The global leader in enterprise software solutions is spearheading a transformative wave across South East Asia (SEA) with its cutting-edge SAP innovations. As the region embraces the age of artificial intelligence (AI), SAP’s vision for future-proofed businesses is becoming a reality at SAP Sapphire in 2023. In this article, we explore the pivotal role of SAP and its innovative solutions in driving business growth, efficiency, and sustainability in SEA.
AI Designed for Business Success
SAP is strengthening its commitment to embedding powerful AI capabilities throughout its portfolio, empowering customers to tackle critical business challenges seamlessly within their workflow. With the latest advancements in SAP Business AI, customers can engage with personalized customer experiences, enhance procurement productivity, and effectively identify and develop key talent across their entire workforce. SAP’s responsible approach to AI ensures that customers can leverage SAP Business AI with confidence, knowing that ethical considerations are at the forefront of these innovative solutions.
SAP also leverages its robust ecosystem to benefit customers. A notable collaboration was announced with Microsoft, expanding their longstanding partnership. This integration involves the integration of SAP SuccessFactors solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Viva Learning, along with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. By accessing powerful language models for natural language analysis and generation, organizations can expect new and improved experiences that optimize talent management processes, including attracting, retaining, and upskilling employees.
Advancing Sustainability with the Green Ledger
Building upon its revolutionary enterprise resource planning (ERP) software from half a century ago, SAP is expanding the concept of resources to encompass carbon in the reinvented “R” in ERP. Addressing evolving regulatory requirements and growing stakeholder pressure for sustainable operations, SAP’s green ledger initiative offers an auditable, transparent, and reliable accounting system for carbon emissions. This enables companies to manage their environmental impact with the same precision and confidence as their financial data.
As part of the initiative, the German tech giant is updating its SAP Sustainability Footprint Management solution, enabling comprehensive calculation and management of corporate, value chain, and product-level emissions. Additionally, the company introduced the SAP Sustainability Data Exchange application, facilitating a secure and standardized exchange of sustainability data between enterprises and their partners and suppliers. By integrating the green ledger initiative into the RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP solutions, SAP further underscores its commitment to sustainable business practices.
SAP Innovations the Entire Solutions Portfolio
SAP unveiled a range of innovations across its entire portfolio, demonstrating its commitment to bolstering customer resilience. SAP Business Network for Industry combines the benefits of networked supply chains with SAP’s industry expertise, enabling customers in consumer products, high-tech, industrial manufacturing, and life sciences to enhance supply chain resilience swiftly.
Furthermore, advancements in the SAP Business Technology Platform accelerate business process organization and facilitate enterprise automation at scale. SAP Signavio solutions provide critical process insights in a matter of hours, SAP Integration Suite unifies holistic processes across SAP and non-SAP systems on-premise and in the cloud, and event integration capabilities in SAP Build solutions empower business experts to trigger automation throughout all business processes.
Recognizing the challenges posed by fragmented data landscapes, SAP expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to offer an extensive open-data solution. By combining the SAP Datasphere solution with Google’s data cloud, customers gain access to an end-to-end data cloud that consolidates data from across the enterprise landscape, enabling deep, actionable business insights.
SAP also reaffirmed its commitment to upskilling two million individuals worldwide by 2025 to meet the increasing demand for top-notch professional developers. The company announced new programs aimed at meeting the growing need for SAP experts within its ecosystem, ensuring ongoing business transformation for customers in the cloud.
As SAP continues to drive innovation, collaboration, and sustainability in South East Asia, businesses across the region are well-equipped to navigate the challenges of the digital economy. Through the integration of responsible AI, the green ledger initiative, and a comprehensive range of innovations, SAP empowers businesses to adapt, thrive, and lead in an ever-evolving marketplace.
