PaaS Initiative meets demands from the retail, professional services and component and machinery industries
SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced the expansion of its cloud solutions portfolio to meet the demands of three industries: retail, professional services and industrial machinery and components industry. Developed by SAP and partners on an open platform offered as a service, the solutions help adopt innovations quickly as part of a customer's IT environment.
"The speed with which companies need to innovate their operations today requires technology to provide them with agility. As announced in SAPPHIRE NOW 2020, SAP is committed to the Industry Cloud strategy to provide solutions that can be quickly adopted by different types of industries, adding an open integration layer for next-generation practices and applications to improve the end-to-end chain and also enabling improvements in innovation and planning processes," said Valéria Kinguti, vice president of Platforms and Technologies, SAP Brazil.
Developing an Ecosystem for Innovation
Cloud solutions for these industries were developed and run on the SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) and use technologies such as artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to deliver compelling user experiences and to digitize and automate operations. SAP and its partners focus on solutions for customers' core businesses in their industries to help improve end-to-end processes and enable the development of new differentiating models. The three new offerings address the unique challenges of the following industries:
"SAP's industry-leading cloud solutions provide a way to deliver targeted extensions that complement intelligent business strategies. With a robust ecosystem of partners capable of delivering innovative applications together with SAP, this initiative can help customers succeed in growing markets," explains Leslie Hand, vice president of IDC Retail and Financial Insights.
Partnering for Success
SAP partners are an essential component of the cloud initiative for specific industries. With open APIs, process and data models, as well as a wide variety of native cloud technologies to innovate vertically, SAP's cloud is attracting partners looking to accelerate innovation and solution development. SAP and its partners are jointly creating "next business practices" for companies and business networks that will help accelerate the pace to meet changing business demands. View partner solutions in the SAP App Center.
Source: SAP Brasil
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