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Professional Services

Meet client needs and generate revenue by blending data and processes and managing workers in the cloud.

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Nearly 38% of the world’s workforce is made up of nonemployees

By 2025, professional services firms won’t rely on the linear dependency of revenue growth to headcount growth. Emerging technologies are changing service delivery and workforce management and favoring outcome-based business models.

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SAP Road Map for Professional Services

See how our recent innovations expand support for project services to improve margin tracking, real-time revenue recognition, order-to-cash processes, procure to pay for better margin tracking, and revenue management. 

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Current release highlights

  • Fast and accurate quotes for complex solutions with configure, price, and quote
  • Enhanced staffing of resources to demands driven by machine learning capabilities
  • Candidate relationship lifecycle management with SAP SuccessFactors solutions 
  • Automated and intelligent finance operations with SAP S/4HANA Cloud 
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Upcoming innovations

  • Single view of all products and services ordered by a customer with business solution contract management
  • Top-down quota planning and headcount optimization
  • Enhanced intelligent selling scenarios and high-volume and mass hiring of candidate scenarios 
  • Real-time, unified reporting across the HCM suite
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Future plans

  • Integrate the sales engagement portfolio, from prospecting to closing deals to driving success
  • Enable end-to-end engagement management scenarios, including lead to cash with configure, price, and quote 
  • Unify employee and talent management processes for the entire workforce driven by AI and machine learning

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71 %

of professional services companies consider it important to offer outcome- and consumption-based contracts in a scalable fashion.

SAP Performance Benchmarking

95 %

faster quote-to-order process when quotes are configured by configure, price, and quote software.

SAP Performance Benchmarking

89 %

of the professional services providers in the Forbes Global 2000 are SAP customers.

SAP Performance Benchmarking

Solve your specific professional services needs

Optimize experiences with intelligent technologies

Read how professional services companies that adopt technical, cultural, and organizational change can provide innovative, value-added services for customers.

Unlock business value with digital technology

Drive nonlinear growth and provide more services with less by connecting innovative technologies with integrated business solutions to create an intelligent enterprise.

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Leverage commercial enterprise management processes optimized for project-based services, enable continuous innovation, and gain value from instant insight with a holistic platform that unites disparate processes and siloed information.

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SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Transform the work experience with a global HR solution. By using software that serves as a system of record for HR-related data, you can build value-based relationships with everyone supporting the business, allowing permanent and external workers to collaborate in new ways.

Jump-start your transition to an intelligent enterprise

Accelerate implementation time, reduce risks, and get ready for your digital journey with SAP Model Company.

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SAP Model Company services

Become a digital leader with a prepackaged service that delivers predefined end-to-end business processes, test cases, configuration guidelines, and project accelerators for your industry.

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Uncover keys to success from industry experts

Learn how you can overcome some of your greatest challenges today and in the future by becoming an interconnected company that can collaborate across functions and make better, data-driven decisions.

SAP S/4HANA is recognized for innovation and globalization

Find out why SAP is positioned in the Leaders category in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled PSA ERP Applications 2020 Vendor Assessment.

Simplify and improve your business with the latest innovations

Don’t let your two-tier ERP model be a liability

Transform your organization by supporting complex business processes to create a highly integrated system built with multitier scenarios.

Become a best-run midsize professional services company

Gain insights into how midsize professional services firms are using innovation and technology to meet the needs of their customers. 

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Michael Liss
VP Services Industries
SAP

Turn woes into wins for professional services

Find out why experience management is a critical measure that all professional services firms need to address.

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Jonathan Rhodes
Global VP and Head of Professional Services
SAP

Unlock new business value with digital technologies

Learn how you should face industry disruption and outpace competitors with next-generation digital technologies that can support innovation across your firm.

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Elena Tewari
Senior Solution Director, Professional Services Industry
SAP

Emerge stronger from extensive disruption

Discover four ways you can prepare your professional services firm and your clients for the next wave of disruption.

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SAP for Professional Services Community

Learn and interact with other professional services stakeholders through blogs, discussions, and other resources. Find out how our community of experts and customers can help you run simpler.

Manage all aspects of your professional services business

Explore our comprehensive solutions for all business processes across all industries to find the solutions you need to build a connected business.

Human Resources

Simplify HR processes and engage your workforce to drive better business results, empower your workforce, and develop your talent.

Finance

Bring together financial processes with automated, real-time analytics, and translate them into forward-looking business insight across the entire organization.

Analytics

Take advantage of in-depth data analysis, predictions, and processing of complex events, and combine data from a variety of sources into one, integrated platform.

Database and Data Management

Leverage business applications that use the latest technology advancements – including the SAP HANA platform, cloud, mobile, and more.

Application Development and Integration

Deploy high-velocity, intelligent edge applications using business and technology services.

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