Can you believe it? It’s already time for SAP Sapphire 2024, happening in Orlando and Barcelona, as well as virtually. Join us for days of inspiration, innovation, and insight into the latest trends and technologies at SAP shaping the future of business.
In this blog, I'll explore new use cases for 2024, focusing on SAP's key themes. We'll see how SAP Business Technology Platform, powered by Generative AI, can transform the value derived from other SAP business applications. These use cases come with their respective Discovery Center Missions and Business Accelerators, making your journey with SAP BTP both easy and efficient.
If you're heading to the in-person event in Orlando, make sure to catch our session, "Explore Business Scenarios Enabled by SAP BTP That You Can Implement Today." My colleague Denise Ma and I will be sharing practical tips and insights to help you jump-start your SAP BTP journey. It's a must-add to your agenda! Don't forget to stop by the SAP BTP: For Business Applications demo station, where our team will be ready to answer all your questions and help you get the most out of SAP BTP. Also, check out the following sessions by the team:
- BTP108 | Transforming the future of Fresenius: RISE with SAP and SAP Analytics Cloud
- BTP110 | Using cross-departmental data for analysis and planning with SAP S/4HANA
- BTP111 | Driving the data and analytics strategy with SAP software at Lundin Mining
- BTP154 | Enhance your investment in SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP BTP
- BTP190 | How Nestle and Nokia accelerated transformation of SAP S/4HANA with SAP BTP
In today's fast-moving business world, keeping up isn't enough; you need to be innovative, agile, and efficient. That's where SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) comes in. It helps you extend and personalize SAP applications, seamlessly integrate different systems, and empower your team with AI to streamline processes, improve experiences, and make confident decisions. Let's check out three exciting new SAP BTP use cases for 2024:
Use Case #1. Improve operations and decision-making with the power of Generative AI
You: You're at a critical crossroads in deciding whether to prioritize modernizing your current landscape of business and processes or pivot towards AI-driven innovations. As per McKinsey’s 2023 survey*, Generative AI is already being regularly used at work among 22 percent of the survey respondents, and Generative AI is expected to significantly disrupt industry competition within three years. However, the risks and complexities involved in leveraging AI based on your business data are preventing you from making the jump. These include the challenges of integrating AI with third-party providers and existing systems, especially when the data involved is sensitive, raising concerns about accuracy and reliability.
How SAP BTP can help: Now is the ideal time to embrace AI, thoughtfully navigate these challenges, and realize the transformative potential it holds for your business. SAP BTP infuses business-ready, trusted, and user-friendly AI capabilities across the platform, to boost your business’ productivity and build AI solutions with your business-relevant and reliable data. Using AI in BTP can also boost the ROI of your existing SAP BTP investments, together with SAP Business applications and other third-party applications. Additionally, SAP BTP improves security by providing increased visibility and control over your AI usage with easily managed access to frontier LLMs, so your data is handled responsibly. Read more about SAP Business AI here.
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Use Case #2. Empower employees with enterprise-wide self-service portals
You: Imagine your work monitor crowded with a patchwork of open applications, each window representing a different task you need to manage. Throughout the day, you find yourself clicking back and forth incessantly, switching between these various programs and interfaces. Your business relies on a mix of SAP and third-party solutions, each with its own unique user interface and experience. Harvard Business Review’s study in 2022** provides an example of a Fortune 500 consumer goods organization, where each person in a single supply-chain interaction has to switch about 350 times between 22 different applications and unique websites. Employees need to be trained on each of these solutions, which makes employee onboarding difficult. Many of them must log in to multiple systems to do their day-to-day work. The myriad of entry points to data across different lines of business only adds complexity to the mix.
How SAP BTP can help: SAP BTP answers the call with SAP Build Work Zone, advanced edition. By consolidating tools and offering an intuitive and unified entry point for SAP and 3rdparty applications, business processes, and information, SAP Build Work Zone fosters collaboration and efficiency. Role-based access paves the way for streamlined workflows, heightened productivity, and a culture of innovation. Giving employees a simplified user experience and access to multiple systems and processes, enabling them to build interactive workspaces visually to better engage with their teams and external stakeholders, truly unifies employee experience and increases productivity. Read more about SAP Build Work Zone here.
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Use Case #3. Supercharge developer productivity with SAP Build Code and generative AI
You: You are an SAP developer, and many hours of your day are spent navigating complex application logic and checking data models. After all, IDC’s research*** states that developers spend 60% of their time on operational responsibilities, such as the implementation of automation, code testing and execution, while only 15% of their time is spent on coding. All those development and testing experiences while striving to shorten lead times to market pose significant hurdles for professional developers. Speed and flexibility while securing productivity are difficult to achieve.
How SAP BTP can help: SAP Build Code provides generative AI-based code development with Joule copilot, empowering developers to overcome these challenges. It offers an intuitive, turn-key design time and runtime environment for coding, testing, integrations, and application lifecycle management. Use AI to generate app logic, data models, and test scripts, and experience how SAP Build Code accelerates time-to-value for development projects and supercharges developer productivity. Read more about SAP Build Code here.
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Accelerate Financial Planning & Analysis
You: Working and collaborating across the organization gets overwhelming, as Financial Planning & Analysis is not a one-person or even one-department job; the CEO, the offices of CFO, and the other stakeholders across the business all hold key business data and processes crucial to FP&A, but it seems like each area has their own rules and data in different places. This causes delays in accessing the real-time data, impeding proactive planning and agile decision-making.
How SAP BTP can help: With the power of data integration, visualization, and predictive analytics, SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning serves as a reporting, analytics, and planning tool in one. It allows business users to access current real-time data in a simple and timely manner, eliminating delays in the planning process. Your financial planning projects can be fast-tracked with SAP’s prebuilt business accelerators, and activating predictive analytics with Machine Learning capabilities is as easy as a single click. Read more on SAP’s Financial Planning and Analysis solutions here.
SAP Business Technology Platform provides organizations with the tools and capabilities to thrive in the digital age. Through the lens of Generative AI, self-service portals, and developer productivity tools, SAP BTP not only addresses challenges but also unlocks opportunities for growth and innovation. It's not just about staying ahead; it's about leading the charge towards excellence. Now that these three new use cases have piqued your interest, visitSAP Business Technology Platform In Action community page for the full list of SAP BTP Use Cases and other resources.
With a lineup of industry experts, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities, Sapphire 2024 is not to be missed. We look forward to seeing you in Orlando, Barcelona, or virtually and sharing more about what SAP Business Technology Platform can do for you and your organization. Get ready to unlock your business's full potential and explore the possibilities of the intelligent enterprise.
Additional Resources
- HCM 102 | Technology strategy and road map for SAP SuccessFactors solutionssession to learn more about how SAP BTP works with SAP SuccessFactors.
*The state of AI in 2023: Generative AI’s breakout year. (2023, August 1). McKinsey & Company. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai-in-2023-generative-a...
**Murty, R. N. (2022, November 1). How much time and energy do we waste toggling between applications? Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2022/08/how-much-time-and-energy-do-we-waste-toggling-between-applications
***IDC: Generative AI and turnkey development platforms can improve developer productivity. (n.d.). SAP. https://www.sap.com/canada/documents/2024/01/fe86d503-a57e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html
