How are Intelligent Enterprise and business success related?

And what does the term "Intelligent Enterprise" say about those companies that don't embrace it - are they then not fit for the future? It helps to think back to the roots of a company's success: As is well known, this success is fed from various sources - systems, processes, culture, products and services - and has a specific goal - for example, revenue, sustainability or employee satisfaction.

The company itself is only as good as its employees. Selecting and training these employees, actively involving them in the company's development and providing them with the best possible support in their work for the company is therefore the primary task of management and thus the key to the company's success.

SAP's technology stack

When it comes to supporting employees with IT, SAP's greatly expanded technology stack and the newly installed ERP systems come into play. These IT components can make an enormous contribution to digital transformation.

This is where the Intelligent Enterprise comes in. How do companies succeed in better supporting people and their work through innovative technology and functions? How can a company get the right things right so that tasks can be done more easily, more simply, more pleasantly?

Transparency and Analytics

Optimizing the basis for decision-making and creating greater transparency for the decision-maker was already the task of the business intelligence approaches of the past twenty years. Today, we speak of analytics. With the innovative architecture of S/4 Hana, embedded analytics and AI algorithms, the employee has a much broader decision-making horizon. This is because the integrated analytics functions again access transaction data directly. This means that the path to working with process data is shorter, and planning and forecasting can be incorporated just as easily.

It would be negligent to view SAP solutions as an island. Rather, they are integrated into a system landscape and communicate with the entire IT environment. Only in this way can end-to-end processes, E2E, be created, which in turn enable E2E transparency and ensure that processes are controlled precisely.

Improved integration, e.g. through optimized interfaces that are much easier to implement and operate, is what makes this E2E view possible in the first place. From the user's point of view, manual rework and media breaks are eliminated, error detection and error handling are much easier, and process monitoring is integrated. This results in significantly higher process quality.

IT system landscapes

It's about breaking down the cumbersome structures in the IT system landscape to respond to challenges in a faster, more focused and agile way. Success has a lot to do with empowering employees to do the right things easily and efficiently. Whether this requires using the title "Intelligent Enterprise" or choosing another image as a leitmotif is of secondary importance.

It is essential to orient oneself to the characteristics of the Intelligent Enterprise and to include the approach as a vision. In this way, companies can find individual starting points for successfully positioning themselves for the future. After all, companies do not always have to radically reinvent themselves. And that is precisely the value proposition of the Intelligent Enterprise.