Partners Experience the SAP Ecosystem Advantage

To further support the development of a thriving SAP customer-focused ecosystem, we have compiled a number of thought-leadership articles, white papers, and videos. We encourage you to take a look at this material, which features perspectives of various opinion leaders in the industry who are helping to shape the development of ecosystems in general – and in particular, helping customers, partners, and individuals to better harness the power of the SAP ecosystem.

Videos of Ecosystem Thought Leaders

• Experience the Power of the SAP Ecosystem – Learn more about the SAP customer-focused ecosystem and how it can help your organization. Hear about SAP's unique approach to resolving the critical challenges facing companies today. Need proof? Quotes from customers and partners help provide tangible evidence of the real, continuous customer value delivered through the SAP customer-focused ecosystem.
• Providing Business Benefits – Listen to noted business thought leader John Hagel III and SAP Executive Vice President Zia Yusuf discuss how business leaders can and should evaluate technology ecosystems to maximize business impact – and how the SAP ecosystem can uniquely help customers address their most pressing challenges. Increasingly, strategic technology decisions fuel a company's ability to deliver on short-term commitments and long-term vision. Strategic technology choices involve a careful examination of the broader ecosystem that exists around a company and its products.
• Creating Customer Value – Find out how the SAP ecosystem is redefining how customers obtain value from IT investments and extend their capabilities to compete and win in their markets. Bill McDermott, SAP President and CEO for SAP Americas and Asia Pacific Japan, discusses how the SAP ecosystem helps customers accelerate innovation and improve ROI. And why you should consider the SAP ecosystem when making your IT investment decisions.

Related Resources

• "Evaluating IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Commitment to SOA Governance" (PDF, 2.6 MB) – Explore how, from a technical perspective, service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance remains complex. Vendors like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP are repositioning technologies to approach service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance and address functionality required by companies deploying SOAs. Gartner identifies ten key criteria for making decisions about SOA governance technologies. (Gartner, 2007)
• "India Drives Unprecedented Growth for SAP Ecosystem" – Consider how India is a driving force in the developing SAP ecosystem, marked by a more than 100 percent increase in overall membership in the past year. More than twice as many customers and partners across India will now share in the exchange of global expertise and best practices related to SAP solutions and enterprise SOA.
• "Industry Value Networks" (PDF, 238 KB) – Investigate how SAP is taking the lead in answering the call of an industry whose customers are seeking integrated, homogenous solutions that provide a wealth of benefits. IVNs bring together customers, independent software vendors, technology vendors, and systems integrators to form collaborative networks that solve real business needs by fostering standardized, multivendor solutions. Log-in required.
• "SAP Drives Alliance Innovation Through Customer-Focused Ecosystems" (PDF, 583 KB) – Read why customer-focused ecosystems replace partner-centric ecosystems to drive co-innovation and respond to the complexity and timeline challenges that customers face. Vendors interested in establishing a customer-focused ecosystem look to innovators like SAP for best practices. (IDC, 2007)
• "SAP Ecosystem for Co-Innovation" (PDF, 2.6 MB) – Discover why SAP is focused on creating a cooperative environment that can adapt to changing industry needs. The SAP ecosystem provides a reliable way for customers to deploy partner solutions – and encourages customer-focused collaboration and innovation by communities of developers, business process experts, customers, partners, and SAP to deliver new services, processes, and composite applications.
• "SAP 'Ecosystem' is a Booming Economy Unto Itself" (PDF, 135 KB) – See how SAP is effectively reshaping how companies implement the next generation of business applications. With an unprecedented base of business partners and customers, SAP's massive global ecosystem, made up of more than 800,000 service partners and developers, is transforming the enterprise applications industry and becoming the future for CIOs charged with standardizing and integrating their systems. (IDC, 2007)
• "SAP Global Ecosystem Shows Significant Growth in Asia-Pacific Region" – Examine how customers and partners in the Asia-Pacific region have more than doubled in the past year – making this a region of significant ecosystem growth for SAP as a result of business expansion in the area. Growth has been further accelerated by translated and localized content on community sites in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.