Where are you on your digitalization journey?

The sustainable effectiveness of IT systems is strongly influenced by the strategic orientation of the company as well as by technical and business requirements. When new IT systems are implemented, information provision and transparency to employees are required. The design thinking concept makes it possible to identify IT potential at an early stage and thus achieve increases in efficiency and effectiveness in production and service. In addition, customer-oriented solutions to complex problems are developed, thus reducing project and development risks.

With modern tools such as build.me from SAP, we can very quickly create prototypes for UI5 BDE applications. These are created directly with the end users. We then implement these mock-ups in short sprints and can realize very short lead times. This approach increases the acceptance of the new solution in the organization many times over, and unpleasant surprises can be avoided.

Process modeling is a decisive success factor for jointly analyzing the actual and, even more importantly, the target processes. The solution approach developed must be bindingly agreed upon between the business unit, IT and us as the service partner. For process definition, we use BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) 2.0 as the standard for high-level modeling in the scoping phase as well as for more detailed modeling during the sprint specification work. Different tools can be used – we prefer Cawemo (cawemo.com) due to its ease of use especially for quick drafts during a workshop.

We really do. Quick successes instead of 1000 pages of specifications. We think in terms of user stories, which are implemented in sprints. The business is constantly required to deliver acceptance criteria, requirements descriptions and test results. We have had very good experiences, especially in the SAP environment.

Cloud solutions, automated IT processes and device-independent “responsive” web interfaces enable companies to achieve significant competitive advantages over the competition. SAP accompanies this technological trend change and provides solutions such as the UI5 interface design, fast HANA databases for mass data evaluations and the Simplify Paradigm.