Powerful platforms, better together - SAP + Microsoft Power Platform

Watchwords for every modern business today? Scalable. Secure. Profitable. INTEGRATED!?

This blog intends to emphasize how easy it is to deploy and integrate SAP with Microsoft Power Platform and its strategic importance.?

A critical component of a modern business is seamless integration with other systems. The intuitiveness and extensibility of the Microsoft Power Platform, combined with its low-code tools empower you to automate processes, build applications, and analyze data, including all the data on SAP. From deeper analysis and reporting to more efficient business processes, you can now get more out of your SAP data.??

Integration of Power Platform with SAP applications like S/4 HANA, SuccessFactors, SAP C/4 HANA, SAP Fieldglass, SAP Concur and SAP Ariba makes the work experience for everyone more collaborative.?

The best thing about this integration is that you can create custom business apps on the Power platform without extensive coding knowledge, transforming manual business processes into digital ones!??

What more could we want??

Business value for SAP and Power Platform integration?

Organizations are struggling to build solutions that simplify tasks and help their users succeed. From talent limitations, time taking ground-up software development to security and compliance risks legacy code apps aren't keeping up with surging digital business demands.?

Gartner forecasts 70% of new applications developed by organizations will use low-code or no-code technologies by 2025 up from less than 25% in 2020.?

This demand for user-friendly apps and resources isn't the only challenge facing enterprises today. As the business landscape changes, new factors are impacting businesses.?

The impacts include:?

• Difficulty scaling development efficiently??

• Budget, time and resource constraints?

• Rising customer expectations?

• Paper processes?

• Change in workforce expectation?

• Customer need for agile solutions?

• Need for differentiation??

• Developer supply failing behind demand?

• Security and compliance risks?

The formidable combination of SAP and Power Platform makes it easy for organizations to address all the challenges mentioned by providing a collaborative solution.?

Here are some potential application use cases?

Finance and Accounting?

• Intelligent invoice matching automation reduces your days sales outstanding, lowers costs, and improves accounts receivable efficiency and quality.?

• Built into SAP S/4HANA Cloud, ICMR simplifies your financial close processes by using machine learning to resolve intercompany discrepancies.?

Supply chain and logistics?

• Enhance demand planning by forecasting near-real-time demand, detecting trend changes, and reducing inventory costs.???

• Use intelligent tools for automatic proposal classification and anomaly detection.??

• Reduce inventory carrying costs with prompt detection of slow-moving materials.?

• Increase supply chain efficiency with accurate delivery date predictions.?

• Estimate remaining useful life and probability of failure based on historical maintenance records.?

Travel?

• Enhance travel and expense management with AI for policy audits, receipt scanning, and form-filling.?

• Detect non-compliance, optimize hotel bookings, and analyze spending patterns for payment risks.?

Quality assurance?

• Streamline quality inspections with defective code suggestions and simplify logging with digital assistants.?

• Prevent asset failures with master data anomaly detection and recommendations.??

Sales?

• It can help with load planning, route planning, promotions, discounts, invoice settlement, and cash collections.?

Human resource?

• SAP will use Azure OpenAI Service API and data from SAP SuccessFactors to create precise job descriptions.?

• ?Integration with Microsoft 365 allows leaders to fine-tune descriptions in Word using Copilot, ensuring inclusivity through bias detection.?

Powerful platforms?

We bring the scale, security and reliability of Microsoft Power Platform to your SAP workloads. By integrating front-end and back-end operations of your business we can enable you to fully utilize the power of digital! From our perspective, integration is not so much about technology as it is about modernizing the very core foundation for your company’s future digital journey.?

Microsoft’s low code platform taking the front stage with the robust SAP model at the back is the perfect combination that helps expand the SAP footprint to all the people it matters most. Contact Systems Limited MEA today to learn more about our SAP and Microsoft Power Platform collaborations.?