CIO OPINION in B2B spend crossing our business network annually and 98 % of the 100 most valued brands running on our innovations . Although hundreds of thousands of organisations have already moved significant portions of their workloads to the cloud with SAP during the past decade , the transition of our global economy to the cloud will accelerate this year .
We plan to unleash offerings , commercial models and partnerships that will enable our customers to make the cloud migration at unprecedented scale , transitioning entire industries and whole economies to a better way of doing business .
This isn ’ t just about infrastructure . At its core , this shift is about innovation . By running full cloud with SAP , organisations will be able to better modernise , standardise and digitise – opening up new business models and revenue streams . We ’ ve shared much more about this at the recent event , Rise with SAP : The Introduction .
SAP must also transform to meet evolving customer expectations – and we put two important foundations in place last year to prepare for this shift . First , we
SAP must also transform to meet evolving customer expectations – and we put two important foundations in place last year to prepare for this shift . First , we accelerated our investment in cloud capability across the company .
accelerated our investment in cloud capability across the company . We announced more research and development , greater co-innovation and better integration , as well as improved security , reliability and availability across all of our solutions . Our aim is to over deliver on value and experience , with every solution and in every interaction .
Secondly , in March last year , we brought together all of our customer-facing teams – sales , services , customer-engagement and others – under the single mandate and broad area of customer success . The
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