Introducing SAP Business Suite

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to explain how SAP Business Suite provides a focal point for SAP's strategy by consolidating SAP’s key strengths in applications, data and AI.

SAP Business Suite

The Next Era of Enterprise Management

The next era of enterprise management is a vision where applications drive transactional systems that feed data to allow transformational insights which is leveraged by AI powering a system of AI agents.

We are witnessing a significant shift in technology and AI is at the heart of it – we call it the next era of enterprise management.

Companies must move beyond transactional systems or isolated analytics. They require interconnected, intelligent systems capable of predicting, adapting, and acting autonomously. In the next era of enterprise management SAP helps business to move to 'Systems of Agents'. These collaborative AI-agents do not merely automate; they work collectively across silos, learn continuously, and act in real time to optimize operations. Systems of AI agents embedded into SAP applications and fueled by context-rich business data will make a business unstoppable.

  1. Transactional systems: For 50 years, SAP has connected and optimized core business processes with unparalleled applications and a technology platform, generating semantically-rich data that powers the world economy.
  2. Transformational insights: By centralizing unmatched data from SAP and non-SAP sources into a unified semantic layer, SAP unlocks insights, advanced analytics, and AI capabilities to empower businesses to drive intelligent growth and innovation.
  3. Systems of AI agents: Powered by accurate data from SAP and non-SAP sources, SAP’s unrivaled AI agents deliver a unique advantage in cross-function collaboration, leveraging integrated data to enable smarter decisions and transformative outcomes

We are solving the most pressing challenges of our customers. For example, think of a Chief Operating Officer (COO) or Chief Information Officer (CIO) who faces a business landscape with time-consuming processes, manual workflows, and inefficiencies which increase costs and delay outcomes. Now, consider a scenario where a supply chain agent collaborates with a finance agent to reroute logistics in real time, while a workforce agent adjusts staffing to meet production demands – all functioning in harmony to ensure business operations run at peak efficiency.

Systems of AI agents embedded into SAP applications and fueled by context-rich business data will make any business unstoppable. SAP’s systems of AI agents provide unrivaled AI in their ability, leveraging context-rich data and advanced applications to drive automation, innovate, and adapt quickly – all through an intuitive and consistent user interface with Joule.

For businesses to adopt this vision, they need a robust, integrated foundation where applications, data, and AI come together seamlessly and reinforce each other. This is our winning formula and our strategic opportunity to deliver on as we move into 2025.

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Our Winning Formula

At SAP, we bring together the three core components to succeed in this next era of enterprise management like no one else – applications, data, and AI. This powerful combination will not only be a competitive advantage, but it will position us to lead companies into a future powered by intelligent, autonomous systems.

Diagram of our winning formula, unparalleled applications, unmatched data, and unrivaled AI form a cycle that builds on itself. Details in the lesson text.

Unparalleled applications: For more than 50 years, SAP has connected and optimized business processes with unparalleled applications, generating semantically rich data that powers the world economy. With SAP’s applications and our technology platform, every part of our customers' business is deeply connected, delivering end-to-end transformational value to their business processes.

Unmatched data: By centralizing this unmatched data treasure from SAP and non-SAP sources into a unified semantic layer through our SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP unlocks insights and AI capabilities for every business.

Unrivaled AI: Powered by this unique data, our SAP Business AI deploys and orchestrates collaborative agents to enhance operations, drive real-time insights, and optimize decision-making at scale—unlocking capabilities others can’t match.

The Business Suite is underpinned by the SAP Business Technology Platform, which enables even the most complex organizations to create a fully integrated, agile foundation for developing data-driven solutions and meaningfully scaling AI.

This is how we will win: Unparalleled applications, unmatched data, and unrivaled AI—working together to deliver transformative impact and bring out the best in every business.​

SAP Business Suite

Detailed diagram of SAP Business Suite, SAP BTP and Business Data Cloud form the data layer. Cloud based applications sit on this data bed. The whole system is surrounded by an AI layer.

SAP Business Suite brings the new era of enterprise management to life for our customers. The SAP Business Suite describes our entire portfolio - a comprehensive set of integrated solutions, combining SAP's core Cloud ERP and Line of Business (LoB) applications to seamlessly connect every function across the business end-to-end.

For those familiar with SAP’s portfolio of cloud solutions, the graphic representing the SAP Business Suite will certainly look familiar. In the same way that our strategy maintains a consistency regarding its core tenants, while allowing for a shift in how we execute, SAP Business Suite is a continuation of how we express our portfolio, but with a clear focus on how we leverage SAP’s key strengths outlined in our winning formula.

SAP Business Suite represents a refreshed way of framing our portfolio acknowledging the sum is bigger than its parts. This allows us to truly apply the deep process expertise of our applications, our unmatched data resource, and AI infused throughout our entire portfolio and confidently declare, that this is how SAP helps our customers bring out their best.

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