High tech

Accelerate operational excellence across silicon, components, devices, and software with unified applications, data, and AI.
High tech robotics

Drive innovation and agility for high-tech product-centric and software companies

Deliver faster innovation and shorter time to market as core priorities for software, product-centric, and semiconductor businesses.

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Our high-tech solutions can help you:

  • Streamline R&D to lower expenses and shorten product launch cycles.

  • Strengthen resilience and agility through integrated and orchestrated supply networks.

  • Boost revenue with improved cross- and upsell, customer acquisition, and retention.

  • Enable customer-centric everything-as-a-service (XaaS) models to grow recurring revenue.

Drive innovation

Shorten idea-to-market time with streamlined processes and AI, driving rapid product innovation.

Enhance business resilience

Improve resilience in finance, supply chain, sales, and talent using real-time insights and flexible actions.

Drive customer growth

Rapidly acquire, retain, and grow customers with tailored solutions and preferred consumption models, ensuring customer satisfaction.

AI for high tech

Optimise high-tech operations with AI assistants that orchestrate agents across workflows to improve demand prediction, pricing strategies, and process efficiency.

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Autonomous adaptive production

Unify configure-to-order (CTO) and engineer-to-order (ETO) workflows to boost delivery speed, efficiency, and margins.

Autonomous unified commerce

Continuously orchestrate merchandising, planning, marketing, shopping, and fulfilment to increase margins, conversions, and customer value while reducing costs.

Autonomous project delivery

Automate the entire Professional Services project lifecycle—from opportunity and scoping, through project setup and staffing, to financial management, billing, and performance insights.

Explore high-tech software from SAP and partners that can help your business run better

Innovate and adapt to a changing market with solutions that address specific high-tech industry needs.

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Collaborative product development

Improve product development and manufacturing outcomes with tools that help you:

  • Unify operations from design to manufacturing with connected processes.

  • Deliver products to market faster with AI-enabled product innovation.

  • Improve time-to-value across the chain with integrated product development.

  • Enhance decisions with embedded collaboration and a 360‑degree product view.

  • Strengthen compliance across all processes with a unified, comprehensive audit trail.

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Sustainability footprint management

Decarbonize your value chain by managing and optimising corporate and product carbon footprints with scalable carbon accounting.

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Strategic sourcing

Enhance sourcing outcomes and improve business performance with automation, AI, and cross-solution connectivity.

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Product lifecycle costing

Improve margin accuracy by calculating and modelling early product costs with flexible, real‑time costing and simulation capabilities.

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SAP Ariba Contract Intelligence by Icertis

Boost compliance and maximise contract performance with AI-driven contract intelligence.

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Unified supply chain planning

Optimise planning performance and supply chain outcomes across your business with tools that:

  • Improve efficiency and reduce costs with unified planning, execution, and analytics.

  • Enhance agility and resilience with supply chain scenario simulation.

  • Boost forecast accuracy by synchronising demand and supply planning with AI insights.

  • Increase profitability by managing supply chain exceptions with real-time visibility.

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Digital manufacturing

Improve manufacturing performance with real‑time visibility and AI‑guided analytics for connected production operations.

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Supply chain collaboration

Increase operational transparency by connecting suppliers and unifying supply, capacity, and inventory data as a shared planning capability.

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Logistics collaboration

Improve on-time delivery with optimised logistics and real‑time collaboration between shippers, carriers, and key partners

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Exensio Manufacturing Analytics

Improve yield accuracy by scaling high‑volume data collection and integrating manufacturing cost insights.

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Everstream Analytics

Protect operations and anticipate logistics disruptions with real-time risk insights.

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project44 connector

Increase supply chain visibility with real‑time insights and workflow coordination by connecting to a unified logistics network.

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Maximised revenue through intelligent selling

Boost sales efficiency and revenue growth to:

  • Enhance visibility with a single source of customer and lead data.

  • Enable better sales decisions with unified data and intelligent automation.

  • Secure long-term revenue through well-managed and holistic sales agreements.

  • Accelerate financial close accuracy with automated revenue recognition.

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AI‑supported sales automation

Boost sales performance and improve decision-making with lead‑to‑cash automation and AI‑enhanced insights.

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Configure, price, quote for products and solutions

Increase efficiency with error‑free sales order configurations, optimised pricing, and AI‑enabled quoting.

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Automated incentive and commission management

Increase sales performance by automating complex plans and delivering real-time insights through incentive management.

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Q2C CustomerPortal

Improve customer experience by streamlining subscription management, payments, invoices, and dispute handling through a unified portal.

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Monetization of subscriptions

Strengthen services delivery and recurring revenue performance to:

  • Enable new revenue streams with customer‑centric subscription packages.

  • Improve compliance and efficiency with automated entitlement management.

  • Increase margin visibility with real‑time contract and service analytics.

  • Boost revenue opportunities for all offerings with subscription management.

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Subscription billing

Grow recurring revenues with flexible, scalable subscription management and automated billing.

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Entitlement management

Meet complex business needs with automated entitlement management and orchestrated fulfilment via unified rights tracking.

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SAP Convergent Mediation by DigitalRoute

Convert software, device, and service usage into revenue by unifying real‑time data collection, enrichment, and processing.

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CodeMeter EMS Connector

Improve revenue protection through automated entitlement and license management supported by unified insights across systems.

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Gainsight CS

Grow account revenue and strengthen customer relationships with AI‑enhanced insights and connected customer success journeys.

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Finance operations management

Elevate finance performance with real-time financial data to:

  • Shorten reporting cycles through automated, AI-enabled finance processes.

  • Improve finance performance with efficient accounts payable and receivable.

  • Simplify decision-making with instant insights, ready-to-use KPIs, and AI.

  • Mitigate risk and improve compliance with embedded standards and controls.

  • Support new subscription models with event- and contract-based revenue recognition.

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Core HR, time tracking, and payroll

Improve workforce efficiency through simplified, automated HR processes that integrate seamlessly across the business.

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Talent management

Improve employee engagement and productivity, aligning business goals with integrated and AI-enabled talent management processes.

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Business AI for finance

Boost financial resilience and efficiency to deliver real- time insights and predictions with AI-driven automation.

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Finance intelligence

Accelerate business insights by harmonising financial, operational, and third-party data in real time with intelligent applications.

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SAP Intercompany Governance

Accelerate reporting close and intercompany reconciliation with centralised transactions and sub-ledger details.

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SAP Time and Attendance Management

Gain visibility and reduce compliance effort by unifying time tracking, scheduling, and absence management tools.

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Effective operational procurement

Increase purchasing power and savings with AI-enabled procurement processes that:

  • Save time and effort by automating and centralising invoice management.

  • Ensure compliance with all contractual terms through integrated procurement.

  • Improve efficiency using embedded automation and real-time analytics.

  • Strengthen supplier performance through unified insights and collaboration.

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Strategic sourcing

Reduce risk and cost while scaling easily with AI‑enabled automation and unified sourcing and procurement processes.

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Supplier collaboration

Improve planning, predictability, and quality of supply through closer collaboration with direct material suppliers.

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Procurement analytics

Enhance performance and reduce costs with real-time insights into global sourcing and procurement.

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AI‑supported procurement automation

Reduce costs, mitigate risk, and accelerate every step of the procurement process using AI and automation.

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Icertis Contract Intelligence for SAP S/4HANA

Enhance operational reliability to drive efficiency, compliance, and insight across procurement by unifying contract workflows.

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EcoVadis Business Sustainability Ratings for SAP Ariba

Reduce your carbon footprint through insights into trading partner performance and ESG risk in the value chain.

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TrustRadius: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Market Report – Finance

Learn why SAP Cloud ERP’s finance capabilities, AI-enabled financial management, and proven ROI make it a top choice among customers.

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Resources

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How AI is elevating the high-tech industry

Discover how high‑tech leaders use AI to simplify processes, improve efficiency, and drive growth.

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SAP Business AI for High Tech

Hear how high-tech companies use SAP Business AI to predict demand, cut manual work, boost yields, and assess pricing impacts in real time.

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Driving XaaS business models in high tech

Learn how Autodesk shifted to SaaS to boost growth, scale global as-a-service offerings, and streamline order-to-cash processes.

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Advancing enterprise agility with a strategic shift

Learn how SAP SE initiated a new era of efficiency and innovation by moving its core ERP and CRM systems into a unified cloud environment.

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See our solutions in action

Learn how solutions tailored to your industry can help you improve operations, innovate faster, and grow with confidence.

Grow your business with cloud ERP

Discover how SAP GROW helps businesses in every industry scale faster with AI-powered cloud ERP designed for growth.

See what’s ahead for your industry

Explore SAP road maps to learn about upcoming innovations, product advancements, and future capabilities.

FAQ

SAP offers an integrated, cloud-based ERP platform designed to address the industry’s specific challenges around rapid innovation, flexible business models, supply chain complexity, and sustainability requirements. The cloud ERP suite combines deep industry expertise with advanced technologies, supporting companies in transforming and optimising the full range of business processes—from R&D and manufacturing to sales, service, and monetisation.

SAP provides a comprehensive portfolio tailored for high-tech companies, spanning ERP, supply chain, manufacturing, product lifecycle, sales, subscription revenue, finance, analytics, sustainability, and talent management.

The combined use of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, SAP Subscription Billing, and SAP Entitlement Management enables software providers to flexibly design, monetise, deliver, and optimise their digital products and services across all business models and markets.

Cloud ERP brings together process integration, scalability, innovation, supply chain optimisation, and business model flexibility—making it foundational for the competitiveness and resilience of high-tech companies in today’s rapidly changing digital landscape.

SAP integrates AI both as embedded, no-code intelligence in standard solutions and as a flexible platform for co-innovation—making high-tech companies more efficient, agile, and competitive in today’s digital economy. In addition, SAP delivers ready-to-use AI agents designed for high-tech business priorities, including agents for:

  • Recurring revenue monitoring and simulation (for XaaS).

  • Shop floor supervisors and manufacturing optimisation.

  • Outsourced manufacturing orchestration.

SAP supports sustainability in the high-tech industry through a comprehensive portfolio of solutions, tools, and best practices designed to embed sustainability insights and controls into core business processes. These products enable companies to manage emissions, optimise resource use, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive responsible innovation across the lifecycle—from product design to supply chain and circular business models.

Companies can request a demo, explore product road maps for the high-tech industry, and consult SAP experts for additional information regarding our industry-specific software solutions for high tech.