MADRID, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Since
launching its cloud strategy at SAPPHIRE® NOW from Orlando in May
2012, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has infused the cloud DNA of
SuccessFactors, an SAP company, into its cloud business to create
the most comprehensive portfolio of cloud solutions in the
industry. SAP offers 20 solutions and suites in the cloud, designed
to optimize a company's most critical assets — people, finances,
customers and suppliers. As an integral part of SAP's cloud
strategy — together with platform, social and the business network
— today, SAP cloud solutions are generating an annual US$1billion revenue run rate, have a 14-fold
billings growth rate and boast 20 million users across more than
6,000 customers in the cloud. The announcement was made at
SAPPHIRE® NOW + SAP® TechEd, being held as a co-located event in
Madrid from November 13-16.
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"We are passionate about delivering beautiful, robust and
reliable cloud applications that work the way our customers do,"
said Lars Dalgaard, member of the
SAP Executive Board. "I announced our cloud strategy acceleration
six months ago and since then the response and traction we've seen
in the market has been monumental. SuccessFactors grew by 92
percent year over year, SAP Business ByDesign subscription billings
at 300 percent year over year, companies are embracing SAP Jam as a
productivity tool with more than 8 million users. And we're just
getting started. There is so much more to come as we continue to
innovate across our cloud portfolio, applying user and mobile-first
design principles, to meet our customers' business needs — and most
importantly delight our customers' end users."
Line-of-business applications running on SAP Cloud together with
the suite solutions — SAP Business ByDesign® and SAP® Business One
OnDemand — are empowering people through a consumer-grade user
experience, purposeful collaboration and insightful analytics for
managers across all areas of the business. Today, SAP announced
examples of the significant sales and development momentum across
the entire suite of cloud solutions.
Employee Central: The Only Core HR Solution in the Cloud
"Glocalized" for Today's Businesses
Leveraging the extensive in-country experts of SAP,
SuccessFactors is going beyond high-level globalization to deliver
an unprecedented "glocalized" core human resources (HR) cloud
solution that makes it easy to do business globally. SuccessFactors
Employee Central is the foundation of the Business Execution (BizX)
suite. It is the only cloud core HR solution today glocalized in 10
countries — Australia,
Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, the
Netherlands, Switzerland,
UK and U.S. The glocalized approach is planned to expand to more
than 50 countries. With Employee Central, customers can access and
manage one global system of record, fine-tuned to meet local needs,
better accelerating global business results.
Sonova Group, a leading provider of hearing healthcare
solutions, is growing rapidly with a global presence in 90
countries. The company has quadrupled its size in the last
four years and needed a single integrated global platform to
support innovation, synergy and growth.
"We were impressed with the performance of SuccessFactors as
well as its ease of use," said Carine Brändle, systems and process
specialist, corporate HRM, Sonova Group. "The look and feel is very
intuitive, which is important from a usability and adoption
perspective. With SuccessFactors, we're able to manage our full
workforce, across more than 90 countries with Employee Central and
the BizX suite. Rather than spending months pulling together
disparate Excel spreadsheets, we can now gather critical data in a
matter of minutes. We also have greater visibility into core
aspects of our existing workforce, a good audit trail on our
recruitment of new hires and have the strategic insight required to
carefully plan and scale for growth."
Launch of New SAP® Financials OnDemand Solution
Providing Collaborative Real-Time Financials for the
Entire Business
Now generally available, SAP® Financials OnDemand is a
real-time, insight-driven financial management solution designed
for the cloud. With an intuitive, easy-to-consume interface and
personalized information, it features embedded, dynamic analytics,
enabling companies to achieve superior financial insight across the
business. Customers can use the solution to drive streamlined,
end-to-end compliant financial processes as well as real-time
financial performance information for everyone in the business.
Powered by the SAP HANA® platform, SAP Financials OnDemand
drastically increases the flexibility in which enterprises manage
their data while providing the heavy lifting needed to power
financial insights for the mobile workforce.
"While cloud-based financial applications have gained traction
among SMB buyers for several years now, Saugatuck believes that the
conditions are finally ripe for adoption of core financial
applications among upper-mid and large enterprises, said
Bill McNee, founder and CEO,
Saugatuck Technology. "SAP's new large-enterprise targeted SAP
Financials OnDemand leverages its long heritage and leadership in
the space, with a modern set of capabilities that aim to help
support the broader roles and responsibilities that CFOs now
have."
SAP® Customer OnDemand Now More Powerful With SAP®
Jam
SAP® Customer OnDemand is a people-centric, cloud-based solution
for sales, service and marketing organizations. It now has new,
deal-specific collaboration rooms that leverage the SAP® Jam social
software platform to enable sales teams and internal experts to
socially connect and communicate with customers in the context of
each opportunity. Customers can also easily provide feedback and
share what is important to them to strengthen the relationship.
Learn more about customers' experience with the solution via
testimonial videos at
http://sales.ondemand.com/customermontage.
Newell-Rubbermaid, a global marketer of consumer and commercial
products with a strong portfolio of leading brands and sales in
more than 100 countries, was looking for a better way to
communicate the latest market trends, product updates and order
status with its customer-facing teams to provide top-notch sales
and customer service through both traditional and social media
channels. Native connectivity to back-office systems such as the
enterprise resource planning (ERP) application SAP® ERP was also
critical in providing real-time back-office information and deep
customer insight, something the company was not able to achieve
with other cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM)
vendors.
"With SAP Customer OnDemand, our customer-facing teams are more
in touch with our customers' needs and better able to work in
concert to exceed their expectations," said Sinde McClung, director, CRM applications,
Newell Rubbermaid. "Our sales teams
stay up-to-date in real time on information such as customer and
material master changes, POS, invoice sales and open order
information thru reporting mashups. Our organization is now
leveraging mobile devices to improve both the speed and quality of
customer and employee interactions. We are already seeing great
benefits of coordinated account activity and collaboration through
one modern, cloud-based CRM solution that's easy-to-use and enables
us to harness the wealth of customer insight across our
enterprise."
SAP Redefines Enterprise Social With SAP Jam and SAP® Social
OnDemand
SAP introduced two new social offerings in October 2012: SAP Jam and the SAP® Social
OnDemand solution. SAP Jam makes collaboration easy. It embeds
within an organization's CRM, human capital management (HCM),
finance and other applications, integrating social with way people
work and increasing the rate of adoption. SAP Social OnDemand
transforms social media conversations into rich business insights.
The solution helps marketing and customer service organizations
better engage with customers to increase brand loyalty, manage
reputational risks and capitalize on opportunities.
Parmalat is a multinational Italian dairy and food corporation
listed on the Milan stock exchange
and controlled by the French Group Lactalis, with 14,000
employees across 16 countries. The company identified a practical
need to lighten activities and procedures to increase productivity,
lower cost and improve satisfaction. It took a strategic approach
to leverage SAP Jam, integrated with the SuccessFactors BizX suite,
to provide collaboration within immediate teams, across broader
groups and in between corporate divisions.
"As a non-technology company with a diverse workforce — both in
terms of geography and job type — we knew we needed to implement a
collaboration tool that tied into other company systems and made
work easier, focusing on how SAP Jam could solve business needs,"
said Riccardo Sebastiano Piaggi,
group head, Organization & Development, Parmalat. "To get
started, we established well-identified guidelines and encouraged
early adopters in SAP Jam groups that could address business needs
and cross-office collaboration. We launched groups for
well-identified areas aiming to cover well-identified needs. With
the involvement of the early adopters, our goal is to allow the
collaboration grow in a bottom-up approach. By sharing experiences,
expertise and tips, we believe we'll be able to create success
stories to form the basis for helping make collaboration appealing
to the rest of our people — and, step by step, it has been
working."
SAP Business ByDesign Gains Significant Traction With Larger
Companies and Subsidiaries
SAP Business ByDesign has seen significant market growth over
the past six months. SAP has introduced more than 800 new
capabilities in the integrated business management solution
designed for midsize companies or subsidiaries of large enterprise
customers, and has added multiple thousands of users around the
globe.
Hilti is a global leader of value-added, top-quality products
for professional customers in the construction and building
maintenance industries. The company selected SAP Business ByDesign
as its next-generation enterprise platform for subsidiaries across
more than 30 countries. Like many global companies, Hilti had a
business need to standardize on one platform for all international
employees covering different processes, such as project management,
sales and financials.
"Implementing SAP Business ByDesign has allowed us to deliver on
Hilti's strategy of business modularity by implementing a solid
core with SAP ERP at corporate and a flexible boundary, anchored by
SAP Business ByDesign, at our subsidiaries," said Dr. Martin Petry, group CIO, Hilti. "This has led to
improved customer satisfaction and profitability at our
subsidiaries, better leverage of operational infrastructure across
our lead business organizations, and increased cross-organization
process efficiency throughout."
Open Integration Strategy as Key to Customer Success in the
Cloud
SAP is solving the traditional integration challenge by
providing a seamless approach to integrating cloud solutions that
ultimately lowers cost, increases speed and enhances simplicity for
customers. The approach is comprised of comprehensive
standards-based APIs, pre-packaged integrations and robust
integration tools — both on premise and cloud-based. SAP provides
prepackaged integration of SAP cloud solutions with on-premise SAP
applications, as well as with third-party cloud solutions from key
innovation partners. Customers can use the packaged
integration scenarios as-is or create their own integrations.
SAP is also offering the new SAP HANA® Cloud Integration
technology, along with pre-packaged integration content with SAP
Customer OnDemand. Moving forward, SAP intends to offer SAP HANA
Cloud Integration along with pre-packaged integration content with
many of its other cloud solutions. SAP HANA Cloud Integration is
planned to be the standard integration service of the SAP HANA®
Cloud platform.
Driving consumer choice, in addition to SAP integration
technology, the company is also offering an open certification
program to third-party integration platforms, such as Boomi,
CastIron and Mulesoft, to integrate SAP cloud solutions, using SAP
standards-based APIs, to third-party on-premise and cloud
solutions.
To learn more, see previous announcements, "SAP Accelerates
Innovation in the World's Largest Business Network" and "SAP
Introduces SAP HANA Cloud, One of the Industry's First In-Memory
Cloud Platforms," and watch a video: "Get in the Cloud with SAP."
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SAPPHIRE® NOW + SAP® TechEd Madrid
In 2012, SAP again brings together its largest ecosystem
education event series with its premier customer conference for a
co-located event being held in Madrid,
Spain, from November 13-16.
With SAPPHIRE® NOW, SAP offers its customers, partners, and
prospects even more opportunities to engage in dialogue with peers,
participants and thought leaders around the globe, and can gain
insight as to how SAP is delivering on its product strategy and
helping organizations around the world to run better. SAP® TechEd
brings IT managers, software developers, administrators, and
business process experts together to learn in an interactive
environment directly from the experts responsible for cutting-edge
SAP technology. The co-located event provides access to the entire
SAP ecosystem and enables attendees to learn how SAP can help their
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