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SAP  S/4 HANA  1808 RELEASED

SAP  S/4 HANA  1808 RELEASED

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Adds Exciting New Capabilities to Manufacturing and Professional Services Industries

The 1808 release of SAP S/4 Hana Cloud includes dozens of new AI-powered scenarios that further power the intelligent enterprise

Professional Services Just Got Even Smarter

Professional services customers such as Beyond Technologies will be thrilled with the following three innovations from the 1808 release:

• Staffing analysis: Provides a new user interface for monitoring resources needed to ensure all requests are fulfilled on time so that users can review the demands of an upcoming project, as well as the respective supply and effort distribution.
• Cap in time and expense billing: Enables project managers to define the upper cap limit for projects at the billing line item as negotiated with their client – and further monitor the cap value in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud system to ensure that billing and invoicing does not cross this defined limit.
• Consultant timesheet entries: Empowers consultants to react immediately to any notifications received whenever a project manager rejects their time entries, so they can make any needed adjustments before resubmitting the timesheet.

Based on these innovations, let’s consider the new business outcomes enabled within the professional services space in this scenario:

ImagineA growing professional services practice generating more client engagements than it can manage. The practice needs to bring in qualified contractors to properly handle the additional business without diminishing profitability. One major hurdle for achieving success is the lack of transparency into the status of any high priority resource requests. The practice cannot ensure that projects will be staffed on time with the best people. In addition, they don’t have a good way to monitor and ensure projects are being managed within the contractual caps agreed upon with their clients.

What’s PossibleThe practice’s project managers can have a complete view of all resource requests for projects – supported by the precise utilization rate of each consultant across multiple projects. The practice can view key skills of any given contractor brought in to assist with the engagements and match them to the requirements of a project. Project managers also receive notifications when project revenue approaches a pre-defined limit, thereby ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery.

The ImpactTransparency into the availability of resources for projects, and better control over project delivery within client expectations, allows the professional services organization to drive improved resource utilization, on-time delivery, and project profitability.

The 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race recently ended after covering 45,000 nautical miles, crossing four oceans and stopping in 12 cities. Team AkzoNobel turned to SAP to develop software capable of tracking a sailor’s individual performance using biometric data measured by wearable devices.

The Volvo Ocean Race has been described as the “Everest of sailing” — it takes place every three years, sending seven teams around the world for eight months. The 2017-18 race just ended: It covered 45,000 nautical miles, crossed four oceans and stopped in 12 cities before finishing in The Hague.

Since each boat is identical, the only difference between teams are the individual athletes and their collective performance. To bolster their chances, team AkzoNobel turned to SAP to develop software capable of tracking a sailor’s individual performance using biometric data measured by wearable devices.

Ryan West, team AkzoNobel’s performance manager, wanted a system that could track athletes’ vitals (like heart rate) 24 hours a day, analyze their physical condition and correlate it with sailing results. “It’s not just the mental fatigue that gets them,” he says, “it’s the physical decline.” Seasickness, skin infections, poor sleep patterns, wasting muscles and a lack of proper food – offshore racing takes its toll on the body.

In the autumn of 2017, SAP conducted a design thinking workshop with West and Simeon Tienpont, the team AkzoNobel skipper, to figure out exactly what would work for crew members as they navigated all kinds of weather and ocean conditions. They had to consider some extreme challenges. For example, crews are on the water for up to 21 days, sailing through some of the most remote areas in the world. They needed a way to collect data offline, then synch and analyze that information once sailors returned to shore.

After the initial workshop, SAP and team AkzoNobel developed a formal project proposal that included the high-level plan and technical architecture. They also conducted validation sessions with the sailors to refine their plan and get team members’ buy-in, which West believes was critical to the project’s success.

After trying various wearables, the team agreed that they would wear Garmin smart watches 24×7 to measure their heart rate. This data would be captured by SAP Leonardo IoT Edge, part of the SAP Leonardo set of technologies and solutions that help enterprises become more intelligent. IoT-edge computing processes, stores and analyzes sensor data in remote locations without an Internet or other data connection. Once the boats arrived ashore at one of the 12 stopovers, the AkzoNobel performance team analyzed the biometric data on the SAP Cloud Platform – along with data from boat sensors.

West says, “We’re able to marry biometric and yacht data, analyze it and feed it back into the system so we could look at the relationship between them. The next step is to include weather data so we can see how weather effects the crew, and look at whether we should reroute the boat to optimize performance.”

So far, the solution has helped West understand how the team’s sleeping patterns impact performance. “Our goal has been to get data on aggregate sleep patterns,” says West.” Crew members get a maximum of 4 – 6 hours of sleep a night. Now we can chart how much they get and when – is it in a longer break or tiny breaks? Do they meet their sleep goals?”

West says that they’re already seeing some trends based on data collection and analysis. For example, some people are negatively impacted by time-zones changes or sleep during daylight hours, so the team has made schedule adjustments accordingly.

Registration is Open for SAP TechEd 2018 !

Read why this year's event promises to be the best ever learning experience for newbies as well as seasoned pros.

If you’re already working with SAP, and want to advance your career and learn where to go, that’s a major reason to come to SAP TechEd 2018

If you’re already going deep on SAP Cloud Platform and our other technologies, you’ll learn how to apply the latest innovations like machine learning, AI, IoT, and blockchain to your business processes. Or, maybe you’re new to an enterprise or with a startup, and want to find out about all the cool stuff SAP is doing. This is the event for you.

For Registration visit : https://events.sap.com/teched-2018-usa/en/registrationhotel

SAP announced new products and partnerships to enable enterprises to become more intelligent, with expanded capabilities from advanced technologies such as conversational artificial intelligence (AI), block chain and analytics. SAP also announced that SAP Cloud Platform is now available on all major cloud infrastructure providers, living up to its promise to be the agnostic cloud platform to better serve customers.

• Since launching a year ago, SAP Leonardo technical capabilities have helped hundreds of customers innovate. With SAP Leonardo, customers have embedded cutting-edge technologies into their processes to improve workflows and make enterprises more efficient.
• SAP Conversational AI enables companies to develop intelligent chatbots. The service includes a powerful end-to-end toolkit for training, building and monitoring chatbots. These chatbots can be integrated with SAP and non-SAP systems and are available as preconfigured industry-specific bots. So far, users have built 60,000 SAP Conversational AI chatbots. France’s railway company SNCF and telecommunications provider SFR already are using SAP Conversational AI to improve customer service and target younger audiences.
• SAP Leonardo Machine Learning capabilities are now embedded in applications across the SAP portfolio, including SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP C/4HANA and SAP Ariba solutions.
• SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation, which allows customers to develop individual applications, has five new services, including object detection, text recognition in images and text classification, which analyzes and automatically categorizes text documents. It now supports the software library scikit-learn, in addition to TensorFlow.
• SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain is a new blockchain as a service enabling enterprises to easily build and extend business solutions with blockchain technologies, such as Hyperledger Fabric and MultiChain. About 65 companies participate in the SAP blockchain co-innovation initiative to help customers use manufacturing and supply-chain products augmented by blockchain to enhance transparency, safety and collaboration in industries such as transportation, food, and pharmaceuticals. To ensure quality, U.S. sausage maker Johnsonville LLC is using blockchain to trace the origin of products across the supply chain.

To expand and accelerate global adoption and best practices of blockchain in the transportation industry, SAP has started a global blockchain consortium with seven founding members, including Intel Corp., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) and A3by Airbus SE.

To help customers easily embed advanced technologies into their solutions, SAP released SAP Leonardo-based innovation kits for specific industries, including retail, life sciences, manufacturing and automotive. SAP also launched the SAP Leonardo Partner Medallion Initiative, an SAP partner service that has more than doubled the number of SAP Leonardo embedded industry solutions.

SAP introduces S4 Hana 1805

Latest Release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Unlocks 12 New Intelligent ERP Scenarios, the Deepest and Broadest Set of Scenarios Available Today

With the introduction of 1805 release of SAP S/4 Hana Cloud, SAP is taking intelligent ERP to the next level. SAP is unlocking 12 new AI-powered scenarios — nine machine learning scenarios and three SAP CoPilot-powered conversational UI scenarios — the most of any ERP vendor in the market today. Customers can expect to run faster, operate smarter, achieve industry and operational excellence, and realize greater profitability.

With enhanced machine learning capabilities, businesses can now have intelligent interactions that anticipate the needs of their end users, incorporating intelligent self-learning mechanisms and liberating users from mundane tasks for more important work.

With SAP CoPilot, through the conversational user experience, machine learning is put to work as users receive notifications and reminders to drive action and decisions at the speed of thought.

These future-ready technologies are built into the latest release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Some highlights include:

• Finance: Account reconciliation powered by machine learning, enables intelligent recommendations instead of manual resolutions. This speeds up the exception management process and improves accuracy for users.
• Sourcing and Procurement: Smart buying via a conversational user experience (natural language interaction) eases and accelerates requisitioning, which helps employees  be more productive.
• Sales: Rapid sales order creation from sales quotes using a conversational user experience (natural language, voice or text) enables salespeople to focus on what they do best.
• Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management: AI-powered project cost forecasting helps reduce budget overruns and makes better project investment decisions. Additionally, the conversational user experience powered by SAP CoPilot gives project managers a hands-free, interactive experience that allows them to stay on top of their game by giving them insights to the status of their projects anytime, anywhere.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is improving the lives of project managers through machine learning and a hands-free ERP experience.

SMART WHEEL CHAIR SOLUTION FROM SAP

Smart Wheelchair Contributes to Patients’ Quality of Life

In a co-innovation project, SAP equips wheelchairs with sensors to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between sitting posture and detrimental discomforts.

The long-term effects of sitting in a wheelchair can be life threatening — users can get pressure ulcers and spine and muscle deformities, feel pain, or are simply exhausted after up to 14 hours of sitting. Bad posture is a major challenge, because often the wheelchair-bound are not able to control or change their sitting position on their own. With approximately 132 million people in wheel chairs, this is a big problem in terms of individual’s pain and high costs for healthcare systems.

In the smart wheelchair project, SAP has co-innovated with Dutch wheelchair manufacturer Life and Mobility — ergo therapists, the scientific field, and users — to equip four wheelchairs with 11 sensors each. These sensors transmit information every four seconds on pressure distribution, temperature, and the user’s sitting posture. This data can be sent to SAP Cloud Platform via Wi-Fi for further analysis using SAP Leonardo Analytics and advanced algorithms.
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SAP ACQUIRES CALLIDUS SOFTWARE INC.

DUBLIN, Calif., and WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP)  announced that it has completed its acquisition of Callidus Software Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD), a market leader known for its lead to money applications, including sales performance management and configure-price-quote (CPQ).

CallidusCloud Strengthens the SAP Front Office Suite: Sales, Customer Data, Marketing, Service, Commerce

The acquisition of CallidusCloud completes SAP’s design of a new front office that extends beyond legacy CRM to an intelligent customer experience suite consisting of:

• CallidusCloud solutions, which give companies tools to inspire and empower sales professionals to follow leads to cash, compensation and career success
• Gigya solutions, which help businesses adopting a digital approach to marketing, sales and service to initiate and build trusted relationships with online customers by appropriately managing and collecting customer data
• SAP Hybris marketing solutions, which take a data-rich approach to helping marketers engage consumers throughout the buyer’s journey
• SAP Hybris service solutions, which focus on retention and ensuring businesses can keep customers by predicting how best to serve them
• SAP Hybris omni channel commerce and revenue capabilities, which empower businesses to engage consumers in any channel and on any device, immediately converting transactions to revenue and growth