Businesses today struggle with too much complexity inhibiting them from addressing vital business requirements, meeting stakeholder expectations in real time. Current processes have been intrinsically designed inefficiently as the available technologies have forced organizations to use outdated capabilities such as batch jobs and multiple data sources. Systems are built to support yesterday’s business and not what the future requires.
Siloed information makes decision compounds the delays when decisions need to be made across end-to-end processes spanning multiple business areas. Ultimately, even the processes themselves are not integrated, leading to even more delays. The transition to the digital economy, the Internet of Things, social media, and other external, structured and unstructured data flows adds to the complexities that must be addressed across the entire value chain before running simple can become a reality.
Time for a New Mandate: Run Simple
Business and IT simplicity at the core of the digital value chain
Running simple requires a fully optimized end-to-end digital value chain. Outlined below are key attributes required to address this new reality:
- Connected processes: Interconnected customers, resources, people, and suppliers to make immediate business impact from planning to execution
- Real-time insights: Analyze information immediately across internal and external channels (e.g., network, IoT, social) to drive business insights without the need for aggregates
- Modern technology platform: A digital platform that supports business today and in the future and also provides stakeholders with the ability to interact with each other with ease
With the digital value chain enabled by the digital business platform, opportunities are available to drive value and optimize your customers’ experience. This platform provides the foundation required to support real-time decisions across all areas that are part of a digital value chain so that businesses can focus on strategic priorities versus spending their time keeping the lights on.
In response, SAP is rewriting and simplifying the applications to take advantage of its in-memory business platform. This new and unique enterprise application is called SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA). It removes previous technological barriers and helps companies manage complexity and run simple across the digital value chain.
Re-imagine business
With the enterprise running in real time and Big Data at the core, new business models can easily be configured and opportunities to grow revenue and market share can be realized.
Re-imagine IT
The IT landscape is dramatically simplified by the consolidation of transactional and analytical data into one common in-memory structure. The application code is streamlined to leverage real-time processing. TCO is reduced, and performance is improved.
Re-imagine user experience
People-centric interfaces simplify the user experience. Business users can interact in real time and access all data, of all types, on any device.
SAPBOT Technologies develops rapid deployment solutions using SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA. Our SAP S/4HANA implementation, integration and migration solutions are catalysts to drive digital transformation, simplify operations, sense and respond to consumer preferences, and identify business opportunities.