sap and mendix- maintain business agility and innovation ... · 45% report lack of skilled...
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Han Pieter Duyverman / Mendix Expert & Teamlead / MxBlueErno Rorive, Sr. Product Manager Mendix
SAP and Mendix: Maintain business agility and innovation while migrating to S4/HANA
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Key SAP Processes Are Customized in ECC Systems
Procure to Pay
Order to Cash
Hire to Retire
Plan to Produce30–50% custom applications will
need adjustments during upgrades
45% report lack of skilled development
resources
64% have application backlog of more than
1 year
47% report difficulties in
integrating with existing systems
50% report high SAP application
development costs
Sources: How to solve the App Delivery Gap, Mendix White Paper based on sponsored research conducted with ASUG, based on SAP DBS (CQC) Solution Transition Assessment and follow-up services
Payroll/Accounting
Sales/Marketing Finance
HRM
Operations/Management
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Data migration
Ability to keep custom processes
Budget constraints
Unplanned downtime
Customer/vendor confusion
Security/privacy
Lack of critical functionality
Lack of quality technical support
Staying compliant with regulations
Loss of efficiency in data communication
Other
67%
62%
51%
45%
32%
31%
27%
26%
22%
18%
10%
71% 66%
47% 66%
41% 53%
41% 43%
24% 30%
18% 31%
12% 28%
35% 24%
18% 21%
18% 18%
12% 8%
Less than$500 million
More than$500 million
Key Concerns of SAP Customers Moving to SAP S/4HANA
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Why Mendix?
Turn S/4 implementation costs to cloud
revenue
Develop apps for Business Suite (ECC)
Accelerate your path to SAP
S/4HANA
Build an intelligent enterprise
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Turn S/4 Implementation Costs to Cloud Revenue
To Future-Proof Extensions
User Interface
Application
Database
User Interface
Application
Database
UI
Logic
DB
Mx App Mx App
Mx App Mx App
*) Source: 2017 Report on ERP Systems & Enterprise Software, Panorama Consulting Solutions
Customized ERP system§ Experiences with ERP implementations*):– Typical implementations are 18 months– 48% of ERP users receive only 50% or less of the expected
benefits. – 52% experience operational disruption– 70% change 10-25% of the core code
§ Extensions calling standard code (no APIs)§ Updates require major effort in custom code
Standard S/4HANA system§ De-coupled, lifecycle-stable extensions§ Clash-free development using whitelisted APIs§ No coding skills needed to create extensions§ App UI can be made consumer-grade without needing UI skills§ 70% lower development cost§ Align business requirements with application delivery
From Costly Customizations
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Custom App Development: “As-Is” vs ”To-Be”
ERP Core
Baseline
Custom Apps
App. Backlog
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Develop 82%
Retire 8%
Redundant 10%
ERP Core
Baseline
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New Platform
S/4HANA
ABAP, webIDE, Fiori § $$$ (50 apps ex)§ Cost Licenses/Services§ Cost Dev/Maintenance
MENDIX§ $$$ (50 apps ex)§ Cost Licenses/Services§ Cost Dev/Maintenance
TraditionalOR
Low-code
Avg leadtime/app
6-10x faster
Time to ValueLicense & Labor CostExisting Platform
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Persona’s
Anjo WolvenSales Director
“Build an engaging Event App for
MxWorld”
Toine PothuizenSAP
consultant/architect
“Keep the core clean”
Leia Low code princess
“Save me!”
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SAP (S/4HANA)
Open Connectors
External API’s
(non SAP)
Mendix Platform
API Business Hub
API’s ODataRFC/BAPI SOAP
OData Connector
Connectors
DestinationService
ServicesSAP Cloud Platform
One level down – SAP Integration
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21Service discovery api.sap.com
Read metadata Postman Collection
SAP OData Connector Show microflow to call SAP Service
Show result in Fiori
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1Leverage the power of both platforms
Work side by side with a SAP Consultant
Ask your SAP counterpart for working API samples in Postman
Understand how Odataworks.
SAP OData Connector & Odata model creator are big time savers
Lessons Learned
This all works with standard components
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