Partner enablement through coaching has become a mainstay for 麻豆原创 partners, changing the dynamics of innovation with 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP). Individual, real-time, and live access to 麻豆原创 expertise provides continuous assistance with unique use cases 鈥� ranging from advisory, architecture review, and technical guidance to prototyping, realization support, certification, and demand generation programs.

The Opportunity to Overcome Challenges Faster

While innovation, at its core, is about solving problems, the discovery of new use cases can bring new questions and challenges. Examples include which best-practice architecture can help realize a scenario faster and deliver the expected outcomes? What should be included in the bill of materials to help ensure a new process or technology runs without disrupting the rest of the business?

Unfortunately, the answers to these and many other case-by-case questions are not always readily available through existing learning tools and documentation. But with the introduction of a portfolio of partner coaching services for 麻豆原创 BTP, 麻豆原创 partners can get the insight they need for a specific use case from 麻豆原创 experts. They can short-circuit the challenges and complexities of their use cases and resolve their development or implementation milestones more quickly and with confidence.

Partner Co-Innovation Desk and Coaching Service Portfolio

Let’s take a look at the coaching offerings that are on the menu for 麻豆原创 partners.

End-to-end partner co-innovation support

When unsure of where to start on a co-innovation journey, 麻豆原创 partners can request support from the partner co-innovation desk by requesting the free , available within the (login required).

Our team of experts subsequently engages with partners in one-on-one coaching sessions to discuss how to get started and which enablement, resources, and coaching services can best support them. With this level of assistance, partners can realize a productive co-innovation journey along a comprehensive lifecycle.

Coaching support of use cases for 麻豆原创 BTP

To answer specific requirements for an innovation journey with 麻豆原创 BTP, partners can select individual offerings from the coaching portfolio.

Take, for example, the program that helps 麻豆原创 partners productize and take their ideas and intellectual property (IP) to market 鈥� from idea to certified solution. In a one-to-one model, the comprehensive program provides 麻豆原创 experts who can guide partners through each phase of the co-innovation process from concepts and design to build and monetization.

While the co-innovated with 麻豆原创 program supports the co-innovation journey, 麻豆原创 also offers tailored coaching to assist partners at specific steps of their innovation journey.

Community of partner and 麻豆原创 experts

For specific solutions or use cases, partners can ask any and all questions in the , under the ONE 麻豆原创 Community, monitored by 麻豆原创 experts.

Use case advisory
High-level counseling guides our partners on the development of extension applications using 麻豆原创 BTP and the creation of business models to commercialize them. In these advisory sessions, 麻豆原创 experts help our partners with advice on how to take their applications to market, including:

• Extensibility advisory: This one-to-one extensibility guidance is available to help partners develop and go to market with extensions for solutions within 麻豆原创 BTP. The offering covers extensions for , , , , and the .
• : This one-to-one advisory service is for partners that already have a tangible use case and a development plan for an offering based on 麻豆原创 BTP and want to take the next step of commercialization.

Architecture review and technical guidance
麻豆原创 partners can request a , an online session with an 麻豆原创 expert. Partners can gain solution architecture guidance or validation, best practices for extension and integration development, and data-to-value scenarios. In addition, they can work with 麻豆原创 experts to troubleshoot specific issues or acquire conceptual understanding of certain topics.

Prototyping support
麻豆原创 Co-Innovation Lab experts offer support to our partners on their journey from an idea to a prototype running on 麻豆原创 BTP. Partners can participate in to create a prototype around a technology theme, or engage in the program to focus their efforts on a dedicated industry or business theme with curated use cases. Through hackathons and the support of 麻豆原创 experts, partners can learn the necessary code and present their final prototype. The 麻豆原创 Co-Innovation Lab team provides subsequent support to mature the prototype into a final product.

Solution realization support
Support is also offered to partners in the technical realization stage. This entails support and provisioning of the required system landscapes. For example, can provide access to highly complex system landscapes configured by 麻豆原创 experts and help partners successfully port, construct, or integrate their solutions to 麻豆原创 products and platforms.

Certification and demand generation
After completing their solution development, partners can certify their solution through . While optional, this step is strongly recommended to gain additional accreditation featured on 麻豆原创 Store, 麻豆原创鈥檚 online marketplace. Partners can also be accredited by 麻豆原创 as outsourcing partners for operations enabled by 麻豆原创 technologies, such as 麻豆原创 BTP. Another bonus is the demand generation support through the service when solutions are added to 麻豆原创 Store.

Advancing the Future of Innovation 鈥� Together

Worldwide, 麻豆原创 partners perform more than 80% of 麻豆原创 solution implementations. And as you can see, with a comprehensive coaching service portfolio, we strive to help ensure our partners get the right level of support 鈥� on their terms.

The portfolio of partner coaching services can give partners and our joint customers the support they need to transform organizations, industries, and economies for everyone鈥檚 benefit. The more partners share and grow their knowledge, the more impressive their future growth becomes as they give our joint customers innovation experiences that deliver immediate results and long-term outcomes.

If you have not done so already, please join us on the journey with 麻豆原创 BTP, attend the partner certification academies, and get certified today! You can also engage with your peers through 听(login required). We look forward to driving successful business outcomes together.

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Pavel Penaz is global head of Partner Solution Adoption Strategy and Execution for 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform at 麻豆原创.

Acquiring new customers is one thing; retaining them is another. In both cases, continuously attaining the latest certifications 鈥� from trending topics to specialized capabilities 鈥� reassures customers and inspires them to make that first contact and keep coming back. Compared to their noncertified counterparts, certified consultants speed implementation times by up to 15% and deliver projects with less rework and higher customer satisfaction, according to听.

Another advantage of certification is the potential to attract, develop, and retain the strong talent pool that customers expect.听^听of more than 10,000 IT professionals indicated that the value of IT certification surpasses that of training alone. Benefits include a culture that promotes confidence in abilities, greater job satisfaction, increased respect among peers, more work autonomy and independence, promotion and advancement, and higher salary and wages.

A Competency Framework for Competitive Certification

When working with 麻豆原创, partners have the added benefit of fast access to the learning content needed to prepare for and attain certification. They are also rewarded with a visual badge that can be included in their marketing materials and on their Web sites.

In addition, through the recently announced , 麻豆原创 partners can achieve competencies and specializations by certifying a required number of their consultants and developers, enabling them to reach essential, advanced, or expert competency tiers. These competencies and corresponding specializations are then visible on to help prospective customers make informed partner selections based on the desired solution expertise.

麻豆原创 provides a broad set of certifications so partners can build specific skill sets and offer highly specialized consulting and implementation services. More than cover a wide range of expertise and skill levels across an expansive set of 麻豆原创 solutions and services. In fact, are available for 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP), including 麻豆原创 Integration Suite, 麻豆原创 Extension Suite, the 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud database, the 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud solution, and low-code and no-code development applications and automations.

Partners can promote their certifications by using . This real-time verification demonstrates that the partner鈥檚 certification is valid and contains a description of the 麻豆原创-backed expertise.

Learning content for certification exams for 麻豆原创 BTP is available free of charge on the site. And as 麻豆原创 technologies, such as 麻豆原创 BTP, continue to evolve and bring new capabilities, partners can keep skills current with continuously updated for every cloud release from 麻豆原创.

麻豆原创 partners can also attend for 麻豆原创 BTP. The academies are online, interactive trainings delivered by 麻豆原创 experts who guide you through the content of selected learnings for 麻豆原创 BTP and help prepare partners to pass the associated certification exams. After completing an academy and passing the related certification, partners are equipped with the skills, knowledge, and tools needed to efficiently implement future projects on 麻豆原创 BTP.

Proven Proficiency Drives True Transformation

Technology is advancing exponentially. This reality requires people of all experience levels to grow their knowledge and take stock of how these new skills might be applied to improve productivity and efficiency, resolve existing challenges, and produce transformative outcomes.

The more we share and grow our knowledge of technologies, tools, and platforms, the more significant the impact of innovation and the faster we can achieve our goals. But most importantly, our partners are well-positioned to drive future growth, better experiences, and more sustainable and profitable outcomes.

With , our partners have the power to innovate with 麻豆原创 BTP, among other 麻豆原创 technologies, in ways that lead to true business transformation with unparalleled skill, confidence, and trust.

If you have not done so already, please join us on the journey with 麻豆原创 BTP, attend the partner certification academies, and get certified today! You can also engage with your peers through听 (login required). We look forward to driving successful business outcomes together.

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Pavel Penaz is global head of Partner Solution Adoption Strategy and Execution for 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform at 麻豆原创.

Although able to meet most challenges, HR leaders recognize that a traditional management system based on data silos, bureaucratic thinking, and hierarchical control is no longer effective. Instead, their workplaces need a more flexible and responsive organizational model built around four critical trends: data accuracy, interconnectivity, process automation, and low transaction costs.

A more modern approach to workforce modeling and organizational charting requires HR teams — and the organizations they serve — to reconsider how they use available data. Business leaders need to visualize their organizational structures and key metrics based on today鈥檚 data. This way, they really understand the dynamics of their workforce and make informed decisions about their organizational design or reorganizations.

For 麻豆原创 gold partner Ingentis, this line of thinking inspired an innovation initiative that would provide a higher level of flexibility when visualizing, modifying, and transforming organizational structures with HR data.

Amplifying the Value of Organizational Change

Drawing from more than 25 years of experience in organizational charting and HR data visualization, Ingentis used (麻豆原创 BTP) to build an add-on application for the solution.

The 麻豆原创 endorsed app — — pulls data directly from 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central and visualizes it in various forms. Key metrics can be displayed along the organizational structure, as well as in dashboards for a quick overview. Big Data graphs in combination with custom visualization rules help HR organizations stay on top of their massive volumes of data.

The application can also improve data quality by checking data according to individually defined conditions and automatically reporting on them. Furthermore, its powerful modeling feature allows for what-if scenario planning through a drag-and-drop capability. With affected KPIs being assessed and updated during the process, Ingentis org.manager provides a solid basis for informed business decisions.

While Ingentis鈥� decision to build its app on 麻豆原创 BTP was influenced by the opportunity to build its partnership with 麻豆原创, it also helped create the best possible user experience for 麻豆原创 customers. The company delivered a solution that integrates smoothly with 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central and can be launched directly from the solution鈥檚 user interface.

The combination of Ingentis鈥� expertise and 麻豆原创 BTP led to 麻豆原创鈥檚 approval of Ingentis org.manager as a premium-certified application. The add-on passed a series of in-depth testing — from the strength of its security controls to performance measurements against benchmark results — for fast deployment and limited IT intervention to integrate and maintain.

Earning this level of certification from 麻豆原创 gives customers the confidence that Ingentis provides solutions designed for 麻豆原创 solutions and delivers desired outcomes to resolve significant challenges. That鈥檚 the kind of trust that wins over business leaders who are unsure about augmenting existing digital investments.

The results experienced by 麻豆原创 customers when integrating Ingentis org.manager with 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central also speak for themselves. According to a survey conducted by Ingentis and 麻豆原创, the add-on can lower the cost of strategic resource planning by up to 20%.

Innovating New Possibilities with a Single Platform

Whether focused on improving diversity and inclusion, balancing headcount, or assessing succession potential or flight risk, HR organizations can get the answers they need with the integrated blend of Ingentis org.manager for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions and 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central.

Best of all, Ingentis is seizing a moment that鈥檚 available to every 麻豆原创 partner when using 麻豆原创 BTP. By delivering everything from fundamental tools to the most cutting-edge solution, partners can set the standard for the workforce of tomorrow — turning work into a human experience of inspiration, collaboration, and purpose.

Tom Le is global vice president of Partner Solution Advisory at 麻豆原创.
Markus Eckl is global head of Strategic Alliances and Partnering at Ingentis.

By empowering employees with little to no development skills to play a key role in their organization鈥檚 success, businesses can tap a fresh community of innovators to personalize workflows, automate processes, and create new applications. And while increasing their organizational capacity to innovate, they are joining a LCNC movement that will likely produce 65% of new applications by 2024, according to .

Giving Everyone the Power to Reimagine Everything

When organizations first consider letting employees participate in innovation without IT intervention, questions about the difference between low-code and no-code inevitably arise. The main difference between the two approaches lies in how much coding knowledge is needed.

Low-code development allows users to develop and integrate complex applications with intuitive graphical tools and embedded functionalities, requiring only some basic coding skills. On the other hand, no-code development methods apply the same user experience without any need for coding and programming knowledge.

There are countless LCNC tools available that promise to deliver on those capabilities with easy-to-use interfaces. However, most of them can only be used for very well-defined use case scenarios, such as the development of mobile apps, machine learning applications, or workflow automation.

With the low-code and no-code tools available through听听(麻豆原创 BTP), 麻豆原创 partners and customers do not need to worry about such restrictions. Instead, they can access a combination of LCNC tools on one platform, along with intelligent processes and technologies, to build critical solutions quickly and profitably.

Accelerating the Pace of Meaningful Innovation

Many 麻豆原创 partners are taking this opportunity to 鈥渋nnovate big鈥� by tackling challenges that, when solved, can significantly improve their customers鈥� business opportunities and operating models. They are setting new bars for a variety of industries, despite the increasingly fast-paced, dynamic nature of today鈥檚 markets.

For example, an 麻豆原创 partner created a fashion rental solution that integrates with e-commerce platforms and core 麻豆原创 solutions, such as听, , and the听 portfolio. The partner鈥檚 solution enables retailers and their manufacturers to create and operate under a business model that reduces waste and preserves resources 鈥� improving sales, driving sustainable operations, and helping preserve our planet’s future.

By leveraging LCNC services available through 麻豆原创 BTP, the partner underpinned the solution’s processes with intelligent technologies. It included: 1) machine learning to improve decision-making and quality checks and 2)听artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled听image recognition to identify damages, support the returns process, and provide accurate billing. The听services are also leveraged to help accelerate transaction processing and automate return cycles and other back-office operations, enabling orders to be booked or returns to be processed within seconds.

Integrating the cloud solution with automated store pickup, return, and billing capabilities makes the fashion rental model simple enough to manage from beginning to end transparently, efficiently, and profitably. Best of all, the user experience 鈥� for employees and customers alike 鈥� is meaningful and productive, an industry benchmark for efficiency and sustainability.

Turning Business Challenges into Long-Term Opportunities

As the hype about LCNC tools intensifies, organizations can get lost in the excitement. So rather than choosing a platform that can expand their innovation potential, hasty decisions can result in platforms that pigeonhole use case scenarios and open potential issues down the line.

麻豆原创 partners can play a critical role in leveraging LCNC technologies in ways that go beyond accelerating innovation. They are also helping customers fulfill their potential by improving operational performance, service quality, and revenue growth while addressing their resource challenges. And when you think about it, that influence is incredibly powerful as it empowers employees, regardless of their skill, to deliver personalized experiences that build long-term business success.

To learn more about how 麻豆原创 partners help businesses transition to the cloud with a unified technology platform, explore these articles:

• 鈥�Turning the Cloud into a High-Powered Innovation Engine鈥�
• 鈥�Business Planning and Analytics: The Difference Between Surviving and Thriving鈥�
• 鈥�Turn Business Process Intelligence into the Next Frontier for Growth鈥�

If you’re interested in software partnership opportunities with 麻豆原创, check out听. If you’re already a partner, check out these exciting initiatives:听听and听.

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