SAP2020: SAP Simplified, Distilled, Clarified

Most tech-vendor discussions have too many words, too many details, and too many powerpoint slides. This "unofficial" SAP blog will strive to keep it simple, high-level, less-techie, and succinct.

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SAP Cloud Platform helps companies develop new applications quickly. SAP’s new partner Mendix improves time-to-value even more. Here is a 5 minute demo from SAP TechED 2017 that does a good job giving you a sense of rapid & agile low code development for SAP Cloud Platform. 

(5:46 Video)

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SAP VORA helps dramatically improve a company's ROI on investments in Hadoop and NoSQL big data clusters. This brief strives to describe the value of VORA to non-technical execs -- I realize VORA is a bit of a technical topic -- but I think it will make sense if you stick with it for the full five minutes.

(5:18 Whiteboard)

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S/4 HANA is our latest and greatest enterprise business suite, enhancing organizational productivity while improving I/T agility. SAP pulled off this miracle of modern technology by massively simplifying the behind-the-scenes data models, enabled by the revolutionary HANA platform. 

While these two minutes do include some technical topics, it really does cover the technical “why it matters” answer at a high-enough level for business executives to sink their teeth into.

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Return on your investments in SAP ECC software assets can't be maximized without understand how the system is actually being used for various processes. Process mining is the key to empower your business departments.

(7:09 Whiteboard and Demonstration)

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The important role of digital content management and OpenText in your journey to become a nimble enterprise - a simplified executive-level brief.

(4:57 Whiteboard)

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SAP Cloud Platform, or SCP, is truly important, but often a bit under appreciated, for any company with substantial investments in SAP systems. 

SAP SCP is a centerpiece for agile innovation, and offers a very different platform than infrastructure cloud services like AWS and Azure.

(9:30 Whiteboard and Customer Highlights)

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Here is a nice 5 minute demonstration of Fiori 2.0, the easy to use front-end to our S/4 HANA business suite. Making systems easier to work with and presenting everything someone needs to do their part of a process on one screen is crucial to simplifying your enterprise and becoming an agile enterprise.

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HANA is empowering digital transformation. In this executive, non-technical brief, learn what makes HANA special and why it matters for any company that wants greater agility. HANA is revolutionary and important to our future.  

(9:55 Whiteboard / Video)

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Why SAP2020 Exists

Hi, I’m Bob Sakalas with SAP in Dallas, Texas. 

The idea behind this blog is to help massively simplify SAP technologies and concepts so that non-I/T executives gain 20/20 clarity and understand the essence of key SAP topics in less than 8 minutes each. 

I plan to recruit other key contributors, interview selected visionaries, and ultimately create a nice compendium over the next year that illuminates why SAP is revolutionizing enterprise computing and powering the digital transformation of the Fortune 500 and Global 2000 powerhouse corporations. 

SAP2020.com was created to serve as a great executive briefing site and (maybe) an index to the best-of-the-best videos, as I come across them (they have to be non-techie enough), tagged by topic.