The Perfect Marriage of Agility and Stability for Today s Demanding Digital Landscape

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1 SAP Solution Brief SAP Cloud Platform SAP S/4 HANA Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts The Perfect Marriage of Agility and Stability for Today s Demanding Digital Landscape Run Simple

2 Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts Today s IT: Stability for Core Transactions and Flexibility for Innovation One thing is certain in our ever-shifting digital landscape it s no longer enough to have an IT strategy that just prioritizes streamlining processes across your business. To keep pace with digital transformation, today s IT approach must include personalized solutions and differentiation within your business. SAP recognizes your company s dual needs to stabilize your core business transactions on a daily basis, while being flexible enough to innovate and meet the challenges of the future with efficiency and creativity. That s why we ve married the intelligent enterprise resource planning of SAP S/4HANA with the multiple cloud services of the SAP Cloud Platform. With SAP S/4HANA, you can rest assured the central operating system is secure. It s the digital core that seamlessly connects all of the people, business processes, and technology you need to keep your business running at full speed. SAP S/4HANA provides live information and actionable insights across your enterprise. Yet now, more than ever, your organization should be poised to act on those insights in real time without disturbing the stable digital core that runs your business. The SAP Cloud Platform provides this agile layer to develop new applications and integrate seamlessly to quickly meet new business demands. This unique combination means the ability to personalize solutions in different areas of your business without disruption. 2/

3 Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts No Need to Choose Between Stability and Innovation. With SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Cloud Platform, businesses like yours can do both - stay connected to your customers and sharpen your competitive edge. SAP Cloud Platform is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that allows you to rapidly build, integrate, and extend functionality for new applications and a variety of use cases. Working sideby-side with S/4 HANA, the Cloud Platform empowers you to leverage advanced technologies to: Enable business users to innovate, increasing their productivity Connect to social media and business networks to embrace digital transformation Trigger business processes based on sensor data from devices and assets Use Machine Learning (ML) for customized insights and rapid response The decoupling of the workload between consumer applications and the backend means optimized efficiency for your core business processes without sacrificing custumer experience or real-time insights. In fact, businesses see improved customer service when lightweight apps connect S/4HANA and non-sap data. When you engage both SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Cloud Platform, your organization reaps multiple benefits. Whether it s as simple as enhancing existing applications like SAP SuccessFactors HR, or as exciting as adding capabilities with pre-built apps that extend S/4HANA to mobile devices, the solutions are endless. Adopting the SAP Cloud Platform to extend S/4HANA, your organization will quickly develop flexible, freestyle extension applications that function across cloud platform services. These can be designed with rich UX capabilities and design tools to meet the needs of your customers and employees alike. 3/

4 Objectives Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts Summary Today s businesses must keep pace with digital transformation to remain competitive, and this includes developing successful, multifaceted IT strategies. SAP S/4HANA provides the power of a digital core that optimizes and stabilizes your daily operations. Using the SAP Cloud Platform to extend S/4HANA ensures your organization can quickly develop flexible applications to meet the evolving needs of your employees, customers, and business partners, while keeping your core business processes intact. Objectives Solution Benefits Implement IT strategies that meet the dual needs of stability and flexibility Maintain core business processes while responding to new business demands Design, build and integrate innovative applications in a variety of use cases Learn More An intelligent enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and in-memory database Extending S/4HANA with the open-platform-as service of SAP Cloud Platform Integration with business networks and software-as-aservice from SAP The ability to smart small and scale when you re ready Accelerated upgrades to back-end systems Rapid, seamless integration of personalized apps with your core business processes The competitive edge to compete in the digital economy To learn more, call your SAP representative today or visit us online. cloudplatform.sap.com 4/

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