Unlocking Synergies by Combining SAP Sales Cloud with SAP Business AI

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to combine SAP Sales Cloud with SAP Business AI to maximize the value of the integrated solutions.

SAP Sales Cloud and Business AI

Data and AI are at the heart of SAP’s sales automation strategy. SAP Sales Cloud leverages artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI to help businesses understand customer preferences, anticipate their needs, provide relevant insights and recommendations, and increase efficiencies across customer end-to-end sales processes.

SAP CX Business AI is categorized as "base" or "premium." Base AI in SAP Sales Cloud, such as lead and opportunity scoring and business text intelligence, is provided out of the box at no additional license cost.

Users can consume embedded Premium Generative AI features, such as account synopsis, automated email drafting, and lead booster, by purchasing SAP AI Units.

The SAP CX AI Toolkit offers additional Premium AI capabilities that can be accessed through a common interface and back-end as an add-on for SAP Customer Experience customers. These capabilities are designed to integrate seamlessly into SAP Sales Cloud, delivering proactive and contextual insights from relevant business data, including documents, emails, calendars, and meetings.

The image details the AI features available across three sales solutions: Sales Cloud Version 1, Sales Cloud Version 2, and the CX AI Toolkit. - **Sales Cloud Version 1**: Includes foundational sales solutions with AI for lead and opportunity scoring, product recommendations, and lead booster at no extra cost. - **Sales Cloud Version 2**: Offers a robust sales solution with advanced AI to amplify sales effectiveness, providing lead and opportunity scoring, product recommendations, premium AI for account synopsis, lead booster, meeting summarization, AI tools, and smart scheduling. - **CX AI Toolkit**: Extends Sales Cloud with generative AI enhancements, covering all features including lead and opportunity scoring, premium AI for product recommendations, account synopsis, lead booster, meeting summarization, AI tools, and smart scheduling. Each feature is indicated as either included at no additional cost, available with premium AI from SAP AI units, or not available. Tags: AI for Sales, Sales Cloud Version 1, Sales Cloud Version 2, CX AI Toolkit, lead scoring, product recommendations, account synopsis, lead booster, meeting summarization, AI tools, smart scheduling, generative AI enhancements.

Base AI Capabilities

SAP Sales Cloud offers the following embedded base AI capabilities that are foundational to market-leading CRM solutions:

  • Lead and Opportunity Scoring: Envision having a predictive tool that accurately forecasts which deals are most likely to close. SAP Sales Cloud leverages learning from previous successes and failures to assign a score to each new opportunity. This scoring is not static, it dynamically updates in real-time as conditions change, ensuring continuous relevance and accuracy.
  • Business Text Intelligence: This feature is capable of quickly reading through all your documents and emails to extract critical information. It can identify trends, flag key information and provide insights that may have gone unnoticed, enhancing overall efficiency.
  • Product Recommendations: This feature evaluates the purchasing history of your customers and compares it with the behavior of similar customers to recommend products that are most likely to be relevant and impactful.
  • Language and Sentiment Analysis: Equip your sales representatives with a tool that analyzes the language used in emails and chats to understand the emotions and sentiment of your contacts. It helps gauge whether your contacts are excited, frustrated, or neutral and assists your team in managing relationships more effectively.
This image highlights the key AI capabilities of SAP Sales Cloud, focusing on three main features: Lead and Opportunity Scoring, Product Recommendations, and Sentiment & Relationship Analysis. The Lead & Opportunity Scoring section showcases a score of 99, indicating the high potential of a lead. The Product Recommendations section suggests products like Akron Next Gen Coolers and Akron Humidifier, both with a recommendation score of 50. Lastly, the Sentiment & Relationship Analysis section analyzes interactions with a contact named Joe Wills, last contacted 23 days ago, providing insights into sentiment and relationship strength.

Premium AI Capabilities

SAP Sales Cloud also offers Premium AI capabilities (requires AI Units) including:

  • Lead Booster: This feature serves as a strategic sales adviser, analyzing account data to provide targeted talking points. It proactively surfaces relevant information, such as a client's recent geographic expansion.
  • Account Synopsis: This is a centralized intelligence hub for each account. It consolidates key information, including business metrics, corporate culture, and competitive landscape—and presents it in a streamlined format for efficient preparation.
  • Email Draft: Recommender assists in drafting emails by leveraging historical interaction data and email intent. It aligns with established communication styles and business contexts to generate appropriate responses.
  • Joule: Integrated directly into SAP Sales Cloud, this AI-driven assistant supports a wide range of tasks, from lead management to prioritizing action items. It operates with consistent efficiency to enhance overall productivity. These descriptions maintain the original headlines while using formal and professional language suitable for executive communication.
This image illustrates the premium AI capabilities provided by SAP Sales Cloud, focusing on four key features: Lead Booster, Account Synopsis, Joule, and Email Draft Recommender. The Lead Booster identifies and prioritizes high-potential leads through detailed analysis. Account Synopsis provides a comprehensive overview of an account, including current challenges and business information, aiding sales strategies. Joule is a smart assistant that suggests actions and integrates with SAP records to streamline workflow. The Email Draft Recommender offers AI-generated email drafts tailored to different communication styles and tones, ensuring effective client engagement.

SAP CX AI Toolkit

SAP CX AI Toolkit is a powerful solution designed to streamline and automate various customer experience tasks across the enterprise. It leverages cutting-edge AI and data analysis to save time and uncover valuable insights.

  • Role-Specific AI Tools: The toolkit includes AI-powered capabilities for key CX functions like customer communication, record summarization, object detection, image recognition and more. These tools are tailored to specific roles, enabling teams to work more efficiently. AI tools are being developed to cater to various role-specific tasks, including but not limited to, customer communications, record summarization, object detection, and image recognition, with additional functionalities expected in the future.
  • Enterprise Data Protection: Data security and privacy are critical. SAP CX AI Toolkit provides robust personal data protection and zero data retention, ensuring sensitive data remains secure.
  • Multiple Data Sources: The toolkit can pull in and analyze data from a range of enterprise systems including Sales, Service, Commerce, CDP, and Microsoft 365. This allows it to generate insights across touchpoints.
  • AI wherever you are: The capabilities will be accessible from the web, mobile apps, browser extensions, and even embedded directly into maps for a seamless user experience. Putting AI at your fingertips.
  • Configurable Tools: No rigid one-size-fits-all here. The data sources, generation tools and prompt templates are fully configurable, allowing you to build your own tailored solutions to meet your specific needs.
This image showcases the functionalities of the SAP CX AI toolkit aimed at automating customer experience tasks and streamlining data analysis across the enterprise. Key features include AI-generated product descriptions that enhance marketing materials, detailed customer information summaries that provide insights into spending patterns and order history, Joule, an AI assistant that responds to customer inquiries and provides relevant product information, and a streamlined catalog management system that ensures efficient product organization and updates. These tools collectively enhance efficiency and precision in customer experience management.

One Toolkit for All Teams

Sales teams can leverage AI to combine various data sources like emails, chats, and sales data to uncover valuable insights, generate relevant content, and deliver highly effective sales engagements.

  • Connect data to sales processes

    Unite emails, chats, current & historical sales data, with AI insights and CRM processes, to provide intelligent answers from various unstructured and disconnected data sources. 

  • Leverage AI automation to accelerate opportunities

    Rely on a virtual collaborator to help find hidden insights, generate relevant draft content, and deliver effective sales engagements that drive revenue and increase conversion rates.

  • Build stronger customer relationships

    Become your customers "trusted advisor" by having the correct answers, not missing a deliverable, with increased time savings, allowing you to focus on higher-quality customer interactions.

Sell Effectively with AI

Optimize your customer interactions and enhance efficiency with SAP's comprehensive suite of intelligent tools.

  • Know Your Customers

    Get key prospect and account info from across the business, in one place. Use Intelligent Customer Profiles to know your customers inside out and personalize each contact.

  • Answer Questions Quickly and Accurately

    Always have the right information on hand. Use Intelligent Q&A to find answers fast from data sources like CRM, OneDrive, PDF’s and Outlook so you can quickly give the right information to customers.

  • Create the Right Tools for Your Needs

    Help your team work more efficiently and maintain consistent messaging. Use ready-made AI tools to write responses and summaries or make your own with your custom builder.

Grow Relationships Through Closer Connections

Let's analyze the key features of the SAP CX AI Toolkit.

Smart Relationship Tools

Smart Scheduling streamlines and optimizes your calendar management, saving you time and ensuring efficient allocation of appointments with personalized AI responses. With a few clicks, you can provide several time slots for customers to book a meeting with you and auto-generate the email text to go with the invitation. You can quickly create and propose meeting times (across multiple time zones) with personalized AI responses without leaving your inbox.

Record Summarization combines CX business data and personal data to generate AI summaries for customers, accounts, cases and opportunities; providing an instant overview of status and key concerns. Combine CX business data and personal data to generate AI summaries for customers and accounts, cases and opportunities. 

Email and meeting summarization allows you to get instant recaps and task reminders from customer emails and sales meetings, to always be prepared.

This image illustrates SAP's Smart Relationship Tools designed to save time through efficient scheduling and detailed summaries, allowing users to focus on customer engagement. Features displayed include a scheduling interface for organizing meetings and sharing available times, and a comprehensive customer request and response system, which provides smart actions and relevant SAP records. These tools enhance productivity and improve customer relationship management by streamlining administrative tasks and providing actionable insights.

Gain a Full View of Each Customer

Intelligent Customer Profile saves users time with AI-generated customer profile summaries.

SAP CX AI Toolkit utilizes large structured data from the customer data platform to generate a summary that is easy to comprehend. Users can review this summary to obtain a 360-degree view of the customer, exposing valuable, consumable information that can be used at every engagement.

You can uncover insights with a 360-degree view of every customer through CDP and CRM integrations and quickly view segment data and profile summarization while you engage with customers.

This image demonstrates the Intelligent Customer Profile feature from SAP CX AI Toolkit, which aims to enhance customer interactions through in-depth insights. It includes a comprehensive view of customer data, such as contact information, order history, total spend, and prioritization of service classification. The dashboard also highlights AI tools for summarizing meetings, writing follow-up emails, creating account summaries, and summarizing sales opportunities, providing sales teams with the necessary insights and tools to improve customer engagement and decision-making.

Sales AI Tools

AI tools save time for account executives in the following three ways:

  1. They automatically summarize any sales opportunity - taking complex deals and making them instantly understandable.
  2. They craft personalized prospecting emails that speak directly to each lead's needs and pain points.
  3. They prepare targeted questions for discovery calls, ensuring every conversation is productive.

These AI tools are embedded inside your existing workflow, with no extra logins or system switching needed. They also produce high-quality content by utilizing prompts and CX data for specific job functions.

Screenshot of an SAP software interface displaying various AI tools designed to assist sales personnel. The tools include options to summarize meetings, follow-up emails, account summaries, sales opportunities, and draft personalized prospecting emails. The screenshot highlights a selected tool, Write a Personalized Prospecting Email, with fields for entering contact name, product/service details, talking points, and call to action. AI-generated sample responses and customization options are visible on the right side of the interface. The tools are aimed at saving account executives' time by automating these tasks.

Deliver Current and Consistent Answers

Intelligent Q&A is a powerful tool that can help you find precise answers to work-related questions by using its comprehensive understanding of your company's content. This includes past emails, conversations, and files.

Screenshot illustrating a customer interaction in an AI-powered toolkit. The interface shows an email titled 'Quote Update,' dated June 2, 2023. The email involves a client asking for a quote on CX360 pumps. The displayed response mentions the target price of $2,000 per unit, with negotiable offers down to $1,500. The application suggests turning customer interactions into actionable knowledge.

Build Your Own AI Tools

SAP AI Tool Builder lets administrators create custom tools tailored to their team's specific needs. Users can connect these tools directly to CRM data to utilize real-time information. SAP's enterprise-grade trust layer, ensures complete data security and zero retention of sensitive information. The AI Tool Builder is designed to be powerful yet intuitive, requiring no coding knowledge to create sophisticated AI tools.

You can empower admins to create custom generative AI tools for business users that accomplish the following:

  1. Ground your AI Tools with CRM data via merge fields to meet your complex business needs.
  2. Develop custom AI tools using SAP’s trust layer, obfuscating PII, ensuring zero data retention by LLMs, and preventing bias.
  3. Access your custom AI tools from anywhere through CX AI Toolkit extension.
Screenshot depicting the AI Tool Builder interface in an SAP application, labeled AI for your unique business needs. The Builder section includes fields such as Name, Description, Licenses, Source Application, and Default Prompt. The tool example shown is Account Research, with a description Helps with background research. Licenses include Sales and Service, and the Source Application is SAP Sales and Service Cloud Version 2. The Default Prompt field provides a template for gathering account information, including sections on overall information, business overview, current challenges, and competitors.

Extend Your Source Applications

Customers can index and utilize information from any business system. Legacy systems, custom applications, and specialized databases can feed SAPs AI tools. The integration process is straightforward. Customers simply connect data sources and SAP systems handle the indexing and integration automatically.

This makes SAP AI tools significantly smarter, with access to the customers knowledge base. Every query becomes more accurate and every response more relevant to their specific business context.

Custom Data Sources can empower users by using your unique business data as a source for intelligent questions and answers. You can index customer information when your application isn't natively supported by the CX AI Toolkit. Custom data sources provides a way to extend functionality to meet your specific business needs.

Screenshot of a form titled 'Add Integration' for custom data sources. The form includes fields for Name, Type (Custom), Host URL, Client ID, Client Secret, File Type, and Accessible License Type. Options to 'Check Connection,' 'Save,' and 'Cancel' are available. The example integration is named 'Test Integration

Multi-Language LLM Support

SAP CX AI Toolkit supports the languages of English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian, including comprehensive PII masking, content moderation, and document parsing for each language. Users choose their preferred language, functionalities, AI tools, Q&A responses, and summarizations, to operate naturally and securely in the selected language.

With language preferences, you can leverage the power of AI to generate AI outputs based on the user's preferred language.

Some feature of preferences include the following:

  • PII masking, moderation, and document parsing support for German, Spanish, French, and Italian
  • Set user preferred language for Intelligent Q&A, AI Tools, Summarization, and more
Screenshot of a user profile settings page for AI Output Language Preference. The dropdown menu for Preferred Language is open, showing options: No Preferred Language, EN-English, DE-German, IT-Italian, FR-French, and ES-Spanish. The section also highlights user account details and organization information. The page emphasizes the ability to use AI in the preferred language.

Smart Selling with SAP Business AI

In the following video we explore capabilities of the SAP CX AI Toolkit that support the Sales automation processes.

We will demonstrate the generative AI use cases business can consume to optimize sales productivity.

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