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Integration within the Intelligent Enterprise – Overview Webcast Recap
This was a recent SAP User Group webcast with Sindhu Gangadharan . The recording is here.
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Agenda
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Unveiled last year at SAPPHIRENOW in June
Across line of business, value chain
Retain flexibility with a unified experience
Innovate next generation of business processes
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How executive vision, along value chain, along business processes
Lead to cash – most important process for many companies, drives revenue (C/4HANA, realize revenue in S/4HANA)
Workforce Management – productive workforce, core HR, performance, recruiting, travel and expense, bring together, contingent management, and bring to S/4HANA
Design to Operate – manufacturing process, plan, design, manufacture asset, operate asset, SAP Ariba
Source to Pay – sourcing and procurement savings, strategic procurement, direct material, services, bring together SAP Ariba + S/4HANA
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Unified integration approach applied to end to end process, embed intelligence in core of application, harmonized experience
Personas get a harmonized experience
Flexible extensions
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Holistic view to manage workforce
How talent is working across enterprise
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Planning, staffing, to map requirements
Integration points along end to end process
Need a solid integration strategy
See SAPPHIRENOW keynote from last week
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Customers expect out of the box SAP to SAP integration
4 pillars of strategy
1. out of the box integration – integrated end to end processes, reference content on API Business Hub – more than 900 API’s
2. open integration – no company starts with greenfield, public API’s
3. holistic integration – process integration, IoT integration, different landscapes
4. AI driven integration – Integration Content Advisor
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Step wise adoption of standards
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Standardized technologies, standard integration experience, well defined integration guidelines
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Leverage SAP Cloud Platform integration suite
API’s exposed in a consistent way in API Business Hub
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Exposing API’s, a public catalog, test drive APIs
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Integration between SuccessFactors and Fieldglass
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Transform SAP Cloud Platform into a business services platform
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Integration is not just with SAP
Look at automate end to end process; RPA helps to automate process
Integration Advisor
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Open connectors to on premise and cloud application
Models to application API’s
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RPA announced last week
Automate repetitive error prone steps
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Applies integration framework
SAP uses internally
Template is free
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Start from agnostic view
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Embed SAP into core
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Templates, business content
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Data streamlined one common report
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Understanding business semantics of integration
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Crowd sourcing, bring together, apply machine learning, best proposal for interface specifications
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Different usages of RPA
Bring together technologies
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Integration beyond API level, consistent UI’s, domain models, key to consistent integration
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Top is functional
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Plug and play, open integration, API’s, open connectors
Question & Answer
Q: I can see that the master data for business partner is on on the cloud platform price list. Will it be the same service for handling all the other master data?
A: Depends, not all on price list
Q: how PO is positioned for intelligent enterprise as most of happenings (e.g AI, Content, Connectors etc.) are primarily for CPI?
A: Packaged integration for CPI is also compatible with PO7.5 and above, stay tuned for PO road map, launched soon
Q: How would integration scenarios be monitored end to end,please?
A: Business Process Monitoring, Integration monitoring, depends on technology