SAP Leonardo

Most organizations today are somewhere along the journey toward becoming a digital business, with meeting high expectations for the customer experience a central driver. One of the keys to creating an exceptional experience is the ability to access data in back-end systems in real time, which means that robust integration is critical. This article introduces a new, standardized approach to integration that can help you accelerate your digital transformation and ensure a seamless customer experience.

A holistic integration approach is a key prerequisite for organizations pursuing a digital path for their business. This article introduces SAP’s Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M), which helps organizations shape their integration strategy — using predefined integration patterns for processes-, data-, user-, and Internet of Things-centric integration scenarios — and become an Intelligent Enterprise.

Secure connections between applications is critical in modern, hyperconnected landscapes. The SAP Cloud Platform Credential Store service enables highly secure connections between applications in cloud-based landscapes by storing the required credentials and making them available to applications via a REST API. This article provides an overview of the key concepts and configuration tasks that are required to use this service in SAP Cloud Platform landscapes.

Organizations and citizens worldwide have seen the results of the global plastic crisis. In response, policymakers, society, and leading companies, such as SAP, are coming together to work on solutions — by avoiding single-use plastics, better managing and recycling the plastic waste stream, and creating what’s called a “circular economy.” SAP specifically is helping its customers redesign global value networks toward more circular business models through efforts such as the Circular Economy 2030 and SAP Leonardo Plastics challenges and a number of circular uses cases – around secondary materials marketplace, extended producer responsibility, waste insights, and citizen engagement – that are already at work across various industries. Learn about these and other ways that SAP customers can adopt more sustainable business practices, which could unlock $4.5 trillion in growth by turning waste into wealth.

Discover the SAP Leonardo Experience Centers — state-of-the-art centers intentionally designed to help customers rethink and reimagine their business stories, from the outside-in, and innovate on behalf of their customers and employees. With the flagship experience center now open in Walldorf, Germany, and the next location set to open in Tokyo, Japan, in Q3 2019, SAP is expected to open additional centers later in 2019, during 2020, and beyond. Learn how each center will offer dedicated physical spaces mapping a customer’s engagement and innovation journey where various SAP teams, technologies, and know-how are orchestrated toward a customer-tailored experience.

The problem for companies embarking on digital transformation is that they often focus on simply becoming faster, rather than truly transforming their business. This is because they are too intent on meeting day-to-day operational needs rather than driving innovation. Emerging technologies are rapidly evolving market demands, shifting customer expectations, and, in some cases, upending entire industries. Learn how SAP Leonardo capabilities enable companies to innovate rapidly, and scale that innovation by embedding it into all applications and business processes to help companies make this transformation possible.

With the pace of innovation accelerating, companies of all sizes are trying to figure out how to solve the problem of bimodal IT — keeping their current IT operations running while adopting innovative new technologies that can help companies succeed in the digital economy. SAPinsider recently spoke with Mike Flannagan, SAP’s Senior Vice President, Product Strategy and Product Management, Analytics, about this problem, and how SAP complements systems of record with its system of intelligence, SAP Leonardo.

Machine learning is a compelling opportunity for businesses to make intelligent business decisions based on instant, data-driven insights, and retailers are finding this technology to be a natural fit. Machine learning enables retailers to connect fashion trends to actual sales and inventory levels using predictive analytics, ensuring that they always have the right items in the right locations to reach the right customers. Learn how SAP Leonardo Machine Learning and SAP CoPilot together provide the support retailers need to make better business decisions in real time.

SAP Leonardo burst on the scene as an Internet of Things (IoT) platform — but it has become much more. In this exclusive interview with SAPinsider, SAP’s Thomas Ohnemus, Vice President of Solution Marketing, IoT and Digital Supply Chain, and Richard Howells, Vice President, IoT and Digital Supply Chain, discuss how SAP Leonardo now represents a system of innovation and intelligence that can work together with a company’s system of record to propel it into the future as a digital enterprise.