SAP Business AI Roadmap

Start your AI journey with our Business AI Exploration Workshop

“AI passes the U.S. medical licensing exam.” “Chat GPT-4 outperforms 90% of lawyers on the bar exam.” Every day, new headlines praise generative AI (Gen AI). Yet, stories of funny blunders and potential risks hold many companies back from jumping on board. What if there was a way to roll out your (Gen)AI use cases smoothly, reliably and responsibly and benefit in no time? Let’s do it together! 

While the benefits of GenAI – and AI in general – vary by sector and organization, there is no doubt they offer numerous opportunities to improve operational efficiency, deepen insights, reduce costs, increase agility, and more. In short, there is no reason not to explore AI’s potential for your organization. Even more, adopting AI need not be a big bang. You can start by activating embedded AI within your SAP cloud solutions, and then gradually add other out-of-the-box AI tools and/or customized solutions to meet your unique needs.

Making AI relevant, reliable and responsible

Flexso adheres closely to SAP’s core criteria for successful AI, ensuring its use is relevant, reliable and responsible:

  • Relevant: Use AI only when it adds real value, not just for the sake of using it.
  • Reliable: Build in controls, checks, and processes to guarantee accuracy and precision.
  • Responsible: Ensure human oversight, quality checks, and robust data processes to maintain privacy and security.

Guiding you in every step of your AI journey

At Flexso, we bring deep expertise in applying AI within SAP environments. With this know-how, we can help you in every step of your AI journey.

Our ideal approach? Start by exploring how AI can create value for your business, brainstorming relevant use cases together with our experts. Next, we convert these use cases into actionable business cases, design the case and then deliver your AI solutions, in line with the roadmap we determined together.

Our AI offering is modular; by taking every step together with Flexso, you’ll ensure a successful rollout for years to come.

Jumpstart your AI journey in 4 steps

Step 1: Explore the potential of AI

Imagine what we could do by enhancing your SAP data with GenAI or by automating your processes? To inspire and energize your team about AI’s potential, we invite you to an interactive AI Exploration Workshop – an ideal first step, built on SAP’s AppHaus methodology. Here’s what to expect:

  • Preparation: Together, we map your business goals, stakeholders and their unique needs and challenges
  • Ideation: We explore how GenAI, machine learning, and robotic process automation (RPA) can support your goals and solve your challenges and identify the AI tools needed – from built-in SAP AI capabilities to custom apps.
  • Definition and prioritization: We identify relevant use cases and prioritize them, starting with ‘low hanging fruit’: those that require minimal effort but deliver maximum business value.
Step 2: Design the business cases

Once we’ve identified the most promising use cases, we develop the project design, which serves as the blueprint for implementation or development. In this step, we address:

  • Technical considerations: We assess the process, available data, the approach (e.g. prompt engineering, orchestration tools, …) and the integration needed to guarantee a successful, reliable AI project.
  • Privacy and security considerations: We define role-based authorizations and evaluate how to make sure that your personal and business data remain safe, within your SAP-system.

The result? Clear project outlines that serve as foundations for detailed project plans with estimated product backlog items.

Step 3: Create a strategic automation roadmap and IT architecture

As an organization, you need more than standalone use cases with project designs and estimates to truly embrace the potential of automation and AI. Support from the management is essential to ensure that your company’s ‘automation engine’ doesn’t sputter and dies after the first projects. In other words: you have to make a business case for AI and automation.

We can help you develop an automation vision, with clear goals, and translate these into an automation roadmap that’s solidly embedded in your IT and business strategy and supported by IT, the business as well as management.

Our business architects will

  • identify any (SAP) systems missing from your IT landscape
  • develop a technology optimization roadmap
  • create a comprehensive project roadmap
  • provide a yearly overview of new capabilities gained and key results targeted.

The result? A clear automation roadmap – perfect for presenting your AI ambitions in the boardroom and ensuring your AI initiatives are well-resourced and strategically aligned for long-term success.

Step 4: Start implementing or building kick-ass AI solutions

Ready to launch your first AI solutions? If your SAP stack, nor our AI ecosystem offer an out-of-the-box AI solution to meet your specific needs, our experts can build the tool together with you. Here too, fast time to value, efficiency and best practices remain key.

SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) offers ready-to-use, customizable AI models (AI Foundation), AI capabilities and a robust AI infrastructure that optimize the development, deployment, integration and management of AI models (SAP AI Core, AI Launchpad, Generative AI Hub).

AI is ready to deliver real business benefits, and we can help you unlock its value with a safe, phased approach. Take the first step today!

Get in contact with us and let's jumpstart your AI journey together!

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