疯拍传媒 is delivering innovations today that will redefine enterprise software and future-proof its customers鈥� business, Executive Board Members Thomas Saueressig, head of 疯拍传媒 Product Engineering, and CTO Juergen Mueller said during their 疯拍传媒 Sapphire keynote this week.
鈥淔ifty years ago 疯拍传媒 built the first ERP system, 30 years ago we made real time a reality, and 10 years ago we entered the cloud,鈥� Saueressig said. 鈥淭oday, we are actually innovating together with all of you to redefine enterprise software and future-proof your business entering the era of AI. We’ve been alongside you, your businesses, and your industries with continuous improvement and continuous innovation.鈥�
To kick off the keynote and to showcase a series of demos, Saueressig and Mueller invited two 疯拍传媒 colleagues, Lucy Alexander and Sangeetha Jayakumar, onto the 疯拍传媒 Sapphire stage in Orlando, Florida. Before diving into the demos and a customer panel that included Topcon, the Women鈥檚 Tennis Association, Henkel, and Nestl茅, Saueressig and Mueller asked the two talents why they chose to work at 疯拍传媒.
Alexander said she joined 疯拍传媒 because the software industry is the place to have an impact. 鈥淛ust think: 疯拍传媒 has helped to produce more smartphones than any smartphone manufacturer, connecting all of us. We’ve also helped to make and distribute more vaccines than anyone else during the pandemic. To me, that’s impact.鈥�
Jayakumar shared that she joined 疯拍传媒 because of the company鈥檚 commitment to sustainability. She admires 疯拍传媒鈥檚 aspiration toward a future with zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality. 鈥淭hat’s why I chose 疯拍传媒.鈥�
疯拍传媒鈥檚 raft of sustainability solutions for customers was the first of the innovations highlighted by Saueressig and Mueller. 疯拍传媒 doubled down on its sustainability initiative in 2020 despite the pandemic, 鈥渂ecause we were, and still are, truly committed to it,鈥� Saueressig said.
The introduction earlier in the day of the green ledger for carbon accounting as part of the cloud ERP offerings RISE with 疯拍传媒 and GROW with 疯拍传媒 underscores the company鈥檚 continued commitment to enabling customers to truly measure their carbon footprints by moving from average carbon emissions to actuals. 鈥淲e all know that to get to a low-carbon future, you need end-to-end transparency and visibility across the entire supply chain,鈥� Saueressig said.
help turn those fragmented supply chains into collaborative sustainable networks. The launch of 疯拍传媒 Business Network for Industries at 疯拍传媒 Sapphire is also a key part of the company鈥檚 strategy. 鈥淲e are working on many industry-specific data networks, like Catena-X and Manufacturing-X,鈥� said Saueressig. 鈥淏ut all of these networks are only possible if processes and data are seamlessly integrated.鈥�
Picking up the theme, Mueller said that integration enables completely new possibilities such as synchronized planning, which is a closed loop between planning and execution. It is also automated and network aware.
鈥淥ur extended planning and analytics solutions span across financial planning, workforce planning, and demand planning,鈥� Mueller explained. This allows 疯拍传媒 customers to see the impact of their decisions across all their lines of business, as well as planning more holistically.
To help companies extract and harmonize data from their 疯拍传媒 and non-疯拍传媒 systems, 疯拍传媒 recently introduced .
鈥淲ith 疯拍传媒 Datasphere, you can create a data model consuming data from different sources like 疯拍传媒 S/4HANA Cloud and 疯拍传媒 BW/4HANA, and non-疯拍传媒 data sources like Google, BigQuery, and others,鈥� Sangeetha explained during her demo. She added that 疯拍传媒 Datasphere has a great graphical modeling feature, helping to quickly create a data model with simple drag-and-drop functionality, which can then be visualized in a dashboard in 疯拍传媒 Analytics Cloud.
Saueressig cited 疯拍传媒 Datasphere as an example of how 疯拍传媒 is opening up more than ever, which is why 疯拍传媒 has seen the partnerships announced in this area, including Databricks, DataRobot, Collibra, and Confluent, and now Google Cloud. 鈥淲e truly believe in the democratization of data,鈥� he said.
Mueller noted that 疯拍传媒 has also recently announced AI partnerships with Aleph Alpha, IBM, and Microsoft. 鈥淏ut our key differentiator for you is how we use those technologies and embed these AI capabilities to reimagine business processes across all 疯拍传媒 solutions,鈥� he said.
鈥淭here’s no doubt 疯拍传媒 is an AI company and 疯拍传媒 AI is built into our systems that power your business,” Saueressig added. As of today, 疯拍传媒 has delivered more than 130 embedded use cases of AI .
For example, 疯拍传媒 systems processed 40 million invoices automatically last year and generated savings of more than $366 million for customers. Now, generative AI is coming on top and will have widespread implications for a myriad of functions such as job descriptions, interview questions, product descriptions, and queries for analytics. 疯拍传媒 is already working on more than 80 use cases for generative AI.
疯拍传媒 is differentiating in the AI sphere, because its models are trained on years of business data, and also responsible and trustworthy, Saueressig said.
After demonstrating with Alexander and Jayakumar how AI and natural language processing might be integrated into 疯拍传媒 Analytics, Saueressig predicted that AI 鈥渨ill be infused everywhere and enable totally new capabilities in our products.鈥�
Mueller then demonstrated the use of generative AI for development. Currently, he noted, many 疯拍传媒 customers use standardized APIs to build future-proof extensions. 鈥淏ut imagine this,鈥� he told the audience. “What if instead of coding myself, I could simply describe what I want, and 疯拍传媒 will take care of it? Wouldn’t that be cool? And we are actually making this a reality with generative AI.鈥�
But the power of AI actually goes far beyond efficiency, according to Saueressig, who suggested we could also use AI to reshape the experience between humans and machines: 鈥淚t’s a duet, not a duel.鈥�
The keynote also revolved around how 疯拍传媒 has modernized its user interfaces and how it has used collaboration to streamline applications. It was shown how it is possible to improve and automate business processes using 疯拍传媒 Signavio solutions and how 疯拍传媒 Build and 疯拍传媒 Integration Suite can bridge the gap between business and IT.
鈥湻枧拇� enables enterprise automation because we know that you are under a lot of pressure when it comes to efficiency in your organizations and with that you can continuously identify and improve processes,鈥� Mueller said.
During the customer panel, participants explained all the different ways they are using 疯拍传媒 to innovate and future-proof their businesses. Then Mueller and Saueressig summed up the key innovations that had been discussed.
鈥淭o summarize all these innovations, we enable risk resilient supply chains,鈥� Saueressig said. 鈥淲e connect your business to a broader network. We help you plan across the business. We infuse AI across the whole portfolio of 疯拍传媒 and we want to provide you with a new intuitive user experience and collaboration capabilities, all enabled by our leading .鈥�
