SAP Business Network for

Collaborative Innovation in the Networked Economy

iENT207
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Speakers

Las Vegas
September 24–27, 2019

Ian Kelley
Justin Dority

Barcelona
October 8-10, 2019

Henry Tsai
Quincy Milton

Bangalore
November 13-15, 2019

Prasad Illapani
Matus Horvath

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Agenda

SAP Business Network - overview

▪ Problem statement
▪ Vision/value proposition
▪ Our solution

SAP Business Network – deep dive

▪ Platform overview
▪ Use cases
▪ Platform services

SAP Business Network - roadmap

▪ Key takeaways
▪ Roadmap

SAP Business Network - demo

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SAP Business Network - overview
SAP Business Network: problem statement

Connecting heterogenous data is the foundation

for collaboration between solutions

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SAP Business Network: problem statement

The context of your content is highly valuable

both inside and outside of your network

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SAP Business Network: problem statement

Traversing and storing relationships are the

key to building deep context

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SAP Business Network: problem statement

Validating and understanding contextual insights takes

expertise in the content, process, and systems

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SAP Business Network: vision/value proposition
Vision

Our vision is to provide insightful context by connecting

content together

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SAP Business Network: vision/value proposition
Customer value proposition

Ease of content Ease of context Ease of insight

Matching together Understanding links between Calculations to organize,
heterogeneous data sources for your transactional data, 3rd party categorize, and automate
content validation data, through time

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SAP Business Network: our solution
Context-as-a-service

▪ Providing context-through-content services for ▪ Creating insights and automation for spend related
connecting SAP applications decisions

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SAP Business Network – deep dive
SAP Business Network: deep dive
The content

Non-transactional data Transactional data

▪ Supplier firmographic metadata ▪ Supplier spend metadata

Company name, address, phone, Company name, phone, address, amount
website, public revenue

Current sources include: Current sources include (PO, invoice, expense):

Coming soon: Coming soon:

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SAP Business Network: deep dive
Platform services overview

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SAP Business Network: deep dive
Platform services overview

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SAP Business Network: use case 1
Mapping

Data Sources

SAP Ariba/Fieldglass

Connectors
{ Sample Data }

Transformation SAP Business Network

Model Input
SAP Concur
API
CXONexus
Sample Data Sample Data Document Service
{ Sample Data }
(partner app)

Others (ex: Owler, SEC,

D&B, Athena, CapIQ)

{ Sample Data }

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SAP Business Network: use case 2a
Matching (ex: organization)

SAP Business Network Applications

Model Input
Matching SAP Ariba Athena
MATCH
Organization A
Data Refinement SAP Ariba Supplier Risk

{ Sample Data }
ML Models & Rules Score Evaluation

Recommendation (score)
Organization A
NOT A MATCH

{ Sample Data }

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SAP Business Network: use case 2b
Matching (future)

SAP Business Network Matching Applications

Model Input
Data Refinement
SAP Ariba Athena

Organization A
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk
Data Type Evaluator

{ Sample Data }

Rule ML ML ML
(Strong ID Matching) (random forest) (KNN) (XG Boost)

Organization A

{ Sample Data } Score

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SAP Business Network: use case 3
Contextual connected data store

Insights
CCDS

RFM
Applications

Risks SAP Ariba Data Lake

Relationships SAP Ariba Supplier Risk

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SAP Business Network: data acquisition & scheduling

Data is retrieved, scheduled, and mapped to the SAP Business Data Integration
Network common data model for further analysis.
Scheduler

Key features:
▪ Scheduler Connectors

▪ Connectors
▪ SAP Business Network common data model
SBN Model Input

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SAP Business Network: heterogenous data mapping

Heterogeneous source data is transformed into SAP Business Data Integration

Network common data model and accessed via a common API.
Scheduler

Key features:
▪ Connectors/Mapping Connectors

▪ SAP Business Network common data model

▪ SAP Business Network Model Input SBN Model Input

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SAP Business Network: data refinement

Cleaning up metadata so it can be accurately matched by ML

Data Integration
models for insertion into our contextual database.

Refinement

Key features:
▪ Normalizes data
Matching
▪ Validates data
▪ Enhances data

Reconciliation

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SAP Business Network: data matching (incl. discovery)

Matching new data streams to existing companies in SAP Business

Network’s contextual database so the data can be accurately Data Integration
connected and/or merged.

Refinement

Key features:
▪ Candidate identification
Matching
▪ Match recommendation

Reconciliation

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SAP Business Network: data reconciliation

Identifying when conflicts exist during data merging and

recommending which field-level items should be replaced/retained. Data Integration

Refinement

Key features:
▪ Data source trust scores
▪ Conflict management Matching

Reconciliation

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SAP Business Network: contextual data store

Storing metadata and spend relationships to support insights into

supplier and buyer recommendations.

Graph Services
Content & Insights

POSTAPI
POST API (insert/merge)
(insert/merge)
Key features:
▪ Connected
Real-Time Insights
Real-Time Insights Scheduled Insights
Scheduled
▪ Contextual Calculations
Calculations Calculations

▪ Secure / Multi-tenant
▪ Search Storage
Storage

Search/Insights API
Search/Insights API

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SAP Business Network: developer experience

Developer experience is provided in the web portal via the shared

Developer Experience
services for partners and customers and on board them into SAP
Business Network.
Account Service

Key features: Connection Service

▪ Account service
▪ Connection service Administration
▪ Administration
▪ Monitoring
Monitoring

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SAP Business Network: key takeaways

We're here to enable customers and partners to make better, faster, spend decisions by providing
context-aware services including:

• Searching

• Matching

• Recommendations

• Categorizations

• Automation

• Other graph specific calculations (shortest path, centrality)

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SAP Business Network - roadmap
SAP Business Network: Roadmap
Product road map overview – Key innovations

Recent innovations 2019 – Planned innovations1 2020 – Product direction1 2021 – Product vision1

Data Integration Data Integration Data Integration Data Integration

▪ Connectors/Mapping: SAP Ariba Proc App, ▪ SAP Data Hub Integration (POC) for ▪ Common Data Model extensions • SAP Qualtrics Integration
SAP Concur Invoice API, Owler, SEC, file S4HANA-One Premise and Insights for the ▪ SAP Data Hub new connectors & pipeline • Programmatic access to SAP Fieldglass data
▪ Common Data Model (Organization, pipeline Integration lake
Spend…) ▪ SAP Ariba Risk Management data sources ▪ Programmatic access to SAP Ariba, SAP Content and Insights
▪ Scheduler Service to schedule data import integration Concur data lakes
▪ Time series data for longitudinal insights
▪ Large file Import (Ariba Network, SEC) ▪ Document Service for SAP Concur data ▪ Document Service support to SAP
▪ Supply chain optimization
▪ Document Service (SAP Ariba Content and Insights Fieldglass, S4Hana Cloud
recommendations (diversity)
Procurement) ▪ Connect organizations by spend (Ariba, ▪ Unstructured data (News, Weather data)
▪ Supplier risk (fulfillment)
▪ API to import partner/customer data Concur) extensions
▪ Contract analysis (risk)
▪ RFM insights by total spend, by industry and Content and Insights
Content and Insights Developer Experience
company size (Ariba) ▪ Connect organizations by spend (Ariba,
▪ Connect organizations by spend (Ariba) • Partner extensions
▪ Network centrality insights by location Concur, Fieldglass)
▪ RFM (recency, frequency, monetization) and total spend • Customer/Partner SDK to access and test
▪ RFM insights (Ariba, Concur)
insights by total spend (Ariba) SAP Business Network services.
Developer Experience ▪ Supplier risk (financial)
Developer Experience
▪ Ingestion schedule for new connectors ▪ Contract analysis (NLP)
▪ Account & Connection Registry services
▪ SAP Identity Management (ID) Service for
▪ Portal to manage accounts and users Developer Experience
SSO, Geo Blocking etc.
▪ Compliance with SAP & AWS Cloud • Platform service health check
▪ Update API documentation in dev portal
Security guidelines • Services monitoring and logging
▪ What’s new section in the dev portal
▪ API documentation • Service to manage multiple accounts
▪ Internal demonstration app • Document Service retrieval (job) overview

1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.
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