SAP believes best-run businesses are intelligent enterprises. They apply advanced technologies and best practices within agile, integrated business processes.
The Intelligent Enterprise consists of four components:
- The Business Collaboration area focuses on being able to connect and collaborate with external and internal business partners to bridge the gap between locations, organizations, and system landscapes. An example of collaboration would be the use of the Ariba Network, where the company can find, interact, and collaborate with suppliers.
- The Business Processes area focuses on the end-to-end scenario for each business transaction and has the integration of these processes as a top priority. In this training we will focus on the financial portions of the business processes.
- The Business Applications area focuses on the solutions to record data for the Intelligent Enterprise. In this training we will focus on the SAP S/4HANA solution.
- The Business Technology area focuses on the technical infrastructure and information management that introduce the intelligence into the Intelligent Enterprise.
The figure shows SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise solution portfolio and how the pieces come together.