Over the past two years, the terms “intelligent enterprise” and “intelligent technologies” have become popular and are often used. We have been unknowingly using advanced technologies in our daily lives, whether at home or when traveling. Intelligent technologies are used when you use voice control to control your TV or car navigation, make appointments with Alexa or Siri, and so on.
You will discover an important difference when you look into your business operations, especially how you manage production or inventory processes, and compare them to your SAP S/4HANA. You can use the same intelligent technology user experience for regular business operations and effortlessly incorporate the intelligence you encounter into your SAP S4HANA AI and Automation.
How can companies use SAP S/4HANA’s intelligent technology to their benefit? How can these technologies improve your company’s performance? All of these topics are covered in this article by the SAP experts at Accely, a leading SAP Gold Partner, who can help you transform your business into an intelligent, self-sustaining company.
Power of Intelligent Technologies in Navigating Constant Change
Many businesses all over the world have started to invest in intelligent technologies as a result of realizing their significance. However, the majority of mid-market businesses have not yet migrated to “autopilot” mode and have taken their hands off the wheel.
Leverage next-generation technologies to automate repetitive processes and break the vicious cycle to maximize corporate costs. Due to this, you will have more time to work on creative projects that will result in improved products and services. Post-pandemic, it is now more important than ever to ensure that corporate operations are always operational and that staff health is protected. In the modern era, it is now crucial for manufacturing machinery systems or warehouse supply chains to operate as autonomously as possible with little human involvement.To digitize production equipment and automate company operations, you must use intelligent technologies like:
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence
- SAP Business Process Intelligence
- SAP Analytics for Intelligent Robotic Process Automation
- Cloud-based SAP Analytics
- SAP Data Intelligence
- Internet of Things
SAP Business Technology Platform to Optimize Intelligent Technology
The all-in-one platform SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) enables innovation and new business processes. It provides a unified environment for machine learning, data analytics, integration tools, and application development.Its features allow developers and business users to expand end-to-end business processes, automate operations, and collaborate on planning.
Additionally, SAP BTP provides intelligent services and prebuilt integrations to deliver solutions more quickly and lower project risk. It is powered by well-known cloud providers like Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technique that enables the creation of self-learning applications that replicate human actions. Machine Learning (ML), an aspect of artificial intelligence, deals with identifying relationships in data to help stakeholders make more informed decisions.
SAP Business Process Intelligence
Together with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Process Intelligence is a unified solution suite that includes all the capabilities required for business process performance analysis. This approach consists of three main components:
- Find the most promising areas for process analytics improvement.
- Using a set of tools to repair, improve, automate, and enhance processes.
- Manage and coordinate business process management using the administrative features of BPM.
SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation
Automate repetitive tasks and use SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (SAP IRPA) to enhance human effort in high-value activities. Using SAP IRPA software bots when integrated with SAP S/4HANA can provide the following benefits:
- Reduce the occurrence of human errors to increase employee productivity.
- Achieve a high return on investment at optimal deployment time.
- Use cloud-based bots to provide error-free remote work.
- Reduce the complexity of the main business procedures.
- Taking care of everyday tasks will encourage employees to work more creatively to solve problems.
Analytics
Use strong tools for planning, data visualization, predictive analytics, and big data analytics to get quick, precise, and real-time business insights.
SAP Analytics Cloud
With the addition of predictive analytics features, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is intended to help businesses plan and integrate their business processes. To support greater data-driven decision making, model and transform the real-time data into visually appealing tables, charts, graphs, and other data visualizations.
- Get Important Business Information Quickly
- Transform insights into business decisions based on data.
- Create Data Models
- Create a Financial Strategy and Combine It into a Single Solution
- Real-time Data Connection
- Customized Industry Dashboards
SAP Data Intelligence
Leverage the power of data and transform data management with SAP Data Intelligence, a comprehensive data management solution. It acts as the layer for data orchestration, helping your company collect different types of data assets and turn them into important insights.
- Use data processing, analysis, data mining, and information trading to guarantee enterprise-wide governance.
- To support the development and maintenance of data mart and data warehousing systems
- To increase productivity, close the gap between IT and business by utilizing data analytics.
- Manage requirements and effectively implement and scale data science.
SAP Internet of Things
SAP Internet of Things refers to any item, or “thing,” that can be integrated into an Internet network, including cars and factory equipment to smartphones and smartwatches.
- IoT devices collect data about the environment via sensors.
- IoT devices use available network connections to make the data accessible.
- Data processing is built into IoT devices.
- IoT devices accumulate data from all devices in an IoT network.
Unlock the full potential of your enterprise with Accely
Integrating intelligent technologies within SAP S/4HANA is essential for businesses aiming to stay competitive, agile, and innovative in today’s dynamic market. By harnessing the power of AI, machine learning, IoT, and predictive analytics, organizations can streamline operations, enable data-driven decision-making, and foster a truly intelligent enterprise.
As a trusted SAP partner, Accely offers AI strategy consulting services to help you seamlessly implement intelligent technologies within your SAP S/4HANA framework. From strategy and consultation to deployment and support, Accely ensures a smooth transformation journey tailored to your business needs.
