SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 After Party

We are pleased to announce that we will once again be hosting our annual SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 After Party at the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference. The SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 After Party will be on June 5 at Cuba Libre Restaurant from 8:00pm - 10:00pm. Register today.

Approyo, Abreon, PCM and Ley-Line Advisory invite you to join us at the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 After Party at Cuba Libre Orlando.

Join us for the one-of-a-kind experience and a fun night of networking, drinks, and food. Plus, learn about our unique partnerships and get to know our teams.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Party Details: 
Date: Tuesday, June 5
Time: 8:00 – 10:00pm

Location:
Cuba Libre
9101 International Dr,
Orlando, FL 32819

Regsiter now - Space is limited

Powered by Approyo

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 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 HR with SAP Solutions powered by Approyo

HR has been transforming for many years, focused traditionally on topics like automation, efficiency, and direct access to HR data and services for individual employees. Technologies and strategies that have supported these initiatives include human resource management systems (HRMS), talent management, employee self-service, and manager self-service. However, a new and expanded HR transformation is underway, led by cloud capabilities including mobile and continuous upgrades, as well as the availability of new digital technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence. These capabilities are enabling HR to reimagine new ways of delivering HR services and strategies throughout the organization. Whereas the traditional view of HR transformation was all about doing existing things better, the next generation of HR transformation is focused on doing completely new things.

These new digital aspects of HR transformation do not replace the existing focus of automation and efficiency. They work hand inhand and, in many cases, digital technologies can further augment automation. Digital approaches are becoming increasingly important, and a digital HR strategy must be a key component of HR’s overall strategy. Not only do they hold the promise of new capabilities that can help HR build a workforce for the future and improve decision-making and effectiveness, they are, simply put, expected. Every person interacts with digital technologies daily, and every person in the organization is a potential user of HR systems. HR system experiences that are basedon consumer grade digital experiences will help engage every worker, inspiring them to do their best and helping them turn every organization’s purpose into performance.

HR in a Digital Economy

• Predict Workforce Outcomes - Analyze data patterns and identify future challenges and risks like employee flight risk and ability to source critical skills.
• Suggest and Recommend - Transform data and metrics into personalized suggestions and recommendations that improve decisionmaking.
• Network and Collaborate - Facilitate knowledge sharing and improve teamwork across distributed working environment.
• Interact using Natural Language  - Encourage ongoing and continuous use of HR systems and processes with voice recognition, messenger apps, and chat bots.
• Multi-channel Workforce Management - Streamline processes for finding, engaging and managing external workers and services providers for access to critical skills and greater business agility.

Reimagine - Pay for Performance with SAP Solutions powered by Approyo

The concept of pay for performance is central to the compensation philosophy found in most companies. When done well, pay for performance drives employee engagement,  development, and productivity. But traditional performance management processes have failed to achieve this goal and are widely viewed as demotivating, inefficient, and  ineffective. By leveraging the power of social and mobile cloud technology, SAP solutions enable customers to create more engaging and continuous performance management processes that replace forms and ratings with meaningful conversations and fair and effective decisions.

Reimagine - Manage the Workforce with SAP Solutions powered by Approyo

The new HR mandate is moving beyond automation, reducing costs, and ensuring compliance to connecting people with your company’spurpose and inspiring them to perform  at their best. SAP SuccessFactors solutions, along with SAP Fieldglass solutions, SAP Leonardo capabilities, and SAP S/4 HANA, helps HR elevate from an administrative function  to a strategic imperative driving phenomenal business results. 

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The untapped potential of machine learning

Many of today’s business processes are governed by rigid, software based rules. This rules-based approach is limited in its ability to tackle complex processes. Further, these processes often require employees to spend time on boring, highly repetitive work, such as checking invoices and travel expenses for accuracy or going through hundreds or thousands of résumés to fill a position. If we change the rules and let selflearning algorithms loose on the data, machine learning could reveal valuable new patterns and solutions that we never knew existed. Meanwhile, employees could be reassigned to more engaging and strategic tasks.

Intelligent infrastructure.
Our economy depends on infrastructure, including energy, logistics, and IT, as well as on services that support society, such as education and healthcare. But we seem to have reached an efficiency plateau in these areas. Machine learning has the potential to discover new signals in the data that could allow for continuous improvement of complex and fast-changing systems. That gives humans more time to apply their creativity (something that machines may never learn to duplicate) to new discoveries and innovation.

Digital assistants and bots.
Recent advances in machinelearning technology suggest a future in which robots, machines, and devices running on self-learning algorithms will operate much more independently than they do now. They may come to their own conclusions within certain parameters, adapt their behavior to different situations, and interact with humans much more closely.

Our devices – already able to react to our voices – will become more interactive, continuously learning assistants to help us with our daily business routines, such as scheduling meetings, translating documents, or analyzing text and data.

SAP S/4HANA and SAP Leonardo - The Modern Enterprise

SAP S/4HANA is the digital core – the nerve center – of your entire business. It connects all of your processes, provides you with live information and insights, and seamlessly integrates your enterprise with the digital world at large.

Integrated with intelligent services by SAP Leonardo, your business processes are enhanced to deliver new smart solutions. You can go beyond traditional transactions and drive digitized, automated operations based on a single source of information from planning, execution, prediction, simulation to analysis all in real-time.

More than ever, your teams are empowered to make strategic decisions  in the moment, based on deep, forward-looking business insights.

Many more intelligent applications and services will be available with the future releases of SAP S/4HANA. In addition, customers can also call up SAP Leonardo Machine Learning APIs on SAP Cloud Platform to build their own Machine Learning use cases and processes.

All the technological ingredients are now available for businesses to reimagine the way they work, and provide outstanding services to their customers.

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What's new in SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03

SAP recently announces the upcoming release of SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03 planned for April 2018. Read the official announcement from SAP for the full details. Here are some of the major highlights from this exciting release.

SAP HANA 2 is the business data platform for the intelligent enterprise. Leveraging state-of-the-art database and data management technology, advanced analytical capabilities and intuitive application development tools in the only all-in-one, in-memory-first data platform – SAP HANA 2 frees up valuable resources and human capital for new and innovative application development to meet your business’s strategic objectives.

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03 includes a mix of new and continuous innovations across the themes of database management, data management, analytical intelligence and application development.

• Database enhancements allow for advanced data and privacy protection. Improvements for high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) will further increase system availability and help protect enterprise-critical applications. Enhancements in the areas of multi-tenant database container (MDC), dynamic tiering, workload and performance management and analysis further improve performance and usability.
• Data Management enhancements include new data integration and federation sources with additional supported data types to bring you a broader view of the business. Enhanced and simplified functionality helps you to further improve the quality of your data.
• Analytical Intelligence enhancements further increase execution performance and productivity for data scientists as well as extended features that will allow you to gain the most insight from geocoding your business data. Improvements for graph support more complex analysis and scenarios for your connected data. And new sentiment analysis for additional languages means you can cover larger markets with text analysis.
• Application Development and Tool enhancements simplify development, improve performance, expand use cases and enable a new class of security for applications. Additions to officially supported runtimes in XSA provide more options for your application server layer of development.

Read the full announcement on www.approyo.com 

Transform Supply Chain with SAP powered by Approyo

Digitization of the economy is continuing to accelerate the pace of innovation, shortening the product lifecycle and increasing the demand volatility. At the same time supply chains are becoming global and increasingly complex. To be in a position to create and capture opportunities, companies must develop an environment in which they can manage information and processes simultaneously across the extended supply chain. This evolution of supply chains is more connected, intelligent, responsive, and predictive. Itenables companies to drive customer-centric processes and deliver personalized products uniquely built and delivered for the “segment ofone.” These demanding customers have to be serviced across a business network of global partners that are increasingly challenged by resource scarcity. This transformation will continue to impact the business processes and systems that are required to remain competitive. It will change how we design, plan, make, ship, and operate our products and assets.

SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain, and applications such as SAP Ariba solutions and SAP Integrated Business Planning, and SAP Leonardo support a digital supply chain strategy with a digital value network that acts as an enabler for business transformation. The digital value network starts with a digital core that interconnects all aspects of the value network in real time to drive business outcomes. The digital core not only connects every aspect of internal operations but also enables real-time workforce engagement, supplier collaboration, outcome-based omnichannel consumer experience, and other market dynamics with Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data scenarios.

Reduced Days in Inventory with Live Inventory Management and Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP)
Live inventory management through a redesigned data model enables unlimited simultaneous material movements and allows for true transparency on inventory and material flows. It also provides improved material planning with faster, more frequent Material Requirement Planning (MRP) runs –multiple times a day, with planning and rapid replanning in minutes instead of hours to minimize inventory. It is now possible to replenish only for real demand and introduce buffers at strategically important points (Demand Driven Material Requirement Planning DDMRP).

Reduction in Revenue Loss Due to Fulfillment Issues with Advanced Available to Promise (AATP)
The solution enables intelligent, real-time product availability check for sales, planned and production orders. It  includes scalable Available to Promise (ATP) for managing large transaction volumes and flexible allocation management capabilities. It provides back-order processing with intuitive priority classification and interactive exception handling.

Reduce Overall Supply Chain Planning Cost with What-If and Scenario Planning
S/4HANA  digital core in conjunction with SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations enables integrated, continuous and iterative supply chain planning. It includes whatif and scenario planning to react to market demand through the best service at lowest cost. Manufacturing costs and premium freight expenses are reduced with detailed constrained planning and scheduling, enabling agility and efficient use of capacity.

Improved Supply Chain Planning FTE Productivity with SAP Integrated Business Planning and SAP Fiori
Supply chain planning productivity is enhanced through easy-touse Microsoft Excel and analytics-based planning interfaces in conjunction with SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP). This helps production and material planners execute critical daily tasks with embedded decision support analytics and SAP Fiori role-based user interface applications.

Reduced TCO Through Landscape Simplification with Embedded Solutions in SAP S/4HANA
Faster business outcomes are achieved with reduced operational cost, thanks to simplified system landscapes. Redesigned data structure and embedded solutions in SAP S/4HANA result in fewer systems and interfaces. For example SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) and SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) applications embedded in the SAP S/4HANA core.

Digital Priorities in Supply Chain

Customer Experience - Customer expectations are changing and individualized products are becoming commonplace. It’s not about selling the product but caring about the customer from the beginning through the entire lifecycle. Ability to deliver the same day, or even the same hour to different types of locations is the key to a great customer experience.

SAP Connected Goods software captures information from smart products using IoT sensors. SAP S/4HANA supports the new consumption-based business models, leading to increased revenue for the organization.

Local Manufacturing - Companies are looking to move "closer to home" and reducing outsourced manufacturing with the preference of local manufacturing. To make manufacturing processes more efficient and affordable there is an increase in automation and robotics on the production floor. Also, the assets and products are becoming more connected and smarter.

SAP S/4HANA supports agile manufacturing with ‘lot size of one’ and 3D Printing customization capabilities, which reduces inventory carrying costs. SAP solutions provide better visibility into the performance of the shop floor equipment to increase uptime and utilization.

Networked Economy - The new economy is the networked economy. Organizations are seeking cross department and cross industry business network collaboration. Also, visibility down multiple levels of a supply chain is needed for sustainable and socially responsible networks.

SAP Integrated Business Planning and SAP Ariba solutions provide collaboration across supply chain, logistics, assets, and manufacturing. IoT solutions from SAP leverage data from smart assets to drive data and business processes. Also, improved collaboration in design results in improved compliance and sustainable products.

Changing Society - An increasing percentage of the world’s population now lives in cities and urban areas. This increases the pressure on infrastructures such as electricity, water, and power grids and thus the need to optimize space and logistics. Also, as manufacturing becomes more automated, the role of employees and the skills required are also evolving.

IoT solutions from SAP help build smart cities and optimize the rural areas to support the ever-growing population with the ever-decreasing natural resources. SAP Leonardo capabilities help data scientists analyze vast amounts of data and provide innovative solutions in this time of changing work environments and populations.

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Approyo named one of The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch 2018 by Insights Success

Approyo is honored to announce that it has been selected among The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch 2018 by Insights Success Magazine.

Insights Success is a platform that focuses distinctively on emerging as well as leading companies, their confrontational style of doing business and way of delivering effective and collaborative solutions to strengthen market share. This magazine talks about leaders and orators from the world of technology, which includes CEO’s, CIO’s, VP’s, Managers and other professionals who had set a benchmark in the revolution of the industry.

"Upon review of the 2018 nominees of The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch 2018, and going through various factors such as technological utilization, strategic focus and global footprint, Approyo stood out with its customized cloud environment that has surged the company ahead to be recognized as a leading global SAP HANA technology solution provider.” mentions the Editor-in-Chief of Insights Success Magazine, Pooja M. Bansal.

“We are honored to be part of this great list of companies" said Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo. "This achievement continues to validate our success in the SAP marketplace.”

The magazine spotlights companies that provide leading, effective and groundbreaking technologies. For the full article, please visit Insights Success.

About Insights Success
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