With the holistic view on SAP Innovations you can define in which general direction you would like to go with your company and how SAP can support you to identify and understand the appropriate innovations for you company.
Insights into the SAP Release and Maintenance Strategy
SAP designs the release and strategy strategy to support the planning of SAP software implementations and upgrade projects and provide insights into SAP's strategy for software products and cloud offerings.
Additionally the release and maintenance strategy describes how SAP makes the standard software and cloud services avaialble for Customers. Furthermore the release strategy explains how various software product versions integrate with each other.
Reference: SAP Release Strategy Brochure
Product and Solution Related Information
Explore SAP's comprehensive solutions for all business processes across all industries to find the solutions you need to run your business better, faster, and simpler enterprise-wide. With over 40 years of experience across 25 industries, SAP offers proven solutions for all your industry-specific needs and goals – so your business can run better, faster, and more profitably, now and in the future. The Product road maps describe how feature and function capabilities of an SAP product or technology are planned to progress over time.
SAP’s road maps will require regular updates to stay current on the latest releases and further innovations planned for the corresponding products. Just as the company fine-tunes its portfolio and grows into new areas, these guides will constantly adjust and expand to cover new topics, such as on-demand, in-memory technology, and mobile devices. Each road map is meant to help those interested improve their understanding of a particular element of the SAP portfolio, gain insight into upcoming enhancements, and prepare for future innovations. Together, these guides form a transparent basis upon which customers can plan their investments and follow the development of SAP’s products.
The SAP Road Maps give you an overview of the short, mid and long-term planning of the SAP Products and Solutions including the Industry Solutions, Lined of Business, SAP S/4HANA Database and Technology trends, Analytical Solutions and a couple of cross topics related with the SAP Portfolio. Using the Key Deliverables for the comparison of Product and Solutions you will find respective tools and services SAP is offering to get the best overview and transparency. Experience cutting-edge SAP software in action. Download and try the latest versions of the market-leading reporting, BI, collaboration, cloud, and mobile solutions. With the SAP Cloud Applicance Library you can quickly deploy and get you hands on the latest SAP Solutions.
The purpose of this deliverable is to provide an entry point for Customers to explore the whole SAP Product and Solution Portfolio including all the Innovations Trends. The SAP Product ans Solution Portfolio is structures in Industries, Lines of Business, Technology Segments and main ERP Topics reflecting the relevant Business Scenarios and Processes.
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Overview of Business Processes and Value Maps
On the basis of the running business in a company it is important to identify pontential innovations to improve the overall processes on the basis of the companies strategy. SAP Solution Explorer and Value Maps provide detailed information about SAP’s solutions in the context of the Customer’s business needs. The SAP Solution Explorer site offers a preliminary look at how SAP software can help companies operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. The SAP Solution Explorer offers three views to explore for Solutions and Value Maps:
- Value Map: Aset of recommended solutions for the selected topic
- All Solutions: The full portfolio of SAP solutions for the selected topic
- Resources: Additional resources related to your selected topic including brochures, whitepapers and videos
The SAP Solution Explorer site offers a preliminary look at how SAP software can help companies operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. SAP Solution Explorer enables Customers to find detailed information about the SAP Product and Solution Portfolio. Customers will find a wide range of SAP solutions across Industries, Lines of Business and Technology areas. The SAP Solution Explorer recommends solutions for selected topics described as Value Maps. A Value Map depicts the set of solutions that SAP defines as the most relevant for the topic selected. All Value Maps are organized by key business priorities, which are color coded into tiers: Core Industry Priorities, Cross-Enterprise supporting priorities, Technology Platform priorities. Additionally, the SAP Solution Explorer offers an overview of All Solutions as part of the overall SAP Product and Solution Portfolio. There are three options for exploring the SAP’s Portfolio:
- Integrate, End-to-End SAP solutions that drive a strategic business outcome across solutions area are described as End-to-End Solutions.
- All available SAP Solutions for selected Industries, Lines of Business and Technology areas are described as Solution Capabilities.
- All SAP Solutions organized by the business result they delivered are described as Business Drivers
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Evaluate SAP Innovations Regularly
The Innovation Discovery service simplifies your search for new functionality delivered by SAP or to be delivered in the near future. It allows you to easily evaluate and discuss innovations and features with having both business and technical information at a glance. Holistic: For helping you make a quick decision to adopt innovation, both business and technical information are provided with each innovation and feature in the Innovation Discovery.
You can make use of all the information available online or can access it offline by downloading the information you are interested in. Individualized: The innovations and featured content are selected to best fit your business purpose and goals – by setting a filter by industry, line of business, usage of favorites, and even system-specific data provided by SAP EarlyWatch Alert data. Roadmap: Innovation Discovery not only shows information on the innovations and features available, it also gives insight into those in planning for giving you an indication as to where the journey is going for a specific industry, line of business, or technology.
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SAP Best Practices
With ready-to-run, digitized business processes optimized for SAP S/4HANA, customers and partners can start fast, build smart, and Run Simple while continuously Innovating across implementation modes. Depending on your business needs, you can choose the approach that meets today’s requirements while gaining the flexibility you need to meet future goals.
SAP Activate
The SAP Activate innovation adoption framework is a unique combination of best practices, methodology, and guided configuration to help customers and partners implement the SAP S/4HANA suite. It is designed for IT and business professionals who are involved in the migration to or configuration, integration, or extension of SAP S/4HANA. With ready-to-run, digitized business processes optimized for SAP S/4HANA, customers and partners can start fast, build smart, and Run Simple while continuously Innovating across implementation modes.
Depending on your business needs, you can choose the approach that meets today’s requirements while gaining the flexibility you need to meet future goals.
Reference: SAP Best Practice Explorer
Customer Testimonials and References
More than 100,000 customers of all sizes and in all industries are transforming their businesses with SAP solutions. Browse our showcase of customer case studies to learn how SAP is helping companies like yours generate more value with SAP technology, software, and services. The Customer Testimonials and References site offers a variety of successful implementation in different kind of industries, lines of business and technologies, including the Support and Service offerings of SAP.
Reference: Customer Testimonials