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 Analytics
Unlocking Big Data at SAP TechEd

Published: 28/September/2017

Reading time: 4 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 S/4HANA
Understanding the Case for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Published: 11/February/2019

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For many organizations, the path to modernization is paved by the cloud. The cloud offers a host of benefits, including rapid implementation, flexibility, scalability, lower maintenance costs, easier regulatory compliance, and access to technologies such as the Internet of Things. With SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP customers can take advantage of these benefits in their own…
- SAP Finance Automation
Financial Management Impact of Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence

Published: 30/August/2019

Reading time: 5 mins

Keeping pace with technology in financial management can be a tricky endeavor. Intelligent automation (IA) has caught the attention of finance professionals at enterprises large and small and is being adopted at impressive rates. But what exactly is IA? It is the breadth and complexities of mechanizations, such as robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial…
- SAP HANA
Bill McDermott Leaves CEO Position at SAP: Impact for SAPinsiders

Published: 11/October/2019

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SAP CEO Bill McDermott announced yesterday that effective immediately he is stepping down from the helm of the German software company after nine years on the job. During his near-decade leading SAP, McDermott steered SAP in several significant ways. The company began its transition to its cloud, snapping up over $20 billion of acquisitions while…
- SAP Talent Management
Measuring the Success of Recruiting Efforts and Investments

Published: 05/November/2019

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Over the past two decades, recruiting applications have evolved from back-office applicant tracking systems to very intelligent cloud-based recruiting and recruiting marketing solutions – allowing organizations to engage with more and better candidates while tracking the success of their investments. To achieve key human resources (HR) business goals around time to hire, cost to hire,…
- SAP Finance Automation
Key Performance Indicators Need Their Own KPIs

Published: 26/November/2019

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While trying to figure out why performance is so hard to measure, companies often learn the hard way that it actually is not. Over-reliance on non-effective measurements can fail to deliver useful insight, and, insult to injury, obscures visibility to more effective approaches. Why do (did) financial measurements dominate KPIs? The obvious convenience to financial…
- SAP Analytics Cloud
Change Is Coming to Financial Planning and Analysis:

Published: 11/December/2019

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Financial professionals are extremely focused on FP&A (financial planning & analysis). As SAPinsider prepares our 2020 studies, “The State of the Market for SAP Financial Planning and Analysis” and “The State of the Market for SAP Finance – a Benchmark Study,” we had a chance to converse with Bryan Lapidus, FPA&A Director, FP&A Practices…
- SAP Talent Management
How Sealed Air Is Transforming Its Employee Learning Experience

Published: 20/December/2019

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Recently, employee experience has been dominating headlines and solution roadmaps across human capital management (HCM). While much of the discussion has been about the need to transform employee experience on a macro level through measuring and analyzing experience data, there continues to be significant development and focus on improving employee experience in other ways, including…
- SAP S/4HANA
Spark Business Transformation with a Digital Core

Published: 01/January/2016

Reading time: 9 mins

Companies in every industry are striving to become more agile to seize opportunities to transform the business. This is achieved with a flexible, digital core that enables a company to pivot in real-time to capitalize on innovations in cloud, big data, and network connectivity. Discover the tenets of a digital platform in the context of…
- SAP S/4HANA Finance
5 Areas for Future-Proofing Your Corporate Finance Processes

Published: 04/January/2016

Reading time: 3 mins

Companies understand the critical importance of having full and central control over their finance processes. Yet this is an increasingly challenging proposition, especially for treasurers of large corporations that have many subsidiaries. This article examines five key areas that CFOs can leverage to future-proof corporate finance in the age of big data and fast access…