Exploring Additional Components of GROW and RISE with SAP

SAP Build is a low/no-code solution that enables non-developers (and developers) to easily learn how to develop apps, design process automation workflows, and create company web pages to share information. SAP includes licenses for this collection of tools in the GROW and RISE enablement packages to make it as easy as possible for customers to extend and customize their SAP S/4HANA Cloud software on a separate platform to keep their core clean. Customizations built and hosted in a separate platform are not affected by release upgrades applied to the SAP S/4HANA software, which means customers don't have to worry about checking the stability of every single extension they've made after a software upgrade is installed. SAP Build runs on the SAP Business Technology Platform, and consists of SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Process Automation, and SAP Build Work Zone.

SAP Build Apps is a professional application development solution designed for anyone to create apps without code, regardless of role or skill level. The tool provides a drag-and-drop development environment for building sophisticated business apps that are easily integrated with your other SAP applications. SAP Build Apps evolved from SAP AppGyver and other SAP technologies.

Learn more about SAP Build Apps here.

SAP Build Process Automation enables business users to automate workflow processes and tasks without having to write any code. It combines workflow management, robotic process automation (RPA), and embedded AI capabilities with prebuilt process content to help business users adapt, improve, and innovate business processes.

Learn more about SAP Build Process Automation here.

SAP Build Work Zone enables IT professionals and line of business experts to easily build and design engaging business sites for their employees, partners, and customers that provide centralized access to relevant applications, processes, and information on both desktop and mobile devices. Formerly known as SAP Launchpad service, SAP Build Work Zone unifies the SAP Launchpad service and SAP Work Zone into a single low-code business site development solution.

Learn more about SAP Build Work Zone here.

SAP Mobile Start is the native mobile app for employees to access their SAP apps, processes, and business data on iOS and Android devices. End users can easily download the app for free in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, but the app must be configured via SAP Build Work Zone by a partner configuration expert or customer administrator for it to display relevant business data.

SAP Mobile Start helps employees stay up-to-date with the latest information that requires their attention through notifications and widgets that can be easily responded to with a simple "tap". Users can personalize their individual home page, and organizations can add their own customization and branding with the extensible framework. SAP Mobile Start also supports integration with different UI technologies and third-party web apps.

If a customer has opted to purchase a license for SAP Task Center, which runs on the SAP Business Technology Platform to unify workflow tasks across a variety of different software applications, they can take advantage of the SAP Mobile Start integration with SAP Task Center.

SAP wants to support customers in addressing their varying requirements for integration and extension scenarios by providing a Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement (CPEA) credit voucher that can be applied to eligible services on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). Think of these credits like a prepaid debit card, where you can add additional credits as-needed if you notice your credits are getting low.

Customers can keep track of their credit consumption in SAP for Me anytime, and receive a usage statement monthly. A benefit of purchasing additional CPEA credits to consume SAP BTP services (rather than subscribing to a service individually) is that customers can try different services without having to commit to a full license period. If you change your mind, you can effectively "return" the service and get those credits back to try something else.

For CPEA credits purchased in addition to the GROW or RISE with SAP voucher, a customer makes a prepaid investment in cloud credits for the contract duration with an annual commitment to consume SAP BTP services. This model is suitable for customers that have well-established and planned user cases, and who want the flexibility of switching between services.

The customer receives a monthly balance statement with information about the usage consumption of each service and the corresponding costs, and the total monthly cost is deducted from the cloud credits balance. Credits are billed annually in advance and overages are billed in arrears at list price. Customers can always purchase credits to prevent overages ahead of time.

The advanced financial management entitlements were included in the GROW and RISE with SAP enablement packages based on feedback from customers on what they needed in addition to the Cloud ERP software. The entitlements vary by public or private edition, and the package purchased.

• Group Reporting, which supports the end-to-end consolidation and corporate reporting cycle, while ensuring the business meets regulatory requirements. It accelerates the group financial close through seamless integration with entity-level financial data, which eliminates reconciliation efforts, and drives user efficiency through greater automation, central monitoring, and control. 
• Group Reporting Data Collection, which supports customers in gathering financial data for each business unit as part of the data preparation process for group reporting.
• Advanced Financial Close, which is used to support the planning, execution, monitoring and analysis of period-end closing tasks for all entities (i.e. typically the headquarters & subsidiaries) of a corporation for a faster and more accurate financial close.
• Cash Management, which helps treasurers and cash managers simplify and automate their daily cash operations. Please note, cash management doesn't include SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity.
• Receivables Management, which enables the proactive assessment of customer credit risk and streamlines cash collections. With integrated dispute management, companies can proactively follow up on underpayments and disputes.

SAP Business Network Supplier Portal is intended to simplify business process compliance through automation and improve supply chain management overall. Businesses can automate compliance workflows, ensure they are adhering to regulatory requirements and internal policies, and communicate through secure and transparent communication channels with their suppliers.

Learn more about the SAP Business Network.

Ariba Buying, base edition is included in all editions of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, because it supports the SAP Ariba Buying (4AI) business process. An employee using Ariba Buying for sourcing and procurement will experience a guided process for finding and ordering the items they need for work. For example, office supplies or laptops for employees in the organization.

SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management and the Inbound Processing Module for Central Invoice Management both run on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). The purpose of the solutions are to support customers in processing invoices faster and more accurately with a centralized view of all invoices from across the organization.

Learn more about SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management and the Inbound Processing Module.

SAP Sales Cloud Version 2 (V2) is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution that combines sales, customer service, and social CRM on a unified platform. It combines a salesforce automation application with an enhanced retail execution application in a single stack, where customers have visibility into the end-to-end sales process to improve win rates and drive revenue growth.

Learn more about SAP Sales Cloud V2.

Concur Expense Professional simplifies the expense process for everyone with automated, fast, and accurate expense reporting that seamlessly integrates into SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Customers get a single end-to-end view of all employee spend to better manage budgets, forecast accurately, and make more strategic business decisions.

Learn more about Concur Expense Professional.

SAP Joule is a digital assistant or "copilot" that can help end-users complete their daily tasks more efficiently by suggesting which app to navigate to next, providing support when asked, or displaying descriptive information about business objects the user is currently working with. Joule combines artificial intelligence with business data and business processes already in the organization's ERP system, while maintaining ethical and data privacy standards. The AI trains itself on the organization's company and industry data to help employees identify where to optimize, automate, and make better-informed decisions overall.

Joule uses Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, which allows it to generate fresh content, information, and recommendations that are based on a user's historical patterns and their new inputs. SAP uses the term SAP Business AI as the overall branding umbrella that includes products (e.g. Joule, Intelligent emission factor mapping for SAP Sustainability Footprint Management), the AI technology behind the products (Generative AI), and the overarching concept used when SAP develops new AI use cases (Responsible AI).

Learn more about SAP Business AI solutions and technology.

For both GROW and RISE packages, customers receive an entitlement of AI units that can be used for any AI services listed in the SAP AI Services List.

AI features have different price points, which are expressed in Capacity Unit Values. The initial entitlement of AI Units are pooled and customers can decide which services they want to use the units for.

SAP Analytics Cloud Planning is designed to help businesses create strategic alignment across all departments, crowdsource plans across the business, and make confident decisions with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). While there are embedded SAC features in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, SAC Planning would be accessed through a separate tenant in SAP Business Technology Platform to provide the budgeting and forecasting, predictive planning, and collaborative planning capabilities. Customers can use the tool to deliver timely plans, budgets, forecasts, and reports with better accuracy, automate forecasts with predictive analytics and machine learning, and simulate multiple plan outcomes to see the impact of possible changes to their business.

Learn more about SAP Analytics Cloud Planning.

SAP Datasphere is a comprehensive service that delivers access to mission-critical business data beyond just the core ERP. It provides a semantically-rich data layer that can read and consume data across a customer's entire integrated landscape. This means customers can access and model their data across the landscape of SAP and non-SAP sources, regardless of the application in which it lives, with centralized governance, privacy, and compliance built-in. Harmonizing data from many sources on different platforms isn't an easy task - it takes a powerful set of tools to make the connections and pull the data into a central location with modeling capabilities where it actually makes sense when viewed by the end user.

Learn more about SAP Datasphere.

Both SAP Sustainability Control Tower and SAP Sustainability Footprint Management are included in the Premium Plus edition of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition to enable organizations to address two major components of sustainability: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data, and carbon footprint.

For ESG data, SAP Sustainability Control Tower enables organizations to gather auditable and compliant data through automation and provides insights on where the business can embed sustainability into their core processes.

For carbon footprint, SAP Sustainability Footprint Management enables customers to get an accurate carbon footprint of their business as a whole and their products, with insights into where they can decarbonize across the entire value chain.

Learn more about SAP's sustainability solutions.