Sap: An Introduction: Next-Generation Business Processes and Solutions

What comes after SAP ERP? Wondering whether the new SAP can meet your existing business requirements and if so, how? This book is your big-picture guide to how SAP solutions address your day-to-day business and IT processes in the post-SAP Business Suite landscape. Learn about up-and-coming SAP applications, from SAP S/4HANA, to SAP C/4HANA, to SAP IBP. Follow a central business case to get a clear idea of how the new SAP portfolio can work for you, now and in the years ahead!

* Business processes: From financials to logistics to CRM, plot your everyday processes against the new SAP landscape
* Solutions: Explore SAP S/4HANA, SAP IBP, SAP C/4HANA, SAP HANA, and more
* Tools: Integrate hype technologies into your business

Customer Experience
The business world is focused on the customer, and so is SAP. Learn about how SAP manages customer experience functionality from customer engagement to sales and service, using new solutions such as SAP C/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA.

Operations
See how SAP S/4HANA transforms your day-to-day operations, from sourcing and procurement, to manufacturing, to supply chain management, and more.

Financials
Financials are the backbone of your business. Learn how SAP's financials portfolio has improved with SAP S/4HANA in areas such as financial accounting and management accounting.

Human Resources
Understand how SAP addresses key HR issues such as talent management and travel and expense. Explore the three new SAP solutions that address your HR needs: SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Fieldglass, and Concur.

Data
Take a look under the hood of SAP. From data warehouses to analytics, learn about the key role of SAP HANA and other new SAP solutions such as SAP BusinessObjects BI, SAP Master Data Governance, and SAP Data Services.

* Digital transformation
* SAP HANA
* SAP S/4HANA
* SAP C/4HANA
* SAP Integrated Business Planning
* SAP Ariba
* SAP SuccessFactors
* Sales and service
* Financials
* Human resources
* Data analytics

Matthew Riches is the director of SAP S/4HANA at AgilityWorks Ltd., a UK-based consulting firm that is a partner of SAP-UK and SAP's SAP S/4HANA Center of Excellence. He conducts training for and regularly presents on SAP S/4HANA.

Ben Robinson has worked with SAP front-office solutions for over 20 years. As a sales and distribution consultant, he joined SAP in 2000 and has worked with SAP's ever-expanding portfolio of customer engagement solutions, principally in consulting and pre-sales roles.

Gareth Ryan is the director of SAP technology at AgilityWorks Ltd. Gareth has spent 20 years working with SAP, with a main focus on UI/UX and process-based tools. He also serves as an SAP mentor, and is passionate about SAP's cloud-based technology capabilities.

Ian Vincent is the director of systems and integration at AgilityWorks Ltd. An experienced integration architect, he worked with a number of integration and EDI solutions at Kimberly-Clark before moving into consulting. Currently, he specializes in helping customers make the most of their SAP S/4HANA investment by creating integrated businesses.