High-tech companies around the world face many challenges, including the changing role of technology innovation, the need to shift from supply-driven to more demand-driven outsourcing models, increasing compliance pressure, and the need to operate in new global regions to secure growth. To address these challenges, high-tech companies are seeking innovative ways to conduct their business processes more flexibly and efficiently.
Discover how you can rapidly model and deploy innovative business processes using:
- Business process platform – Incorporates business applications, ready-to-use enterprise services, process components, and a technology platform with integration and composition capabilities.
- Enterprise service-oriented architecture – Is a blueprint for a flexible IT solution that leverages open standards and exposes business functionality as enterprise services (technically, Web services) that can be easily re-assembled to compose innovative business solutions.
Real-Life Business Innovation
- Customer success stories – Read real-life examples of how customers in the high-tech industry benefit from their business process platform today.
- Outsourced manufacturing – Businesses continue to outsource manufacturing and supply chain operations to take advantage of low-cost labor while focusing on their core competencies. See how to increase visibility into the operations of value chain partners and how to simplify supply network collaboration with enterprise services for supplier collaboration solutions.
Building Business Innovation
- Enterprise services for high tech – Visit the Enterprise Services Workplace (ES Workplace) for SAP for High Tech and explore the enterprise services available for industry-relevant processes. Hosted by SAP, the ES workplace lets you navigate from core industry processes down to details about related enterprise service definitions.
- Enterprise SOA in community – Learn about, test drive, define, and develop enterprise services in SAP's community area dedicated to enterprise SOA. Whether you are just getting started with enterprise services or ready to start building, the community network provides information and the means to collaborate with others on the topic.