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SAP Professional Services is helping firms deliver digital services, engage the best talent, and become intelligent enterprises, as these companies are well-positioned to succeed in the modern landscape. As the world increasingly relies on technology, professional services companies are finding new ways to leverage it for growth. SAP provides cloud-based flexible billing solutions capable of delivering a comprehensive solution for professional services firms that address all aspects of customer engagement management, from initial contact to delivery and billing. This makes it easier for firms to innovate their business models.

By harnessing the power of data and analytics, professional services firms are redefining what is possible in terms of growth, efficiency, and customer engagement. As the professional services landscape continues to evolve, firms that embrace data and analytics will be best positioned to succeed. SAP Processional Services is enabling intelligent enterprise in the industry

Key capabilities of SAP Professional Services include:

Business development and sales. Includes commerce personalization consent-based marketing, omnichannel commerce management, sales force automation, sales performance management, single customer view, and digital services monetization.
Project and management services. Includes billing and revenues management, service-centric billing and accounting, customer project management, travel-to-reimburse, field service management, and customer experience management.
Talent and workforce management. Includes HR services delivery, external workforce management, payroll management, talent acquisition, talent management and learning, workforce planning and analytics, and employee experience management.
Core finance processes. Includes record-to-report, invoice-to-report, treasury management, FP&A, real-estate management, travel-to-reimburse, invoice-to-cash, and GRC.
SAP Road Map for Professional Services includes:
Current release highlights: Complex quote solutions, intelligent staffing of resources, relationship management lifecycle, and intelligent finance operations. 84, asset management, and legal compliance.
Upcoming innovations: Business solutions contract management, workforce planning, intelligent sales scenarios, and unified HCM reporting
Future Plans: Integrated sales enablement portfolio, end-to-end enablement management, and intelligent employee/talent management.
SAP software solutions to meet your needs include SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Projects, SAP Entitlement Management, SAP Subscription, SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Enterprise Management, SAP Integration Suite, and SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance

Key Considerations for SAP organizations:

How a Professional Services Firm Enhances Employee Experience with SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management (HXM) suite. Review the case study about how a U.K.-based global consulting firm that helps enable the digital transformation initiatives of companies around the world addressed its embrace of a more digital workforce. EY leveraged SAP SuccessFactors HXM suite to better support HR processes responsible for onboarding more Millennials and Generation Z talent moving forward.
Leverage SAP Cloud technology to enable digitalization of HR processes and services. In this magazine article, we learn how one professional services company provides SAP Cloud Platform deployments to support the modernization of HR processes and practices amid growing work-from-home and hybrid workforce trends.
Technology Insight Recap: An implementation partner shares the importance of the Finance-First Approach to Digital Transformation with SAP Central Finance. Many organizations are looking to SAP S/4HANA Finance to achieve the vision of an intelligent enterprise system. However, there is not always organizational alignment on the roadmap for digital transformation. Professional services firms can partner with organizations to help finance and accounting teams develop the business case for Central Finance as a deployment option to streamline SAP S/4HANA Finance adoption.

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Video: Learn How Lloyd’s Register Uses the Cloud to Help Its Customers Engage and Turn Ideas Into Solutions Jun 14, 2021 — At a time when uncertainty appears to be steering the ship amid a disrupted marketplace, asset-intensive industries are looking to accelerate digital transformation. But in navigating rough waters, they face many challenges in relation to aging infrastructure, evolving global supply chains, and meeting sustainability demands of customers. Lloyd’s Register, one of the world's leading providers of professional services for engineering and technology that improves the safety and performance of critical infrastructures worldwide, is building a digital engine that supports integration of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and geolocation to empower its customers with modern, sustainable solutions to help them weather the storm. In building a digital engine to support services heavily utilized by its customers, Lloyd’s approaches innovation as an exercise in learning. The strategy enables customers to provide feedback and allows for more informed decision-making – like whether or not to pursue further expansion of an idea and turn it into a solution. With Microsoft Azure and SAP Cloud at the center of their engine, Lloyd’s Register is bolstering its asset and facility performance and risk management offerings with predictive capabilities to enable customers to continuously operate, while ensuring sustainable operations and saving costs. In this SAP Cloud case study, Lloyd’s Register shares key challenges and learnings about the digital transformation journey in asset-intensive industries. Read this customer story and learn: • How Lloyd’s Register’s is building a software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology engine on Microsoft Azure and SAP Cloud to support services heavily utilized by its customers and build intelligence at all levels. • Why getting customers involved in the innovation process is necessary to robustly test ideas and develop solutions that address real-world challenges. • The benefits of the cloud to create opportunities, including increased agility, reduced operational risk, and enhanced business productivity for years to come. • About how the cloud, as a technical foundation of a digital transformation journey, can become more than a platform – it becomes an engine for innovation and learning.

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Lloyd’s Register Adopts SAP’s Portfolio of Cloud Solutions As The Engine to Address Uncertainty In Asset-Intense Industries Jun 14, 2021 — At a time when uncertainty appears to be steering the ship amid a disrupted marketplace, asset-intensive industries are looking to accelerate digital transformation. But in navigating rough waters, they face many challenges in relation to aging infrastructure, evolving global supply chains, and meeting sustainability demands of customers. Lloyd’s Register, one of the world's leading providers of professional services for engineering and technology that improves the safety and performance of critical infrastructures worldwide, is building a digital engine that supports the integration of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and geolocation to empower its customers with modern, sustainable solutions to help them weather the storm. In building a digital engine to support services heavily utilized by its customers, Lloyd’s approaches innovation as an exercise in learning. The strategy enables customers to provide feedback and allows for more informed decision-making – like whether or not to pursue further expansion of an idea and turn it into a solution. With Microsoft Azure and SAP’s portfolio of cloud solutions at the center of their engine, Lloyd’s Register is bolstering its asset and facility performance and risk management offerings with predictive capabilities to enable customers to continuously operate, while ensuring sustainable operations and saving costs. In this case study, Lloyd’s Register shares key challenges and learnings about the digital transformation journey in asset-intensive industries using SAP’s portfolio of cloud solutions. Read this customer story and learn: • How Lloyd’s Register is building a software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology engine on Microsoft Azure and SAP’s portfolio of cloud solutions to support services that are heavily utilized by its customers and build intelligence at all levels. • Why getting customers involved in the innovation process is necessary to robustly test ideas and develop solutions that address real-world challenges. • The benefits of the cloud to create opportunities, including increased agility, reduced operational risk, and enhanced business productivity for years to come. • About how the cloud, as a technical foundation of a digital transformation journey, can become more than a platform – it becomes an engine for innovation and learning.

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How a Cloud-First Integration Strategy Helps Eneco Offer Innovative Energy Services and Cut Costs Jan 8, 2021 — SAP customers can learn a great deal from their peers, and energy company Eneco has many learnings from its cloud-first strategy that other businesses can benefit from. This Q&A with Cloud Integration Consultant Marco Verhoef offers insights from Eneco’s experiences as an early adopter of SAP Integration Suite. In this article, he shares: - How his team built a business case for integration - Key takeaways gleaned from the SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite initiative -- How the business was able to save money by moving to cloud-based integration

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How Randstad Deutchland Thinks Big and Builds for the Future Nov 23, 2020 — Detlef Richter, Manager IT Back Office Applications at Randstad Deutchland, delivered a keynote address, “Seamless User Experience with SAP and Google Applications in a Multi-cloud Environment,” to open the second day of the SAPinsider 2020 EMEA virtual conference experience. Read a summary of the session.

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Case Study: Lessons from Epsilon’s Successful SAP Cloud Platform Implementation Oct 20, 2020 — Epsilon, a global customer data marketing and analytics company, recently deployed SAP Cloud Platform to improve the speed and capabilities of its customer analytics. Attendees will learn about a successful SAP Cloud Platform implementation. The session will dive into key considerations, including security and scalability, that played into the company’s cloud decision, and get useful tips from its deployment experience. Attend to learn about: - Epsilon’s use case with SAP Cloud Platform and how it impacted solution delivery for its clients - How SAP Cloud Platform fits into Epsilon’s overall landscape of technology offerings - Epsilon's implementation of SAP Cloud Platform combined with SAP BusinessObjects for an end-to-end business intelligence solution

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Inside the Value of the SAP S/4HANA for Financial Products Subledger Solution: Insurance Provider Swiss Re Teams with SAP to Take SAP S/4HANA for Financial Products Subledger to the Next Level Feb 17, 2020 — by Esther Shein, Contributing Writer, SAPinsider Digital transformation is paving the way for insurance companies to modernize their processes and Swiss Re, one of the world’s largest wholesale insurance and reinsurance providers, has partnered with SAP to develop and test its SAP S/4HANA for Financial Products Subledger (FPSL). This innovative solution provides concurrent accounting across multiple accounting bases […]

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VINCI Energies Becomes “Future Ready” with 10-Month Program to Innovate with SAP S/4HANA Feb 26, 2019 —

Due to its aggressive acquisition strategy, professional services company VINCI Energies – which has already grown to 77,500 employees spread throughout more than 1,000 global companies – needed an updated ERP program and IT strategy to integrate its new companies into the fold as quickly and easily as possible. To accomplish this, the business decided to consolidate on a single-instance environment with over 30,000 users running on SAP S/4HANA. Learn how VINCI Energies underwent a 10-month project that culminated in a migration over the weekend that imparted some valuable lessons. With 14 countries live so far and plans to deploy it universally, uncover the benefits the business is already reaping from the capabilities that SAP S/4HANA has introduced and innovating with SAP Cloud Platform, SAP C/4HANA, and more intelligent reporting and analytics.

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Siemens Energizes Its Testing Landscape Jan 11, 2018 —

Siemens sought to consolidate its sprawling IT landscape into a unified IT infrastructure. While this project produced efficiencies, manual testing remained a sticking point, requiring 1,000-person days for complex SAP upgrades. Learn how Siemens drastically reduced testing efforts by automating testing with Worksoft Certify across 20+ SAP systems, and tying in documentation to SAP Solution Manager.

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