Intelligent Enterprise Advent Calendar 2021
Michael Ameling
Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, SAP BTP | Head of Engineering & Experience, MD SAP Labs Dresden
As the year comes to a close, and Christmas is just around the corner, I'd like to brighten and embellish the upcoming days with the ‘Intelligent Enterprise Advent Calendar 2021’. If you are not familiar with an Advent calendar: this is a special calendar used to count the days of Advent in anticipation of Christmas.
SURPRISE! Every day there will be a new virtual “door” for you to explore: beginning December 1, consecutive doors will open every day, leading up to and including Christmas Eve – December 24.
Instead of chocolates or sweets, you will find an insightful post on my newsfeed with a handpicked surprise: filled with a digital ‘gift’ that will show, explain, and entertain you on how we at SAP can help you run at your best and become an integrated Intelligent Enterprise. This will give you a holistic view – wrapped in a pre-Christmas context – of relevant news and updates published during the past couple of months and weeks.
A big ‘Thank you’ to all colleagues who contributed to the assets we are going to share with you as well as to the communications team for creating this Advent Calendar 1🎁 2🎁 3🎁 … 24 🎁.
Check out your daily surprises in my newsfeed or in this article. All revealed content will be visible by December 24.
Stay healthy and safe, and enjoy the exciting pre-Christmas time!
Best regards, Michael
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Door 24 – Wrap Up: Integration Highlights 2021 and Outlook 2022
Welcome to the end of this year’s digital Advent calendar with everything that happened around SAP’s Integration Strategy in 2021.
With all these Christmas goodies for you, here is a selection of 2021 integration highlights:
- SAP TechEd session “Rethink Integration for Your Intelligent Enterprise” and update of SAP’s Integration Strategy Paper
- Full report and blog post about SAP on Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform-as-a-Service
- Launch of SAP Mobile Start of SAP Task Center
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Door 23 – Suite Quality: End-to-End Process Blueprints
Leverage process blueprints following SAP’s Enterprise Architecture Methodology to make intelligent architecture decisions and reduce your planning efforts for implementation projects.
In this SAP Community Call, Carsten Puschke outlined how consistent and intuitive processes support your business. View the slides of the recording for more details or find relevant process blueprints on the SAP API Business Hub.
For more news and regular updates follow the dedicated SAP Community topic page focusing on SAP's Integration Strategy.
Wish to have a deep dive? Enroll for the self-paced and online course ‘SAP’s Integrated Intelligent Suite’ on openSAP.
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Door 22 – Suite Quality: Coordinated Lifecycle Management
The suite quality Coordinated Lifecycle Management of SAP’s intelligent suite accelerates implementation projects and reduces manual integration configuration effort.
Read this blog by Carsten Puschke to learn more about this suite quality and browse the latest update of SAP’s Integration Strategy paper to find out more about the intelligent enterprise.
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Door 21 – Suite Quality: Aligned Domain Models
SAP uses Aligned Domain Models as the unified language – the lingua franca – of the integrated Intelligent Suite. Aligned Domain Models allow SAP applications to synchronize business objects such as master data faster and in a consistent and standardized way.
To gain more insights into Aligned Domain Models, you can read this blog by Rui Noguiera or visit this blog by Katrin von Ahsen. In addition, feel free to watch the recording and view the slides of the SAP Community Call about Aligned Domain Models in action.
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Door 20 – Suite Quality: Embedded & Cross-Product Analytics
Accurate and real-time data allows you to make well-informed decisions for critical business processes. SAP Analytics Cloud on SAP Business Technology Platform powers business intelligence and enterprise analytics as well as predictive analytics.
Watch the recordings of these SAP Community Calls below to find out more:
- “Integrating SAP Analytics Cloud in SAP Applications“ by Malavikha A and view the slides
- “Embedded and Cross-Product Analytics for the Intelligent Enterprise” by Aaron Graber and view the slides
Browse the SAP Community for additional resources or explore current and future capabilities in the SAP Road Map Explorer.
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Door 19 – Suite Quality: One Workflow Inbox | SAP Task Center
Do you wish for an integrated inbox showing all your approval tasks for multiple applications in one place? With SAP Task Center you can:
- Approve tasks quickly and efficiently for business-critical items
- Reduce the time spent navigating through various systems to manage approvals
- Enable smart decisions through the infusion of data and insights in the approval process
- Benefit from cost-effective implementation with an automated setup
Curious to find out more?
- Read this article by Philipp Herzig and me for an overview
- Read this blog by Murali Shanmugham on how to get started
- Watch this live demo of SAP Task Center at SAP TechEd
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Door 18 – Suite Quality: Security & Identity Management
Providing a seamless login process to avoid user disruptions is a core requirement of the intelligent enterprise. Watch the recording of this SAP Community Call and view the slides for more details on relevant security concepts for user identification in even complex scenarios.
Learn about existing and future capabilities with the SAP Road Map Explorer and view SAP’s recently updated Integration Strategy paper for a deep dive into the different suite qualities.
Explore the SAP Community for more resources around security on SAP Business Technology Platform.
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Door 17 – Suite Quality: Seamless User Experience
SAP’s intelligent suite covers a range of end-to-end business processes. Distinct suite qualities characterize a seamless integration of applications. One of these qualities focuses on a seamless user experience (UX).
Our goal is to avoid disruptions for end users and create ONE look along different applications by implementing e.g., common iconography, terminology, color schemes, and typography.
Watch the recording of this SAP Community Call with Thomas Reiss, view the slides and learn more.
Have a look at SAP’s recently updated integration strategy paper for a deep dive into the different suite qualities as part of SAP’s integrated intelligent suite. Get in touch with the SAP Community and explore more resources around SAP’s intelligent enterprise.
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Door 16 – End-to-End Business Process: Design to Operate
Digitally connected supply chains help enterprises to thrive even during periods of massive disruptions. Watch this SAP Community Call by Sandy Markin and view the slides to learn how Design to Operate enables end-to-end supply chain responsiveness, resilience, and sustainability.
Visit the SAP website on Supply Chain Planning to gain more information about building resilient and sustainable supply chains.
For a deep dive into the four end-to-end business processes, open the SAP Road Map Explorer and click on the tab “Processes”.
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Door 15 – End-to-End Business Process: Source to Pay
Procurement is an essential driver of the digital transformation of enterprises. Source to Pay aims at revolutionizing procurement with an enhanced user experience, better analytics to take decisions based on data, solid integration across applications, and aligned data with SAP Master Data Integration.
Watch the recording or view the slides of this SAP Community Call with Sourabh Kothari and learn how Source to Pay allows you to optimize procurement with intelligent and integrated processes.
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Door 14 – End-to-End Business Process: Lead to Cash
With integrated end-to-end business processes, SAP enables your successful transformation to become an intelligent enterprise.
Lead to Cash manages all aspects along a customer’s experience journey. From initial contact to order fulfillment and service delivery.
Watch the recording of this SAP Community Call to find out how to turn prospects into lifetime customers and have a look at the presented slides.
Have a look at SAP’s recently updated Integration Strategy paper for a deep dive into the end-to-end business processes as part of SAP’s integrated Intelligent Suite.
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Door 13 – End-to-End Business Process: Recruit to Retire
One of the number one drivers of a company’s business success are its people. Recruit to Retire helps you deliver exceptional people experiences holistically.
Watch the recording or view the slides of the SAP Community Call on this business process with Neetin Datar to learn how it connects people across the intelligent enterprise and enables agile and resilient workforce management of the future.
Get more context of the business processes within the intelligent enterprise in the recently updated SAP Integration Strategy paper.
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Door 12 – SAP's Integration Strategy
Are you already a member of the SAP Community?
Browse all you need to know around SAP's Integration Strategy in the SAP Community. Get in touch with the entire SAP ecosystem, share knowledge, and find resources helping you to become an intelligent enterprise.
It helps you to stay on top of things with recent news and upcoming events such as SAP Community Calls. If you missed some of the 2021 Integration Series webinars you will find the recordings here.
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Door 11 – SAP Integration Suite
SAP Integration Suite is an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that allows you to seamlessly integrate on-premise and cloud-based applications and processes. It comes with tools and prebuilt content managed by SAP.
In 2021, SAP was recognized as Customers´ Choice in Gartner´s Peer Insights “Voice of Customers”. Find more details in this blog by Harshavardhan Jegadeesan.
Gain insights on how our customers are embracing SAP ‘s holistic integration approach: check it out yourself and request a demo!
Watch the video and find out how to leverage SAP Integration Suite.
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Door 10 – SAP API Business Hub
The SAP API Business Hub accelerates integrations, extensions, and innovations by providing access to APIs, events, workflows, and end-to-end process blueprints in one central place. In addition, it provides you with relevant learning content to get the most out of it.
Read this blog by Shylaja S to get to know its latest features, content, and user experience. Check it out yourself on api.sap.com.
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Door 9 – SAP Roadmap Explorer
The interactive SAP Road Map Explorer helps you navigate the complexities of planning future innovations and make informed decisions by creating your individual road map.
Read this blog by Basak Deniz Cimen and explore endless possibilities with the SAP Road Map Explorer in just five steps.
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Door 8 – SAP’s Hybrid Integration Platform for the Intelligent Enterprise
Intelligent enterprises run agile and integrated business processes using advanced technologies and apply leading-edge industry best practices. Their goal is to deliver the products and services which customers need packed in an engaging and trusted customer experience.
Are you aware of the benefits of becoming an intelligent enterprise?
• For executives, the CIO Guide: SAP Hybrid Platform for the Intelligent Enterprise provides an abstract of the benefits.
• For enterprise and integration architects, the Integration Architecture Guide for Cloud and Hybrid landscapes provides detailed insights.
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Door 7 – SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology
Application landscapes tend to grow more complex over time. So, how can you build a resilient and scalable application landscape for your needs? Become an integration hero by following the SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology.
Assess, design, and define your individual enterprise integration strategy and empower all contributors to create the hybrid application landscape fitting to your needs. How? Maximize your integration potential and read this blog by Katrin von Ahsen or watch this recording of the SAP Community Call with Konstantin Heine to get started.
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Door 6 – SAP's Integration Strategy
Read this blog to learn how SAP supports you in becoming integrated and intelligent enterprises by outlining highlights of our integration innovations and four leading end-to-end processes. By the way, we recently updated our strategy paper “Intelligent Enterprises Are Integrated Enterprises”.
You are looking for ways to start your digital transformation? Read more about RISE with SAP and its holistic business transformation framework on your terms and timeline. Gain valuable insights from this self-paced and free of charge openSAP course: “SAP’s Integrated Intelligent Suite”
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Door 5 – Free hands-on experience for the SAP Business Technology Platform
The SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) offers various ways for you as a developer to gain hands-on experiences on available services. Sign up for free to easily explore SAP BTP and transition from free to paid usage while retaining prior work. You’re interested in future capabilities? Have a look at the SAP Road Map Explorer.
Check out more details and see how customers and partners are using SAP BTP. In addition, get in touch with the SAP Community and browse additional resources.
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Door 4 – SAP Business Technology Platform
The SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) builds the foundation of the Intelligent Enterprise. As a unified, business-centric, and open platform, it provides integration capabilities for SAP developers, customers, and partners to create value from data as well as extend their SAP solution landscape. It allows your business to react quickly and flexibly to challenges.
Florian Kunzke and colleagues invite you to a virtual and free of charge introduction of the SAP BTP on openSAP. Learn more about its integration capabilities with the course “The SAP Business Technology Platform in a Nutshell” following your own pace.
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Door 3 – SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Moving your enterprise to the cloud adds complexity impacting most of your established business processes. Transform your business in a way that works for you with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, an intelligent enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics.
Read this blog by Jan Gilg, President SAP S/4HANA, for his recommended watch list on the Digital Transformation with Intelligent ERP track at SAP TechEd 2021.
Check out these additional assets:
• Watch the video series on SAP S/4HANA Cloud on the SAP Technology YouTube channel
• Read the report on The Forrester Wave™: Digital Operations Platforms for Manufacturing Businesses
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Door 2 – RISE with SAP
Are you looking for ways to become an agile and flexible intelligent enterprise to respond dynamically to new business requirements? Watch the virtual premiere of Rise with SAP in which our CEO Christian Klein outlines why SAP is a strong partner to focus on your business transformation holistically.
Explore Rise with SAP in more detail:
• Read why this unique offering is for you and learn more about SAP Global Strategic Partners Solutions on the SAP website
• Watch how RISE with SAP accelerates your digital transformation with Jan Gilg, President SAP S/4HANA
• Read this blog RISE with SAP: Modular Cloud ERP for Higher Education & Research
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Door 1 – Integration
Today, you will learn what the Intelligent Enterprise is all about, why integration is the foundation for innovation, and most importantly: why you should care. Watch this video by @Vivien Boche, which was part of the SAP TechEd 2021 executive keynote held by SAP’s Chief Technology Officer @Juergen Mueller, to start your learning journey.
Dive deeper into the topic of integration by looking at the following assets:
• Blog: Integration: Delivering on our promise – by Juergen Mueller and Thomas Saueressig
• Video: SAP TechEd 2021: Rethink Integration for your Intelligent Enterprise by Michael Ameling and Philipp Herzig