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SAP Release Strategy
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The acquisition of SuccessFactors in 2012
allowed us to leverage our business process
know-how with the cloud expertise and sheer pace
of innovation that is built into SuccessFactors’
DNA, making SAP a major player in the cloud. We
are now equipped with nearly cloud experts
and serving . We
also gained immediate strength in the fast-growing
segment of cloud-based applications for people
and talent management – a top priority for CEOs
globally. The combination has created a cloud
powerhouse.
With the acquisition of Ariba in 2012, SAP is
fueling an entirely new way of doing business.
By combining our powerful cloud applications
and platform with the Ariba Network, we
enable the “networked enterprise,” empowering
businesses to:
• Connect to customers, suppliers, and partners
to facilitate collaborative commerce processes,
such as sales, procurement, and nance
• Become more through cloud-based
applications that automate and enable shared
processes, such as sourcing, invoicing, and
payment
• Become more through community
intelligence, market insights, benchmarking,
and best practices for better performance and
decisions
And most important, we will use the foundation
of our cloud applications and network to deliver
new solutions that are only available in a network-
or community-based model and create value
across the enterprise. More than 195,000 SAP
customers will have instant access to Ariba
cloud-based applications and a network of
730,000 companies, and this is expected to
grow to more than 1 million companies in 2013.
Our acquisitions in 2012 of SuccessFactors, an
SAP company, and Ariba, an SAP company, have
allowed us to combine powerful assets from all
three companies – including innovative solutions,
content and analytics, process expertise, access
to a robust business network, and enterprise
mobility – to oer one of the most comprehensive
cloud computing portfolios on the market. Most
importantly, in order to avoid a “rip and replace”
approach to the cloud, we oer customers the
opportunity to deploy “your cloud, your way.”
Whether the requirement is a full cloud suite or
a selective cloud strategy, SAP oers a broad set
of deployment models and migration services
that will enable customers to move to the cloud
based on their respective business priorities.
Our cloud strategy comprises four focus areas:
cloud applications, cloud platform, business net-
work, and infrastructure. This four-part approach
delivers the next generation in cloud computing
to help customers unlock the new possibilities
and benets of the cloud.
Our cloud applications are built to empower
people through beautiful and relevant experiences
that are mobile, social, and “glocal” – enabling
global business processes that account for local
requirements. Because these applications are in
the cloud, they are fast to deploy, intuitive, and
completely updated with new innovations. And
because major investments in hardware and soft-
ware are no longer necessary, small businesses
can now aord the same applications used by
larger competitors – and a large enterprise can
become as agile as a startup.
1.3. SAP Software Products