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The Intelligent Enterprise

Run at your best with SAP solutions that can help you grow more resilient, more profitable, and more sustainable.
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What is an intelligent, sustainable enterprise?

An intelligent, sustainable enterprise is one that consistently applies advanced technologies and best practices within agile, integrated business processes. SAP can help you build an intelligent, sustainable enterprise by enabling you to:

  • Employ tools to understand what's happening across your business and why 
  • Infuse AI and machine learning into your business processes
  • Embed sustainable practices into the core of your business strategy and operations
  • Build flexible value chains and apply leading-edge industry practices to optimise your business
  • Implement vertical industry-specific processes in the cloud to run your value chain end to end

Enabling you to create an intelligent, sustainable enterprise

At SAP, we provide the foundation for companies to break down departmental silos and adopt dynamic, cross-functional business processes to deliver optimal experiences. 

 
Highlighted solutions within our framework:
Sustainable business solutions

Become best-run by running sustainably with SAP solutions for sustainability that can help you understand and manage your impact on people and the environment.

Business technology platform

Achieve your goals with the freedom and flexibility to build, manage, and deploy your applications anywhere on one holistic platform.

Artificial intelligence

Perform at your best by tapping into AI with comprehensive and transformation processes to immediately optimise every aspect of your business.

Business network

Unify every point of interaction and integration across your trading partners to help your business move faster than it ever has before with SAP Business Network. 

Industry cloud

Discover and deploy vertical solutions from SAP and our partners to apply leading-edge industry best practices and extend your current business processes.

Extended planning and analysis

Establish a simplified, comprehensive planning process that connects financial, supply chain, and workforce into one integrated plan across lines of business.

Experience management

Gain insights into customer, employee, and business stakeholder sentiment with Experience Management solutions from SAP and Qualtrics. 

Business process management

Transform processes and achieve customer excellence at scale by efficiently analysing, modelling, simulating, automating, improving, and monitoring processes.

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RISE with SAP

RISE with SAP can enable you to run an intelligent, sustainable enterprise.

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See how customers are delivering powerful business outcomes with SAP

All businesses have the same goals: they want to run at their best. 

33% fewer carbon emissions through improvements across supply chain, logistics, and production processes.

One million pairs of shoes sold in its first two years using a digital technology foundation.

Leading with innovation - SAP enables the Bundesliga club to become an Intelligent Enterprise - on and off the pitch.

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Closing the Green Gap: Oxford Economics

The evidence is clear: sustainability drives business success. But actions speak louder than words, and too many companies take insufficient action to attain their goals. Success depends on reaching across business ecosystems to include suppliers, regulators, employees, and board leadership in sustainability efforts.

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Intelligent Enterprise Institute

SAP has founded the Intelligent Enterprise Institute, which will provide tailor-made support intended to help business owners get the most out of their SAP landscape. The Intelligent Enterprise Institute offers expertise in Data Management, Business Process improvements, Experience management, and Sustainability provided via labs.

Data

The Data Lab helps customers define business outcome-driven data strategy, and realise data as an asset. Data Lab combines the power of SAP data management services and technologies to help our customers discover a new approach to data-driven business models.

Process

The Process Lab of the Intelligent Enterprise Institute, promises a ground for process innovation and optimisation based on the latest technologies and best practices. Customers will have the chance to create their own high-level process innovation and optimisation roadmap.

Experience

The Experience Lab aims to help our customers to listen to what is happening around their business, or their experience data, and to understand why. Customers will have the chance to design their experience management journey and to draw the initial high-level roadmap.

Sustainability

The Sustainability Lab will help our customers start the dialogue for a more sustainable business. Customers will have the chance to think, re-evaluate, and re-create their business around sustainability.

If you want to optimise your business and get the most out of your SAP landscape, please contact us,
You can also contact us via your Technical Quality Manager (TQM),  who is in charge of your SAP MaxAttention contract.

Improve your business processes enterprise-wide

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Enterprise resource planning

Equip your entire organisation with the ability to understand the financial context and profitability impact of decisions and plans and achieve new levels of productivity by automating workflows.

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Human capital management

Provide cohesive experiences that improve engagement by linking people strategies to business priorities and gaining full organisational visibility into talent and related finances. 

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Supply chain management

Improve reliability and performance by gaining full transparency across your networks. Embedded AI and real-time insights can enable you to take immediate action to align with changing conditions.

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Spend management

Embed intelligent technologies and analytics across global spend processes and deliver comprehensive compliance and supplier management by capturing spend data from all sources.

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Customer relationship management

Deliver personal, trusted, and connected customer experiences through in-depth customer understanding, effective engagement across every touch point, and exceptional delivery of a personal experience. 

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IT

Enable IT to be a true partner in defining your organisation’s digital transformation road maps, providing your team with the fastest way to develop apps, integrate processes, and deliver data insights to enrich your core business processes.

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The digital transformation opportunity

Explore the findings of our study into best-run businesses and see the data on how intelligent enterprises are outperforming their peers.

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Intelligent enterprise assessment

Pinpoint your optimal next steps toward building an intelligent enterprise. The assessment asks 12 questions about your organisation’s capabilities, performance, culture, and strategic priorities.

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Frequently asked questions

FAQ

Intelligent enterprises apply advanced technologies and best practices within agile, integrated business processes to run at their best. At SAP, we are enabling our customers to become intelligent enterprises by integrating data and processes; building flexible value chains; innovating with industry best practices; understanding and acting on customer, partner, and employee sentiment; and managing environmental impact – to grow more resilient, more profitable, and more sustainable.

No. The Intelligent Enterprise strategy was developed to help your business adopt capabilities we believe are typical for best-run businesses. You do not need to adopt all these capabilities to be an intelligent enterprise. And you do not need to support all these capabilities with SAP solutions to run as an intelligent enterprise. SAP supports smooth integration of on-premise and cloud-based applications, including partner and third-party solutions.

No. You can begin your intelligent enterprise journey in any part of your business – in finance, customer experience, human resources, procurement, supply chain, or IT. The path you take should be based on your business needs and priorities. If you need assistance in planning your journey, we recommend taking our short intelligent enterprise assessment survey.

Yes. We believe that running a modern, intelligent ERP system in the cloud is the best foundation for transforming your business into an intelligent enterprise. To accelerate and simplify business transformation, we recommend our RISE with SAP offering. 

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