The Cloud Lounge at SAPPHIRE NOW: Learn How to Bring Out the Best in Your Business

Whether you're a retailer, manufacturer, utility organization, or an innovative company in a completely different field, SAP is likely an integral part of your business.

With 77% of the world's transactions touching an SAP system and 186 million subscribers in the company's cloud user base, it is clear that SAP is a proven innovative cloud company. What you might not know is how vital SAP partners are to the work that we do.

We cannot overstate the importance of having a robust cloud partner ecosystem to help businesses in the journey to becoming an intelligent enterprise.

SAP has more than 18,000 partners globally that help countless customers streamline and simplify their organizations and thrive with innovative new business models. Here are just a few examples:

• An SAP partner helped Christchurch, New Zealand, connect with its citizens in new ways as it rebuilt after the earthquakes
• Another SAP partner helped Interstate Batteries better meet customer needs and manage its supply chain with SAP S/4HANA
• Another global SAP partner is working with airlines to rethink travel, leveraging the power of SAP C/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA in unique ways and becoming part of the shift to humanize digital

Tap Into Industry Expertise at the Cloud Lounge

At SAPPHIRE NOW next week, tap into the expertise and experience of fellow SAP customers, partners, and experts at the newly launched Cloud Lounge, a place to hear cloud-focused customer stories and use cases from like-minded enterprises, and to discuss the intelligent enterprise journey along with the SAP cloud solutions and the partner ecosystem that supports it. Those looking to move landscapes to SAP S/4HANA in the cloud can also hear about project 'Embrace,' an innovative collaboration between SAP and partners.

Every Conversation Counts

Join us at the Cloud Lounge for enlightening discussions about journeys covering a variety of subjects and industries - from agriculture to insurance, finance, transportation - and everything in between.

SAP customers, partners, and staff will speak on a wide range of topics: cloud migrations, intelligent enterprise journeys, digital supply chains, streamlining processes, improving the customer experience, empowering employees, customer success stories, thought leadership sessions, and much more. SAP will also host 36 content sessions during the three-day conference on themes including:

• Intelligent technologies in the cloud
• Digital core in the cloud
• Digital platform in the cloud
• Becoming an intelligent enterprise

Questions About the Cloud?

The Cloud Lounge is the place for engaging and informative conversations with industry peers and top experts about the cloud. No matter what industry, SAP will have a suitable educational session for you. So join us next week at the Cloud Lounge in the Platform and Intelligent Technologies Pavilion at SAPPHIRE NOW, being held May 7-9 in Orlando, Florida.

Bill Lawler is global vice president of Strategic Ecosystem Marketing at SAP.