We had an exquisite day at Ascot yesterday. Over 700 Companions and SAP specialists attended the #SAPUKIPartnerSummit, exploring new methods to collaborate round SAP’s “AI-First, Suite-First” future.
Appropriately sufficient, the occasion was kicked off by an AI avatar of Celine Cazali (cazali celine) SAP UKI’s Chief Associate Officer (due to Will Powell Will Powell of Deloitte!).
Leila Romane, SAP UKI Managing Director coated the highlights of the very profitable yr, with a look ahead to the technique for the subsequent yr.
Karl Fahrbach coated the newest companion alternatives, notably round GROW with SAP, a public cloud answer completely tailored for smaller fast-growing organizations.
I received to quiz the gang on their listening abilities, with a bottle of fine French Champagne as a prize — congratulations to “Dr Centipede”!
Then I mentioned with Jonathan Rhodes Head of Product Advertising and marketing for SAP Cloud ERP how we will work throughout the ecosystem to beat remaining boundaries for organizations transferring to the newest cloud architectures and benefiting from the newest AI applied sciences.
Then it was time to let our companions and clients do the speaking, with a panel hosted by James Bates together with Chris Gabriel of NTT Information, Rob Wilson CTO of Smyths Toys, Jon Curtis of Aspen Pumps, and Vivien Boche of SAP. It included some candid discussions of the function of digital transformation, with an emphasis that on the finish of the day, it’s not the expertise (or transferring to the cloud) that counts: it’s the onerous work of rethinking the enterprise processes!
Rob Curtis and Chris Gabriel talked about varied makes use of of AI throughout the group, helped with some easy-to-use extensions from NTT knowledge, constructed on the SAP Enterprise Know-how Platform
Vivien Boche talked in regards to the new alternatives for SAP Construct, with new sources accessible for companions to start out, grasp, and grasp their Construct journey.
This was adopted by a panel that includes Rob Mooney of SAP SuccessFactors interviewing IBM’s Hayden Bamber and Andrew Davies speaking in regards to the classes realized throughout their profitable rollout of SuccessFactors at IBM. They emphasised that having adopted the expertise themselves gave numerous additional credibility when it got here to speaking to potential prospects.
After some prizegiving, afternoon periods featured deep dives into varied sectors. I attended the Personal Fairness session, the place SAP’s Kelly Gamble hosted specialists akin to Rahul Shah who emphasised the important function that IT and ERP performs in “shopping for effectively”, “fixing and increasing”, after which “promoting progress”.
Rahul defined the important function that establishing a superb IT basis has in taking an undervalued firm to the subsequent degree, contrasting the “fly wheel” of higher insights main to raised administration and new alternatives with the “doom loop” of “digital denial”.
And naturally there was loads of time reserved for an important a part of the convention: a lot of networking between members. An important expertise in our trade is… individuals!
I look foward to seeing all people at one other occasion quickly!
