The Pace of Innovation of the Ecosystem Contributes to SAP’s Business ByDesign Success (Feb 2024)

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With this blog, I would like to contribute to the market knowledge about our partner innovations BUT also ask partners to share their latest and greatest innovation successes with me or the SAP Product Management. I will keep this blog as central entry point to share, in a quarterly update, upcoming innovations by partners

Recent highlights:

1. With Release 2402 what's new roll out,  the partner innovation add-ons roadmap slide below is up to date (Note: this is current roadmap as reflected in public roadmap November 2023. Follow this blog to get latest updates about partner add-on). 

This slide aims to increase the transparency on partner extensions and as part of our public roadmap, set the importance of partner innovation for SAP ByD product success. Let me remind once more, partner apps ongoing innovation and its publication at SAP Store may continue in the next weeks, making the slide very dynamic every quarter. During 2024, I will expect our customer can benefit either from many updates or publication of new partner solutions at SAP Store. Please be aware of strict operational steps and the fact some apps may be delisted as not complying with own SAP Store publication rules.

Roadmap slide supporting the internal and external roll-out release 2402

2.Recent published or updated applications at SAP Store. In the following list  there are just a few to be highlighted. Stay tune for additional partner apps as announced in the roadmap above

Intrastat for SAP Business ByDesign: Designed to integrate seamlessly with SAP Business ByDesign, our solution allows you to capture all the relevant data automatically and then quickly and easily analyse this each month and output your intrastat declaration ready for submission to the relevant statistical authorities.

Mobile Warehouse Scanner App ByDintec: When it comes to WMS, our clients need speed and reliability. This solution improves the control and record keeping of your business processes through the integration of handheld mobile devices and gives unparalleled insight into inventory, orders, packing, and equipment.

Avalara AvaTax for SAP Business ByDesign: This solution automates compliance at key stages in the process by determining your USA tax obligations and calculating sales tax while assessing use tax all within SAP Business ByDesign through our robust integration.

Healthcheck-Bot: It ensures that you do not overlook incorrect or unposted source documents, open approval tasks or failed background jobs in your SAP Business ByDesign system. The automatic execution of the Healthcheck Assistant triggers a check of the objects mentioned in your system and then sends a report by email to the desired employees.

 

If you are interested to know details and what it takes two to tango program launched in Q4 2019, by me, continue reading.

SAP Business ByDesign and its extensibility concept has been a key message from the very early days of product existence (picture including Solution Extensions). Mainly, the Partner Development Infrastructure (PDI) in addition to openness, enable customers and partners to build extensions that provide a competitive advantage and are compatible in each and every SAP ByD release. Certainly, successful partners have fully leveraged this capability and were a basis to most of the success stories in cloud ERP- but still many of our innovations have not reached our larger community consisting of customers, prospects, and SAP engaged teams.

 

What it takes Two to Tango initiative, is based on below assets and activities supported in Product Management roll out actions:

1. Delivering regular innovation by partners into our Public Roadmap (since release 2002)

1. Leading the initiative to catalyze the onboarding partners in our digital marketplace- SAP Store 

1. Set an active communication and channel in our SAP ByD community with blogs, newsletters and social media group at LinkedIn

1. Manage the partner portfolio extending our product strategy as part of the What’s new Session 

1. Created a new partner expert area at SAP Community for SAP ByD including partner blogs

1. Created new partner apps section by application areas at SAP ByD Mylaunchpad (Release 2108)

1. Evolve SAP Store product for SAP Business ByDesign and partner success

1. Maintain partner information at help.sap.com

1. Improve Enterprise Search to evaluate if any partner innovation and experience is available at SAP Community via blog

 

114 apps "working with" SAP ByD (February 2024)

Community blogs and social media: During the last 3 years,  many news were released in our official SAP Group SAP ByD Linked-in channel. A number of partners shared their innovation experience through this channel.  In addition, the SAP Product Management team shows its commitment to the SAP ByD Community by posting blogs into selected areas relevant for partners like “integrate and Extend SAP ByD” (e.g. enhance standard forms and create custom forms; API Overview, etc) or “Localization” (e.g. Localization and partner driven solutions; Localization toolkit, etc)

 
Just closing with an active call-to-action for innovation worth sharing supporting SAP ByD product strategy as it increases the attractiveness for the market.

As many of you have already realized, I regularly update all of the channels described above and share partner innovation with our ecosystem of customers, partners and prospects. If you need additional information, let me know on my blog.

Stay connected with me on this amazing contribution to our product success!