SAP Intelligent Technologies

The need to innovate leveraging digital technologies is an imperative that has been consistently highlighted by SAPinsiders. The good news is that SAP provides a portfolio of capabilities, embedded into SAP Business Technology Platform to help organizations develop intelligent technologies, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning. These portfolio of tools and technologies that are integrated and embedded in BTP can help organizations optimize their business processes, enable informed decision-making through data-driven insights, and promote the cherished innovation they desire. SAP Intelligent technologies is hence not one technology but a portfolio of tools that are enabled by SAP BTP platform. Examples of building capabilities leveraging intelligent technologies are:

Business Processes transformation:

Leveraging SAP AI Business Services, organizations can automate and optimize business processes. In this capability, you can use relevant machine learning models that are available, and which allow users to leverage machine learning services without any data science know-how, and extract and process structured and unstructured data.

Business Processes transformation:

Developing Intelligent Applications:

With AI Foundation, organizations can build intelligent applications using the SAP AI Core infrastructure and SAP AI Launchpad. These tools help them deliver data-driven innovation and intelligence across their enterprise.

Building Conversational Agents:

Learn how to build powerful conversational agents in a heartbeat with SAP Conversational AI services, which enable human-to-machine interactions using a human conversation. Explore how to train, build, connect, and monitor developed conversational scenarios that run embedded and extended with SAP solutions.

Designing and Orchestrating Robots with SAP Intelligent RPA: Design and orchestrate intelligence bots to automate your repetitive manual tasks with SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (SAP Intelligent RPA) technology. With the power of citizen automation, this can be managed by all developer personas, including the citizen developer. Learn about the latest enhancements of SAP Intelligent RPA and how it is accelerated with low code and no code.

- SAP S/4HANA Implementation
A Foundation for Growth

Published: 23/January/2018

Reading time: 8 mins

Fast-growing Vivint Smart Home realized it needed to replace its patchwork of systems if it wanted to keep on expanding. Its checklist of required functionality for future business needs led to the selection of SAP S/4HANA as the technology foundation. An early adopter of SAP S/4HANA in a cloud deployment, Vivint Smart Home has realized…
Dolby Laboratories Amplifies Regression Testing

Published: 14/May/2018

Reading time: 8 mins

Audio pioneer Dolby Laboratories, which has been delivering audiophiles a superior sound and sight experience since the 1970s, decided in 2016 that it wanted an equally stringent level of quality assurance for its business process testing. The business sought a risk-based automated testing solution to reduce or eliminate regression test coverage gaps and lengthy testing…
- SAP Digital Transformation
Eddie the Flower Guy, the Black Crowes, and Enterprise Digitization

Published: 29/April/2016

Reading time: 3 mins

A couple of months ago I was driving home from work when my Pandora station took a millisecond too long to buffer, so I tuned to the Attitude Adjustment Hour on WZLX with Chuck Nolan just as “Eddie the Flower Guy” called in to request Thorn in my Pride. While I love the Black Crowes,…
7 Questions to Guide You on Your S&OP Transformation

Published: 04/October/2016

Reading time: 3 mins

For many businesses, getting sales and operations planning (S&OP) right is a critical step toward success. S&OP processes are responsible for cutting down waste and optimizing your organization’s resources. But for too often, S&OP falls short of expectations. Why does this happen – and what can you do to fix it? Every organization will answer…
- SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
The Easy to Understand Guide to SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Published: 17/November/2016

Reading time: 2 mins

I have the benefit of speaking to SAP customers and partners every day and I enjoy explaining technology and translating some of the more complex concepts into more digestible analogies. Looking for an easier way to share my talks, I’ve worked on some video vignettes that explain the technologies behind the SAP Hana Cloud Platform…
- SAP Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation Insights with Hitachi Vantara

Published: 29/March/2018

Reading time: 3 mins

Just a few years ago, the term digital transformation was little more than a concept — a nebulous ideal that had little basis in reality for the day-to-day business. We’d heard of digital disruptors, and were aware of a few famous examples of new business models that were transforming entire industries. For the most part,…
- SAP Supply Chain Planning
Delivering on the Digital Supply Chain Promise

Published: 11/April/2019

Reading time: 5 mins

The drones are taking over. If not the drones, then artificial intelligence (AI) will take over and make decisions on our behalf. We will just lean back, and our jobs (if we still have them) will amount to pushing some corrective buttons, occasionally. Whatever the spin, and whatever people imagine, parts of the digital supply…
- SAP Analytics Cloud
The Many Faces of the Future of SAP Analytics – Part 2 (Do You Still Need, or Want, an Enterprise Data Warehouse?)

Published: 25/April/2019

Reading time: 4 mins

As promised in my last post, I’d like to continue the conversation about the future of SAP analytics in its many forms. In Part 1, I introduced this series of discussions with a trip in the Way Back Machine to look at the early days of SAP analytics solutions (LIS, HRIS, SIS, etc.) and the…
- SAP Supply Chain Planning
Bringing Automation and Collaboration into the Supply Chain: Overall Trends and the Path Forward

Published: 14/August/2019

Reading time: 5 mins

In recent months, SAPinsider has conducted a significant amount of research around solutions for digital supply chain management (SCM) — particularly in the areas of automation and collaboration, both of which our research has revealed as playing a significant role in the successful modernization and optimization of supply chains. To build on that research, and…
Integrated Business Planning for Demand Transparency

Published: 01/October/2014

Reading time: 7 mins

Purchasing power and information are shifting to end consumers and customers, who increasingly demand individualized products and services delivered with a high sense of urgency. Read this article to learn how SAP’s cloud-based solutions for integrated business planning and supply chain monitoring enable companies to transform their supply chains by facilitating real-time decision making, providing…