SAP innovation sweep at Sapphire with AI

SAP unveiled new developments at this year’s Sapphire in Orlando, including SAP Business AI, Green Ledger and an Accenture collaboration.

SAP Business AI extras include more personalized customer engagement, procurement productivity gains and expanded talent development across workforces, following SAP’s recent partnership expansion with Google to advance enterprises’ use of open data and AI.

A new Green Ledger will provide data for auditable and transparent carbon emission calculations, while an SAP Sustainability Footprint Management update handles corporate, value chain and product-level emissions.

New SAP Sustainability Data Exchange, part of RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP, will securely exchange standardized sustainability data with partners and suppliers to decarbonize supply chains faster.

An Accenture and SAP partnership will bring immersive services to SAP BTP and improve supply chain resilience and sustainability. Customers will be able to simulate business scenarios in rich, interactive digital environments. Accenture will work with SAP Business Network to develop a sustainable trading partner network. Combining networked supply chains with SAP offerings, SAP Business Network for Industry will help customers across consumer products, high tech, industrial manufacturing and life sciences improve supply chain resilience at pace. New event integration in its low-code offering, SAP Build, will enable business experts to trigger automation.

Doubling down on upskilling two million people worldwide by 2025, SAP also announced new programs to meet the demand for SAP experts.

VNDLY gets fresh face post acquisition

Workday has revealed that VNDLY has become Workday VNDLY , following the firm’s acquisition of the vendor management system (VMS) back in 2021.

Under its new name, Workday VNDLY provides organizations with full visibility into their entire workforce; including total costs, talent planning and development, and control compliance and security risks for contingent workers.

Workday VNDLY is the only VMS that can directly connect to Workday’s core data foundation. The announcement marks Workday as the first enterprise management cloud platform to fully include extended workers in the workforce ecosystem.

Shashank Saxena, co-general manager at Workday VNDLY said: “We already had a really strong foundation in place, which prompted us to ask ourselves, ‘Now, how do we take the value we’re delivering for our customers to the next level?’ We have a robust, native API-based integration with Workday HCM, and our customers are asking for additional API-based integration with other Workday products.”