A PLATFORM FOR INNOVATION
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR A NEW WORLD
Today, our customers require innovation at a much faster pace. And, they need to continually adapt to emerging business trends – without sacrificing the productivity of current operations. SAP continues to listen closely to customers and deliver the solutions they need to run their businesses more efficiently and effectively.
» Continuous Improvement Without Disruption
» Enhancement Packages for SAP Business Suite
Continuous Improvement Without Disruption
Two trends have begun to dominate the world of business: The accelerated speed of change and the need to differentiate through innovation. To address these trends, organizations large and small find that they must collaborate more effectively with their external business networks – which may include suppliers, customers, and business partners.
As they do, they rely on information technology to provide a flexible, adaptable and ever-evolving infrastructure that allows continuous improvement without disruption to core processes. This new generation of infrastructure has been part of SAP’s road map since 2003. And in 2007, we continued to deliver on that road map with concrete solutions that help our customers compete in a rapidly-changing environment.
Enhancement Packages for SAP Business Suite
We continue to build on the successful release strategy of SAP ERP, in which the core remains stable while customers receive enhancement packages that offer regular innovation on top of the business process platform. These enhancement packages have now been introduced across the entire SAP Business Suite. And since the packages are optional, customers can choose new innovations and capabilities according to their needs.
This unique delivery model makes it simpler and faster
for customers running SAP Business Suite applications to
adopt new product functionality, industry-specific features,
and enterprise services. It also shields customers from the complexity of multiple upgrades, and improves return
on investment by providing a single, stable platform that
enables them to consolidate their systems and reduce the
number of separate instances that need to be maintained.
More importantly, our software delivery rhythm provides customers with long-term planning security by virtually eliminating the need to make any major changes to their core ERP systems for the next several years and offering them a reliable software enhancement process that alleviates disruption and minimizes costs.
SAP Business Suite
Enhancement packages for the SAP Business Suite replace the traditional technique of improving and augmenting core processes supported by SAP ERP: Customers can now implement innovation from SAP when they need it and without major upgrade projects.
More importantly, our software delivery rhythm provides customers with long-term planning security by virtually eliminating the need to make any major changes to their core ERP systems for the next several years and offering them a reliable software enhancement process that alleviates disruption and minimizes costs.
Igniting Future Innovation
Enterprise SOA, the architecture on which SAP Business Suite is built, is the only platform that can deliver the level of stability and flexibility our customers need to empower the business network transformation and collaboration necessary to set themselves apart from the competition. In addition, it makes possible an infinite array of complementary solutions from the SAP ecosystem of hardware and software partners who build on our solid platform.
Just as we have done for the past 35 years, SAP will continue to innovate in the core products of SAP Business Suite, as well as in emerging solutions. Most importantly, we will continue to take what we have learned, share our knowledge and insight throughout our organization and business network, and work together to ignite future innovation.
Business Networks
Companies are increasingly transforming their business networks of customers, employees, trading partners, and suppliers to leverage best thinking, optimize use of existing resources, stimulate co-innovation, accelerate product innovation, and gain significant competitive advantage. SAP helps customers understand and optimize their business processes in real time as they realign their business networks and leverage a strong IT infrastructure to support the interconnections of those networks. Enterprise SOA is a fundamental requirement to fully engage in business network transformation.
Business Processes: Source-to-Pay Process
Enterprise services are reusable elements, for example, functions such as “credit card check” or “identify customer number” which can be used in a variety of processes. A business process consists of multiple steps that are supported by a variety of under lying applications, services, data, and technology infrastructure.