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Five software engineers from IBM helped ICI - one of the biggest chemical companies in the world - to develop a whole new order process. While changing the way businesses globally run, they founded their own company. This is the story of the beginning of Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung - SAP.

Enterprise Resource Planning is a type of software that shares information between different functions in real-time. The roots can be traced back to the 1960s when manufacturers developed Material Requirements Planning software, or MRP, to calculate the components to order for a given production plan. By 1990, the needs of adjacent departments, such as finance, human resources and distribution, had been added. Information was both shared between departments in real-time and enriched with logic to replace repetitive tasks. Gartner coined the term Enterprise Resource Planning for this new class of application. Since then, enterprise applications have continued to extend information sharing, both inside and outside of the corporation, and enriched it with ever more sophisticated logic, such as artificial intelligence. Furthermore, enterprise architectures have moved from monolithic on-premise applications to ever more granular components in the cloud that each company can combine differently to meet their unique needs. While these components go by many different names, the term ERP is often used to describe the composite solution that forms the backbone of an enterprise's business processes. What does this mean for the average consumer? Cloud services optimize everything from the life span of wind turbines to how, when and where we charge electric vehicles. To learn more about SAP ERP, visit: https://www.sap.com/products/enterprise-management-erp.html

In April, the digital twin of the Stavå bridge in Norway sounded an alarm from the cloud that reached the offices of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA). They were able to immediately divert traffic and avoid any injuries. The NPRA Director of Technology, Trond Michael Andersen, explains how IoT sensors not only increase safety but also help reduce the costs of repairing or replacing the country's 5,800 bridges. Furthermore, Marit Reiso, Sr. Technical Project Manager at SAP Norway, shows and explains the model created by the sensor data continuously broadcast to an SAP cloud application. For more on the story, read https://news.sap.com/2021/10/npra-bridge-distress-warning-iot-sensors/

Sam Watson, World Top Ten Eventing Rider and Co-Founder of EquiRatings, and Diarmuid Byrne, his business partner, show how an Irish start-up brings equine sports into the 21st century using data-driven insights. Their mission is to accelerate progress in all equine sports by providing information which allows their clients to create informed strategies and make better decisions, faster. From improving performance, guiding team selection for international competitions, managing risk, or engaging fans, EquiRatings provides evidence-based solutions using a unique blend of vision, technology and innovation, powered by SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform. With the Eventing Prediction Centre, using simulation and predictive technology, the company has built the first ever tool in the sport, that actually quantifies who the favorite is for every equine sports competition in the world. Find out in this video, how Sam Watson, using his own tools, has managed to bring his athletic performance to the next level.

How can companies embrace and shape technological, economic and social change processes? How can sustainable entrepreneurial action be assessed? And can a company balance sheet , including the dimensions of knowledge, ecology and social issues help planning and decision making for value-oritented corporate management? The QuartaVista innovation project has dealt with these future-oriented questions. Get to know the project partners.

Wie können Unternehmen die technologischen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Veränderungsprozesse positiv aufgreifen und gestalten? Wie kann nachhaltiges unternehmerisches Handeln bewertet werden? Und kann eine um die Dimensionen Wissen, Ökologie und Soziales erweiterte Unternehmensbilanz Planungs- und Entscheidungshilfen für werteorientierte Unternehmensführung liefern? Mit diesen zukunftsweisenden Fragen hat sich Innovationsprojekt QuartaVista beschäftigt. Wir stellen die Projektpartner vor.

Maybe you know the feeling: you are about to give an important presentation and don't really feel connected with yourself and your audience. Find out about a simple exercise that helps you better perceive your situation and be more authentic and present for your audience. To find out more, watch this video from SAP Global Mindfulness Practice. SAP Global Mindfulness Practice helps employees improve their well-being, productivity and leadership skills. One of the most successful employee programs at SAP started as a grassroots initiative. Some years later, the two-day mindfulness and emotional intelligence workshop “Search Inside Yourself” has become the company's most popular training, with more than 9,000 trained practitioners and over 8,000 employees on waiting lists. https://news.sap.com/2018/09/mindfulness-training-master-digital-transformation/ “Our goal is crystal clear: Improve employee well-being in the workplace,” says Peter Bostelmann, SAP's Chief Mindfulness Officer and Head of Global Mindfulness Practice. “SAP benefits most when everyone is fully present at work. The Search Inside Yourself course is designed to help people improve their concentration, become compassionate and empathetic, and stay true to themselves.” Even SAP's customers learn from SAP Global Mindfulness Practice. https://news.sap.com/2019/05/sap-global-mindfulness-practices-well-being-productivity/

Maybe you know the feeling: you are about to give an important presentation and don't really feel connected with yourself and your audience. Find out about a simple exercise that helps you better perceive your situation and be more authentic and present for your audience. To find out more, watch this video from SAP Global Mindfulness Practice. SAP Global Mindfulness Practice helps employees improve their well-being, productivity and leadership skills. One of the most successful employee programs at SAP started as a grassroots initiative. Some years later, the two-day mindfulness and emotional intelligence workshop “Search Inside Yourself” has become the company's most popular training, with more than 9,000 trained practitioners and over 8,000 employees on waiting lists. https://news.sap.com/2018/09/mindfulness-training-master-digital-transformation/ “Our goal is crystal clear: Improve employee well-being in the workplace,” says Peter Bostelmann, SAP's Chief Mindfulness Officer and Head of Global Mindfulness Practice. “SAP benefits most when everyone is fully present at work. The Search Inside Yourself course is designed to help people improve their concentration, become compassionate and empathetic, and stay true to themselves.” Even SAP's customers learn from SAP Global Mindfulness Practice. https://news.sap.com/2019/05/sap-global-mindfulness-practices-well-being-productivity/

Maybe you know this situation: you are hungry but you don't have any time to take a break. Instead you eat while working, without even realizing what you eat. A simple mindfulness practice can let you fully enjoy your food again. To find out more, watch this video from SAP Global Mindfulness Practice. SAP Global Mindfulness Practice helps employees improve their well-being, productivity and leadership skills. One of the most successful employee programs a SAP started as a grassroots initiative. Some years later, the two-day mindfulness and emotional intelligence workshop “Search Inside Yourself” has become the company's most popular training, with more than 9,000 trained practitioners and over 8,000 employees on waiting lists. Even SAPs customers learn from SAP Global Mindfulness Practice. You want to understand how Mindfulness Practice has become a part of SAP's DNA? – See Peter Bostelmann, Chief Mindfulness Officer SAP telling his story here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdqbSAWI2xM and here https://www.faktor-magazin.de/der-tueroeffner/