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SAP xApps enable business improvement and innovation through cross-functional, end-to-end processes that work across heterogeneous systems. SAP xApps provide a technology solution for people-driven processes that help enterprises execute corporate-wide strategies with greater ease and efficiency. SAP xApps run on the open mySAP™ Technology platform, which masters heterogeneity by aligning and unifying people, information, and business processes across technologies. Business Benefits of SAP xApps Increased competition and the overall volatility of business are placing demands on corporations to innovate, execute, and refine their strategies more rapidly. To be successful, companies must align strategic objectives and IT execution, yet most organizations working with a multitude of heterogeneous processes and systems lack the agility to quickly respond to daily competitive pressures and new business realities. SAP xApps address these issues on all fronts: users, data, and processes. - People: SAP xApps provide a robust role-based portal, secure access to internal and external business information, and people-centric collaborative functionality that speeds and improves decision making.
- Information: Provides state-of-the-art data warehousing, knowledge management, and business intelligence functionality that aggregates data and delivers role-based access to business-critical analytics across functional disciplines.
- Processes: SAP Exchange Infrastructure and Business Process Management capabilities drive processes across a heterogeneous environment using a hub-and-spoke architecture for low cost of integration.
Key Functional areas of SAP xApps To help companies remain competitive in today's challenging environment, SAP xApps enable business improvement (doing things better) and business innovation (doing new things) Unique in their ability to achieve this vital mix of business-critical functionality, SAP xApps are cross functional, composite, collaborative, and content driven. With these characteristics, SAP xApps facilitate the business improvement and innovation cycle across functional, organizational, and technical silos. - Cross-functionality. SAP xApps run across multiple existing applications and information sources, driving critical end-to-end processes across heterogeneous systems in accordance with strategy.
- Composite functionality. SAP xApps execute flexible workflow and business processes irrespective of underlying infrastructure, driving a process across existing applications while adding new solution components. SAP xApps synchronize with and enhance existing business processes, enabling a flexible enterprise and accelerating its ROI by leveraging existing investments.
- Collaboration. SAP xApps support rich communication within the enterprise, empowering teams to collaborate and make intelligent decisions. The collaboration capabilities range from unmanaged to managed collaboration and from asynchronous to real-time collaboration.
- Content-driven. SAP xApps enable smart processes, driven by actionable business intelligence. This allows an enterprise to assess, refine and flexibly execute its processes in alignment with innovative opportunities.
With SAP xApps, you get the most out of what you already have: employees, knowledge, products, business relationships and IT, and that maximizes your corporate-wide return on assets. With SAP xApps, you can: - Drastically reduce the time horizon for formulating and executing corporate strategy
- Identify and exploit innovative opportunities through smart collaboration within and outside the enterprise
- Quickly respond to new business realities with highly adaptable business processes
- Improve efficiencies by unifying formerly isolated business units
- Implement corporate-wide initiatives by cutting across vertical hierarchies
- Increase the overall value of enterprise software
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