SAP

The SAP proposition to tomorrow's enterprise

SAP is a unique enabler of the trade of commerce.  SAP in its mission to help the world run better has a portfolio of transformative technologies that can work as enablers in radically improving the top  and bottom lines of any enterprise.  SAP's application strategy is oriented towards delivering applications to customers around the following platforms-

·         On Premise

·         On Demand

·         On Device

The core idea is to deliver new innovations without too much disruption and liberate the enterprise information to a wider set of platforms and a larger set of users  - ex: SAP has developed an "ABAP -Add on" for mobile, Duet enterprise and On demand solution.  It is SAP's belief that these "timeless software" will seamlessly merge into the existing enterprise landscape without disruption.

We see this as an opportunity for enterprises to bring in new thinking and technological transformation into existing ecosystems so that these enterprises can emerge stronger out of the downturn, and go well built into the next generation of business changes in the form of -

·         Increasing organization competitiveness by providing the ability related to instant analysis of data, predictive analytics, and the rapid turnaround of business decision making.  

·         Simplifying the consumption of software for improved ROI and lowering the TCO of IT operations by providing ability to access system and information from cloud

·         Unleashing the enterprise  information to today's mobile workforce improving productivity , increasing operations effectiveness and making business continuity 24x7 a real possibility

SAP has provided the means to achieve these objectives and now the challenge is how to integrate these transformative technologies within organization's existing landscape without causing much disruption. Let's take the case of mobility. Enterprise will find multiple ways to integrate mobility into their business and IT organizations-

1.       Starting with something out of box, like mobile workflow and sales applications on the Sybase Unwired Platform

2.       Second approach can be using Sybase Afaria mobile device management solution to help enterprise's IT organizations manage the growing multitude of employee devices.

3.       Third possibility is building low footprint and low cost micro app that work in online mode. Typical use cases are approval related - Approval of Purchase Orders, shopping cart, expense report etc. using Blackberry or iPhone handhelds. The application connects to required module of SAP ECC backend via the web browser of Blackberry or iPhone.

4.       Enterprise can also mobile-enable their unique business processes for it to work in online (connected) and offline (disconnected) mode. Example can be reporting of incidents that will let field personnel to record the incident using a mobile device. Then, GPS functionality automatically picks up the location of the place where the incident occurred. The mobile application then routes all that data, via a pre-designed workflow, directly to the incident management unit, notifying them of the potential incident. What would have taken days to act on now happens in seconds -- in real time.