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• SAP S/4HANA Implementation

Deployment Approaches to SAP S/4HANA 2024

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In this report: SAP S/4HANA adoption continues to steadily increase as organizations move away from SAP Business Suite and SAP ECC. While that growth has not accelerated, the proportion of respondent organizations that have no plans for SAP S/4HANA is going down. This year, just 11% of respondents reported having no plans, the smallest number…

The CIO’s 2024 Agenda for SAP, SAP S/4HANA, the Cloud and Beyond

Business leaders, particularly Chief Information Officers (CIOs), are tasked with the vital job of ensuring that their organization’s data and IT structure delivers agility, visibility, and efficiency to all parts of their enterprise. With a constantly-shifting business landscape, decision-makers are always searching for solutions and strategies that bolster the capabilities that their IT architecture can…

• SAP Data and Data Management

Data Management Strategies

Businesses across all sectors are actively refining their data management strategies to fully leverage their data assets, thus driving innovation and securing competitive advantages. The movement toward more accessible data modeling and analytics is transforming the way organizations utilize their data resources. A cohesive system that merges data management, analytics, and AI governance equips enterprises…

• SAP Supply Chain Management

Building Resilient and Agile Supply Chains Leveraging Data, Analytics, and Automation

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In 2024, supply chain professionals are constantly navigating a myriad of supply chain challenges, ranging from managing diverse product portfolios and predicting fluctuations in demand and supply to complying with regulatory shifts and mitigating geopolitical risks. Amidst these complexities, the enduring impact of the pandemic on the industry emphasizes the critical need for resilient and…

• SAP Finance Automation

AI & Automation in Finance

In this report: In 2024, finance leaders at SAP customers must make difficult decisions to help their businesses navigate a constantly-shifting economic landscape. To help facilitate these decisions, advanced tools like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation are reshaping the conversation around how organizations are able to accomplish essential tasks efficiently and accurately. This research explores…

• SAP Infrastructure

SAP S/4HANA Migration 2024

The upcoming end of maintenance of core SAP Business Suite applications remains the biggest factor impacting SAP ERP customers. Though a growing number of organizations have licensed SAP S/4HANA, more than 30,000 may still be undecided about their path forwards. SAP’s push towards cloud ERP through the RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP offerings…

SAP Infrastructure and Landscape Trends 2024

Infrastructure is the foundation of any SAP landscape. Although SAP has a goal of becoming a cloud company, many organizations have yet to make the move to cloud-based infrastructure. This is because a significant number of existing systems reside on legacy infrastructure. However, this infrastructure is changing. When SAPinsider first researched infrastructure and landscape trends…

• SAP Global Tax Management

Tax Technology Innovation and Automation – Benchmark Report

In the dynamic tax compliance landscape, finance and tax leaders face challenges in adopting new technologies, as outlined in SAPinsider’s Tax Technology Innovation and Automation benchmark report. Notable challenges include budget constraints, integration issues, and a lack of technical expertise. Addressing these, many are turning to solutions like SAP S/4HANA Cloud for its real-time analytics…

• RISE with SAP

RISE with SAP 2023

Over the last two years, RISE with SAP went from being a somewhat confusing business-transformation-as-a-service offering to the core of SAP’s cloud ERP strategy. To further demonstrate the value of the offering, SAP recently announced RISE with SAP Premium Plus. It provides access to a new embedded generative AI assistant called Joule, new sustainability features,…

• SAP Cash Management

Cash Management and Visibility – Benchmark Research Report

In 2023, finance leaders in SAP customer organizations are prioritizing accurate cash flow forecasting amidst an evolving economic landscape. SAPinsider’s research indicates a significant challenge: only 5% of these organizations have a comprehensive view of cash and liquidity. The survey, involving 128 finance community members, highlights an increased focus on agile decision-making to counter economic…

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Innovation at SAP

Continuously innovating for our customers – and the future

From quantum technologies and blockchain, to cryptofinance and beyond, SAP is continuously exploring new ideas, business models and pioneering technologies to shape the next generation of enterprise software, deliver real-world innovation, and enable sustainability.

Now, more than ever, helping the world run better and improving people’s lives depends on all of us working together to sustainably manage the world’s resources. We will achieve this by:

• Reinventing how we manage all resources, including people, products, raw materials, and capital
• Extending beyond the confines of traditional ERP systems by enabling real-time information flows across business lines, supply chains, and value chains
• Creating opportunities to work collaboratively through interconnected networks to accelerate climate action, regenerative economies, and prosperous communities.

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Our innovation strategy

Focusing on four key innovation topics today will drive our strategic agenda for the future –  transforming your business to be more profitable, resilient, and sustainable.

Manage resources across business networks

Effective use of resources is at the center of every best-run business and the habitability of our planet. Being a best-run business requires constant reinvention by finding new ways to optimize resources through new business models and technologies that can help you move smarter and faster than ever.

Transform business processes

Managing resources seamlessly begins by transforming business processes. This requires new ways to use data and machine learning to create intelligent business processes – connected through business networks that drive collaboration, and employ a vast ecosystem of B2B software players to serve any industry.

Make data-driven decisions

Effective business processes depend on intelligent decisions being made with insights from data in the organization and beyond its networks. This requires evolving the current system of record to a system of intelligence across decentralized sources, providing a semantic data layer that is accessible across your organization and ecosystem, and reinventing business decisions as a service, embedded into business processes.

Enable people with a trusted foundation

Insightful decisions by both humans and computing systems depend on trust between individuals, organizations, and the systems they use. This requires business networks based on a business technology platform known for reliability and accuracy that protects the interests of each party – with zero vulnerabilities.

Areas of exploration and research:

B2B marketplaces

Autonomous supply chain management (SCM)

Carbon account management and compensation

Circular economy management

Industry business networks

Encrypted business benchmarks 

Crypto finance

Modular enterprise and process composability

Business process intelligence (BPI)

Business process as a service (BPaaS)

Business process as a service marketplace

Self-preparing and tuning data mesh

Business decisions as a service (BDaaS)

Decision implication simulation 

Data marketplace

Platform ecosystems

Productivity as a service (PaaS)

Cybersecurity and data privacy

Self-sovereign identity

Quantum-safe cryptography

Industry platforms

Blockchain and distributed ledgers of trust

Homomorphic encryption and differential privacy

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Industry innovation enabled by SAP solutions

Discover industry cloud innovations to help you optimize, extend, and transform your core business processes. 

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Put automation and app development in the hands of experts and drive business outcomes.

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Extended Planning and Analysis

Take extended planning and analysis to new heights with SAP Business Technology Platform.

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Customer Experience

Enhancements in CRM technologies is changing the game in customer experience.

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Spend Management

Innovating spend management for greater control and savings.

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S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

Elevating the power of innovative ERP technology to help organizations stay ahead of the curve.

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Business Network

Infuse transparency, resiliency, and sustainability into your supply chain with SAP Business Network.

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition

Raising the power of your ERP investment can help take your organization to new heights.

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Data and Analytics

Discover how SAP Business Technology Platform bolsters your journey to modernize your data and analytics environment. See the latest innovations and upcoming plans.

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Benefit from our established networks of business innovation

It takes more than technology for innovation to happen. It takes bright minds from diverse backgrounds working together to apply technology in original and creative ways. When you innovate with SAP you tap into a network of researchers, developers, students, partners, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, and SAP customers.

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Apply SAP’s Human-Centered Approach to Innovation to transform business data into customer value with the help of SAP Business Technology Platform.

The prestigious SAP Quality Awards for Customer Success celebrate and recognize customers who have excelled in the implementation of their SAP software solutions.

Helping SAP partners develop innovative solutions on SAP platforms

The Partner Innovation Lifecycle Services (PILS) group at SAP helps partners develop innovative solutions on SAP platforms. Learn how PILS can benefit you.

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Building the bridge between SAP and our innovative ecosystem

SAP Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) helps our partners convert ideas for solutions for intelligent enterprises into working prototypes and from there to market-ready solutions.

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As a member of this cross-industry coalition of more than 130 companies, we help realize a vision of companies self-determining usage rules and tapping the full potential of their data in secure, trusted and equal partnerships. 

A founding member of this ecosystem to accelerate innovative breakthroughs in science and technology, we contribute to shaping the industry across all European Quantum Technology stakeholders.

Along with other leading German companies, our organization is bringing quantum computing to the level of practical application and cooperatively shaping a new digital future. 

We participate in this member-led industry organization, driving the use of Enterprise Etherum and Mainnet Etherum blockchain technology as an open standard to empower all enterprises. 

As an innovation partner for this global, CEO-led organization and together with other forward-thinking companies, we are advancing global decarbonization efforts by jointly collecting and sharing product carbon footprint data with customers and consumers. 

A founding member of this project with representatives from business, science and international politics, we develop a solution to help create the next generation of data infrastructure based on openness, transparency and trust. 

For this initiative, we are creating the network and technology to address the central challenges of the automotive industry due to Catena-X enabling a continuous data exchange for all contributors along the automotive value chain.

Academic engagements

We engage with the academic community because we value fresh perspectives on technology trends and our solutions, impacting 437,000+ customers and their communities – today and tomorrow. Find out how to translate and apply your research in an SAP context, at SAP scale.

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Developing the next generation of innovators

SAP Next-Gen is a global community for students, universities, schools, and educational partners passionate about innovation and technology. We inspire the next generation to use digital technologies through initiatives including SAP University Alliances and SAP Young Thinkers.

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Explore our regional innovation hubs

Situated in high tech regions of the world, SAP Labs Network are global research and development centers that focus on developing leaner, faster, and more efficient solutions.

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Continuous intelligence: definition, benefits, and examples.

Continuous Intelligence, or continuously monitoring business data for anomalies, can help brands make smart, real-time business decisions.

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The journey toward a composable enterprise

The journey toward a composable enterprise is long, but a highly relevant topic for SAP customers. Learn more about SAP's vision.

SAP and Quantum Technologies

Quantum technologies may currently seem like no more than a speck on the horizon, but SAP has the megatrend firmly in its sights.

Research publications from SAP

SAP is participating in research with several universities across the globe.

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