First off, happy new year!   I hope you’re excited to start 2024 and I’m happy to kick off our brand-new community series that will help you achieve some of your new year’s resolutions such as to up your SAP game and automate business processes within your organization   The new Ask Me Anything series is here to bring the community together to explore the SAP BTP universe. Each month we’ll discuss a different topic, and you’ll have the opportunity to interact, ask all your questions, and get insights directly from our experts.  The very first episode will turn the spotlight ..read more

Customer behavior, post-pandemic economic recovery, extreme heatwaves, and drought due to climate change, inflation, supply chain disruption, and an energy crisis have caused many challenges for companies. This greatly influences the innovations that we bring to each SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition release, and our shift to include more of SAP´s Intelligent Technologies to help companies transform their processes and to better support them on the path to sustainable growth. In the following blog, I will give you an engineering expert view of some selected highlights of our SAP S/4HANA Cloud ..read more

In today’s fast-paced digital era, process automation has become a critical driver of efficiency and productivity in organizations. However, many businesses face challenges in implementing automation solutions due to the requirement for skilled developers. Enter SAP Build, a powerful Low-code and no-code (LCNC) platform that enables process automation accessible to everyone. In this blog post, we will explore the advantages of SAP Build and how it empowers users of all backgrounds to automate their day-to-day tasks and processes. SAP Build is designed with simplicity in mind, providing a LCNC ..read more

Gartner recently released the 2023 Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation report and SAP is recognized as a Visionary. SAP was recognized as a Visionary in the same report in 2022 as well. SAP’s priority is to provide the best process automation solution for SAP application customers as part of an integrated low-code solution, SAP Build. For example, entitlement to SAP Build included with RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP offerings, allow S/4HANA Cloud customers to start automating tasks and processes right away. At the same time, hundreds of pre-built automation projects tailored for SAP ..read more

A few weeks ago, we discussed how an SAP system could be set up to be “externally-signed”, i.e. trusted so that the system is truly what someone may claim it to be.  This is the root of all SSL trust relationships. Now that we have set up such a trusted system, how can we utilize it further for operational productivity in automation?  SAP already has Intelligent Robotic Process Automation entitlements available in its SCPI Cloud Foundry.  However, what if we want a Basis level process to just stop and start multiple SAP in any trusted environment?  How do we ..read more

Disclaimer: Any views or opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of any companies that the author has or is working for. The disruption brought on by the pandemic in 2020 highlighted two key finance weaknesses in some organizations: The gaps in their finance capabilities to support organizational agility, and The underinvestment in finance digital transformation that created these gaps These two points usher the urgency to accelerate finance digital transformation. Finance teams that are behind in their digital transformation j ..read more

Intro Let’s imagine a typical use case – your automation should fetch multiple invoice files from some source (file folder, Outlook, Gmail, FTP, etc.). Automation will loop through your file collection, extract data from those invoices using DOX and then analyze if everything is OK. Automation can post some of the invoices but what if PO is missing, or your 3-factor authentication found problems, or confidence level of recognition is low for some elements, or for larger total amount you must have a multi step approval? There can be many different workflows that you will need to fire based on d ..read more

We all agree that the success of SAP Business One (SAP Partner access only) and SAP Business ByDesign (SAP Partner access only) is owed to the incredible SME partner community surrounding these solutions. Not only have these partners been successful in the past, but also very innovative – with a fantastic pay-off. Innovation is a process, and we – as trusted advisors for our SME partners – are doing our best to guide them through their innovation journey. Step-by-step, we supported our partners to become cloud-based, to adopt a loosely coupled architecture, and to look at the variety ..read more

问题：你知道什么是BTP么？ 回答：啊，啥是BTP，我知道SAP ERP、SAP BW、SAP BPC、前几年有个莱昂纳多(后面没有迪卡普里奥，也不是影帝)的，但是我不知道什么是BTP。 说起BTP Business Technology Platform，估计很多人很懵圈，我今天就大概说一下BTP业务技术云平台的大概范围和功能作用。 首先BTP有一个广义的定义，也有一个狭义的定义。广义的定义来看SAP是一个品牌，所有SAP的技术组件和服务都包括在了里面了，上面问题的BW、BPC实际上也是广义BTP的一部分。狭义的来看BTP仅仅是指基于之前叫做SAP Cloud Platform上的云服务才属于BTP，比如我们熟悉的CPI集成套件、CPES扩展套件、RPA (现在被SAP叫SPA了，洗浴整起来)机器人流程自动化、SAC分析云等等。 我们先来看广义的BTP一般来说广义的BTP由四大部分组成，即数据库与数据管理、数据分析、开发与集成、智能技术。 第一类数据库与数据管理，我们熟悉的SAP HANA、SAP IQ、SAP SQL Anywhere等都属于这一类，当然MDG主数据治理、Data Service数据同步也属于这一类，当然云端的SAP HANA Cloud肯定也是这一类。 第二类数据分析，比较令人费解的是我们的BW、BPC也属于第二类，在我看来至少BW应该属于第一类，除了BW、B ..read more

Customer behavior, post-pandemic economic recovery, extreme heatwaves and drought due to climate change, inflation, supply chain disruption, and an energy crisis have caused many challenges for companies. In the following blog, I will give you an engineering expert view of some selected highlights of our SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, and SAP S/4HANA for Sales | 2022 release, to demonstrate that automation, system integration, and end-to-end transparency can help companies to transform their order-to-cash process and that can better support them on the path to sustainable growth. The blog ..read more