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Realizing the Intelligent Enterprise

By now most of us should be familiar with SAPs strategy for the Intelligent Sustainable Enterprise based on our seamlessly integrated and automated cloud portfolio across UX, data and processes – but many of us may yet have to experience how to deliver and implement their first Intelligent Enterprise, and the purpose of this blog is to equip you with some foundational knowledge in this area, primarily targeting Technical Architects but very relevant for a much wider range of roles.

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First off all, the foundation for the Intelligent Enterprise is SAP Business Technology Platform, and very centrally those services that relate to the defined suite qualities, which are to key achieve a consistent suite of enterprise applications across LoBs and function to realize the Intelligent Enterprise potential.

 

Suite qualities overview

 

 

As a Technical Architect you play a crucial role in ensuring that each suite quality is considered when delivering on the Intelligent Enterprise promise, and any technical resources involved in the project will turn to you to help ensure that best practices are leveraged when managing topics like integrations between different components, enabling single sign-on across the solution landscape, protecting data integrity, optimizing and automating workflows and provide a consistent data visualization across the Enterprise.

Below we look at each of these suite qualities and which services facilitate their enablement and propose the enablement that we believe will give you the right high-level insight into each of these services.

But before we dive into the individual suite qualities, we would propose that you join this brand new openSAP course (especially week 1 and 2) which will set the scene and put everything into the right context.

 

Individual suite qualities

Seamless user experience
Description Improve the daily work experience of end users with a common look for all SAP solutions across the intelligent enterprise.
Enabled by SAP Fiori, SAP Work Zone (standard edt, advanced edt.) on SAP BTP
Proposed learning

Presentation: Suite Quality Seamless User Experience

openSAP: SAP Fiori Overview: Design, Develop and Deploy
SAP Build Work Zone learning page

Learn SAP TechEd Highlights around SAP Build Work Zone

Official training

SAP Fiori Training and

SAP Work Zone – Certification Path

Additional resources

Learning Journey: SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori Applications

Learning Journey: Implement and Administer SAP Build Work Zone

Mission: Establish a central entry point with SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition

 

Consistent security & identity management
Description Reduce manual administration efforts for user management and identity provisioning and enable a seamless login process to avoid work disruption.
Enabled by SAP Cloud Identity Services on SAP BTP
Proposed learning

Presentation: Suite Quality Consistent Security and Identity Management

Single Sign-On and Principal Propagation in Multi-Cloud Environments [TechEd 2022 XP106]

Official training

Identity and Access Management in SAP Cloud Platform (SECCL1)

Secure Cloud integration with SAP Business Technology Platform (SECCL2)

Additional resources

Blog: How to get authenticated user information with CAP in three different ways – Blog Posts Series

Blog: Build a User Management Microservice in BTP with CAP

Learning Journey: Security with SAP BTP

 

One workflow inbox
Description Complete business tasks proactively through a unified view of pending tasks across SAP solutions in both mobile and desktop environments.
Enabled by SAP Task Center on SAP BTP and SAP Mobile Start
For full workflow modeling and visibility capabilities leverage SAP Build Process Automation on SAP BTP
Proposed learning

Presentation: Suite Quality One Workflow Inbox (SAP Task Center)

 

For SAP Partners only:

Webinar: SAP Task Center – The Single Point of Access for your Tasks

Bootcamp (Session 2 of 3, December 8th): Transform Business Processes Using SAP Signavio and SAP Build – Includes use case demo and hands-on exercise

Official training N/A
Additional resources

Blog: Getting Started with SAP Task Center on SAP BTP

Mission: Establish a Central Inbox with SAP Task Center

 

Aligned Domain Models, APIs & Events
Description Simplify the exchange of business objects and improve data consistency by using one semantically aligned domain model across all end-to-end business processes.
Enabled by SAP Integration Suite and SAP Master Data Integration service on SAP BTP
Proposed learning

Presentation: Suite Quality Aligned Domain Model

openSAP: SAP’s Integrated Intelligent Suite – (Week 4 Unit 1 and 2)

openSAP: Accelerate Enterprise Integrations with SAP Integration Suite

openSAP: SAP Master Data Integration in the Intelligent Enterprise

 

For SAP Partners only:

Webinar: Partner Certification Academy for SAP Integration Suite

Official training SAP BTP Integration Suite (CLD900)
Additional resources

Learning Journey: SAP Integration Suite

Blog: SAP Master Data Integration – sharing and synchronizing master data in the integrated Intelligent Suite

 

Embedded & cross-product Analytics
Description Make quick and confident decisions by relying on comprehensive analytical insights, based on secure live access to your business data.
Enabled by SAP Analytics Cloud
Proposed learning

Presentation: Suite Quality Embedded & Cross Product Analytics

openSAP: SAP Analytics Cloud – Become an Augmented BI Expert

openSAP: Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud

openSAP: Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud – Advanced Topics

 

For SAP Partners only:

Webinar: Partner Certification Academy for SAP Analytics Cloud

Official training Training for SAP Analytics Cloud
Additional resources Learning Journey: SAP Analytics Cloud

 

Coordinated lifecycle management
Description Accelerate implementation projects and reduce manual integration configuration effort with harmonized provisioning, setup and operations, and monitoring solutions.
Enabled by SAP for Me, SAP CALM
Proposed learning

Presentation: Suite Quality Coordinated Lifecycle Management

Presentation: Learn how SAP Cloud ALM supports Implementation and Operations for SAP Business Technology Platform

Presentation: Keep control with Change management for SAP BTP and ABAP-based applications

Official training N/A
Additional resources

Webinar: SAP Community Call for ALM

FAQ: SAP Cloud ALM FAQ

 

End-to-end process blueprints
Description Reduce planning effort for implementation projects and support architecture decisions by leveraging process blueprints following the industry reference architecture standard.
Enabled by

SAP API Business Hub

And

SAP Signavio Process Explorer

Proposed learning

Presentation: Suite Quality E2E Process Blueprints

openSAP: Integration for the Intelligent Sustainable Enterprise (Week 2)

 

For SAP Partners only:

IE for Lead to Cash

IE for Source to Pay

IE for Recruit to Retire

Official training N/A
Additional resources SAP Intelligent Enterprise Architecture Foundation – more infos about the course and Enterprise Architecture Framework and Method you find here

We hope that you found the above insight useful and will benefit from the proposed learning material.

Authors:
Trinidad Martinez, Solution Architect
Lutz Nitsche, Community Lead Intelligent Enterprise Architects
Peter von Linstow, SAP BTP Programs & Execution Lead

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      Author's profile photo Shantanu Sharma
      Shantanu Sharma

      Very useful.

      Author's profile photo Thiago de Castro Mendes
      Thiago de Castro Mendes

      Excelent enablement guide and summary! Well done Trinidad, Lutz and Peter!