Boosting Business Agility: SAP+ Automation with Power Platform
Today’s organizations are under constant pressure to reduce operational bottlenecks, cut costs, and accelerate time to value. Automation is at the heart of this transformation, and two powerful platforms, SAP+ and Microsoft Power Platform, are proving to be a winning combination for enterprises ready to modernize their processes.
The Challenge: Manual, Fragmented Workflows
- Businesses running on SAP often face challenges when it comes to extending functionality or integrating with modern applications. SAP is powerful, but its traditional workflows can be rigid and time-consuming. Manual data entry, siloed departments, and delayed approvals are all too common. These inefficiencies directly impact productivity, increase error rates, and slow down decision-making.
On the other hand, many organizations struggle to extract full value from their data because the tools they use don’t talk to each other in real time. This is where the Power Platform, combined with SAP+, delivers a major advantage.
SAP+ and Power Platform: A Seamless Integration
- SAP+ is Henson Group’s optimized approach to enhancing SAP systems by integrating them with the Microsoft Power Platform, which includes Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents.
This integration allows businesses to create low-code, high-impact applications that streamline critical workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and improve decision-making across all departments. Whether it’s finance, HR, supply chain, or customer service, any business function that relies on SAP can benefit from automation through the Power Platform.
1. Automating Core SAP Workflows with Power Automate
Power Automate enables users to build flows that trigger automatically based on SAP events. For example:
- Automate the entire approval chain with email and mobile notifications, reducing delays and removing manual steps.
- Use AI Builder and Power Automate to read invoices, extract relevant data, and post it directly to SAP.
- Trigger workflows that coordinate between SAP HR, Outlook, SharePoint, and Teams for a smooth new hire experience.
Power Automate supports both attended and unattended RPA (Robotic Process Automation), meaning it can work in the background without human intervention or be used interactively, depending on the process.
2. Building SAP-Connected Apps with Power Apps
With Power Apps, non-developers can build custom applications on top of SAP data without writing extensive code. For example:
- A mobile app for field technicians to check inventory and update work orders.
- A self-service HR portal for employees to update personal information or submit time-off requests.
- A sales dashboard app that provides reps with customer order history, pricing, and availability from SAP in real-time.
- The drag-and-drop interface, SAP connectors, and secure Azure-based backend make Power Apps both user-friendly and enterprise-ready.
3. Data-Driven Decisions with Power BI
- SAP systems store valuable data, but turning that data into actionable insights can be a challenge. Power BI integrates with other data sources to create dynamic dashboards and reports that update in real time.
Finance teams can monitor KPIs, procurement teams can track supplier performance, and operations teams can analyze bottlenecks, all from a single, interactive dashboard. Combined with Microsoft Fabric’s unified analytics layer, Power BI can scale insights across the entire business.
4. Intelligent Chatbots with Power Virtual Agents
By connecting SAP to Power Virtual Agents, businesses can launch intelligent, no-code chatbots that handle common SAP queries and tasks. For example:
- Ask a bot about your remaining vacation days.
- Request the status of a customer order.
- Get real-time pricing and inventory from SAP.
This reduces load on internal teams while improving user experience for employees and customers alike.
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