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ASanchezC1
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
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During the last year, we onboarded many new customers and partners investing on SAP ByD. We move forward with our localization strategy. In this blog, I will share data that reflect the adoption on ByD by countries, localization outlook 2018 and guidelines. Furthermore, I would like to encourage our partner community to get involved in this topic by engaging with our SAP ByD teams.

Our live customers reinforce the message about our product capabilities and scalability to support their internationalization approach with comments I picked from customer success stories, such as: “...can be deployed around the globe quickly and easily” or “…rapid roll out to subsidiaries” or “…Quick go-live of SAP software at its Singapore headquarters as well as at multiple subsidiaries, including China”. Additionally, we have an active ecosystem, supporting more than 55 countries as of today, by using our Localization Toolkit. Other partners are supporting customer specific localization projects. In total, our customers run operations in 130 countries, with about 680 companies running in non-localized countries., posting more than 360 million accounting documents.

Our localization outlook for 2018 follows our product strategy with the objective to remain compliant from a global perspective by delivering and adopting new legal regulations – i.e. IFRS 15 and GDPR- and local legal changes.

  • Legal changes and maintenance: As in the past, these are the areas where we concentrate our efforts. Due to several new regulations from Governments in Spain, Mexico, India or Italy, which are pawing the path for new Business to Government models, we adopt local legal changes on delivered SAP ByD country versions. In a few of our pre-localized countries (see screenshot), we have updated VAT for UAE and Saudi Arabia (January 2018). Details on country versions and localization features are updated in every release. Check the release highlights blog 1802 ( 1711) , the updates on globalization capabilities ( European ; APJ, America and Africa and Middle East) or simply check the “What’s new” section at the Help portal.

  • Existing country version enhancements: As we increase the number of customers running SAP ByD outside the US and Germany, additional local requirements are requested by customers and partners. Thus, we have increased our focus on legal requirements especially for Italy.

  • New countries and viable Go-to-Market approach: We are actively setting up a collaborative working model with countries like South Korea and Israel with local partners and their market unit leaders to address country specific requirements. This effort started last year under controlled availability (see picture). This year, we continue the partner approach, until we take a final decision to add South Korea and Israel to our category of standard countries. We support our new partners selling in APJ and Africa with enablement, guidance and empowerment to use the Localization toolkit and Cloud Application Studio.

  • Globalization services: We introduced last year several services, some in pilot phase last year. The Language Adaptation Tool, Service Translation Hub, Legal Change Notification or Localization Toolkit. During Q2, we will communicate details about improvements of these services which are supporting customer roll-out. This year, we are analyzing other standard services (e.g. e-Documents, Tax as a Service) and leveraging SAP Cloud Platform.




I would like to remind the ByD Community to check regularly the channels we support in our roll-out and interact with our experts in our community:
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kevin_ledley
Explorer
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the concept that somehow the "outlook" integration should exclude partners and suppliers is extraordinary,

they ByD system prides its self on "supply chain" management,  yet excludes "outlook" while it sends emails and stores the supplier notes, contracts, etc, why would you think that e-mails somehow should be excluded.

 
ASanchezC1
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
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Hi Kevin,

 

Please check available Content about Microsot Outllok Integration either in help Center https://help.sap.com/doc/saphelp_byd1711_en/2017.11/en-US/PUBLISHING/IntegrationScenarios.html#Micro... or in other Blogs iniside the community.

My Intention is to share Localization Content only.

 

Kind regards, Antonio
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Looking forward to the Language Adaption Tool. We communicated so much on Traditional Chinese last year with you. This will be important for us. Thanks

 
former_member521183
Discoverer
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Thank you Antonio for the great and continuous effort on the Italian Localization, big gaps have been closed but now that BYD is spreading across the country into many different industries with sofisticated business and legal requirements, more intensive support and faster deployments will be key to win customers’ trust and beat the aggressive competition from locally developed products. We count on your globalisation Team to win big in the next years to come!
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Hello Antonio,

You are stating :

. We support our new partners selling in APJ and Africa with enablement, guidance and empowerment to use the Localization toolkit and Cloud Application Studio.

How can we beneficiate from that help?

Regards,

Victor
Anantpatel
Active Contributor
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Hi Antonio,

We are in last quarter of 2018, When we will have South Korea as an Standard Localized Country?

 

Regards,

anant
ASanchezC1
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
 

Dear Anant,

We have not taken any final decission to bring South Korea as part of the Standard localized Country list BUT have agreed to get South Korea as pre-localized country with 1905. Sincerely, any final strategic decission on Korea would be addressed by mid of next year.

In the meantime, if you need to activate South Korea for customer project, please let me know to guide you or your Partner on the process, in addition to connect with local pre-sales team to explain South Korea scope.

 

Kind regards, Antonio

 
ASanchezC1
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
 

Hi Victor,

There are several options as webinars posted in PartnerEdge ( I run and posted 2 sessions on Localization Toolkit this year) and On Demand sessions organized by respective accountable teams and trainings are set up as part of partner enablement.

Please get engaged with your Partner Service Advisor to discuss in more Details. If you let me know your country Location, I could faciliate the introduction to your PSA.

Kind regards, Antonio
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Hello Antonio,

 

Thanks again for the valuable help provided by your team,

 

Best regards,

 

Victor Sauvageot