Power Your Innovation Strategy Discover how your company can create new business value by embedding SAP® technology in your solutions

Leverage World-Class TechnologyHow a partnership with SAP can help your company develop new and innovative ways to grow business

In today’s digital economy, innovation is the new global currency. Disruptive technologies are transforming business and changing the way we work, communicate, and interact.

SAP is at the forefront of this technological revolution, a world leader in enterprise applications, analytics, mobile, data management, and cloud technologies, with 35 million cloud users.*

Application developers and software vendors have a unique opportunity to leverage our game-changing technologies to drive new business value. Through a co-innovation partnership with SAP, you can access the world-class technology and development resources you need to: • Generate new revenue streams• Reduce software development costs• Accelerate time to market• Create competitive differentiation

Browse this e-book and discover how a partnership with SAP could help you redefine, rethink, and reinvent your business to create new value in ways you never thought possible.

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Stay Ahead of the Technology CurveHow building your solutions on SAP platforms can help keep your company ahead of the competition

Innovation is at the heart of the SAP strategy that defines the critical technology capabilities that will underpin the next generation of SAP applications. These capabilities apply concepts such as cloud computing, in-memory data management, virtualization, security, and consumption models such as mobile. They also enable timeless software principles, promote openness and interoperability through standards, and facilitate open-source integration.

This strategy makes SAP the ideal co-innovation partner. Together, we can offer a powerful combination of your industry and application know-how and our world-class technology. You can also leverage our comprehensive partner program and development resources to create new business models, move into new markets, and deliver new customer value.

Turn disruptive technologies into opportunities Build on proven SAP® technology innovations to help your customers simplify business processes and run on real-time insights.

Accelerate your cloud innovationLeverage our comprehensive cloud portfolio that can help you stay at the forefront of developments. Grow customer loyalty and adoption Keep existing customers happy by delivering innovative, high-performing, reliable, and secure solutions more quickly.

Turn Disruptive Technologies into Opportunities How SAP can help your company enhance its solutions and accelerate time to market at lower risk

Disruptive technologies are radically changing the way we work. Application developers and software vendors need to respond swiftly and decisively to megatrends such as the rising tide of Big Data, the universal spread of mobile devices, the mounting demand for sophisticated new analytics power, and the growing domination of cloud computing.

The challenge is to successfully leverage these new technologies while maintaining development efficiencies, minimizing risk, and reducing time to market.

SAP is at the epicenter of today’s technology-driven revolution. Powered by the SAP HANA® platform, our technology innovations combine to provide a completely reimagined, modern platform for real-time business. Partnering with SAP gives you access to these market-leading innovations, enabling you to offer your customers proven solutions and choice of deployment options while sharing risk and accelerating time to market.

Convert Big Data into real-time insightsBuild your solutions on SAP HANA to differentiate your offering, create new revenue streams, and deliver real-time performance and insights for customers.

Extend your solutions with mobileQuickly embed world-class mobile technologies into your solutions to provide customers with anytime, anywhere access.

Deliver market-leading analyticsUnleash the power of collective insight with advanced predictive analytics, business intelligence (BI), and data discovery solutions.

Accelerate your cloud innovation Leverage our comprehensive cloud portfolio that can help you stay at the forefront of developments.

Convert Big Data into Real-Time InsightsSupercharge your solutions with SAP HANA to help your customers run on real-time insights

The huge amount of data generated continuously by systems, people, and devices has the potential to drive new business value, competitive advantage, and revenue growth. Yet traditional technologies simply cannot handle these massive data volumes at sufficient speeds.

The SAP HANA platform uses in-memory computing, a revolutionary approach that delivers game-changing performance improvements in transaction processing and analytics while simplifying the solution architecture.

You can choose to run SAP HANA in an on-premise, hybrid, or cloud deployment. Building your solutions on SAP HANA can help you:• Enhance and differentiate your offerings• Open up new revenue streams• Simplify your IT architecture• Power your customers’ business with real-time insights

Reinvent your real-time business with innovation and simplicity Discover how you can create innovative services that help your customers work smarter and faster with SAP HANA as a foundation.Learn more ›

Explore the power of the SAP HANA platform Read this paper to learn more about Big Data and creating new business solutions that leverage the power of the SAP HANA platform.Learn more ›

Turbocharge data management Explore SAP database solutions that leverage in-memory, cloud, and mobile technologies for instant answers to complex queries.Learn more ›

Extend Your Solutions with MobileStand out from the competition with enhanced mobile access, security, and management

Mobile is a truly transformative technology. The number of mobile devices around the world continues to soar, matched by the rising expectations and demands of employees across all industries concerning the use of mobile technology.

In partnership with SAP, you can quickly embed world-class mobile technologies into your solutions to provide customers with anytime, anywhere access to your solution. You can deliver a clear competitive differentiation by:• Making your applications mobile: Migrate existing

applications to a secure mobile platform and develop new mobile offerings

• Managing mobile solutions: Add management and security functions to mobile applications, devices, and content

• Driving mobile commerce: Enable end-to-end mobile experiences for consumers

“SAP Enterprise Mobility: Bringing a Cohesive Approach to a Complex Market”

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SAP Mobile Platform Simplify and unify your customers’ mobile enterprises and enable them to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver user-centric mobile apps, mobile documents, and content. Learn more ›

SAP Mobile Secure solutions Upgrade your mobile solutions by building on the SAP Mobile Secure portfolio, enabling your customers to control, secure, and enrich their mobile devices. Learn more ›

Mobile apps from SAP for enterprise asset management Add intuitive, mobile functionality for enterprise asset management to your solutions to help your asset-intensive customers maximize asset uptime, safety, and compliance. Learn more ›

Mobile commerce Embed mobile commerce functionality and expand your software portfolio to enable end-to-end mobile consumer experiences that cover loyalty, shopping, banking, self-service, and more. Learn more ›

Deliver Market-Leading Analytics Unleash the power of collective insight for your customers

The “Internet of Things” – where smart devices, smart assets, machines, and people are all interconnected – is generating massive volumes of potentially valuable data.

With world-class predictive analytics, business intelligence, and data discovery solutions from SAP, available on premise or in the cloud, you can connect processes, people, and data and unleash the power of collective insight through:• Advanced predictive analytics: Give your customers the

ability to confidently anticipate the future and drive better business outcomes

• Business intelligence: Extend your solution with a world-leading enterprise business intelligence platform* from SAP

• Agile visualizations and trusted data discovery: Empower your solution users with intuitive exploration and data presentation features

Predictive analytics powered by SAP HANATransform the future with better business insight using predictive analytics.Learn more ›

SAP InfiniteInsight® solution Make sophisticated predictive analytics accessible to more business users. Learn more ›

Embed real-time business intelligenceBoost your customers’ decision making by offering embedded, real-time BI.Learn more ›

Exploring business at the speed of thoughtEmpower business users with powerful data discovery and exploration tools.Learn more ›

* Forrester Research Inc., The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2013, December 2013.

Accelerate Your Cloud Innovation How SAP can help your company harness market momentum and deploy your cloud solutions your way

For application developers and software vendors, the cloud offers the opportunity to simplify your business model, build predictable subscription revenue streams, and create a strong competitive differentiator in a rapidly evolving market.

With 35 million business users around the world already leveraging our comprehensive cloud portfolio,* SAP is ideally placed to help you stay at the forefront of developments and accelerate your own cloud innovation and offerings.

Enriched applicationsYou can provide even greater customer value by extending and enriching your software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings with our latest cloud-based solutions. These include hosting the SAP Business One® application, our proven enterprise resource planning (ERP) software; our market-leading HR cloud solutions for talent management and collaboration; and database technologies such as the SAP SQL Anywhere® suite, on-demand edition.

Proven platformBuilt on SAP HANA and conforming to the toughest security standards in the world,† SAP HANA Cloud Platform is based on open standards. An easy-to-use development environment enables you to rapidly create new applications, leverage the game-changing speed of SAP HANA, and extend cloud and on-premise applications.

Flexible deploymentOur cloud technology can integrate with on-premise applications or provide a platform for a 100% cloud-based solution. So rather than forcing a “rip and replace” approach to the cloud for you or your customers, SAP is focused on letting you deploy your cloud solutions your way for maximum flexibility.

Wherever you are on your cloud journey and whatever your destination, leveraging our cloud expertise through a co-innovation partnership with SAP can help you improve development efficiencies and reduce risk while enabling you to adapt quickly to changing market dynamics and customer needs.

* SAP internal database and research.† SAS 70 Type II certification, ISO 27001 certification, 128-Bit Data Encryption; WebTrust and PCI-compliant cloud computing.

Innovate with SAP The key SAP technologies that can help your company accelerate your cloud innovation Our cloud offerings are built to empower people through a

rich, consumer-grade user experience that is mobile, social, and global. Because these applications are in the cloud, they are faster to deploy, easier to adopt, and can be updated as soon as enhancements become available.

SAP HANA Cloud Platform Unleash the power of SAP HANA by building, extending, and running your applications on SAP HANA Cloud Platform, our in-memory, platform-as-a-service offering.

SAP Business One Cloud solutionHelp customers integrate and streamline key processes – including financials, sales, and inventory – with the affordable SAP Business One Cloud solution.

SuccessFactors offeringsEmpower your customers with cloud-based solutions for HR from SuccessFactors, an SAP company, that span the entire employee lifecycle from recruit to retire.

SAP SQL Anywhere suite, on-demand edition Move your customers’ applications to the cloud quickly and easily with our data management functionality provided by SAP SQL Anywhere solutions.

Innovation in ActionLearn more about how SAP can help your company accelerate cloud innovation SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Build, extend, and run applications on SAP HANA in the cloud.Learn more ›

SAP Business One® Cloud solutionLeverage the full, proven functionality of SAP Business One – in the cloud.Learn more › SuccessFactors offeringsDeploy cloud solutions for HR that span the entire employee lifecycle, from recruit to retire.Learn more ›

SAP SQL Anywhere® suite, on-demand editionQuickly move your applications to the cloud with proven data management software.Learn more › Power your innovation strategy with SAP TechnologyIncorporate the latest technology innovations from SAP in your software solutions to accelerate time to market, lower your development costs, differentiate your offerings, and generate new revenue streams.Learn more ›

Grow Customer Loyalty and Adoption How SAP can help your company extend and enhance your customer solutions

Loyal customers are profitable customers. So keeping them satisfied is essential to sustaining your revenues and margins in today’s highly competitive and dynamic applications market.

Partnering with SAP gives you the opportunity to supplement your existing offerings with a broad spectrum of market-leading ERP, data management, analytics, and mobile solutions that can be deployed either on premise or in the cloud. This can help you extend your product offerings and increase your solution footprint at existing customers with very little investment.

Turbocharge applicationsUse the in-memory computing power of SAP HANA to turbocharge customers’ data management and application processing speed for huge boosts in performance, and watch customer satisfaction soar.

Access advanced analyticsUnleash the power of predictive analytics and collective insight by giving your customers access to a broad set of analytics solutions from SAP – including the latest tools for analyzing social media.

Improve the user experienceEase adoption and improve users’ experience of embedded SAP technology with our on-premise and cloud-based solutions for training and learning management.

Supplement your customer serviceExtend your own service and support by leveraging the SAP ecosystem, including the OEM partner network, the SAP PartnerEdge® program for Application Development, and the world-class SAP Community Network.

Innovate with SAP The key SAP technologies that can help your company grow customer loyalty and adoption

Partnering with SAP enables application developers and software vendors to deliver high-performance, best-in-class, highly reliable, and secure solutions with a shorter time to market and fewer development resources.

SAP HANASAP HANA combines database, data-processing, and application platform capabilities in memory. The platform provides analytics libraries for predictive, planning, text-processing, spatial, and business analyses.

Analytics solutions from SAP Help your customers unleash the power of collective insight by delivering enterprise business intelligence, agile visualizations, and advanced predictive analytics to all users – on any device or platform.

SAP Knowledge Acceleration softwareHelp ensure that users are properly trained with this customizable, Web-based learning tool that delivers training for SAP solutions and ongoing knowledge support.

SAP Workforce Performance Builder softwareHelp your customers maximize the value of their SAP solutions with advanced user training delivered wherever and whenever it’s needed.

Innovation in ActionLearn more about how SAP technology can add new value to your company’s solutions

Reinvent your real-time businessDiscover how you can create innovative services that help your customers work smarter and faster with SAP HANA as a foundation.Learn more ›

Explore the power of the SAP HANA platformRead this paper to learn more about Big Data and creating new business solutions that leverage the power of the SAP HANA platform.Learn more › Turbocharge data managementExplore SAP database solutions that leverage in-memory, cloud, and mobile technologies for instant answers to complex queriesLearn more ›

Predictive analytics powered by SAP HANATransform the future with better business insight using predictive analytics.Learn more › SAP InfiniteInsight® solutionMake sophisticated predictive analytics accessible to more business users.Learn more ›

Exploring business at the speed of thought Empower business users with powerful data discovery and exploration tools.Learn more ›

Benefits at a GlanceHow your company could benefit from leveraging market-leading SAP technology

Why innovate with SAP?SAP is at the heart of today’s technology-driven revolution, turning innovation into practical solutions designed to simplify solution architectures, shorten development processes, and help our digitally connected and socially networked world run better. Here are just a few reasons why SAP is the right choice as an innovation partner for your organization:• Strong position as an industry leader • Delivery of breakthrough innovation

without disruption• Reinventing of cloud and database

markets• Local and global support and services• Extensive global partner ecosystem

Turn disruptive technologies into opportunities • Differentiate your solutions• Open up new revenue streams• Reduce development cost and risk• Accelerate time to market

Accelerate your cloud innovation • Simplify your business model• Create new subscription revenue streams• Deliver rapid innovation for customers• Reduce development cost and risk

Grow customer loyalty and adoption • Boost solution performance• Enhance users’ experience and engagement• Deliver advanced analytics• Supplement your customer service

Imagine. Create. Innovate.Explore the art of the possible with SAP

Design thinking workshop Go beyond discussing development resources, time to market, corporate goals, and processes, and focus instead on what really matters: understanding your customers. Design thinking with SAP can help your company:• Rethink existing problems to identify innovation

opportunities • Prioritize initiative objectives and budgets based on

customer value• Visualize the benefits new technologies can bring to your

business

Explore the art of the possible with SAP and apply for a design thinking workshop today.

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