Fast, Continuous Transformation: The Business Mandate That’s Here to Stay

The faster technology changes, the more likely today’s disruptive innovations will become commonplace tomorrow. In some ways, this news may be reassuring as brands try to counter the bold ideas and high-tech investments of startups and spin-offs. But while every business – regardless of size, history, and industry – has a chance to make their mark, a competitor may overshadow that success before any real benefit is realized.

Innovation can no longer be treated as a game of delivering change and walking away. It must be used as a never-ending opportunity to understand how humans can effectively augment machines, how machines can help humans fulfill their greatest potential, and how business processes can be redesigned to support that partnership.

Turning that knowledge into fast, continuous transformation requires a level of intelligence that allows businesses to sense change and use it to feed experiences that customers and employees will love. And for many of our customers, this capability is made possible through SAP Model Company services.

SAP Model Company: An ever-evolving jump-start to the intelligent enterprise

Two years ago, we launched SAP Model Company to help our customers lay the foundation for becoming intelligent enterprises and accelerate the benefits of operating as one. In fact, according to research by an independent global IT advisory firm, customers that follow a model-company approach experience improvements such as accelerated deployment (80%), higher fit to standard  (50%), and faster decision-making (40%).

By using SAP Model Company, our customers have the right tools to accelerate their deployment of next-generation solutions, such as SAP S/4HANA, and maximize the use of standards to deliver expected outcomes through:

• Efficient scoping that outlined relevant business processes and end-to-end scenarios
• A reference model for configuration and change analysis, which shortens deployment time
• Proven and compatible process configuration to demonstrate system use before going live

Although the current form of our model-company portfolio provides the support industries and lines of business demand, we also recognize that the services must evolve like our customers do. We constantly listen and learn from our community of customers and partners as we shape our ready-to-run package of solutions, business content, accelerators, engineered services, and next practices.

As a result of our collaborative efforts, we continue to evolve and extend SAP Model Company. For example, we have redefined the architecture of SAP Model Company. As a result, we offer interoperability across the industry and line-of-businesses portfolio and SAP Model Company custom editions, which are assembled and tailored to the individual customer requirements. Plus, the SAP Model Company portfolio has been joined with new integrated delivery framework to ensure the success of every projects in close and efficient collaboration between SAP and your preferred SAP partner.

SAPPHIRE NOW: An opportunity to gain a solid innovation foundation

With the availability of real-time data and the omnipresence of technology innovation, it not a surprise that business models, processes, and operations are changing quickly. And the SAP Digital Business Services organization is ready to help your business find and create its unique competitive edge – again and again.

At SAPPHIRE NOW, we have designed an agenda that provides the tools and insights you need to survive and thrive in this dynamic landscape. I encourage you to visit the Services and Support Pavilion, located near the Central Showcase, to engage SAP experts and learn from real-life experiences to get started on your journey towards fast, continuous business transformation.                                                                  

Register today and check out our SAP Model Company sessions.