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.

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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for SAP NetWeaver or Microsoft: How They Differ

Published: 20/June/2011

Reading time: 21 mins

Compare the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for Microsoft and the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver environments, and examine the strategies associated with this technology. Review the concept of the platform as the main issue behind a company’s reason for implementing one of these versions because of data integration issues,...…
SAP NetWeaver BW and Xcelsius: Excel 2007 PivotTables Provide Enhanced Interactive Reporting and Analytics Options

Published: 19/January/2010

Reading time: 10 mins

See how you can use Microsoft Excel 2007 PivotTables with SAP NetWeaver BW and Xcelsius to create a low-cost but highly functional reporting and analytics system. Learn how Xcelsius uses Excel 2007 as its data binding source for dynamic dashboards and data visualizations. Key Concept Microsoft completely redesigned Excel 2007 to be the company’s primary...…
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What You Need to Know About SAP xMII to Enable Adaptive Manufacturing

Published: 01/November/2006

Reading time: 13 mins

Learn about SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (xMII) and see how you can use it to improve your manufacturing processes. Through several real-world examples, see how xMII helps your operation monitoring and control, quality management, and manufacturing synchronization. Then, take a look at the technology behind xMII. Key Concept SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and...…
Sidestep Disasters with a Business Continuity Plan

Published: 22/October/2009

Reading time: 22 mins

You need to have a plan in place if a risk assessment shows that the likelihood of an emergency event (e.g., severe storms or earthquakes) occurring is high. A business continuity plan allows an organization to minimize the consequences of a disaster and continue normal business functions afterward. Key Concept Business impact analysis looks at...…
6 Ways to Customize Your SAP NetWeaver Portal Pages for Maximum Impact

Published: 17/September/2010

Reading time: 12 mins

Set your company portal apart from the rest by incorporating these six simple customizations. From adding your company logo to your SAP logon page to applying themes to enabling a hover effect that allows a user to easily see what nodes (sub menu) are contained within parent (header menu) nodes, you can make your portal...…
3 Steps to IFRS Conversion for Small and Medium Entities

Published: 26/January/2010

Reading time: 9 mins

Learn a process to help you analyze business impacts and identify, prioritize, and monitor risks if you are a small (fewer than 100 employees) or medium-sized (100 to 500 employees) company converting to International Financial Reporting Standards. Key Concept International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) is a simplified version of...…
Forestall Data Loss and Enforce Data Security with an Air-Tight Backup Policy

Published: 07/February/2011

Reading time: 13 mins

Learn strategies that are invaluable for designing and developing a backup and restore procedure capable of safeguarding the data in your entire SAP system landscape while guaranteeing adequate data protection, security, and compliance with legal regulations. Key Concept A backup policy covers processes and procedures of making data (or database) copies with the intent of...…
What You’re Missing Without Custom HR ABAP Object Technology

Published: 15/November/2003

Reading time: 18 mins

SAP’s ABAP Objects promise faster development times and reduced maintenance costs, yet they have failed to catch on for custom HR software development. For various reasons, HR support teams are depriving their companies of the full potential of their SAP HR implementations. The author shows how this technology can provide HR analysts with expanded report...…
Six Tasks to Ensure a Successful External-Facing Portal Implementation

Published: 18/March/2009

Reading time: 20 mins

To implement an external facing portal, you first need to configure the server side of the portal. Learn how to prepare the necessary portal components and develop light top-level navigation with interactive hover functionality, configure master rules and a URL alias, and implement security for this single point of access for your external portal users....…
Overcome Four Common Challenges of a Product Data Consolidation Project

Published: 15/July/2008

Reading time: 10 mins

ManagementMoving product data into a central repository reduces redundant labor and increases the speed at which your company can respond to price requests from customers. This case study follows an automotive parts supplier as it builds a foundation for flexible price quoting with a product data management system. To run efficiently, cars rely on an...…