Photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash A Process Center of Excellence (COE) is an organizational unit that focuses on developing, refining, and standardizing business processes to increase operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall business performance. In this blog post, we’ll explore the benefits of having a Process COE in place. 1. Streamlined Processes One of the key....

Dear analysts working hands-on with SAP Signavio Process Intelligence: This is for you! Whilst quite some blogposts on approaches and data integration already exist thanks to my fellow colleagues – I thought it would be time to share hands-on experience & good practices from projects on a topic that is often underrated but so important....

Photo by Compare Fibre on Unsplash Centers of Excellence (CoEs) concepts are a popular organizational structure for companies seeking to enhance their performance and competitiveness. While organizations may call them by different names, at its basic level, a CoE is a dedicated team or department within an organization that is responsible for developing and promoting best practices in....

Photo by Ashutosh Dave on Unsplash In my last post we discussed how Process simulation is a powerful tool that enables organizations to analyze and optimize complex business processes. By using a simulated environment to model and test various scenarios, organizations can identify inefficiencies and make informed decisions about how to improve their processes. In this blog, we will explore....

It is interesting when I speak with customers and they ask if they actually have to draw their process maps. “Can’t you just discover them and render a drawing for me?”. While the answer to that may be yes, and in fact there are a lot of “process mining” tools available that can render a....

Photo by Alex Padurariu on Unsplash I get asked quite frequently about the overlaps of Process Mining and Business Process Management (BPM). While they are related in that they both aim to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes, they approach this goal from different perspectives and use different tools and techniques. Let me....

In recent years, the concept of a “digital twin” has gained increasing prominence in the business world. It is actually not a new concept, and though the it was officially given a name in 2010 by John Vickers at NASA, conceptually NASA had been pioneering this since the 1960s with their work on the space....

Intelligent Situation Automation (ISA) is an extension of Situation Handling in SAP S/4HANA Cloud on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). If you aren’t familiar with Situation Handling yet, read this blog post to find out more. Intelligent Situation Automation enables us to make Situation Handling even more intelligent and integrate cutting-edge technologies, such as Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs.  In this blog post, I want to introduce you to the Situation Knowledge Graph – it’s the basis of the Explore Related Situations....

Integration is today often a very technical job by transferring data form a sender system to a target application. The integration job is by sure part of a business process, but integration developers often only handle a small part of it. I propose to extend integration use cases to a broader scope and to bring....

After watching and being involved in activities around mergers, divestments, and acquisitions over the 16 years of my career so far, I have realized never to underestimate the importance of an organization’s Master Data. A consumer products company I am familiar with acquired a big competitor in Australia in 2018. I was involved in the....

Abstract Innovate your IT landscape with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, which is SAP’s strategic target solution for all data warehousing use cases in the puplic cloud, in line with SAP’s data-to-value portfolio strategy. This blog post provides SAP BW and SAP BW/4HANA customers an overview of how existing on-premises investments can be converted to the cloud. More importantly,....

The Executive Value Network (EVN) is an international knowledge sharing oriented forum for those interested in digital transformation use cases of Water and Waste Water companies where attendees explore how to move away from the inefficient traditional processes while embracing new relevant technologies and get valuable insights from peers.   Event highlighted some success stories....

Greetings and salutations my friends and colleagues. Happy New Year 2022. Cheers to health, happiness, and a more sustainable future for our families and loved ones. If you had the opportunity to be back in the office last week from holiday break, you most likely caught some of the Board level and SAP SE communications....

  Over the last 3 years, I have had an amazing opportunity at SAP to work in the business process integration area related to the red-hot HR and cloud ERP space. SAP under Christian Klein is boldly moving forward with its cloud strategy, innovating at cloud speed, and delivering on the promise of the Intelligent Enterprise....

If you’re still struggling to visualize your 2022 resolutions, maybe it’s time to take a different approach. Yes, another article about New Year’s resolutions when we’re already well into January. What makes this one (hopefully) worth waiting for? The creative mindset. As customer-focused creative experts within SAP – designers, strategists, video artists, and writers –....

The SAP community with 3 million users represents a full range of SAP customers, partners, developers, mentors, champions, and the Next-Gen of professionals. The community celebrates knowledge, insights, and expertise. A fun and visible part is the recognition of SAP Innovation Awards participation by way of reputation badges which recognize the achievements of participants, finalists, honorable mentions, and winners. Advantages of....

The pandemic, in particular, has boosted ecommerce, but also all other forms of technology. To retain sales, retailers have had to offer a variety of technologies, such as pick-up in store, ship from store, and even curbside pick-up. Furthermore, for obvious reasons, the use of cashless payment has increased dramatically. Customers have grown accustomed to....

  As low-code/no-code application development and citizen automation continue to evolve and accelerate globally, SAP Intelligent RPA is at the forefront enabling this shift, now closely integrated with SAP Workflow Management and SAP AI Business Services, among others. Process automation is now required to become even more accessible to people with little or no coding skills.....

When it comes to make improvements, people would rather add than subtract. Maybe because it might feel less creative or people don’t get paid for removing features. Think about it. Great article with a focus on healthcare. https://uxdesign.cc/to-add-is-expected-to-subtract-is-design-e84025fe201  

Overview Today’s companies are under increasing pressure to transform at a rate unprecedented in our history.  In many instances, companies either evolve their operations and go-to-market strategies or they cease to exist.  These demands for change, not only impact how an organisation operates but also the fundamental duties performed by their workforces.  Given the rate and nature of current business transformations, it’s important....

This is why I love our SAP AppHaus projects. From time to time some surprising projects pop up and we as Designers have a lot of fun with these “not normal” projects. Kudo’s to my colleagues Beate and Astrid who worked on this “not normal” project in “not normal” times. https://experience.sap.com/designservices/work/project/sap-btp-raises-equestrians-to-a-whole-new-level  

  Data is the lifeblood of your organization. And the ability to derive meaningful insights and analytics from that data in distributed multicloud environment is a critical factor for success. But data and business expectations have changed. The old, centralized approach to data management  isn’t agile enough to meet the needs of data engineers, scientists,....

In every industry, digital transformation is the imperative. But how can businesses justify focusing on digital projects amid unprecedented market disruption and seemingly insurmountable challenge? Today, digital transformation provides the foundation, technologies, and capabilities businesses need to withstand such obstacles. Across industries and amid the challenges of the day, digitalization is helping: Retail and consumer....

As a product manager of Internet of Things (IoT), I have worked with many companies that implement IoT to reinvent production, dive into entirely new business models and put the focus on their customer In this blog, I would like to share with you the fascinating transformation journey at SCHAEFER WERKE. Earlier this month I was....

Highlights of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2008 Release (August 2020) These challenging times do not only affect our personal lives, but also the way how we work. Whilst companies and employees have been challenged to perform the largest global work-from-home exercise to date, we at SAP help to ensure businesses run smoothly. Whatever the circumstances....