SAP Solutions powered by Approyo

Never before have there been so many promising breakthrough technologies available — and so many businesses ready to capitalize on them. From Machine Learning to Blockchain, from Cloud to the Internet of Things (IoT), smart devices, Analytics, and more, companies are eager to run smarter and take advantage of the new business possibilities they offer.

Organizations in every industry and region recognize the need for a digital core to meet today’s – and tomorrow’s – business needs. When insight, flexibility, and responsiveness are critical to success, companies cannot rely on yesterday’s technology. Enter SAP Solutions powered by Approyo.

Approyo - Your SAP Partner
Approyo provides full SAP service technology with extensive capabilities in consulting, solutions architecture, and product procurement, in order to develop the right solution for our customers. Our extensive partnerships in the industry allow us to offer top-tier SAP procurement and logistics to meet all our customers’ SAP technology needs.

Approyo will help you to avoid the expense and complexity of buying and managing software licenses, the underlying application infrastructure and middleware or the development tools and other resources. Our solutions take the enterprise system of record and supercharges it with the tools of digital transformation – coupled with a design thinking process specifically created for business modernization and agility.

SAP Solution powered by Approyo

SAP HANA powered by Approyo
SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that lets you accelerate business processes, deliver more business intelligence, and simplify your IT environment. By providing the foundation for all your data needs, SAP HANA removes the burden of maintaining separate legacy systems and siloed data, so you can run live and make better business decisions in the new digital economy. With Approyo, you can deploy the latest version, SAP HANA 2.

SAP Hybris powered by Approyo
SAP Hybris focuses on rapid transformation and agility across all channels, getting you close to your customers and delivering a consistently great experience at every touch point. SAP Hybris makes products that cut cost, time and complexity, freeing you up to focus on innovation and strategy. SAP Hybris covers five main areas – commerce, marketing, revenue, sales and service – and offer you the insights and flexibility you need to lead.

SAP Leonardo powered by Approyo
SAP Leonardo is a holistic digital innovation system that seamlessly integrates future-facing technologies and capabilities into the SAP Platform. This powerful portfolio enables you to rapidly innovate, scale new models, and continually redefine your business.

SAP Leonardo delivers new capabilities in future-forward technologies, which add tremendous value along your company’s digital journey. But it’s made even more valuable because it’s built on SAP HANA, to support real-time business. Plus, SAP Leonardo works seamlessly with every SAP application from SAP Ariba to SAP S/4HANA, making them more powerful, intelligent, and capable.

SAP S/4HANA powered by Approyo
Written natively for the SAP HANA platform, SAP S/4HANA is an entirely new generation of SAP Business Suite that is characterized by simplifications, massively increased efficiency, and compelling features such as planning and simulation options in many conventional transactions.
SAP S/4HANA signals a move away from the transactional system that merely records data toward giving end users active decision support in real time that is based on data from both internal and external sources.

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Transform Sales with SAP Solutions powered by Approyo

The digital economy is changing your customers’ buying behavior. Living in a world where sensors, artificial intelligence, and social structured and unstructured data flows are just one click away, customers expect individualized products and a unified buying experience on any device. Digital technology is changingthe game,and companies that adopt new sales and distribution strategies are changing the rules. To   succeed, companies need to streamline their front end processes - marketing, sales, commerce, services, and billing, to drive value and optimize customers’ experience across every channel of interaction. Leading companies are learning what new technologies can do for their sales and distribution organizations.

There is a step-change in the cost and effectiveness of distribution and billing processes. Your customers expect shorter and more reliable delivery times for goods, and much simpler ordering, invoicing, and payment processes. At the same time, they expect more individualized products and services; for certain industries, this individualization has reached a lot size of one. The additional complexity that this level of personalization causes in sales and supply chain processes can be resolved only through an integrated, real-time technology platform such as SAP HANA.

SAP S/4HANA enables substantial increases in the productivity of your internal sales workforce. Additionally, it enables unified multichannel e-commerce and flexible billing for B2B and B2C businesses with business network collaboration. It provides detailed insight into action summaries and increased automation tailored for the internal sales representative. Integration between SAP S/4HANA Sales and the SAP Hybris sales solution enables your sales teams to work together as a well-oiled machine and equips your sales people with tools to sell anytime, anywhere, on any device. SAP Hybris delivers the agility and power to find answers, engage in meaningful customer conversations, and deliver the right impact every time. Companies can now connect every part of the business and provide every business unit with the information they need to create the best, most consistent, and most targeted customer experience.

Reduce Sales-Related Costs by providing real-time and contextual analytics to improve process performance
Give the sales team a complete view of the sales  process and facilitate ad hoc collaborations to  accelerate sales decision-making related to  contracts, pricing, and negotiation.

Reduce Inventory-Related Costs through live inventory visibility, optimal allocations, and agile response 
Simplify and visualize processes related to order fulfillment tracking. Use instant communications between key stakeholders to take actions immediately and reduce cycle times. Respond quickly to unforeseen events, such as delayed shipments or changes in customer orders, through increased inventory visibility. Improve order fulfillment and allow for inventory optimization along the supply chain and across warehouse locations.

Reduce Days Sales Outstanding by supporting wider billing scenarios and automated tracking of account receivables
Enable faster billing with reduced administration. Introduce flexible and dynamic search capabilities of the customer invoice list and tracking real-time orders and accounts-receivable status through the integration of CRM with contract-to-cash cycles. Leverage automated subscription  billing to speed up processing times, and enable new business models.

Increase Market Share, Share of  Wallet, and Customer Satisfaction by 
providing a holistic view of customer information
Gain a single view of the customer and enable better engagement along the buying journey, including data from Web streams and social channels, past  interactions, propensity scores, and “in-the-moment”  interactions.

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Intelligently connect people, things and businesses with SAP Leonardo

Never before have there been so many promising breakthrough technologies available — and so many businesses ready to capitalize on them. From Machine Learning to Blockchain, from Cloud to the Internet of Things (IoT), smart devices, Analytics, and more, companies are eager to run smarter and take advantage of the new business possibilities they offer.

What is SAP Leonardo?

SAP Leonardo is a holistic digital innovation system that seamlessly integrates future-facing technologies and capabilities into the SAP Platform. This powerful portfolio enables you to rapidly innovate, scale new models, and continually redefine your business.

• Innovate: SAP Leonardo delivers new capabilities in Machine Learning, IoT, Big Data, and Analytics. Reimagine and redefine your processes to become a truly digital business.
• Integrate: SAP Leonardo enables innovation and learning even greater than the sum of its parts. From the cloud platform to the applications themselves, SAP Leonardo is open, extendable, and ready to be woven into every facet of your business.
• Scale: SAP Leonardo allows for rapid implementation and seamless scaling through the existing SAP platform and application portfolio. Automate and augment existing processes, develop new applications, make existing SAP and third-party applications more intelligent, and power new business models.

SAP Leonardo delivers new capabilities in future-forward technologies, which add tremendous value along your company’s digital journey. But it’s made even more valuable because it’s built on SAP HANA,  to support real-time business. Plus, SAP Leonardo works seamlessly with every SAP application from SAP Ariba to SAP S/4HANA, making them more powerful, intelligent, and capable.

Built for all industries, tailored to yours.

SAP Leonardo was designed to be adaptable and open to bring innovation at scale to every industry. This flexible approach lets you build a solution specific to your industry or business need. Plus, to facilitate more rapid implementation, an initial set of pre-built accelerators are available in retail, consumer products, manufacturing, and sports and entertainment – with more accelerators coming.

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Transform Finance with SAP solutions and Approyo

Enterprises today are increasingly experiencing a new normal of volatility that is fundamentally changing how they engage with their investors, customers, suppliers, regulators, and employees. This volatility is driven not only by traditional areas of currency exchange risk and commodity prices but also by macroeconomic volatility and rapidly changing consumer and employee preferences. Additionally, tax policy volatility and complex regulatory requirements are challenging finance to capture, analyze and provide deeper and more relevant real-time information.

The role of finance itself is evolving towards active engagement with business partners, simplifying and automating processes, enabling new questions to be asked that were never possible and delivering new insights during the decision-making process. Leading finance organizations are driving digital transformation and fundamentally changing the way they bill, collect, report, and pay taxes, and how they plan for and manage a constantly changing business. Finance’s role is expanding as it leans into innovation to creatively adapt to change, manage volatility, and to find new opportunities to create value.

SAP S/4HANA is the finance innovation platform that enables today’s digital business by bringing business processes and analytics together into a single, smooth, digital motion. It provides the foundation for continuous innovation by allowing customers to benefit from newest SAP Leonardo innovations as they emerge along with the ability to leverage extended finance for procurement, workforce management, travel & expense management, etc. The time to innovate and transform is now and SAP supports a live business for all roles of the office of the CFO.

SAP S/4HANA for central finance foundation
Provides a non-disruptive path to adopt SAP’s latest finance simplifications and innovations for customers with heterogeneous landscapes, out-of-maintenance, and/or highly customized SAP systems. It provides a unified financial and management platform to centralize process execution, planning, and reporting based on the same (single source of the truth) data. Benefits include advanced reporting at the segment, entity, or grouplevel; business-modelagnostic rollups for reorganizations and M&A modeling; scalable local and central process execution (complementing process execution in source ERPs); and a starting point for finance shared services across business units.

Transformation platform for the digital enterprise
Create an advanced digital data architecture (universal journal), a platform to include future innovations, asingle source of the truth for both transactions and analytics, and a digital core to include integration for workforce, network, customers, and new innovations enabled by SAP Leonardo, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Fieldglass solutions.

Rapid value creation with minimal disruption
Massive simplification and optimization within SAP S/4HANA can be deployed with minimal business disruption to accelerate business value and capture and eliminate the need for overly complex processes. Additional value can be achieved by deploying solutions and templates within SAP Activate methodology, standardizing master data using the SAP Master Data Governance application, and focusing effort on the reduction or elimination of legacy custom code.

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Build your competitive advantage across the entire subsidiary ecosystem with SAP S/4HANA

Managing the subsidiary network can be a big challenge

• High IT complexity and cost due to heterogeneous applications across subsidiaries
• High Corporate risk due to limited governance and compliance across subsidiaries
• Higher cost of finance and increased cash needs due to limited visibility to timely subsidiary analytics
• Reduced operational efficiencies due to minimal leverage by subsidiaries of Corporate capabilities and services
• High subsidiary operational costs due to inconsistent business processes
• High costs to incorporate new acquisitions into the Corporate infrastructure
• Low collaboration Corporate to Subsidiaries and Subsidiaries to Subsidiaries leads to reduced monetization of the Digital Economy 

A new subsidiary strategy is needed for success in the digital economy

Companies need to expand globally faster

• New (M&A) and existing subsidiaries are key components of a growth strategy and these need a solution that helps them scale quickly at low cost 
• Solution standardization is key and the most effective solutions with provide built-in governance, control, visibility, and best business practices 
• The Cloud value proposition is the perfect fit to enable efficient subsidiary adoption and flexible growth

Success in the Digital Economy will drive companies to implement new business models across all subsidiaries

• Better collaboration between Corporate and subsidiaries to quickly roll out company-wide products and services
• Digital economy  business models to allow speedy response to both local  and global business needs 
• Faster integration into corporate infrastructure for quicker/more effective M&A ROI

Building competitive advantage and out-performing the competition requires a tighter alignment between Corporate and its subsidiaries

• Real-time visibility across the entire subsidiary ecosystem to drive insight to action and serve customers better
• One face to the customer with tighter subsidiary ecosystem interrelationships
• Increased leverage of Corporate services and capabilities out to subsidiaries to build competitive advantages

Cloud solutions are a great choice for subsidiaries

Instant Value

• Accelerate go-live & user adoption
• Rapid global deployments
• Quickly adapt to new business needs

Continous Innovation

• Instant access to the latest technologies
• Get the latest best practices
• Keep up with regulatory changes

Predictable, Lower TCO

• Shift from CapEx to OpEx
• Better transparency into costs & usage
• No infrastructure investment needed

Simple, Reliable & Safe

• Easy to configure & extend 
• Fully managed by a trusted 3rd-party
• Complete data security and protection

Enter SAP S/4HANA
An intelligent ERP suite designed specifically for in-memory computing, SAP S/4HANA offers a personalized, consumer-grade user experience with SAP Fiori. No matter your industry or business size, SAP S/4HANA can help you drive instant value across all lines of business.

• Complete Visibility - Increased global operations, compatible applications, sharing
• Control & Governance - Manage more diverse operations, more disparity, withcontrol and financial consistency
• Business Processes - Consistent, best practices, corporate standards
• Managed Risk - New governments, new laws, new languages, new customers, new employees
• Optimized IT Cost and Speed - Effectively use limited resources, inexperienced people, time
• Reduced Complexity - Global suppliers, new channels, new markets, complex supply chains
• M&A - No longer slow and expensive to ramp up and integrate to Corporate

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Experience Digital Transformation with Approyo
The opportunity exists to transform business processes and achieve the digital transformation of your business with more automation and real-time visibility. Our SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA and Cloud solutions address these important needs and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation. 

The Cloud Helpers Blog Series - Platform as a Service

Welcome to our blog series, The Cloud Helpers. This series focuses on cloud computing topics and helps you understand how the cloud can impact your business today and in the future. Today we are going to focus on one on the definition of Platform as a Service or PaaS.

What is Paas?

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a complete development and deployment environment in the cloud, with resources that enable you to deliver everything from simple cloud-based apps to sophisticated, cloud-enabled enterprise applications. You purchase the resources you need from a cloud service provider on a pay-as-you-go basis and access them over a secure Internet connection.

PaaS includes infrastructure—servers, storage, and networking—but also middleware, development tools, business intelligence (BI) services, database management systems, and more. PaaS is designed to support the complete web application lifecycle: building, testing, deploying, managing, and updating.

PaaS allows you to avoid the expense and complexity of buying and managing software licenses, the underlying application infrastructure and middleware or the development tools and other resources. You manage the applications and services you develop, and the cloud service provider typically manages everything else.

Advantages of PaaS

• DON’T HAVE TO INVEST IN PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE - Being able to ‘rent’ virtual infrastructure has both cost benefits and practical benefits. They don’t need to purchase hardware themselves or employ the expertise to manage it.
• MAKES DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE FOR ‘NON-EXPERTS’ - With some PaaS offerings anyone can develop an application, simply through their web browser utilising one-click functionality.
• SECURITY - Security is provided, including data security and backup and recovery
• TEAMS IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS CAN WORK TOGETHER - Using the internet, developers spread across several locations can work together on the same application build.
• FLEXIBILITY - Customers have control over the tools that are installed within their platforms and can create a platform that suits their specific requirements.
• ADAPTABILITY - Features can be changed if circumstances dictate that they should.

PaaS vs. SaaS vs. IaaS
PaaS is one of three main categories of cloud computing services. The other two are software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

With IaaS, a provider supplies the basic compute, storage and networking infrastructure along with the hypervisor (the virtualization layer). Users must then create virtual machines, install operating systems, support applications and data, and handle all of the configuration and management associated with those tasks.

With PaaS, a provider offers more of the application stack than IaaS providers, adding operating systems, middleware (such as databases) and other runtimes into the cloud environment.

With SaaS, a provider offers an entire application stack. Users simply log in and use the application that runs completely on the provider's infrastructure.

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Ask Approyo: SAP ECC vs. SAP S/4HANA

One common theme we hear from customers is the confusion in the market place around SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA. In this post, we will try to clear up the confusion and explain how the two solutions relate to one another.

What is SAP ECC?
SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) is the previous generation of SAP’s enterprise resource planning software. ECC provides modules covering a full range of industry applications, including finance, logistics, HR, product planning and customer service, linked together into a single, customizable system run on a database of the user’s choice.

What is SAP S/4HANA?
SAP S/4HANA is the successor of ECC. It is a natural evolution and not just a simple upgrade. Currently, SAP S/4HANA 1709 empowers every corner of your organization to deliver business results. SAP S/4HANA is the foundation for businesses to deploy machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios based on SAP Leonardo capabilities, unifying transactional and analytical workloads in real time and helping you stay ahead of the competition.

SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA
The route to S/4HANA is achieved either by a system conversion from an ECC solution (including Suite on HANA) or a new install. A system conversion needs to take place with the reason being to enable the new simplified data model. You need to be conscious of what functionality you have lost from your existing system as part of the move to S4/HANA in order to then replace it.

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