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The business cycle is materializing faster than ever. Globalization, industry consolidation, and mounting IT complexity are just a few of the motivating forces commanding a permanent shift away from linear business growth to a more dynamic, multidimensional system of change – so businesses do more with less. To keep pace, today's businesses demand a novel way of thinking, transforming and solving problems to achieve breakthrough results for their company, and their customers.

SAP's ecosystem offers the most comprehensive and consistent industry approach to enable customers, partners and individuals to accelerate innovation, improve ROI, and grow beyond their own enterprise limitations. With finite resources, businesses must swiftly address complex challenges that test their capacities under pressure. Working within SAP's ecosystem, customers can lower costs; increase time to market and overall productivity; maintain and protect their competitive edge; and position their business to compete well into the future by supporting a shared goal to innovate efficiently.
A Customer-Focused Ecosystem

Customers increasingly recognize the need to build relationships in a network, access multidimensional expertise and partner to find better business solutions. SAP orchestrates a diverse ecosystem relationships, resources, and initiatives to enable our customers to gain success. A new level of collaboration extends beyond traditional business that achieves accelerated innovation, communication, and more comprehensive solutions.
The SAP Ecosystem: Connecting Customers, Partners, and Individuals

In the SAP ecosystem, customers expect – and do – find qualified expertise, insights, answers and connections that are right for their business. Working within the ecosystem is fast and effective – whether engaging a new partner or co-innovating using complementary technology, customers can access broader knowledge quickly to make more informed decisions. A regional partner may expand globally. A venture capitalist may identify an investment opportunity with an emerging ISV. A large enterprise short on a specific IT skill set may access a developer community to create a new solution. The SAP ecosystem is a novel approach to smarter business management that drives measurable results – and benefits the ecosystem and all customers it serves.

To foster an ideal environment for ongoing innovation and value creation, SAP has developed a comprehensive approach with three pillars of the SAP Ecosystem:

* Industry-focused excellence – Helps our customers quickly find and deploy solutions appropriate for their own industry and business needs – from among more than 2000 partner solutions certified for SAP NetWeaver and through various SDN industry forums. In addition, more than 100 customers and partners are working together in more than a dozen industry value networks to develop solutions to the most pressing industry needs.
* Community-powered results – Links you quickly to people, organizations, and resources you need, when you need them. With access to more than one million members of SAP communities, you can achieve results faster by making meaningful connections to people with similar roles, who perform similar tasks and address similar challenges.
* Orchestrated co-innovation – Bring together diverse relationships, resources, and communities to help develop the next generation of effective solutions in concert with SAP development efforts. Customers may have unique or emerging innovation needs not met by existing solutions. Fostering collaboration around these needs ensures ongoing innovation and value for everyone.
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BusinessWeek: HOW SAP SEEDS INNOVATION
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* "Talent for Future Success: SAPPHIRE 2008 Orlando" (PDF)
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