Professional services firms today face a world full of challenges: the emergence of new competitors, the commoditization of services, a global talent shortage, and more sophisticated clients. To address these challenges, firms are working closely with their service partners and suppliers to develop new and innovative ways to manage their talent supply chains, innovate their service delivery, and provide differentiated client value.
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 professional services industry benefit from their business process platform today.
- IT Service for Outsourcing Providers – Visit SAP's community network to learn how SAP supports this scenario through a business process platform.
Building Business Innovation
- Enterprise services for professional services – Visit the Enterprise Services Workplace (ES Workplace) for SAP for Professional Services 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.