Nov 29, 2017
Nov 23, 2017
SAP Transformation Navigator
SAP's new tool "Transformation Navigator" answers the questions that could most organizations procrastinate on or take too long to answer, i.e. What's next for my organization, what new products should I invest in for my organization, when should I do it, how long would these take and is there a business case for all of this ?
https://news.sap.com/heres-what-to-do-next-on-your-companys-digital-journey/
Watch the demo at Sapphire :
https://news.sap.com/heres-what-to-do-next-on-your-companys-digital-journey/
Watch the demo at Sapphire :
Source: SAP
Recommended Course on Open SAP: SAP Transformation Navigator in a Nutshell
https://open.sap.com/courses/tn1
Oct 17, 2017
Machine learning, Design thinking, Big Data, Blockchain, IoT, these are all some of the terms we are accustomed to by now and we are likely to hear more on these in the next decade and beyond. The digital race is truly on, with all technology companies innovating with new tools and solutions to tackle the challenges of the future. Here is a look at some of the latest product offerings from the 3rd largest software company in the world, SAP.
SAP Leonardo
SAP Leonardo is an innovative solution portfolio that enables companies to not only realize the digital transformation of existing end-to-end business processes but also enable them to evolve new business models to run digitally. The SAP Leonardo Foundation is based on the SAP Cloud Platform.
It comprises of 3 main components:
- SAP Leonardo IoT Bridge – a configurable cloud solution
- SAP Leonardo IoT Foundation - includes best of breed Business Services
- SAP Leonardo IoT Edge - offers data protocol conversion, persistence and data analytics
SAP Vora
SAP HANA Vora is an in-memory computing engine that is designed to make big data from Hadoop more accessible and usable for enterprises. SAP developed Vora out of SAP HANA as a way to address specific business cases involving big data.
SAP Connected Goods
SAP Connected Goods is a cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) solution, designed to maximize the value of mass market devices (such as coolers, vending machines, or power tools) through remote monitoring, management, and central control.
SAP Connected Goods helps enterprises to reduce operational costs, increase revenue, and improve customer satisfaction. At the same time, it allows enterprises to avoid lost sales and missed revenue opportunities.
From a technical perspective, SAP Connected Goods uses the following:
- Cloud Foundry services on SAP Cloud Platform
- SAP HANA Vora as the central infrastructure component for big data
SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service (BaaS)
Embedded in the SAP Cloud Platform, our blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) pilot is giving registered customers an easy way to experiment with the technology. By eliminating the need for a large upfront capital investment, BaaS is a low-risk gateway to enterprise blockchain adoption.
Things you could do:
- Experiment with blockchain to see how it could benefit your business
- Use open standards to create consortium and private blockchain networks
- Prototype, test, and build customised blockchain applications and smart contracts
SAP is co-innovating with customers and partners to explore high-value blockchain functionality for some of the existing products. This involves investigating new capabilities for multiple solutions across the IoT and supply chain portfolios, including: SAP Asset Intelligence Network, SAP Distributed Manufacturing, SAP Transportation Management, and SAP Global Track and Trace.
Others that have been around for a while:
SAP Lumira 2.x
SAP Lumira Cloud enables the use of self-service BI in a secure cloud environment, including the capability to access, visualize, and share data without IT assistance. This solution empowers users to explore information and expose insights with the ease of drag-and-drop.
The benefits of the cloud environment include reducing the amount of time that it takes to access and upload data from numerous resources, and the ability to expand self-service BI consumption with flexible accessibility at any time and on any device. Furthermore, no software or hardware is necessary to get up and running quickly.
SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer
This cloud CRM portfolio brings sales, customer service, and social CRM together – to help your team form powerful personal connections that drive customer engagement across all channels. Take advantage of rich predictive insight, flawless execution and contextual customer experience relevant to your industry.
SAP Predictive Analytics
SAP Predictive Analytics is business intelligence software from SAP that is designed to enable organizations to analyze large data sets and predict future outcomes and behaviors. For example, SAP Predictive Analytics can help make sense of big data and the Internet of Things by building predictive analytics models to identify unforeseen opportunities, better understand customers, and uncover hidden risks.
SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Cloud Platform, our enterprise platform-as-a-service (PaaS), provides comprehensive application development capabilities to help you extend, integrate and build innovative applications in less time – without the effort of maintaining the infrastructure. Use services for mobile, Big Data, Machine Learning, Internet of Things, and more to deliver secure business apps that integrate and optimise your IT landscape, drive agility and accelerate digital transformation – in weeks instead of years.
Source: As in links provided.
Oct 4, 2017
The "C-Levels" of the future
Replacing the age-old “C” levels with the new “C” levels for the future is a bold move. It was also a bold move to create the first marketing departments in history, and expect them to re-shape an entire company. But that happened anyway, and now the below "C" level positions are springing up in organizations too.
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Sep 26, 2017
The user who cried wolf (Just Saying…)
The best part of working in a Business transformation ERP implementation project is the gratification you get knowing that your work is going to help the organization and its users move to the next level. However,
the hunger to move to the next level is something that should be come from within the
organization too, if the users don’t have the hunger to
change, then there is a problem. The insecure users are the ones who generally
resist the move to change and would raise a fuss about every new thing done in
their area. This resistance to change does get noticed by the wider
organization over time. The real problem is that any future genuine concerns raised by the same individual might get treated as “noise” and this oversight might hit the entire
organization where it hurts most, all because of that one individual who cried wolf too many times,
just saying….
Jun 8, 2017
Practicing Enterprise Information Management (EIM) in an ERP
The old saying of “Information Is Wealth, Knowledge Is Power” cannot hold more significance than in the world that we live in today.
Information (data) has always been there, will always be there and will continue to grow, by 2020 the digital data generated will be approx 44 Zettabyte (ZB) compared to 4.4 ZB in 2013.
This exponential growth has seen the emergence of the new thinking behind "Big Data" and its importance in the digital world. The Big Data analytics market is a $203 billion one, it’s no big surprise that jobs such as Data Scientists are beginning to become mainstream.
Where is all this information coming from? Well, it is from every transaction taking place, every word that is spoken, every letter written in the whole wide world.
Today's ERP systems have evolved into a very complex set of integrated systems that read data from various sources and perform analytics to provide management with what they need.
However, an ERP is only one cog in the working wheel of an entire ecosystem, it is a known fact that there are various other platforms that play a vital role in decision making within an organisation. This is where a proper EIM (Enterprise Information Management) strategy can help to manage the information streaming in from all sources into and out of an organisation.
From an ERP’s perspective, the following EIM guidelines will help turn big data into “Big Value”:
- Improve Data quality - work on KPI relevant data, everything else is noise.
- Improving reporting models - reporting across the board is a waste of resource, instead, report on what needs to be addressed.
- Improving "Information digestibility" - reports of the future are going to be concise and to the point. AI is going to condense information to arrive at simple “Do” or “Don’t Do” decision. Get ahead now and prepare for it.
- Improve information trust by harmonizing master data – If you have different versions of the truth, it’s all a lie. Centralize master data and improve data accuracy.
- Improve Business-ready information data sets - Go for solutions that give you up-to-date information that is updated at the frequency which you require for your business decision making, routine setups like scheduled programs, batch jobs etc are soon to be a thing of the past, don’t hold onto those.
- Reduce data liability – Too much of data that doesn’t serve any purpose could become a liability and weigh the business down. Practice information life-cycle management and archive the data where appropriate.
- Improve “Data on the Go” - “Best in Breed” implementation is the new thing. Cloud-based specialized BI tools that integrate seamlessly with critical business data are beginning to gain prominence, make the most out of them.
By following proper EIM guidelines you could turn information into your "Strategic Asset”.
In today's world reporting on structured data is a given, however, the ability to identify & decipher unstructured data could be the game changer because what we know is a drop in the ocean of what we don't know.
May 30, 2017
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