Chris Salis’ 2022 SAP Perspective
A veteran of the tech industry, Chris Salis has immense experience of more than two decades. While working at the SAP organization, Chris Salis has helped commercialize the digital business unit. Besides, he helped accelerate the average time to get sales from innovations from 12 months to just three months. With expertise, specialization, and skills, Chris Salis shares his perspective on SAP in 2022, which can help numerous companies in the same industry.
Here are some things Chris Salis wants his audience to focus on:
Doing more with less
Chris Salis recommends focusing on the process of innovation, automation, operations, and integrations. As the pandemic navigates out, leading to the post-pandemic era, the years 2021 and 2022 are the years of technology reinvestment. Though SAP users may increase, the budget and support teams of 2021 will remain similar to 2020. Therefore, it will be crucial for the success of the enterprise to remove the manual efforts through automation. Moreover, assessing the current processes and how much their cost is in execution and maintenance leads to a better assessment of return on investment.
Moving to the cloud debate is over
All the big businesses, including the IT leaders, have considered moving to the cloud to reduce complexity, optimize costs, and accelerate innovation along with implementation. It is safe to say that SaaS solutions and public cloud platforms will receive substantial investments. Besides, the businesses that have planned prime investments in cloud platforms will continue to invest heavily in the future. Organizations are offloading the tough labor associated with customizing and maintaining the business processes. Instead, they deploy and prioritize best practices universally that can be configured easily and enabled through cloud-based offerings. In addition, Chris suggests developing a long-term and short-term cloud strategy that won’t affect the longevity of your business.
Streamline core processes
Today, investing and re-investing in sales, e-commerce, supply chain processes, and finance remain key business and transformation objectives. An increasing number of organizations are turning to partners for supporting these initiatives. While discussing the business processes anticipated to transform in 2021 and 2022, cash-related activities and finance top the chart, including Order to Cash, Record to Report, and Procure to Pay. These responses indicate that people eagerly manage and control their payments and expenses and get a firm grip on their key processes.
With over 20 years, Chris Salis is an SAP expert and has extensive tech experience. He is a technology veteran who is open to connecting via his official LinkedIn account. Chris is currently applying his insights to help several startups achieve go-to-market excellence. He is a strong advocate of lean startup philosophies and the GTD (Getting Things Done) method.