Zia Yusuf, kicks off the session.
Special reference to contributors and mentors
- 470 xabytes of information
- 1.9 billion trade every 60 mins
- 50% worlds business transactions touch an SAP system with 75000 customers
- 1000 people join the SAP community network everyday, 12th largest in the EU
- 52 countries collab in teched
- 4500 people attending SAP teched
New initiative - Collboration withh innocentive , open innovation market place. - SAP innovation and technology pavilion. As of Sep22 1002 onboard - Democratization of innovation
- Leo's turn now
First time addressing the TechEd audience, business and IT dont speak the same language.
Story about of hot air ballon and lost in fog joke, IT - perfectly accurate and completly useless answer, Business - You have no clue where you are and where you are going and you are blaming IT.
Customers to connect , collaborate , co-innovate
Overall perspective.
Transformational Forces
- Good old slides on business network ( Moving from Value Chain to Business network) - Network Shared risk - Better management risk
- Business Network - Relationship driven / Corporate boundaries have beomce fluid.
- Consumerization
- Need the IT environment to manage / support the Business Network
- Asian Paints (Case Study)
- Paint a heavily commoditised industry
- Extend the business model - Service Provider
- Transformation to an End to End service company
- Asian Paints Web / Phone based collaboration - Ties up with the painter / manages paint / manages payments etc
- External Painters ranked
- 400000 houses in first year
- 25% referred other customers
- Asian paints orchestrator of the network
- SAP Infrastrcture for both Paint an Service business
- ERP / CRM - Composite Apps
- SMS interface
- Business Int Analytics to benchmark painter
- Predictive for future requirements
- IT Requirements that are key to drive this transformations - Efficiency , Flexibility & Insight (Across the network)
User experience a key focus area of investment
- Harmonized UI - Standardized
- Enterprise search - search box for all enterprise applications
- Atlantic - Duet for Lotus
Weekend upgrade - Enhancement Packages (Applying and Enhancement pack is simpler than a support pack) - Entire suite two enhancement pack a year. Solution Manager - Business Process change analyzer - Study Impact of enhancement pack. Solution Manager is the corner stone for enterprise support. Solution manager manages the custom code also. Truly harmonized end to end business processes.
Enterprise support - Is not useful - Quote saying "That statement alone makes the difference"
Horizontal Solutions address the functionality needs , but doesnt manage the end to end business view / business use case.
Professional Certification for Business Process Experts ( Check out BPX community)
Customer Case Study : Hugo Boss AG
- 2003 fundamental shift in Fashion
- Versatile - Fashion truly unpredictable
- Bigger Varieties of brands
- Move from a push model to a pull model
- Standardized the processes
- Connected the network to the fashion manufacturers (flat files / paper)
- Collect and Analyze the POS data at all possible points - Open Architecture BI , Feedback on design trends, Supply chain etc.
- Moved from 4 collections to 52, with one week delivery windows - Flexible architecture.
Closed Loop Strategy to Execution
- Strategy
- Decision
- Monitoring
- Process Requirement
- process Execution
- Events
- Insight
BI XY3 - BI for the Masses
GRC - Composite Apss - Along with Cisco - Governance at Network level
Ian Kimble Demo1 Business Objects
Demo2 - Galaxy
Ecosystem
Talks about the Innovation Pavillion
SAP Eco hub - Online Solution Market Place (Both SAP and Partner Solution ) - Wonder when the are going to come up with the Onlie Services Market place powered by the community.
Ian Kimble - Demo Eco Hub
View of the Architecture for the portfolio
Request/ Suggestion to Upgrade to ERP 6.0
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Prashanth Rai
Good discussion.
Do you have the resource for this info :
1. 470 xabytes of information
2. 1.9 billion trade every 60 mins
3. 50% worlds business transactions touch an SAP system with 75000 customers
4. 1000 people join the SAP community network everyday, 12th largest in the EU
5. 52 countries collab in teched
6. 4500 people attending SAP teched
Posted by: ALPER | January 28, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Well...although I agree with most of the above ..each one can have their own opinion..but it definitely makes one think ...its good to see people collaborating and sharing their thoughts with others and trying to participate in discussions...we need to encourage this spirit.
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Posted by: george | September 25, 2010 at 10:04 AM
Business Strategy the chances are that you will have a lot of new information about the company that you should read and learn, to be successful. You might not grasp all the information overnight, but you can start the foundation of long term success.
Posted by: outlooksoft | January 12, 2011 at 01:35 AM