Sap Now 2021, stories of excellence in digital transformation and territorial growth

Positive and encouraging notes for the 2021 edition of Sap Now, this year in a mixed guise between physical event and live online. There were more than 1,800 participants in the live shows on www.sapnow.it, 615,262 unique users who interacted with the event on Facebook and 6,700 views reached on Twitter. Over 90 testimonies brought to the stage, told through digital talks in presence and with live connections at ‘The places of innovation’, which showed directly from the company headquarters how digital has allowed a decisive turning point, not only for the company, but also for the whole territory. The leitmotif of the Sap Now 2021 edition was the virtuous combination of digital and sustainability. Sustainability which today is not just an ethical issue, but a business need dictated by the greater awareness of people who are increasingly careful to choose companies that adopt green and ethical behaviors. Organizations must therefore think about how to enable their business starting from this principle and measure their impact thanks to digital. And it is precisely the investment in digital innovation that allows companies to be better prepared for the future and to respond more flexibly to changes. Technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning provide an impetus for growth, offer opportunities and open new avenues. “During Sap Now – said Emmanuel Raptopoulos, CEO of Sap Italia – we listened to the best rock in digital innovation format that the market can offer, a synergy of tuned instruments, Sap technologies, expert performers, our Partners, and of voices in tune, our customers, who have brought their best hits, successful experiences, offering a vision of the real advantages that digitalization can offer in terms of market competitiveness. From these two days of intense work we all come out more aware of the role that technology and sustainability will have in the coming years. Only companies that can transform and adapt quickly to the uncertain environment, climate change and geopolitical tensions will be successful. And it is a fact that a digitized company can be more sustainable. Sustainability goals are more and more important to the success of an organization than financial goals ”. Customers of the caliber of Ariston group and Maire Tecnimont, who recently announced the adoption of the Rise with Sap offer to accelerate their digital transformation and decarbonise industrial processes, offered their point of view on sustainability and digital. “The Ariston group – said Melany Libraro, chief digital officer Ariston group – it has a very long history behind it if we think that it has just turned 90, and even then its founder, Aristide Merloni, started the business with a logic of sustainability. In 2018, we set our esg goals up to 2022 and since then we have achieved 72% of revenues with highly efficient and renewable products and saved over a million CO2 thanks to the latest and most sustainable industry technologies, such as heat pumps. , solar thermal or hybrid solutions. Digitization has become an integral part of the product offer, the connectivity of our products in the smart home ecosystem allows us to exploit the power of data both for greater control and awareness of consumption and for better maintenance and provision of services. . Another fundamental aspect is our value chain: we work in a context where our installers are a privileged point of contact between us and the end customer that allows us to understand the real needs of consumers. It therefore becomes important to know how to listen but also to know how to transfer knowledge about our products. “” The energy transition – commented Pierroberto Folgiero, CEO of the Maire Tecnimont group – today is very focused on renewable energy, but the most difficult challenge will be decarbonising molecules : 80% of the objects we have around us come from oil and gas, we need a gigantic innovation to change the energy paradigm and use new sustainable sources to make the same products of our daily use. At Maire Tecnimont we apply our technologies to transform natural resources, and we have decided to meet this change by working with biochemistry, electrochemistry, and chemistry from waste, from which we know how to recover carbon and hydrogen thanks to our know-how. . The new technologies for green chemistry are born digital, because ‘experience and technical knowledge are in themselves a data model. So tomorrow’s chemical engineers will also be data scientists. The energy transition is inevitable and the technology to accompany it is already ready: innovation must be ready for construction today, made available on a large scale and industrializable, the important thing is to act with the right timing “. Also this year, Sap Now celebrated the work done by customers and partners in the implementation of Sap projects by rewarding the best who respected rigorous parameters of quality and innovative value with the Sap Quality Awards, a special initiative and recognition for implementations. successes made over the last 12 months. Three of this year’s grand winners. Business transformation category, Fimer, for the business transformation project supported by Sap S / 4hana Cloud and focused on achieving the organization’s digital transformation objectives. the project partner was Altea up. Rapid time to value category, Inwit, for the creation of a new vendor management system based on Sap Ariba and the verticalization of Sap Cae for Ariba by Syskoplan Reply. First project in Italy to use the EWC for Ariba for digital signature management, Subcontracting and Infoprovider for supplier risk analysis. Digital Pioneer category, La Doria, for the program of renewal, harmonization and consolidation of the production line management processes carried out with the support of the project partner Capgemini. After the intense live program, Sap Now now offers the opportunity to take advantage of on-demand content available on the event platform. These are paths born with the intention of sharing digital transformation projects successfully launched by companies of very different sectors and sizes in Italy. There are six thematic channels that host the contributions of Sap and its customers and partners. Digital core & finance helps to understand how to respond to the biggest business challenges with Sap S / 4hana and how to protect assets and minimize risks by constantly innovating. Spend management is the channel dedicated to how to reinvent companies in this new normal phase, while Digital supply chain addresses issues related to Industry 4.0 and the creation and management of more resilient supply chains. Finally, Business technology platform is the channel for those who want to understand how to manage operational data (O-Data) and experiential data (X-Data), obtaining greater agility and generating new value. People are the protagonists of the two channels dedicated to how technology puts the human being at the center of the business: Human experience, to support growth and build the future of an organization together with employees and Customer experience, to get to know its customers better. and keep them loyal to your brand. Pirelli with Allos is one of the protagonists of the channel dedicated to the human experience. “Pirelli’s experience in the strategic redesign of processes and technologies of staff functions is part of one of the pillars of Pirelli’s digital transformation called Digital company”, said Luca Urban, group head of enterprise solutions and core platforms by Pirelli. “Specifically, among the various initiatives, we reviewed the hr solutions for incentive management and performance management where, in collaboration with the function and also thanks to Sap btp, cloud foundry technology, we were able to simplify, automate and adopt an innovative user experience and more effective, ”he said.