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SAP Business ByDesign Road Map

April 2020

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About SAP road maps

Companies today are planning their digital journeys – transforming business models, reengineering business
processes, and reimagining work.
SAP road maps highlight innovations that may help you plan and implement your digital journey. They span
products relevant to lines of business in your industry and explain how our innovations may add value to your
business.
In our road maps, you can learn about our innovations along four different timelines:
1. Recent innovations for our products that have been launched in the past weeks or months and can
already be purchased
2. Planned innovations for our products that are intended to be launched in the short term or midterm
3. Product direction, providing a long-term perspective on high-level development plans for innovations for
our solutions – inspired by your requirements
4. Product vision, providing a high-level and long-term business perspective on innovations for our products

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Table of contents

Product overview
▪ SAP Business ByDesign – Functional overview
▪ SAP ERP for the cloud – Positioning of SAP Business ByDesign

Vision and direction


▪ Key trends, customer needs, and value proposition
▪ Major product trends
▪ Upcoming midterm and long-term innovation

Product road map


▪ Recent innovations
▪ Planned innovations
▪ Product direction

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SAP Business ByDesign
A full public cloud ERP suite

A quick-to-implement, holistic cloud ERP suite that enables companies to grow


Human
Financials
Combining best-practice business processes and flexibility resources
▪ Proven best practices for companies (39 built-in business scenarios such as order-to-cash, procure-to-
pay, project-based services)
▪ Quickly configurable, easy to adopt and to extend
▪ Always up to date: Automatic quarterly product updates deliver new features but keep custom CRM Supplier
extensions stable

Ease of use, insightfulness, and openness


▪ Modern HTML5 user interface that is consistent across the entire suite
Project
▪ Built-in, real-time analytics with more than 500 standard reports, dozens of prebuilt KPIs, and Microsoft Supply chain
management
Excel integration
▪ Connectivity: Open interfaces for quick connections to existing solutions and to build custom integrations Built-in analytics, cross-topics,
and solution extensions
Global footprint and scalability
▪ Expand business operations to international markets without barriers:
– Deployed in 144 countries
– Available in 12 languages
– Localized for 57 countries: 20 SAP-delivered countries and 37 prelocalized and partner-localized
countries
▪ Scalable: Easy to go from 7 to 10,000 users without any constraints

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SAP Business ByDesign
A full public cloud ERP suite

Key capabilities
▪ Financials: Get a real-time view of your financials. Streamline
core accounting processes including cash and liquidity
management.
▪ Customer relationship management: Master marketing, sales,
and service by integrating front- and back-office processes in a
single solution.
▪ Project management: Manage projects of any size across all
functional areas by enabling teams to deliver, invoice, and
monitor in real time.
▪ Supplier relationship management: Organize sourcing,
contracting, RFQ processing, and supplier management, and
empower employees with self-services.
▪ Supply chain management: Model your internal and external
supply with and end-to-end value chain. Achieve transparency on
cost and inventory valuation.
▪ Human resource management: Streamline people
engagement, with central organization management, workforce
administration, time management, and employee self-services.

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SAP Business ByDesign
Ease of use, insightfulness, and openness

Cross-application Digital board rooms,


Ease of use user experience global and predictive analytics

▪ A modern intuitive user interface that


is consistent across the entire suite Mobile apps and Internet of Things
devices
for instant productivity
▪ Accessibility anywhere anytime
through mobile apps Machine learning and
natural language
Business collaboration processing
Insightfulness and networks

▪ Built-in, real-time analytics with more


than 500 standard reports, dozens
of prebuilt KPIs, and Microsoft Excel + Solution extensions
Integration openness
and extensibility
integration Process automation
across applications

Openness
▪ Open interfaces for quick Partner applications
and Web services
connections to existing solutions and Web shops and
point-of-sales solutions
to build custom integrations Globalization
and microverticals

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SAP Business ByDesign
Digital transformation is the prerequisite for an intelligent enterprise

Key needs of midmarket organizations SAP Business ByDesign value proposition

Visibility and transparency Built-in analytics for real-time data across all
Enabling intelligent decision-making in global functional areas of the business for intelligent
operations decision-making

Time-tested best practices connecting every


Efficient business processes function across the company
Best-practice procedure automating repetitive tasks
and enabling focus on value-adding activities A mobile-connected, empowered workforce that
makes fast decisions

Technology that scales with the business and is


IT cost and security always up-to-date with quarterly upgrades
Affordable, compliant, and secure digitalization
without the need for deep expert know-how Software that is easy to learn, quick to implement,
easy to use, and simple to support

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Intelligent enterprise
Enabled by SAP Business ByDesign

Next-gen user experience Process automation Next-gen best practices


New way of interaction driven by natural Elimination of repetitive, predictable tasks to New business models and processes enabled
language processing and intelligent assistants allow focus on value-adding activities by digitalization and new technology

Mobile Predictive analytics Machine learning

Digital assistants Digital boardroom Internet of Things Blockchain

SAP Cloud Applications SAP Cloud Platform


Studio

Extend Extend
in-app side-by-side

Business configuration SAP Cloud Platform


and key user extension Integration
Configure and
adapt Connect

Business process and technical platform


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General directions for SAP Business ByDesign
High-level road map

Our strategy remains to focus on requests that have


received many votes on the Customer Influence
site. In addition we will put a special focus on: Extend Extend
in-app side-by-side
▪ Providing best-of-breed, built-in analytics for the
intelligent enterprise and openness for customer-
and partner-specific enhancements
Configure and
▪ Extended logistics, production, and service resource adapt Connect

management
▪ Simplified cross-industry capabilities for process Business process and technical platform
optimization by enhanced automation and data platform
▪ Enhancing and extending the technical foundation
of our successful business process platform
Legal and compliancy requirements will continue
to be our focus in all releases.

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SAP Business ByDesign
Product road map overview – Business scenarios
Extended logistics, automation, and data platform + Customer Influence Extend supply chain and resource management + Customer Influence

Recent innovations 2005/2008 – Planned1 2011/2102 – Planned1 2105/2108 – Planned1

Financial management – EXTENDED Financial management – SIMPLIFIED Financial management – SIMPLIFIED Supply chain management – EXTENDED
▪ IFRS16: Enhanced lease contracts, ▪ Approvals for payment reversal ▪ Extended budget control ▪ Set production master data to obsolete
posting runs, assignment to free cost ▪ Journal entry and manual tax: 4-eye principle ▪ Bank statement integration enhancement ▪ Text items in BOM
object, liability termination posting Order-to-cash – EXTENDED ▪ Change dates for released production
Master data management – EXTENDED
▪ E-Bilanz: Download enhancement and ▪ Absolute and relative header discounts orders
▪ Extended lifecycle for product master data
taxonomy 6.2 (Germany) ▪ View status of automatic contract renewals ▪ 3rd party logistics for project stock orders
▪ Insight-to-action for suppliers
Marketing-to-opportunity – NEW ▪ Approval releases sales order automatically ▪ Extended consignment
▪ Insight-to-action for accounts
▪ Mobile lead creation from business ▪ Withdraw approval of sales documents ▪ Approval for supplier master change Master data management – EXTENDED
card scan Procure-to-pay – NEW ▪ Approvals for products and business partner
▪ Supplier invoice scan automation Returns management – EXTENDED
Order-to-cash – NEW changes
▪ Customer returns with external payment
▪ Enhanced price component analysis Supply chain management – EXTENDED methods Invoice management – SIMPLIFIED
▪ Discount KPI for invoices and quotes ▪ Kits for customer returns ▪ Enhancement of kits return ▪ Enhanced flexibility for customer and
Project-based services – SIMPLIFIED ▪ Customer demand analytics supplier invoicing
▪ Easy cancellation of production orders Supply chain management – EXTENDED
▪ Project KPIs for billing, written-off,
▪ Automatic numbering of ECO in BOM ▪ 3rd party logistics for service order items People engagement – NEW
criticality
▪ Multilevel where-used in BOM ▪ Web service for ATP simulation ▪ Resource management for standard
People engagement – NEW ▪ Exclude logistics area from planning ▪ Consignment stock at customer site service execution
▪ Lean business partner analytics ▪ Enhanced travel and expense management
People engagement – NEW People engagement – NEW
Supply chain management – EXTENDED ▪ Multistep expense report approvals ▪ Modify time recordings by administrator Order-to-cash – EXTENDED
▪ Out/inbound delivery analytics ▪ Project resource assignment partner add-on ▪ Skills for standard service order-to-cash ▪ Simplified customer contracts for
▪ Customer return of expired i-stock ▪ Mobile locking and unlocking of users ▪ Standard service confirmation with time subscription business
Procure-to-pay – NEW ▪ Mobile manager approval with launchpad recording
Marketing-to-opportunity – NEW
▪ Purchase request/order, shopping cart Project-based Services – SIMPLIFIED
Marketing-to-opportunity – NEW ▪ Office365 Outlook integration with BAF
analytics ▪ Time sheet approval at project task level
▪ Insight-to-action – Dynamic target groups
1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.

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SAP Business ByDesign
Product road map overview – Cross-scenario features, extension, and platform
Intelligent enterprise analytics + Customer Influence Extend technical platform + Customer Influence

Recent innovations 2005/2008 – Planned1 2011/2102 – Planned1 2105/2108 – Planned1

Analytics Analytics – EXTENDED Analytics – EXTENDED User experience – NEW


▪ Consume and adapt new standard KPIs ▪ New standard KPIs for sales, logistics, ▪ Insight-to-action for suppliers ▪ General usability enhancements that
by SAP quality management, and projects ▪ Insight-to-action for accounts received a high number of votes
▪ Integration to SAP Analytics Cloud ▪ Insight-to-action: Manage report actions ▪ Insight-to-action: Dynamic target groups ▪ New and updated free online trainings in
OpenSAP
User experience User experience – NEW User experience – NEW
▪ Office365 Outlook integration on BAF
▪ Mobile smartphone app with self-service, ▪ Mobile locking and unlocking of users ▪ New user interface theming
analytics, and account 360 including ▪ Mobile manager approval with ▪ Optimized header regions Extend and integrate – EXTENDED
extension launchpad ▪ Quick edit from worklists ▪ OpenSAP training for BAF development and
▪ Mobile lead management with scan ▪ Enhanced interfaces for document and extension
▪ flags, tags, favorites, and activity history groupware integration
▪ Free online trainings in OpenSAP ▪ Office365 Excel integration on BAF
Extend and integrate
▪ Develop custom mobile apps Extend and integrate – EXTENDED
▪ Employee integration with SAP ▪ Build add-ons on BAF using unified data
SuccessFactors solutions model
▪ SAP Subscription Billing integration
Platform
▪ Simplified licensing
▪ Multichannel and recipient output
management
▪ Mail infrastructure with DKIM/SPF
support

1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.

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SAP Business ByDesign
Product road map overview – Legal, localization, and languages
Increase and sustain global coverage Increase and sustain global coverage

Recent innovations 2005/2008 – Planned1 2011/2102 – Planned1 2105/2108 – Planned1

Legal and compliance Localization – NEW Localization – NEW Legal and compliance – NEW
▪ Data privacy: Advanced data retention ▪ Regular maintenance and legal change ▪ Regular maintenance and legal change ▪ Legal and compliance topics for 2021 and
configuration and analysis management for SAP existing country management for SAP existing country beyond
▪ Data privacy: Extended data disclosure versions versions
for natural persons Localization – EXTENDED
▪ E-Invoicing: Enhanced output Country enhancements Country enhancements ▪ Regular maintenance and legal change
management ▪ Italy: VAT DL199, VAT on cash in ▪ Japan: BoE enhancements management for SAP existing country
summary register ▪ Japan: Withholding taxes versions
Country enhancements ▪ Spain: VAT and withholding tax return ▪ Spain: BoE and SEPA enhancements
▪ Israel: Masav enhancements enhancements ▪ Israel: Form 6111
▪ Japan: Consumption tax ▪ Israel: Form 6111 ▪ Localization tool kit enhancements
▪ Japan: Summary invoice enhancements ▪ Israel: VAT PCN enhancements ▪ Language adaptation tool enhancements
▪ India: GST simplified tax return ▪ Israel: Withholding 856 – Vendor ITA based on customer feedback
▪ India: E-invoicing enhancements
▪ Mexico: Bank statement enhancements ▪ India: E-invoicing
▪ Italy: VAT and withholding tax return ▪ India: Stock transfer enhancements
enhancements ▪ South Korea: General availability
▪ Italy Article 17 enhancements ▪ Switzerland: Payment format
enhancements
▪ Traditional Chinese as a new language

Subject to government notifications

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SAP Business ByDesign
Product road map overview – Partner add-ons

Recent innovations 1911/2002 – Published/Planned* 2005/2008 – Planned* 2011/2102 – Planned*

Financial management Supply chain and logistics Supply chain and logistics
Continuous innovation and delivery by
▪ Vertex US tax integration ▪ Freight surcharge rates by All-for-One ▪ Staff meeting* by All-for-One
partners into SAP App Center
▪ Payment integration by TIS ▪ Signature capture by All-for-One
▪ VAT number validation by All-for-One Project management ▪ Sales price calculation by All-for-One
▪ Commissions Management by Seidor Project management ▪ Multi Project Resource Scheduler* by ▪ Approval framework by ERP Logic
▪ Maintenance* by Seidor Projexia* ▪ Bank communication by Ubister
Customer relationship management ▪ UAE and Saudi Arabia by Seidor
▪ Commerce add-on by ECENTA Digital Financial management Financial management ▪ Warehouse Management by Nware
▪ Budget control by Seidor ▪ EcoTax(v2) by Snap int ▪ Standard Document Uploaders by In Cloud
Compliance management ▪ Subcontracting* by Seidor ▪ Intrastat Report* by In Cloud Solutions Solutions
▪ Quality control by Seidor
▪ Vinea for SAP Business ByDesign by sine
▪ Advance Quality Management by Seidor Country localization Country localization qua non
▪ Thailand by Netizen ▪ Taiwan* by Systex
▪ Colombia and Peru by Seidor ▪ UAE and Saudi Arabia* by Seidor ▪ E-invoice Mexico by Seidor
Project management
▪ Chronos Timer recording by Cobalt ▪ Slovakia* and Czech Republic* by Snap Int ▪ Cloud service usage tracking by Bradler
▪ Portugal* by Seidor ▪ Integration/vertical
Integration/vertical ▪ Scan4cloud* (v2) by all4cloud
▪ EDI Connector by All-for-One ▪ Integration/vertical ▪ Service Technicians mobile app* by
▪ Forcam Force by Forcam ▪ YoY Distributed Ledger* by sine qua non all4cloud
▪ Scan4cloud by all4cloud ▪ Retail Sales Solution by Seidor ▪ SAP Concur solution integration* by
▪ Universal Integration Adapter by elastic.io ERP Logic
▪ Nea the chat box* by Agilita

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► SAP Business ByDesign Solution Brief
► Customer Influence site for SAP Business
ByDesign
► SAP Business ByDesign Road Map

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