And within Sierra’s applications, too, embedded AI capabilities are bringing new value to lines of business across the enterprise. As an SAP Lighthouse partner, Sierra is among the first SAP developers to gain access to new AI tools, and already, Sierra is piloting new AI features across 9 of our premier, productivity-enhancing BTP apps.

OhZone Smart Budgeting & Forecasting, one of the first BTP apps to be certified by SAP’s esteemed Integration & Certification Center, is a budgeting tool built for Finance leaders, and now, embedded AI capabilities are bringing additional cost and time savings to this popular solution. With the recent AI enhancements made to OhZone Smart Budgeting & Forecasting, users can easily customize workflows and budget approval processes to their unique business requirements, with multi-user, multi-level approval sequences, and forms, too, can be tailored to specialized needs with OhZone SBF’s dynamic form builder. And OhZone SBF now provides natural language insights through integration to SAC Just Ask, simplifying the sophisticated data needed for planning and forecasting. ​

Sierra’s four product lines – InFocus, OhZone, EnerBridge, and ORBit – are all set to gain AI capabilities in the coming months. ORBit Business Partner Automation, part of Sierra’s line of Data Management solutions, is already saving customers time and money with integration to SAP Document Information Extractor Premium, an AI service that allows ORBit BPA to automatically populate and validate Business Partner forms. ORBit BPA eliminates the manual process of moving between PDFs to collect and verify Business Partner information. Now, this critical data can be drawn from documents and delivered to the appropriate Business Partner forms with error-free results.​

Migrating from SAP BW to SAP DataSphere in the cloud delivers significant value to the enterprise. With real-time analytics powered by SAP Analytics Cloud, companies can make decisions faster and more confidently.

SAP Analytics Cloud Integrations put actionable insights directly into the hands of business users with dynamic visuals. This modernization of an outdated data and analytics foundation positions organizations to drive innovation, cut costs, and gain a competitive edge. With Sierra’s expertise guiding the way, businesses can fully harness the wealth of insights in their data on the journey to becoming an intelligent enterprise.

As a cloud-based solution, Datasphere readily scales to accommodate growing data volumes and complexity; and, by consolidating disparate systems into one single source of truth, businesses minimize redundant data while boosting consistency.

With the launch of its Business Technology Platform, SAP has entered the ease-of-use game, now doing for the enterprise community what Apple did for consumers just two decades ago. Like Apple, SAP has launched a rich and growing app store, populated by scores of solutions that make doing business easier and quicker. Like Apple, SAP is offering apps that simplify, enhance, and extend the value of its software. And akin to Apple, the fruits of SAP’s ambition are now showing signs of rapid, sustained growth.

What’s different are the underlying mechanics. For instance, apps delivered via BTP require a connection to SAP that’s managed by SAP. These “APIs” assure that apps connected via BTP continuously work with the newest releases of SAP software, thus removing a key risk in app rollouts.

And, to make APIs work properly over time, SAP requires BTP-based apps to interact with SAP in a “Clean Core” environment—in other words, removing code customizations from the equation and ensuring that apps interact with “mother ship” as originally published.