SAP Solution Extensions are strategic third-party products or services that are specifically approved and endorsed by SAP to enhance and extend the functionalities of SAP software. These extensions are designed to help organizations transform and enhance their business technology, improve their business performance, and accelerate their journey to becoming intelligent enterprises.
In this blog post, we will explore the different SAP Solution Extensions available and how they can benefit businesses.
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Introduction
SAP Solution Extensions are add-ons to SAP’s core software that provide additional functionality to meet specific business needs from third-party vendors. By partnering 🤝🏾 with these vendors, SAP ensures that customers have access to cutting-edge technologies and industry-specific expertise.
- SAP collaborates with market-leading software vendors to offer best-in-class solutions.
- SAP directly sells, markets, and supports these carefully selected solutions that complement their own software offerings.
- SAP offers a comprehensive portfolio of solution extensions across all industries and Lines of Business.
- The solutions undergo rigorous testing and certification processes to ensure seamless integration with SAP systems and align with SAP’s product roadmap.
SAP takes an active role in promoting and supporting these solutions, ensuring seamless integration, compatibility, and ongoing customer support. This strategic approach enables SAP to deliver a robust ecosystem of solution extensions that empower businesses to achieve their goals efficiently and effectively, and accelerate their journey to becoming intelligent enterprises.
INFO: The first offering for SAP Solution Extensions was released 15 years ago.
SAP Solution Extensions Portfolio
The SAP Solution Extensions portfolio contains diverse solutions that help customers transform and enhance their business technology. The portfolio includes solutions for finance, human resources, procurement, supply chain, and customer experience. These extensions are designed to meet the unique needs of different industries and help organizations improve their business performance.
- SAP Enterprise Content Management by OpenText
- SAP Vendor Invoice Management by OpenText
- SAP Advanced Data Migration and Management by Syniti
- SAP Change Impact Analysis by Tricentis
- SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing by Tricentis
- SAP Enterprise Performance Testing by Tricentis
- SAP Enterprise Data Integrity Testing by Tricentis
- SAP U.S. Benefits Administration by Benefitfocus
- SAP SuccessFactors Document Management Core by OpenText
- SAP Signature Management by DocuSign
- SAP Content Stream by Skillsoft
- SAP Time and Attendance Management by WorkForce Software
- SAP Workforce Forecasting and Scheduling by WorkForce Software
- SAP Absence and Leave Management by WorkForce Software
- SAP Commerce Marketplace Management by Mirakl
- SAP Commerce Marketplace Management by Mirakl
- SAP Incentive Administration by Vistex
- SAP Omnichannel Point-of-Sale by GK
- SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks by Vistex
- SAP S/4HANA for rights and royalty management by Vistex
- SAP S/4HANA for Agreement Profitability and Negotiation by gicom, private edition
- SAP Self-Service Accelerator for Utilities by SEW
- SAP Teamcenter by Siemens
- SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine
- SAP Intercompany Governance by BlackLine
- SAP Central Finance Transaction Replication by insightsoftware for SAP S/4HANA
- SAP Convergent Mediation by DigitalRoute
SAP Solution Extensions for RISE with SAP
SAP Solution Extensions for RISE with SAP help organizations accelerate and simplify their journey to becoming intelligent enterprises. These extensions provide a holistic approach to business transformation, allowing organizations to achieve their goals on their own terms and timeline. SAP offers two types of solution extensions for RISE with SAP.
🏋🏼♂️ Prepare for the move
Prepare for a seamless transition to the cloud by leveraging SAP Solution Extensions that streamline document handling, data preparation, and finance operations, ensuring efficiency and simplicity.
Following below SAP solution extensions help organizations prepare to move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
- Syniti’s SAP Advanced Data Migration and Management software optimizes cloud migration and enhances data integrity.
- OpenText’s SAP Archiving and Document Access application empowers organizations to efficiently store, archive, and retrieve essential documents utilized within SAP S/4HANA software processes and applications.
- The BlackLine-powered SAP Account Substantiation and Automation application revolutionizes conventional spreadsheet-based processes by implementing industry-leading practices and automating closing procedures, enhancing overall operational efficiency.
🚀 Accelerate the move
Accelerate your migration with SAP Solution Extensions that enhance software-testing processes, enabling a faster and more optimized move to the cloud.
SAP application testing solutions by Tricentis helps simplify and cost-effectively optimize your software-testing processes by offering below solutions
- SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing
- SAP Change Impact Analysis
- SAP Enterprise Data Integrity Testing
- SAP Enterprise Performance Testing
Along with above mentioned applications to support continuous innovations there are solution extensions for incentive administration, paybacks and chargebacks, centralized knowledge base, enterprise resource planning (ERP) data maintenance, and data mediation, as well as management of the commerce marketplace and omnichannel customer experience.
SAP Solution Extensions for Industry-Specific Needs
SAP Solution Extensions for Industry-Specific Needs are designed to tackle the nitty-gritty of unique industry needs. These extensions provide solutions for industries such as retail, healthcare, and manufacturing. For example, the SAP Master Data Governance solution extension replaces spreadsheets and emails to deliver a single version of correct and complete master data to all users, leading to lower costs and improved data quality.
Case Studies
Here are some examples of companies that have successfully implemented SAP Solution Extensions:
- Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company: The company implemented the SAP Sales and Operations Planning application, which is a solution extension that helps organizations optimize their supply chain planning and execution. The solution helped the company improve its forecasting accuracy, reduce inventory levels, and increase customer satisfaction.
- Siemens: The company implemented the SAP Master Data Governance solution extension, which helps organizations improve the quality of their master data. The solution helped Siemens reduce the time and effort required to maintain its master data, resulting in improved data quality and lower costs.
- Nestle: The company implemented the SAP Integrated Business Planning solution extension, which helps organizations optimize their supply chain planning and execution. The solution helped Nestle improve its forecasting accuracy, reduce inventory levels, and increase customer satisfaction.
- Vodafone: The company implemented the SAP Hybris Commerce solution extension, which helps organizations manage their commerce marketplace and omnichannel customer experience. The solution helped Vodafone improve its customer experience and increase its online sales.
These are just a few examples of companies that have successfully implemented SAP Solution Extensions. By leveraging these extensions, organizations can improve their business performance, optimize their supply chain planning and execution, and enhance their customer experience.
Conclusion
SAP Solution Extensions provide organizations with additional functionality to meet specific business needs. These extensions are designed to help organizations transform and enhance their business technology, improve their business performance, and accelerate their journey to becoming intelligent enterprises.
The extensions include solutions for finance, human resources, procurement, supply chain, and customer experience, as well as industry-specific needs. By leveraging SAP Solution Extensions, organizations can achieve their goals on their own terms and timeline, and improve their overall business performance.
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