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High-tech products are turning up just about every place you look. From the everyday to the extraordinary, high technologies and products are everywhere. Success depends on how well high-tech companies address ever-changing customer needs, quickly bring innovative technologies to market, and find new ways to advance into new markets before their competitors do.

Meanwhile, high-tech manufacturers must adhere to a growing number of government regulations – and leverage outsourcing as a way to reduce costs and risk, increase agility and responsiveness to customer demand, and broaden a company's access to additional manufacturing capabilities.

Now, thanks to integrated SAP software delivered through a standardized platform and architecture, companies in these industries can create, automate, and extend best-practice processes across the entire enterprise:

• Original equipment manufacturers – Work across corporate boundaries with speed, accuracy, innovation, and efficiency.
• Electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers – Support a full range of manufacturing services – including design, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, post-manufacturing services, global distribution, and after-sales support.
• Semiconductor, photovoltaic, and component manufacturers – Increase demand responsiveness and supply agility through better visibility and collaboration across business partners, optimize multichannel sales and revenue management, and increase operational effectiveness of all your business processes.
• Software providers – Enhance sales and channel management, customer service, talent, and portfolio management; mitigate risks; and achieve operational excellence through better financial, compliance, and performance management.

For a complete view of SAP software capabilities, see SAP Business Maps for high tech.

Leading High-Tech Companies Transform Business with SAP

Discover how businesses like yours are gaining a competitive edge with SAP solutions:

	Olympus Realigns its Customer Service Find out how the Japanese optical technology manufacturer Olympus realigned its customer service according to its customers needs using SAP Customer Relationship Management. Read the story (PDF).
	Toshiba Gains a Competitive Edge Read how Toshiba leveraged BusinessObjects solutions to gain insight into data that impacts its product development, inventory levels, and delivery schedules. Read the story (PDF).

Read about more business transformations with SAP solutions.