Economic uncertainty, supply chain disruption, trade disputes, fast-moving market entrants – add to that customer expectations for seamless digital experiences at all times.

How do you move forward and transform IT? How do you avoid downtime and service interruptions? What are the right systems, platforms and partners for your digital transformation journey?

There is no single starting point and there are many options for the journey ahead to technology and technological change but there are common traits and an interplay between people, processes, technology with organisational culture at the locus.

For digital business leaders & business enablers, secure IT transformation means moving toward scalable, reliable, open infrastructure that enables growth while mitigating risk to transform an organization’s business model, products and services.

People – harness strengths & foster a growth mindset

Creating a strategy to power secure IT transformation is only possible with broad corporate support. From our experience, organizations should start by aligning IT leaders, business executives, and the C-suite on the organization’s IT modernization and business continuity objectives.

Secure IT transformation initiatives almost invariably affect many departments and functions at your organization, spanning business units, nance, and IT. Make sure every stakeholder is aligned on objectives, the value of the target outcome, and their roles and responsibilities, both at the start of the project and during execution.

In identifying potential solutions, it is likely the team will need a mix of promising proprietary and open source platforms or products. Consider how each of these technologies can support the organization’s objectives, beyond a simple ROI calculation – determine which solutions best contribute to your goals, and anticipate the priorities of each stakeholder involved in the technology adoption.

Organisations – innovation and security

Resilient organizations are aware of the need for continuity of the brand and nonstop business is now the norm.

They also share several traits:

1. unity in responding to disruption, with IT and business leaders staying aligned as the enterprise shifts.
2. use IT to gain competitive advantage, investing in technologies that help groups work faster and with greater autonomy.
3. embrace a growth mindset, fostering a creative problem-solving culture that spreads throughout the organization.

In these ways, IT has a unique opportunity to build resilience throughout the organization, enabling the enterprise to invent its future in an era of uncertainty.

Every organisation has a unique context – through shared understanding, leadership, culture, and open source technologies, various stakeholders can minimize the risk of interrupting operations, modernize the customer experiences, accelerate innovation and meet business goals.

This article is sponsored by SUSE

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Since the COVID-19 outbreak, SAP has been bringing its major events and conferences online. Running on its 24th edition, SAP TechEd in 2020 takes SAP’s annual technology education conference for customers and partners to the next level by going virtual for 48 hours, non-stop– all day, all night.

December will open with SAP TechEd in 2020, offering an immersive online learning experience to developers, business leaders, and tech enthusiasts to help them upskill for the future. The two-day rolling agenda will feature an exceptional roster of live, simulative, and on-demand sessions from SAP experts, customers, and partners.

Sharing about the virtual event and inviting participants, Craig Cmehil, Vice President and Head of Communities and Influencers at SAP said:

“This is the same SAP TechEd you’ve come to know and love – over 500 sessions of valuable interactions with experts and collaboration with the SAP Community – but this year it’s free and open.

Bring your friends, your colleagues, and your network. Learn at your own pace and on your own terms. Watch sessions live or on-demand, and dive deep into the intelligent enterprise topics that are important to you. The choice is entirely yours.”

Limitless SAP TechEd in 2020

This year’s SAP TechEd offers fresh experiences and insights on SAP technology, development, and future trends at no cost. Being on a digital platform, SAP TechEd in 2020 eliminates the challenge of travelling and gathering in the time of COVID– making it a truly open, accessible, and vital event for the SAP developer community around the world.

Designed for personalisation, participants can choose, schedule, and participate in the lectures and workshops to see the latest product road maps through live, hands-on demos. The virtual conference will feature eight tracks of today’s most relevant tech topics, each supported with a learning journey.

The SAP TechEd tracks that are offered in various formats and time durations to suit the participants’ needs are:

• Integrated Intelligent Suite
• Digital Transformation with Intelligent ERP
• Customer Experience
• Analytics
• Intelligent Technologies
• Database and Data Management
• Application Development and Integration
• Partner Community

Bringing the online learning experience to the audience is the completely ungated Channel 1, the ideal starting point to take advantage of insights from the SAP developer community and quickly discover which deep dive Track Topic sessions to explore further.

Catch the Keynotes

SAP Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Juergen Mueller will deliver a keynote entitled “How SAP’s Business Technology Platform Empowers Developers” to recap an extraordinary year and its effects on technology’s role in the business world. Aside from showcasing the latest news on SAP technology, he will also open the development toolbox of the Business Technology Platform to explain how everyone– from citizen developers to cloud-native developers– can leverage these tools for their career growth and organisational success.

A special developer keynote will feature three developers at a fictional company to code, configure, and deploy an SAP S/4HANA extension to SAP Cloud Platform.

On top of the opportunities to collaborate, experience usability testing, and conduct product reviews, SAP TechEd in 2020 offers participants free access to SAP Learning Hub, Event Edition for SAP TechEd including a >50{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} discounted rate on SAP Global Certification. 

Register and experience SAP TechEd in 2020 here.

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