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10+ ways to reshape your SAP landscape with SAP Business Technology Platform – Blog Series

pinakiray
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‎03-20-2024 6:32 PM

Blog 2: The role of Business Technology Platform as an extension and innovation platform

This blog is part of the “10+ ways to reshape your SAP landscape with SAP Business Technology Platform Blog Series”

Summary: In this blog series we will look at the role of the SAP Business Technology Platform to reshape your SAP landscape including SAP and Non-SAP systems. In this second blog we discuss SAP Business Technology Platform capabilities around process automation, application development, enterprise integration, and AI. And how these capabilities support the most demanding businesses. 

What does Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One have in common with SAP Business Technology Platform? -- Tons of it. 

Just like any other sophisticated business, Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One is in the cutthroat business of racing. And it competes in one of the most challenging environments in global sports. Combining elite teamwork, modern technologies, high-performance management, and exceptional driving skills, Formula One is a technologically innovative form of motorsport, where incremental gains yield significant results and can be the difference between winning and losing. 

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In this blog, I want to emphasise the Business Technology Platform, which brings cutting-edge cloud services around application development, process automation, enterprise integration, analytics, and AI, all of which should help IT deliver fully integrated rapid enhancements. 

In Formula One, a team has to compete in 22-24 different race tracks during a season. Each race track presents a different set of challenges, which require a set of decisions made by engineers, drivers, and strategies like tyre selection and sub-2 second pit stop execution, to try to maximize the result in the race.

The challenges our customers face are similar, where they have to navigate changing market situations and customer demands, and analyse and swiftly respond to dynamic requirements, all while managing product quality, cost, process quality, and pressure on time to market. 

With the switch to S/4HANA, business can build their competitive car on a clean new chassis. The focus is cloud-first strategy and clean core, i.e. a largely untouched SAP core. BTP should be used to develop, integrate, and scale new functionality and applications on top of the core. Customers here need guidance, as this is an area that needs design and mind-shift change. 

Let us look at some specific areas.

Formula One has long had active aero on cars – for instance, the DRS which is the rear-wing-opening overtaking aid. Obviously, the extremes would be Monza/Spa for low downforce, and Monaco/Hungary for highest. With Silverstone as maybe the ultimate “compromise” setup on the less draggy side but also needs good high-speed downforce, especially for Copse/Maggotts/Becketts where the driver experiences lateral forces upto 6Gs during acceleration, braking and cornering.

Quite the same way, SAP Business Technology Platform, is the best path to rapidly build and enhance enterprise applications, processes, and experiences on top of a clean S/HANA chassis for various industry and internal business requirements. The prime idea is to build competition-beating processes and application enhancements quickly and deliver them to business.

A few examples are building intuitive applications with document information extraction for field staff that provide necessary actions to reduce paperwork. Or using AI to generate work orders with necessary steps which allows planners to execute orders faster. A clean core enables you to become future-proof by ensuring faster deployment with smooth upgrades – and innovate at market speed. 

This is where we employ SAP Business Technology Platform BUILD capabilities in addition to key-user extensibility and on-stack extensibility.

BUILD allows you to:

  • Simplify your cloud application development to get more value and ignite innovation
  • Deliver agile process automation to automate and optimize processes and tasks
  • Connect people, data, and processes with engaging experiences

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How can business rapidly build a meaningful application? An SAP shipping and logistics customer built a Mobile App within a period of 3 weeks, to allow drivers to capture damages and take necessary actions. This would have taken months using traditional development methods. This new app has greatly reduced tons of paperwork and human errors. This has been coupled with automation to help fleet managers plan required repairs and/or schedule them for a later date based on spare parts availability. I regularly see such use cases in public, manufacturing, discreet, process, and retail industries.

SAP Build brings together SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Process Automation, SAP Build Work Zone and SAP Build Code with generative AI-based code development into a unified development experience with innovations to rapidly build apps, automate processes, and create business websites. These "four carriages" work together to help users accelerate application development and process automation, empowering every employee in the organization: 

  • Build visually: Rapidly create enterprise apps, automate processes, and design business sites. 
  • Integrate seamlessly: Accelerate development with prebuilt connectors and lines of business-specific content for SAP and non-SAP systems. 
  • Collaborate securely: Foster collaboration between business and development teams with built-in governance and lifecycle management. 

To optimise the Build process, SAP Build Code, a generative AI-based code development with Joule copilot, will provide optimized Java and JavaScript application development abilities, providing a turn-key environment for coding, testing, integrations, and application lifecycle management.

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SAP Build Code will help developers with:

  • Generative AI-based code development with Joule copilot - uses AI to generate app logic, data models, and test scripts.
  • Tailored for SAP development – helps you connect seamlessly with prebuilt integrations and APIs.
  • Enhanced fusion development – helps you drive collaboration between professional developers and business experts.

 

Each Formula One car is made up of around 14,500 individual components. Each element such as chassis, power unit, gearbox, aero package, braking systems, battery, cooling systems, telemetry, radio communications, tyres, driver, etc. have to be truly well integrated to ensure the car is ready to race, is reliable and will win.

Similarly, in business, systems in isolation will never work and provide a full picture of business. They have to be integrated with core systems, and external applications, leverage 3rd party data and provide all of these integrated insights to business race engineers, and enable them to make race-winning decisions.

Hence SAP Integration Suite is essential to integrate on-premises and cloud-based processes, SAP as well as non-SAP applications, services, events, and data and provide them securely to all stakeholders to consume and process information. This is where we offer SAP BTP Integration Suite which addresses hybrid integration and innovation strategies. 

Top nine ways SAP Integration Suite drives innovation

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The new world of innovation through Generative AI via the SAP perspective.

AI wanted to change the world in 2024. SAP is taking a pragmatic approach to this. SAP Business AI is aimed at making our business applications more intelligent by infusing AI technologies into our applications. Building data understanding is critical for the success of Business AI. SAP Business AI will come with business context, provide business-friendly user experience, and accelerate business outcomes. 

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To make business AI successful, we continue to build the best technology and leverage the best tools on the market.

  • This includes strategic partnerships with others in the industry, such as Open AI, AWS Bedrock, Aleph Alpha Luminous, Meta Llama 2, Falcon, etc.
  • Embed their tech into our products such as SuccessFactors, S4, CX and Spend Management.
  • Enable customers to build custom ML models on SAP data easily and securely.

To conclude, SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is the platform of choice to modernize, upgrade, and drive innovations in your applications. It allows you to extend and personalize SAP applications, integrate and connect landscapes, and unleash business users to connect processes and experiences, make decisions with confidence, and drive business innovation.

Let’s get out there and win every race.

 

The Blog Series 10+ ways to reshape your SAP landscape with SAP Business Technology Platform will be published regularly and the newest blogs can be found here: Video & Blog Series - SAP BTP MEE Overview (brandcast.io)

To get more insights, please also visit one of our BTP Innovation Days:

 

 

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