, adapts to changing needs of sales professionals and strives to make it easier for them to focus on customers and closing deals. The integration with Microsoft Teams is another great example of how 麻豆原创 makes it easier for sales professionals to engage with customers and grow revenues.鈥�

鈥淢icrosoft Teams is the new way people and sales professionals connect, collaborate and stay in the flow of work in today鈥檚 hybrid world,鈥� said Nicole Herskowitz, Microsoft Teams general manager. 鈥淲e are excited that partners like 麻豆原创 are building Teams Apps and native integration to enable collaborative solutions that help our mutual customers improve team productivity and better serve customers.鈥�

鈥淚t is more important than ever to eliminate friction in the sales process, remove administrative tasks and provide our sales聽professionals with the right sales solutions that help聽them聽focus on our customers and engage with them anywhere and anytime,鈥� said聽Gamze Senkal,听manager of Information Technology聽at , part of one of the leading industrial holding companies in Turkey. 鈥淲ith the integration of 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud and Microsoft Teams, our聽sales professionals can access the latest customer information with one click from Microsoft Teams and are able to update sales records聽in real time without ever聽leaving Microsoft Teams.聽By eliminating duplicate data entry and record keeping, 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud helps ensure that our聽sales professionals聽are focusing on our customers and value-added activities.鈥�

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Microsoft has been on a journey to transform its people strategy in order to better understand the behaviors, pain points and motivations of its employees, and attract skilled, curious, and passionate talent.

After decades of running its HR operations on the on-premise 麻豆原创 ERP Human Capital Management solution and multiple homegrown applications, the company needed a cloud platform that could deliver on its mobile-first, cloud-first philosophy and provide a foundation for future transformations. It selected for the global and local reach that it provides in both data and regulatory needs and聽 an open platform that can easily be integrated with other solutions in its larger ecosystem.

With many Microsoft employees continuing to work remotely or in a , it is even more important today that it has the technology to connect a distributed workforce, encourage collaboration, and keep employees engaged and inspired. Since implementing 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors HXM Suite, including , Microsoft can provide a consistent employee experience for its entire global workforce 鈥� regardless of location or role. 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions will serve as the foundation for the innovations Microsoft is developing to manage the changes and impacts of the hybrid workplace

Since migrating to cloud-based HXM solutions from 麻豆原创, Microsoft has increased the quality of data in its HR system, thus increasing the efficiencies in payroll and other critical processes. It also has the ability to extend and create delightful experiences for their employees. With solutions including , , , and now , the company has also simplified and unified its HR processes and can access data faster. Not only has this improved visibility into the workforce, it has elevated HR鈥檚 ability to provide timely, accurate insights in real time.

鈥淎s we continue Microsoft鈥檚 HR transformation journey, it鈥檚 been critical to have a cloud platform that can adapt and grow with our needs, especially as the needs of the workforce change,鈥� said Rajamma Krishnamurthy, senior director of HR Technology, Microsoft. 鈥淚n fact, we completed the implementation of聽 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central in more than 90 countries in a completely virtual environment due to the global pandemic by adopting an agile approach. Moving forward, 麻豆原创 will continue to be a critical partner in helping use data to design engaging, inclusive experiences for all of our global employees.鈥�

Angelique Slagle is head of 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors for North America.

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 RISE with 麻豆原创 offering, a highlight for many was Satya Nadella joining me to share his thoughts on how Microsoft and 麻豆原创 team up 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 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud 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 to get an idea of what this scenario will look like:

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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 麻豆原创 S/4HANA through 麻豆原创 Conversational AI, 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 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud 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.

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Christian Klein is CEO of 麻豆原创.
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Efficient virtual collaboration has never been more important, and we want to provide our customers with solutions that help them cope with business disruptions. When done right, these can be powerful tools to increase workplace productivity, raise flexibility, and foster agility within and across organizations.

One key aspect to this is the integration of business software applications with business collaboration tools. Together with Microsoft, we want to better support end users in their daily work and bridge the gap between enterprise software and collaboration tools more effectively and efficiently. Our two companies combine the market-leading business software applications from 麻豆原创 with the market-leading business collaboration tools from Microsoft.

Together with Microsoft, we will drive joint innovation to integrate Microsoft Teams and 麻豆原创鈥檚 business software applications. By doing so, we aim to simplify processes, enable collaboration without switching applications, and guide users of the solutions intuitively. Ultimately, the integration scenarios can help to achieve enhanced workplace productivity by offering our customers significant value to work better together with their employees, customers, and partners鈥攁nywhere and anytime.

Bringing Together Microsoft Teams and 麻豆原创 Solutions

We are looking to expand the integration scenarios with Microsoft Teams and 麻豆原创 solutions in the following areas to:

• Effectively collaborate with business partners: Especially in the case of disruptions in business, fast communication with clients and partners is imperative. One of our first integration scenarios relates to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA and Microsoft Teams. With the solution alignment, customers will be able to identify their business partners easily and initiate contact directly from 麻豆原创 S/4HANA鈥攚ith no need to switch between applications or devices. This will help customers swiftly react to business situations based on real-time data and constant communication with relevant stakeholders.
• Simplify and modernize the remote sales experience: Today, remote selling has become an imperative for companies across the globe. Integrating 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud with Microsoft Teams simplifies the remote selling process and removes barriers to customer engagement through an embedded in-app integration of the two solutions. For example, without switching applications, customer calls can be initiated directly from the customer experience application鈥攈elping ensure transparency and consistency within customer relationship management (CRM) and saving time through user-friendly workflows.
• Foster collaboration and build learning communities: Organizations have realized the necessity of providing simple, intuitive, and engaging ways for employees to learn new skills, share knowledge, and stay informed鈥攁ll in a virtual environment. Bringing together 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions and Microsoft Teams will support learning experiences that enable collaboration, social learning, and remote conferencing.

This news makes one characteristic of the two companies鈥� enduring alliance very clear: the ability and commitment to continually evolve to make our customers even more successful. Every time an end user works with 麻豆原创 solutions, there is an opportunity for real-time collaboration such as chats, conference calls, alerts, and so much more. It is exciting to see the opportunities for collaboration culture and frictionless enterprises that our partnership with Microsoft creates for our customers.

Accelerating Migration and Increasing Operational Efficiencies

In addition, 麻豆原创 and Microsoft are further simplifying and improving the experience for customers running 麻豆原创 S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure. Together, we will continue to make our customers鈥� migration from 麻豆原创 ERP to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA in the cloud simpler, while at the same time ensuring choice for customers that prefer multi-cloud environments in their enterprise IT landscapes.

This means that our customers will see more guidance from 麻豆原创 and Microsoft on the initial setup and architecture design of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure.

We also plan to collaborate with Microsoft to enhance 麻豆原创 Cloud Appliance Library, a tool that makes it easier for users to quickly provision 麻豆原创 applications for immediate use in the cloud, and offer automated 麻豆原创 system installations for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. Customers can also subscribe to 麻豆原创 Landscape Management Cloud, improving scalability and operation efforts, and benefit from an 麻豆原创 system-centered view of their Microsoft Azure landscape. Additionally, we are working on a more guided approach for customers to quickly deploy 麻豆原创 S/4HANA directly into Microsoft Azure. For better transparency within the transformation process, we will provide guidance on data migration tool usage for the transition of 麻豆原创 workloads from on premise to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure.

Bringing Platform Services Closer Together

We will also continue to expand the global availability聽of 麻豆原创 solutions on Microsoft Azure during 2021. Together, we will drive co-innovation between (麻豆原创 BTP) and Microsoft Azure services to deliver business outcomes to our customers. The range of capabilities includes event integration based on open standards, single sign-on and provisioning of users between Microsoft and 麻豆原创, secure network connectivity, and improved application development experience on 麻豆原创 BTP. My 麻豆原创 Executive Board colleague and our Chief Technology Officer Juergen Mueller will give more insight on the role of 麻豆原创 BTP in the upcoming days.

With our partnership, we bring together Microsoft Teams with 麻豆原创 solutions, accelerate migration and improve operational efficiencies, and bring platform services closer together. We are working on making these enhancements and integrations of 麻豆原创 solutions with Microsoft a reality for our customers soon. You can find the latest status of our joint work in , which we will update regularly.聽 I look forward to more joint innovation to come.

The next generation of enterprise software is intelligent and integrated, networked, sustainable, and collaborative.

Thomas Saueressig is a member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE, Product Engineering.

鈥淣ew ways of working, collaborating and interacting completely transform how we operate,鈥� said Christian Klein, 麻豆原创 CEO and member of the Executive Board. 鈥淏y integrating Microsoft Teams across our solution portfolio, we will bring collaboration to the next level, jointly determining the future of work and enabling the frictionless enterprise. Our trusted partnership with Microsoft is focused on continuously advancing customer success. That鈥檚 why we are also expanding interoperability with Azure.鈥�

Much has changed in the last year as work has become more virtual, increasing reliance on Microsoft Teams for meetings, communication and collaboration. To facilitate these business and societal changes, 麻豆原创 and Microsoft are building new integrations between Microsoft Teams and 麻豆原创 solutions, such as 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors offerings, and 麻豆原创 Customer Experience. This can enable innovation, increase employee productivity and engagement, deliver collaborative learning and support global growth. These integrations are planned for delivery in mid-2021.

鈥淭he case for digital transformation has never been more urgent,鈥� Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said. 鈥淏y bringing together the power of Azure and Teams with 麻豆原创鈥檚 solutions, we will help more organizations harness the power of the cloud so they can more quickly adapt and innovate going forward.鈥�

The companies also are expanding their announced in 2019, to introduce new offerings in cloud automation and integration for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure. Together, Microsoft and 麻豆原创 are expanding the ability to run a mission-critical intelligent enterprise on Azure while helping customers modernize their enterprise applications.聽麻豆原创 and Microsoft will provide customers with:

• Simplification when moving on-premise editions of 麻豆原创 ERP to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA聽in the cloud. In addition to the industry-specific journey maps to the cloud and reference architectures, 麻豆原创 and Microsoft will continue to co-innovate around 麻豆原创 S/4HANA on Azure.
• Expanded joint engagements with customers and partners.In addition to product integration work, 麻豆原创, Microsoft and system integrator partners will continue to provide digital enterprise road maps for customers. This includes immediate and actionable reference architectures and technical guidance to help customers on their journey to the cloud.
• Increased investments in platform and infrastructure. The companies will further develop automated migrations, improved operations, monitoring and security.

broadly favor Azure when moving on-premise 麻豆原创 S/4HANA to the cloud.

鈥淎s part of our overall transformation, we transitioned to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA,鈥� said John Hill, chief information officer and senior vice president of Business Planning. 鈥淩unning it on Microsoft Azure provides the velocity, availability, scalability and elasticity we need for more visibility and better efficiency across our business. The pandemic struck as we were in the middle of our 麻豆原创 implementation, so by using Teams, we were able to continue to work on the project, stay on schedule and keep everyone informed. The combination of 麻豆原创 and Microsoft was especially helpful during a challenging time.鈥�

鈥溌槎乖� S/4HANA has given us real-time visibility into our inventory, which is crucial for us as a pharmacy and healthcare retail company during the pandemic,鈥� said Francesco Tinto, Walgreens Boots Alliance鈥檚 senior vice president and global chief information officer. 鈥淲e chose to run 麻豆原创 S/4HANA on Azure because of its agility and flexibility to scale up and out quickly to meet our business needs. Now we have access to our data in one place so we can offer the best possible customer experience online and in our stores. Microsoft Teams coupled with 麻豆原创 solutions helped us overcome business continuity challenges and enabled our employees to collaborate very effectively despite the shift from office to remote work.鈥�

鈥淲hen it comes to our customers delivering personal protective equipment, we can鈥檛 be late, so we rely on 麻豆原创 and Microsoft to provide the digital backbone that鈥檚 essential to keeping our supply chain running smoothly,鈥� said Helge Brummer, vice president of Technical Infrastructure, Support & Operations. 鈥淭he combination of Microsoft Teams with our 麻豆原创 solutions has given our employees the ability to work from anywhere while ensuring orders are delivered on time to our customers, supporting the people putting their lives at risk working on the front line.鈥�

麻豆原创鈥檚 endorsement of Azure for ERP cloud migration is reflected in positive customer feedback on the collaboration between the companies. 麻豆原创 and Microsoft will continue to make migration simpler and increase customers鈥� confidence in running their digital enterprises in the cloud.聽At the same time, many customers express a desire to maintain multi-cloud environments.聽麻豆原创 continues with its long-standing policy of supporting choice for those customers who request alternatives based on business requirements.

麻豆原创 and Microsoft recently announced an update to enable customers to design and operate intelligent digital supply chain and Industry 4.0 solutions in the cloud and at the edge.

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The partnership, which includes a collaborative approach to standards, consortia, and open source, will shape the future of supply chain and manufacturing.

麻豆原创 Digital Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 Solutions Run on Microsoft Azure

As a result of this partnership, organizations will be able to use a comprehensive set of 麻豆原创 Digital Supply Chain solutions on Microsoft Azure, including , solutions, , and 麻豆原创 Logistics Business Network.

麻豆原创 will use Microsoft Azure to run these solutions in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model that can help reduce the customer鈥檚 need to manage the software and underlying infrastructure while accelerating time to value of supply chain applications. Customers will be able to scale globally by leveraging Azure which offers enterprise-grade compute, storage, and network services to support mission-critical performance and business continuity to run 麻豆原创 Digital Supply Chain solutions.

麻豆原创 Manufacturing Suite, 麻豆原创 Intelligent Asset Management, supply chain networks solutions from 麻豆原创, and the 麻豆原创 Internet of Things (麻豆原创 IoT) solution are already available on Microsoft Azure in Europe and the United States today.

麻豆原创 and Microsoft Collaborating to Bring Business Processes to the Edge

When managing a global, distributed supply chain and manufacturing environment, companies face challenges with constrained bandwidth, latency, and massive volumes of data that can adversely affect execution and quality scenarios. Here, the solution lies in edge computing.

Think of edge computing as a form of distributed computing where data, applications, and business processes are run near the source of generated data. The ability to extend and run business processes at the edge enables organizations with factories, plants, warehouses or remote operations, to fully automate and run their operations independently 鈥� enabling faster processing and support for data residency requirements. Customers have the choice to only send data to the cloud that is relevant for additional analysis or an aggregated view across many edges to save costs.

麻豆原创 and Microsoft are also collaborating to make 麻豆原创 solutions available on Microsoft Azure Stack Edge, starting with 麻豆原创 Digital Manufacturing Cloud. This helps manufacturers process data locally across machines and control systems to address latency or connectivity restraints.

Customers are empowered to choose what business process to run in the cloud or at the edge based on business need; they can deploy specific business processes and relevant business data to specific edge nodes using 麻豆原创 Edge Services. According to , 鈥�70% of IoT deployments by 2023 will include edge-based decision-making to support organizations’ operational and strategic agendas.鈥� The report also states that by 鈥�2023, 70% of enterprises will run varying levels of data processing at the IoT edge. In tandem, organizations will spend over $16 billion on IoT edge infrastructure in that time.鈥�

Customers have a choice to use either Microsoft Azure IoT or 麻豆原创 IoT to bring their time series data to the cloud. Time series data collected from machines or devices at the edge and sent to the cloud is of little value on its own. Companies need to put time series data into business context by augmenting it with information stored in business applications for materials, products, customers, inventory, assets, and more. Combining business semantics and time series data using the 麻豆原创 IoT solution creates business relevance, leading organizations to improved business outcomes and better decision-making.

鈥淭he expansion of the partnership between 麻豆原创 and Microsoft provides our mutual customers with the ability to leverage 麻豆原创 Digital Supply Chain and manufacturing solutions in the cloud to gain better business insights and accelerate the time-to-value as they roll out their applications on a global scale. By extending 麻豆原创 Digital Supply Chain solutions and the Azure cloud capabilities to the edge with Azure Stack Edge, businesses will also be able to manage 麻豆原创 solutions locally across their factories and warehouses to drive immediate decision-making and actions where they are needed,鈥� said Ulrich Homann, corporate vice president of Cloud + AI at Microsoft.

Companies Will Provide Reference Architecture as Guidance to Their Customers

The partnership in supply chain and manufacturing will be further enhanced with reference architectures to provide customers guidance on deploying 麻豆原创 Digital Supply Chain on Azure and the integration of 麻豆原创 and Microsoft products and services, building on previously developed .

For example, customers have a choice to use either Microsoft Azure IoT or 麻豆原创 IoT to bring their time series data to the cloud. Time series data collected from machines or devices at the edge, and sent to the cloud, may be of little value on its own. Companies need to put time series data into business context by augmenting it with information stored in business applications for materials, products, customers, inventory, assets, and more. Combining business semantics and time series data using the 麻豆原创 IoT solution creates business relevance, leading organizations to improved business outcomes and better decision-making.

麻豆原创 and Microsoft Shape the Future of Industry 4.0 with Open Standards

With software development and standards, the benefits of aligned reference architectures and common semantics are obvious. Adopting industrial standards and creating shared asset models in industrial IT are as significant to digital supply chain as a dictionary is to literacy. Business partners who wish to succeed in this space need to endorse open standards, open consortia, and open source.

As part of this partnership, 麻豆原创 and Microsoft will work together to drive compatibility and interoperability across industrial machines, software, and services as members of consortia like the Open Manufacturing Platform and the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance 鈥� to aid in the accelerated path to value of supply chain and Industry 4.0-related solutions based on open standards.

Companies that want to learn more about this exciting partnership and the benefits it brings should contact their 麻豆原创 account team for further details.

Franz Hero is senior vice president for Digital Supply Chain Solutions at 麻豆原创.

Horizons by 麻豆原创 talked with Ryan Fuller, corporate vice president of Workplace Intelligence for Microsoft Corporation, about the meaning of workplace intelligence, the technology tools needed to develop it, and the trick to using data-driven insights securely and with trust.

Q: The term 鈥渨orkplace intelligence鈥� is relatively new. How would you define it?

A: Overall, it鈥檚 about working smarter, not harder, but not just at an individual level. We want to find ways to make the whole organization work smarter. It鈥檚 often not clear how to do that, because it鈥檚 hard to understand how the things hundreds or thousands of employees do each day add up to the results that companies actually measure.

How do you get a clear picture of what鈥檚 happening?

You need to be able to zoom way out to be able to see the whole picture. That requires the right kind of data, so you can identify the patterns that lead to better outcomes. Often companies spend huge amounts of time doing things that don鈥檛 add that much value. How can we stop doing those things and devote the time to more impactful things? Or give our employees more of their time back, so they can live fuller lives beyond work?

The idea of continuous improvement has been around for a long time. Yet in many organizations, it feels like we鈥檙e going in the wrong direction.

Workplace intelligence helps us create some new patterns that reverse that trajectory. It gives everybody the tools, visibility, and data to know how to work as effectively as possible in the shortest amount of time possible.

What is the first place to start experimenting, once you鈥檝e freed up some capacity?

We like to look for bright spots鈥搕hose parts of the team or organization that consistently outperform their peers. Oftentimes, leaders know that a given team is great, but don鈥檛 know why. Usually the team doesn鈥檛 know either鈥搕hey just know that they do good work.

How do you figure it out?

When we focus on the behavioral data, we can start to see patterns. Let鈥檚 say you learn that the team spends 50 percent more time with customers than any other team. You then learn that happened when their management decided to spend less time on forecasting and internal processes. Although it鈥檚 a simple change, it鈥檚 massively impactful in terms of how people have been able to spend their time. And now you have a proven pattern within your own organization that you can scale.

Success breeds success.

Exactly. If you can find areas that are working, you can then figure out why and how it happened and scale it out. Next, you must spot opportunities to improve and enact those changes elsewhere. Companies get into this continuous cycle where people identify opportunities, use data to figure out a better path forward, and then enact change programs. Then they measure results. The idea is to encourage a culture of experimentation and learning.

What kinds of capabilities or functionality are needed to execute this type of program?

My team specializes in compiling passive, aggregated, and deidentified data automatically generated from e-mails, meetings, chats鈥揳ll kinds of collaboration tools that companies use. We turn that data into a behavioral data set. From that data, you can understand how people spend time, which teams are spending time with other teams, and what people鈥檚 networks look like. You can derive all of these very interesting insights that are really hard to measure in any other way. As a result, company leaders can get a full understanding of exactly how that process works. They can tell whether it is efficient or needs to be improved.

In your research and your work with customers, have the analytics revealed any surprises?

Very frequently, actually. For example, sales leaders often say that sellers should spend most of their time with customers. We can look at the data to see how teams are working, how they engage with customers, how much time they spend on different activities, who they bring to the meeting, and what
their networks are like. You can also see which patterns correlate most with revenue generation. And top performers do tend to spend more time with customers. But even more predictive of better performance is that top performers have larger internal networks鈥搈eaning that they engage with more people within their own company more frequently than others do.

Why is that?

When you think about it, sales is not a one-person activity. For example, you must know the right specialist to bring into a customer meeting, or the person in legal that can push through a contract quickly, or how your product team is thinking about the road map. In fact, your ability to bring everything that your company can offer to a customer is really contingent upon your personal network. That takes work and a lot of time. If you spend 90 percent of your time with customers, how are you going to know anybody at your company?

So, how do people react when they get these insights?

Sales leaders initially find it counterintuitive that internal network is so important. Once they see the data, they can quantify how that networking accelerates the ability to produce revenue. Then they understand the value of this intelligence.

What kind of tools are available to help companies develop more workplace intelligence?

It starts with identifying new insights from a behavioral data set. That鈥檚 what Microsoft Workplace Analytics offers. Instead of relying on surveys, anecdotes, and consultants to know what鈥檚 happening, the technology provides an objective, always-current data set. You can set new goals for what you want to achieve and then operationalize it by putting in place some lever to drive change.

How would that look in your sales example?

Management could decide that employees need time to develop those personal networks. Perhaps they redesign sales territories to make them smaller. Then we measure to see if that has an impact. The data helps you know when to make a change. And then you can operationalize it using traditional management levers, like a dashboard.

Where do the employees鈥� decisions come into play?

The next layer is addressed by products such as Microsoft MyAnalytics. Let鈥檚 say you realize that teams with higher employee satisfaction have managers who spend more time in one-on-one meetings with their direct reports. This context-aware technology provides employees with individualized, personal insights that help them accomplish their goals. Maybe a calendar app sends a message suggesting that a meeting with your direct report Brian is overdue, and it notes that you鈥檙e both free tomorrow at 2:30. The software prompts you to send a meeting invitation. We try to engage users at just the right moment with helpful information that will help them be more productive and engaged.

What different types of assistance can employees benefit from?

Some solutions make it easier for a user to do something they already intended to do, like automatically filling in the rest of an e-mail address as they type. More advanced software proposes things that the user didn鈥檛 think about but would have done, like scheduling that meeting with Brian. The most sophisticated is software that introduces actions the user wouldn鈥檛 have considered, because they are designed to meet some larger organizational goal.

You mentioned security and trust earlier. How do you find that balance between providing useful insights and maintaining employees鈥� trust?

First, flexible privacy and compliance controls allow customers to protect their data. Organizational data is aggregated and deidentified. It鈥檚 adapted to country requirements. And the tools evolve based on what customers need. We do a lot of low-scale experimentation and we work hard to solicit feedback on how people are using the software and their reactions. We frequently change the words we use on prompts. It鈥檚 amazing how the same nudge, worded slightly differently, can be received differently.

There鈥檚 a real risk-reward equation that people apply to technology.

That鈥檚 true. People may inherently distrust the technology, but they start to feel differently if they鈥檙e getting value from it. That said, we need to earn trust by making sure that we鈥檙e not doing any of the things that people worry about. As we earn trust, hesitancy shrinks. But that鈥檚 not something you can do overnight. We think about it every day, with every feature. Because we know crossing that line is not easy to uncross. We want to help organizations and employees be empowered to spend time in the most useful ways, and as we do that, the value grows and grows.

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Why would 麻豆原创 鈥� or any provider for that matter 鈥� promise to support existing software for such long time frames, at a time when technology is continuously evolving at an accelerating pace?

It is a matter of one underlying truth:聽 of companies are more comfortable with learning from their peers that are digital transformers and disrupters before diving into their own innovation efforts. This mindset is only natural as聽聽CEOs still feel tremendous pressure to deliver a successful digital transformation strategy. The stakes could not be higher for every digital initiative.

Question of Strategy and Timing, Not Momentum

The approach to technology adoption today is very different than what it was 10 to five years ago, or even one. Now more than ever, it is a deeply deliberated business decision based on more than just knowing which software to choose. It is about timing, readiness, and operational need.

Take, for example, intelligent , 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. To date, approximately 14,000 麻豆原创 customers have already chosen 麻豆原创 S/4HANA to be their future digital core, and thousands are actively implementing it. The ERP adoption rate is undoubtedly experiencing significant momentum. But for some companies, planning for the new technology presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reconsider their business models, operational strategy, organizational setup, processes, and resources to build a better, stronger, and more resilient business.

Going through a decision-making process like this takes considerable time, thought, and discussion. This is not the moment to rush in and drive a massive change to the IT landscape, let alone a technical upgrade. Businesses should define financial drivers, innovate new business models, refine operational processes, and investigate new capabilities such as automation, all based on the advanced capabilities of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. More importantly, their workforce and leaders must be trained to use these digital advancements in ways that deliver a customer experience that is more engaging and profitable, not traumatic and lackluster.

With the right maintenance commitment on behalf of the solution provider, businesses are granted the room to accurately predict and genuinely reshape their future. They can determine whether pockets of legacy customization are holding them back from transforming. Furthermore, decision-makers can consider the best staged approach to drive the shift, especially if a broad array of business units and market units are scattered worldwide. Additionally, new technology co-innovations and partnerships with digital giants such as Microsoft,听, and聽Amazon Web Services聽can be thoughtfully examined.

Then, when the time is right, businesses can swoop in and transform themselves with solutions that best meet their needs and support their ultimate visions. All pieces of their envisaged business model and operational puzzle are set, the workforce is ready and committed, and successful adoption is within sight.

Inspired Transformation That is Indisputably Flexible and Supported

Customers and their user groups have a strong desire for starting their transformation journey without delay. Their feedback is clear: The time to move is now. But for their transformation process, they also want to take advantage of the best engineering practices and innovation processes and capture advanced capabilities that deliver a new level of organizational momentum 鈥� based on clarity, choice, and flexibility.

In this respect, maintenance commitments can be powerful aspects of how businesses evolve, especially with artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and . And while 20 years may seem like many lifetimes in terms of technology innovation, extensions like the聽one we recently announced聽can become the lifeline businesses need to transform on their terms, within their timeline, and in their way.

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Jens Bernotat is the global vice president of Strategy and Ecosystem for Customer Solution Support and Innovation at 麻豆原创 SE.