In a recent virtual event titled CTO Conversations held by SAP, Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Executive Board at SAP, and Kalyan Kumar, Corporate CTO and Head of Ecosystems at HCL Technologies, explored the two companies’ partnership and discussed how they work together to accelerate digital transformation for businesses amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Mueller believes SAP’s extensive partner ecosystem is key to customer success. He added that SAP partners play an important role in meeting companies’ needs for flexibility and simplicity as they take on huge transformation programs and begin to scale their IT.

For nearly two decades now, HCL Technologies has served as SAP’s strategic partner on a global scale. Based in Noida, India, the IT firm is an SAP service and license resell partner that collaborates with the German multinational on cutting-edge technologies such as SAP Leonardo, Blockchain, and SAP S4/HANA. With a team of consultants in the Americas, Africa, Europe, Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, HCL Technologies intends to help organisations across a wide range of industries in their journey to becoming intelligent enterprises.

During the online discussion, Kumar talked about the company’s commitment to transforming joint customers, partners, and businesses today. He shared:

“If you look at HCL, we’ve got a very multifaceted relationship with SAP, and that’s why it’s called an ecosystem partner. It’s not strategic. It’s beyond that. It’s about creating a 360-degree ecosystem within ourselves and within the marketplace.”

This month, HCL Technologies also announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain SAP Ecosystems Services 2021 Vendor Assessment. The recognition reflects the Indian firm’s capabilities in utilising SAP technologies to empower organisations in accelerating supply chain management (SCM) transformation, improving productivity, enhancing the customer experience, and increasing the global visibility of inventory and financial impacts.

Driving Business Transformation with HCL and SAP

In March 2021, HCL Technologies first expressed its support for RISE with SAP, the German tech giant’s Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS) cloud offering. Aside from its modern integration and data architecture services, the company aims to enhance the customer journey through transformation and consulting services for SAP Factory+ offerings that facilitate S/4HANA migrations.

“I’m a big believer and I’ve been one of the wildest proponents of RISE with SAP. I strongly believe SAP should control the destiny of where the cloud goes from their perspective,” Kumar emphasised during CTO Conversations.

Leveraging the RISE with SAP offering, HCL and SAP’s alliance takes a step further in exploring go-to-market strategies to assist customers in advancing their cloud capabilities while maintaining scale and security. With an expanded partnership, the two companies aim to provide clients with best-in-class solutions, services, and experiences as they embark on their digital transformation journeys.

“We bet big time on the ecosystem as SAP. So that is just a few aspects of how we help customers and companies get toward the digital age much faster, in a much more controlled way, and in a transformation as a service,” Mueller said.

“I’m grateful to meet partners like HCL Technologies who we’ve been working together with for more than 2 decades. It is this close collaboration that makes the difference when supporting our customers with their transition to the cloud,” Mueller wrote in a LinkedIn post.

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German software giant SAP ushered 2022 with the appointment of key executive roles in APJ, EMEA South, and South Korea to lead the company’s cloud growth, promising business outlook, and customer success.

SAP APJ’s New Partner Ecosystem Success Lead

Former Head of Business Development of the Asia Pacific and Japan and SAP veteran Utkarsh Maheshwari is now the region’s new Senior Vice President and Head of Partner Ecosystem Success. Based in Singapore, Maheshwari is taking charge of growing the SAP software enterprise’s partner ecosystem in APJ, engaging 2,000 SAP partners from all market units and business lines. In his 17 years in the tech industry– 14 of which with SAP– holding various leadership positions, he was able to share his expertise and passion in the digital economy across different key business areas including product development and marketing, field transformation, and human resources.

“In this role, I will be leading co-innovation with SAP partners across APJ to nurture an expert community of developers, investors, and ambassadors of digital transformation, and to help build the ecosystem of the future,” Maheshwari commented.

SAP APJ Chief Operating Officer Cathy Ward explained the critical role of the new Partner Ecosystem Success chief as the tech giant continues to grow globally in line with the accelerating customers’ digital transformation. She stressed:

“To respond to the increasing demand across the region, we need to more closely align and harness the power of our partner business to mutually deliver digital innovation that drives customer success.”

SAP EMEA South’s New Regional Chief

Emmanuel Raptopoulos, another long-serving SAP leader, has been appointed as regional President of EMEA South (Southern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) to lead 5,000 employees across 75 countries and 24 offices. He is steering the momentum of EMEA South’s cloud transformation as the new chief of a region that has a huge market contribution in SAP.

“EMEA South’s next decade will be driven by cloud growth, anchored by our purpose, people and partnerships and I am honored to take on this new role,” he said. “The region represents a dynamic market for SAP as agile organisations are transforming their businesses into Intelligent and Sustainable Enterprises via the cloud. I look forward to partnering with our great customers across this diverse region to innovate and thereby meaningfully contribute to their long-term success.”

Raptopoulos is directly reporting to SAP Executive Board member and Customer Success lead Scott Russell and is preceded by Claudio Muruzabal, who was recently promoted to President of SAP’s newly established global Cloud Success Services organisation.

Expressing encouraging words on Raptopoulos and Muruzabal’s new roles, Russell said:

“With Claudio Muruzabal as President of our global Cloud Success Services organisation, we are centering and optimising our talent around helping our customers maximise value in the cloud with SAP – at every single touchpoint in their lasting relationship with us. With the appointment of Emmanuel Raptopoulos as President of EMEA South, we are ensuring a seamless transition in the region for our customers, our partners, and our people. In addition to his deep and varied experience, he has a proven passion for the success of our customers and a strong track record of delivering it.”

SAP MEE’s New Lead

Industry expert and former Managing Director of SAP Germany Alex Klaeger has been appointed President of the Middle and Eastern Europe (MEE) region to lead the market units of Germany; Switzerland; Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), including Austria; and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) effective 1st of February. He had previously held the role of Chief Operating Officer and Head of Cloud business for the MEE region and had served on the SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG management team for six years.

Klaeger was preceded by Hartmut Thomsen and will be directly reporting Russell. Welcoming the new MEE chief, Russell commented:

“The appointment of Alex Klaeger, who brings exceptionally deep regional expertise, ensures a seamless experience and continuity of value for our customers across the MEE region as they continue to transition to the cloud.”

SAP Korea’s First Female CEO

Former SAP Korea Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Vice President Shin Eun-young was promoted to CEO and President effective 6th January 2022.(InsideSAP Asia often references articles from websites in other languages to bring you as much information as possible.) Since joining the company in 2008 as CFO, Shin has been a significant contributor to SAP Korea’s continuous business growth and transformation into a cloud company. Aside from being the first female chief of the software multinational’s unit in Korea, she is also the leader of SAP’s Business Women’s Network program advocating young talent and women’s career development.

Shin succeeded Lee Seong-yeo, who is now the SAP Korea Senior President guiding the management to help local organisations accelerate their journey to becoming intelligent enterprises.

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Karl Farhbach, SAP Chief Partner Officer responsible for SAP’s indirect channel worldwide, shared in his article how the software giant is strengthening SAP partnerships for the next normal. He highlighted the new IDC research on the SAP partner ecosystem, which demonstrated how SAP leverages its strong business technology platform in supporting partnership expansion in the Intelligent Enterprise. IDC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading tech media, data and marketing services company.

Sharing some highlights of the study, Fahrbach said:

“Among the key takeaways: revenue expanding to $260 billion by 2024 — nearly doubling this year’s total — and job growth increasing from 1 million to 1.6 million workers by 2024.”

Role of Technology in the Future of Enterprise

Almost a year of surviving in the time of the pandemic, many businesses have accelerated digital adoption to thrive and equip for the next normal. Aside from recognising the role of technology in the future of businesses, the study conducted by IDC also focused on the SAP partner ecosystem’s response to the evolving new normal, stressing the role of technology as the transformation enabler for enterprise recovery.

According to IDC, the Future Enterprise is an organisation that is completely digitally transformed.

“Digital transformation is obviously accelerating at an exponential rate in response to work-from-home initiatives. Companies naturally seek the flexibility of cloud-based solutions. Those that have already started their digital transformation journeys are better prepared for resilience. Others find themselves in catch-up mode,” Fahrbach stated.

The 2024 forecast of $260 billion revenue is underpinned and driven by SAP Cloud growth, which will outpace revenue from on-premise deployments. Fahrbach stressed that it is a pivotal opportunity for SAP partners to be able to achieve the bottom-line in a remarkable time of need.

A Promising Future

IDC also reported on the impact of SAP ecosystem expansion on jobs. Based on the IDC ecosystem modeling, the SAP ecosystem employs 1 million workers in 2020. By 2024, with IDC’s forecasted growth of SAP revenue, the SAP ecosystem is anticipated to employ 1.6 million workers. 

The accelerated workforce growth is attributed, mostly, to over 280,000 net new consultant roles that will be created within 2020-2024. Furthermore, extrapolating total worker roles into hours worked, the SAP ecosystem opportunity will equate to over one billion billable hours between now and 2024.

SAP’s commitment to supporting partnership expansion in the Intelligent Enterprise through technology was evident in the IDC study. Recognising that the pandemic challenges are far from over, SAP has laid out new offerings to enable customer success.

The LACE (Land, Adopt, Consume, Expand) operating model as a go-to-market strategy is one of SAP’s new initiatives for partners. At the recently concluded virtual event SAP MaxAttention Summit, SAP Executive Board member and Customer Success lead Adaire Fox-Martin also shared about the LACE operating model, which is being adopted by some 40{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of SAP’s workforce.

Other new initiatives for SAP partners mentioned by Fahrbach include shared partner demos as a free, integrated environment for customers and learning journey support and learning content on SAP Learning Hub. 

“By helping customers to truly become intelligent enterprises, all SAP partners are ultimately primed to prevail.” Fahrbach shared.

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President of SAP HANA and Analytics, Gerrit Kazmaier, explains how SAP partners play an important role in ensuring customer demands are met by the company:

“To ensure customers quickly gain insights from SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, we offer prebuilt business content packages comprised of end-to-end business scenarios that answer key business and technical questions. Our partner ecosystem plays a critical role in creating these business content packages to meet growing customer demand in all industries and for all lines of business.”

Prebuilt Content and Connectors on the SAP App Center

SAP customers can now leverage expertise from SAP partners to support them in creating the right content for their business with prebuilt content and connectors for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

Below we list down a few of these latest business content packages from SAP partners for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

EWM Insights on Data Warehouse Cloud

This business application from Westernacher Business Management Consulting AG is a central warehouse monitoring solution to guide business operations. It enables companies using several multiple warehouse locations with different IT systems to view KPIs of all warehouses on one screen. The Data Warehouse Cloud connects to the SAP Extended Warehouse Management application and to any data warehousing solution to reduce product distribution costs.

HR Cockpit – Automatic Attendance Analysis

The Automatic Attendance Tracker from Key Performance Consulting enables HR managers to see a detailed view of employees’ attendance at work, to help maintain optimum attendance and avoid work and production delays. The solution is made to be completely customizable, allowing customers to choose how data is represented.

Lyra ICP by Rizing

Lyra ICP is an integrated capacity planning solution with pre-packaged Rizing SAP Data Warehouse content for enterprise asset management and human capital management. It integrates with the SAP Enterprise Asset Management and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central solutions to help businesses track real-time labor capacity and predict skills gaps.

Life Sciences For Data Warehouse Cloud 

The solution from SnapLogic simplifies the exchange of information across the healthcare ecosystem. It provides a single workflow designer and a full-lifecycle API management for integrations and out-of-the-box support for data prep and other data engineering activities.

Optimizing Order Fulfillment with Machine Learning

Created by Inspired Intellect, this solution aims to reduce the number of delays in orders/shipments. It enables customers to better plan around unavoidable delivery delays through the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence that pre-empt the risks associated with delays. It also optimizes logistics, distribution planning, and proactive customer communications.

What is SAP Data Warehouse Cloud?

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is an enterprise-ready, data warehouse in the cloud that runs in a multicloud environment and unites all business data sources in one solution. The solution is designed to:

• empower business users and IT teams to deliver faster results with in-memory technology
• pave the way for improved decision-making with insightful analytics that are simple to set up, use, and share
• help companies allocate IT budget based on existing needs

At the SAPPHIRE NOW Reimagined digital program, SAP announced updates on the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution. The updates include:

• dedicated hybrid scenarios for the SAP BW/4HANA solution and SAP HANA for SQL data warehousing (to be released in early Q3/2020)
• built-in and deeply integrated data flow functionality 
• business content for the retail industry that connects to the SAP Consumer Sales Intelligence solution, and analyzes point-of-sale transactions
• additional industry content for finance to be released in the second half of the year
• early Q3/2020 release of the first version of the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud business layer to enable business users and analysts to create their own models in line with their specific business requirements using top-down modeling

Discover more of the latest business application solutions for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud at the SAP App Center.

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