Data tools have long been a driver of business growth.
Newspapers began as commodity data providers for more accurate pricing. Software helped businesses harness operational and customer data for faster product and service evolution. Now, AI is using data for driving business insight, automation, and efficiency.
The problem is that businesses still struggle with harnessing data and making sense of it.
SAP Business Suite solves this problem. That is why understanding SAP Business Suite is important for CEOs and forward-thinking business leaders.
SAP Business Suite Explained
Understanding SAP Business Suite and its importance is not hard.
SAP Business Suite is a fully managed software-as-a-service solution for centralizing, governing, and making sense of business data. It collects and centralizes internal and third-party data, then exposes this data to a company’s AI model of choice through the SAP Joule AI Copilot. Data can also flow into any application associated with a company’s SAP Cloud ERP solution and be acted upon not only by AI but also through system-wide ERP automation.
By collecting and governing all data needed for business operations and planning, and making it easily accessible to authorized applications, SAP Business Suite unlocks business data for fully utilizing AI innovation today and as it evolves.
Businesses can craft intelligent, real-time automation more easily with SAP Business Suite by automatically connecting real-time data with AI engines and ERP automation triggers.
Through the use of the Joule AI Copilot, employees and corporate leaders can also query the system easily for insight and AI-driven operational support. Instead of a generative AI agent that relies on public data and insight from the occasional file upload, employees and business leaders can tap into AI that truly knows the real-time dynamics of their business.
The modularity of SAP Cloud ERP helps businesses get even more from this fusion of data centrality and generative AI, too. Businesses can build upon and extend the utility of the data and AI analysis within SAP Business Suite by connecting it to applications on the SAP Business Technology Platform, a marketplace for both pre-built functionality from third parties and custom functionality developed by a business using the platform’s easy development environment.
Organizations gain the flexibility to build, automate, integrate, and analyze with generative AI technologies, further extending the value and capabilities of their existing SAP applications.
The Components of SAP Business Suite
A map of the solution’s underlying components helps with understanding SAP Business Suite. There are four primary components that come together with the solution.
Business Data Cloud. SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution that centralizes and governs all SAP data while seamlessly integrating with third-party data. This is the backbone of the solution, bringing together business data in real-time.
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Business AI. The SAP Joule AI Copilot connects business data within Business Data Cloud to various AI engines. Businesses can connect the copilot to any of the popular AI engines for working with the data, including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude.
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Cloud ERP Applications. The foundation for making the data actionable is the cloud applications within a company’s SAP Cloud ERP solution. These cloud applications within SAP Cloud drive all parts of a business, including finance, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, sales, and human resources. The data from Business Data Cloud and the analysis from Joule can feed directly into these ERP applications for automation and data display.
Business Technology Platform. SAP Business Technology Platform enables integration between third-party platforms and SAP Cloud ERP, and it also serves as a development environment for extending the cloud ERP with custom functionality. With the BTP, a business can harness its data and generative AI for development, automation, integration, data management, and analytics, extending across SAP applications and beyond into third-party systems.
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The Benefits: Contextual Data Meets AI Agents
Understanding SAP Business Suite would not be complete without also having a firm grasp on why the solution really matters for your organization.
While there are many ways that SAP Business Suite can save a business time and money, and your head probably already is spinning with ideas, there are four primary ways that the solution improves upon existing processes.
- Solves complex problems faster. With SAP Business Suite, a business integrates generative AI with business data and applications for better, faster decision-making.
- Supercharges processes and insights. Through SAP Business Suite, process automation and analytics are able to both access a complete picture of business data and engage with AI engines for improved performance.
- Connects every process and empower every team. SAP Business Suite integrates every process, employee and business application for more holistic, efficient operations.
- Integrates and extends applications with AI. Because SAP Business Suite connects data and AI to applications built on the Business Technology Platform, businesses can build new AI-powered applications easily and roll them into existing applications.
Make Your Business Leaner and Smarter
SAP Business Suite tackles the pressing problem of using business data intelligently, and it comes as a ready-made solution for integrating generative AI advances with core business processes today.
Learn more about SAP Business Suite and how it can benefit your organization by calling one of our experienced ERP consultants at (801) 642-0123 or by writing info@nbs-us.com.
