Next Generation Business Apps

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Next Generation Business Apps

powered by sovanta

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_{Founded in 2009}

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Headquarter in Heidelberg, Germany

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Currently 30+ people

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Development Lab in Heidelberg and Buenos

Aires, Argentina

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_{sovanta® stands for Business Apps, a new}

generation of applications combining the

simplicity of consumer apps with the depth of

business applications

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_{SAP Endorsed Business Solution (EBS) Partner}

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_{SAP development partner for mobile}

business apps

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SAP Branded Reseller (SBR) Partner

sovanta AG |

The Company

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Traditional Business

Applications

Process integration Data consistency

User & authorization management Data security Maintainability

Consumer Apps

Simple Task-specific Attractive Fast Administration-free

Business Apps

Enterprise Readiness

User

Friendliness

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Business Apps are completing existing

application landscapes

ERP

Applications

Other

Applications

Middleware

Web

Applications

Task-specific, easy to use

Business Apps for

different devices

Middleware

Stable, powerful

ERP- Systems and other

Applications

Web Browser

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sovanta |

design driven development

 Iterative

 Starts always with end-users’ needs

 Tight end-user involvement

 Initially, largely independent of status quo and technical restrictions

 Limitation to minimal viable product. Then very targeted addition of further functionality.

 Coding doesn‘t start before functionality, navigation and graphical design aren‘t signed off.

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Sales & Marketing

Human Capital

Management

Management Reporting

Competitive

Differentiation

Standard & Custom Apps

Components Library

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sovanta® Citizen App

sovanta® Idea Management

My Heidelberg sovanta® iPeople sovanta® Performance &

Talent Management sovanta® Enterprise Box sovanta® Sales Briefcase sovanta® Executive Cockpit HANIEL Management Reporting MVV Energy Monitor

SAP Interview Assistant SAP Customer Briefing SAP Supplier Briefing SAP Working Capital Management

Promerit Mobile Job Search SAP Learn Now Audi Mobile Job

Search

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With sovanta ® iPeople managers receive valuable assistance in their daily HR work and decision-making:

 25 pre-proven HR metrics

 Organization and regions overview

 Top/low lists of organizations to quickly identify "outliers"

 Event function for display of events and personal events (such as employee birthdays and company anniversaries)

 Contacting of employees via email directly from the application  An Infochannel offers the possibility to integrate existing

business applications

 The sovanta® Business Add-on provides all relevant information from SAP ERP HCM

Benefits:

 Increased productivity through proactive, fact-based management  Increased manager and employee satisfaction

 Improved quality of human resources management

 Increased the active system utilization while minimizing training cost  Easy implementation with minimal integration cost

 Maintenance, including integration, by sovanta®

Business Apps| sovanta® iPeople

sovanta® iPeople Web

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Functions:

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Organizational View

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Regional View

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Top/Low Lists

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Events

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Info Channel (News, Web, BI tools)

Focus Groups:

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Top Executives

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Senior Management

Supported Device:

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Apple iPad

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Others tablets will follow

Free demo version available on the AppStore

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Back end

 SAP Business Add-On for SAP ERP HCM

 Leveraging SAP security and authorization

concepts

Front end

 Native iPad Application

 Thin Client

 Zero Footprint

SAP ERP

Business Intelligence Other Database Systems

sovanta DB

Namespace: /SOVANTA/

Secured Connection

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sovanta® Performance & Talent Management is a proof of concept business app supporting managers in their holistic planning and conducting of

performance feedback meetings and talent assessments:  Simple graphical overview and calibration

 System-driven process guidance

 Availability of all necessary personnel master data directly from the backend system

 Historical data, comparisons, and graphical presentation of trends over several years

 Built-in target and bonus agreements

 Supports intermediate feedback meetings during the year Benefits:

 Increased manager productivity through optimal system support

 Fairer assessments through calibration of all employees prior to the starting the detailed planning

 Increased employee satisfaction through more transparent process

 Improved data quality and process compliance by eliminating paper-based processes

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sovanta® Talent & Succession Management is a proof of concept business app supporting managers in analyzing current challenges in Talent and Succession Management in their own organization to take the right steps.

 Simple graphical overview of key positions and their job holders in different views (Organizational view, Lists, Regional View)

 Simple graphical overview of talent structures in different views (Organizational view, Lists, Regional View)

 High degree of transparency regarding the succession management an potencial risks of succession management

 High degree of transparency regarding the talent structures in the area of responsibility

 Easy access and intuitive display of talent profiles

 Availability of all necessary personnel master data directly from the backend system (e.g. SAP ERP HCM)

Benefits:

 Increased manager productivity through optimal system support

 Faster risk analysis through intutive and transparent talent management process

 Increase user satisfaction through intuitve use

 Increased use of talent management process

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sovanta® iTalent offers a complete overview of the talents of your company. Furthermore, it allows an easy and targeted search for the right talent. The app offers an organizational, regional, and functional representation of the talent population.

 Simple graphical overview and drill down function in the talent population  Organizational view

 Regional view  Functional view  Display of result list

 Targeted filtering of the talent population  Function and sub-function

 Career level  Talent pool

 Further detailed filtering possible (language, region, mobility, etc.)  Talent profile

 Personal data  Experience  Assessment  Development

 „Search as you type“ – Search for talent by using the name  Offline feature – Access to the talent data anytime and anywhere

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Mobile Access for Candidates to Job Ads

of your Company

 E-Recruiting Add-on by promerit

 Job recommendations directly via Twitter / LinkedIn /

Facebook

 Compatible with different platforms and operating systems

(Apple iOS, Android, BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone 7, HP

Web OS).

 Attractive visualization and high user friendliness

 Job Assistent

 Permanently visible filter criteria

 Navigation maps as a filter for locations

 Multiple selections are possible

 Customized solution on the base of approved processes

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The sovanta® Idea Management app supports companies to realize the full potential of their employees’ ideas.

Easy and quick recording of employees‘ ideas on mobile devices

 Immediately capturing ideas – anytime and from anywhere  Better idea sharing by attaching

 pictures / videos  geo coordinates  voice memos

 Local storage of the memo on the mobile device  Directly send the idea by email

 Store the idea as a draft in SAP for processing later on the idea management system

Benefits:

 Easy and quick recording of employees’ ideas on mobile devices  Save the memo locally, store it as a draft on the idea management

system, or directly sending by email

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Mobile

Device

SAP ERP HCM

target Idea Management add-on

send by email

SUP

(Sybase Unwired Platform)

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Business Apps | sovanta® Enterprise Box

Document access for project staff

 Access all relevant project documents, such as:

 Presentations

 Project plans

 Resource plans

 Milestone plans

 Flexible – Freely definable folder structure

 Offline mode – Access documents even without the

Internet (e.g. on a plane)

 Data security through access to internal document

management system (behind the Firewall)

 Annotation feature – Add comments and notes to your

project documents

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Business Apps | sovanta® Executive Cockpit

Document access for management boards,

supervisory boards…

 Access to all relevant management documents, such as:

 Financial reports

 Key figures

 Media reports

 Board meetings

 Supervisory board meetings

 Projects

 Data security through access to internal document

management system (behind the Firewall)

 Offline mode – Access documents even without the

Internet (e.g. on a plane)

 Annotation feature – Add comments and notes to your

meeting documents

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Manager Workflow Approval is a proof of concept prototype

demonstrating the possibilities of an extremely attractive and

easy-to-use user interface for workflow approvals:

 Attractive graphical representation of the workflow inbox

 Color and icon-based classification of actions by workflow item

type (leave application, approval, purchasing, etc.)

 Easy sort and filter by categories such as type, priority and due

date

 Initiators of the workflow instances are presented with images

 Additional information on the requesting organization provide

the necessary context to the decision maker

Nutzen:

 Attractive workflow user interface

 No training cost

 Faster decision making through the availability of contextual

information

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The SAP HCM Interview Assistant app supports you to prepare for and conduct interviews anywhere and anytime. This app accesses the SAP ERP application and allows managers to review candidate information, prepare notes, record interview results, and send detailed feedback to the HR department right from their iPad.

 Display your open requisitions, the candidate list for each requisition and the candidate history

 Add reminder to your personal calendar for all the candidates who are scheduled for interview.

 Display a candidate’s documents, bookmark documents and add notes to them

 Edit overall notes for candidates: Create a note for each candidate and update it throughout the selection process

 Display additional information: View the candidate’s communication data and check activity logs and the ratings that have been transferred from the E-Recruiting application

 Update ratings: Create your own rating for the candidate

 Assess candidates: Evaluate the candidate’s profile by completing a questionnaire

 Make decisions about candidates: Decide if you want to invite a candidate for an interview / Hire or reject a candidate

SAP Standard Business App powered by sovanta as a Development Partner

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The Energy Monitor provides the customers of a major German utility company with the information they need to optimally adapt their electricity expenditures to their needs and priorities at any time:

 Graphical presentation of historical electricity and gas prices (Base, Peak)  Graphical representation of futures prices in real time

 Graphical comparison with other commodity prices, such as CO2 certificates, gas, oil and copper

 Notifications when prices fall below or above certain freely definable thresholds

 E-mail integration allows contact with the assigned MVV Account Manager  Access to additional information such as energy news, analyst reports via

video, including archive

 Comprehensive information and analysis of the company’s own purchase history and supply situation

 Simulation of energy purchases incl. the impact on the company’s financials  Site-specific reporting on planned and actual consumption, displayed through

Google Maps

 Comparison of planned vs. actual energy consumption  Information about the company MVV AG

Benefits:

 Improved customer loyalty  Increased customer satisfaction

 Greater transparency and predictability of energy purchasing and consumption at various sites

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sovanta® Citizen App creates a direct link and enhances communication

between cities and its citizens. Whether it is public transport stops, including real-time departure times, opening hours of institutions, individual waste calendar or any information on leisure activities in the city.

 Improved communication between citizens and the city administration  Individual waste calendar

 Exploration of all relevant surroundings

 Public transport stops, including real-time departure times

 Citizen can send a memo attached with a picture and GPS-data to the citizens’ service office to inform about a problem

 Augmented Reality feature

 Simple and flexible off-the-shelf solution

 No usage data is saved – satisfies the most stringent data protection requirements

Benefits:

Direct link and enhanced communication between cities and its citizens  Increased transparency

 Better service for citizens

 Geared 100% to the benefit of citizens  No demands on the city’s IT infrastructure  Cost-effective

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With SAP Customer Briefing , you get the facts and figures you need to prepare for a successful customer meeting, anywhere and anytime. This app connects to your SAP CRM application and provides sales executives with a detailed view of the customer’s business always at your fingertips.

 Read up on the latest news and biographies of the people who are key to your success

 Read up on the latest news about the customer and the customer’s business

 View an analysis of the business history you share with your customer

 Display issues that affect customer satisfaction

 Display open opportunities, opportunities won, and opportunities lost

Typical Business Challenges:

 Sales Executives meet customers as required, often on an irregular basis.

 They need to be ready for customer meetings at short-notice, and want to be confident that they have all the knowledge needed to increase sales, or deepen the customer relationship.

 They want to be independent of locations, other people, and time

SAP Standard Business App powered by sovanta as Development Partner

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Business Apps |

SAP Sales Companion

Sales Companion supports field sales representatives

with their most important task: Convincing the customer

 The app provides everything required to prepare and conduct

sales meetings and perform perfect follow-ups

 Providing the right information and functionality, always in the

context of the respective customer, lead, opportunity and step

in the sales process

 This includes data from many sources like

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News Feeds, e.g. Google, Bing

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Social Media, e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter

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SAP CRM / ERP

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Office Documents

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_{Groupware (e.g. Microsoft Exchange)}

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Analytics

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Software

 sovanta® Business Apps

 Custom Business Apps

 sovanta® Library

 sovanta® Integration Layer

Assessment

 Scenario Analysis

 Business Case Creation

 Roadmap Development

Consulting

 Mobility Strategy

 sovanta® Business Apps

 SAP Mobile Apps Implementation

Design

 UI-Design

 Graphic Design

 Graphics Development

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