{"id":13570,"date":"2017-05-16T22:15:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T20:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=13570"},"modified":"2017-05-17T15:32:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T13:32:23","slug":"highlights-from-sapphirenow-day-one-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/highlights-from-sapphirenow-day-one-keynote.html","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from #SAPPHIRENOW Day One Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SAP’s annual SAPPHIRENOW<\/a> user conference kicked off with a bang, with over 20,000 people onsite in Orlando Convention Center and many more watching the live webcast.<\/p>\n

SAP CEO Bill McDermott started by addressing a topic that has been in the news<\/span><\/a>: \u201cI hear that indirect access is causing some anxiety out there!\u2026\u201d He announced simplified pricing measures based on conversations with customer groups and analysts. These include things like basing Procure to Pay on the number of orders processed, and having no charge for read access of static data from third party applications. The immediate reaction on twitter was positive, saying that this addressed a key customer pain point<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

McDermott reviewed the continued strong growth of SAP HANA and S\/4HANA \u2014 “a cloud ERP for the 21st century.\u201d He touched on SAP\u2019s wide range of line-of-business and industry applications and emphasized the expansion of the SAP ecosystem with new partnerships with other digital leaders such as Apple, Google, and Facebook.<\/p>\n

For McDermott, this year was about turning \u201cempathy into action\u201d \u2014 giving customers what they have asked for: guidance, not just options. This includes detailed, three-year solution roadmaps, the SAP Transformation Manager<\/span><\/a> that helps plan a smooth transition to S\/4HANA, and the SAP Cloud Trust Center<\/span><\/a> for greater transparency.<\/p>\n

McDermott was joined on stage by Michael Dell, founder and chairman of Dell Computers, who talked of the \u201cCambrian explosion<\/span><\/a>\u201d of business opportunity that was being driven by cheap, intelligent devices, new 5G networks, and artificial intelligence to process all the data. \u201cIT used to be about cost and productivity. Digital transformation is different \u2014 it\u2019s the strategic evolution of the company\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to Dell, IT now has to be completely aligned with strategy of the company, because \u201cYou can’t do anything any more without IT\u201d \u2014 whether it\u2019s building products or customer relationships. He concluded by saying \u201cThe last 30 years have been amazing and incredible, but the next 30 years will make it all look like child’s play. We’re just at the beginning of the digital transformation opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

McDermott compared SAP\u2019s approach with the science of the human genome. New sequencing technology is transforming medicine, by gathering data, analyzing it, and using to to learn, treat and cure diseases, and improve quality of life. \u201cWhen you think of digital business, SAP is the genome sequencer of the digital enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

SAP Leonardo<\/h3>\n

Digital transformation isn’t a one-step process, it’s a journey, and speed is vital, according to McDermott: \u201cWhen it comes to the digital economy, there will be early adopters and also-rans. It\u2019s SAP\u2019s job to help you be an early adopter.\u201d<\/p>\n

That’s the thinking that drove the\u00a0launch of SAP Leonardo, the new SAP system for digital innovation, \u201cthe biggest move the company has made since SAP HANA\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mala Anand<\/a>, president of SAP Leonardo and Juergen Mueller<\/a>, SAP Chief Innovation officer came on stage to give more details. The Leonardo brand name had previously been used by SAP to cover the company’s Internet of Things portfolio of products and applications, but has now been expanded to cover a new approach to digital transformation.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Anand explained that the new SAP Leonardo was created to deliver transformation at scale. It\u2019s not just a set of products or a platform, but a digital innovation system<\/em> that helps you\u00a0redefine your business for the new world.<\/p>\n

\"\"It starts by using design thinking to reimagine business processes. The new vision is used to create and test rapid prototypes. The prototypes are tested and a business case created for full scale deployments based on existing solutions and roadmaps. SAP Leonardo includes \u00a0robust set of industry accelerators with services to adapt them to\u00a0individual customer needs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mueller gave an example of how the system works, showing the steps behind\u00a0the creation of a SAP Cloud for Real Estate application that takes sensor data from 340 SAP buildings around the world and augments it with utilization and cost data.<\/p>\n

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For more information, check out the official SAP Leonardo page<\/a>\u00a0and brochure<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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