Every day, customers are tasked to deliver breakthrough results through accelerated innovation and improved ROI. Enterprise service-oriented architecture transforms the way software is developed and implemented. Faced with competing investment alternatives and constant pressure for IT to keep pace with shifting business demands, customers are rethinking success and what it takes to be agile, integrated, and flexible to respond to change and complex pressures – to do more, and deliver more effectively.

SAP believes that maximizing success requires an ecosystem approach that puts you – our customer – in the center. Dealing with market challenges and pressure to innovate at speeds that often exceed business capacity, SAP customers trust they can turn to the SAP ecosystem to collaborate more effectively, compensate for weak areas, decrease time to market, improve performance, and access information more effectively. When customers ask how to maximize their business and technology potential – the SAP ecosystem has the answers By bringing together award-winning solutions, comprehensive services, and the power of collaboration among diverse companies and individuals, the SAP ecosystem gives customers the power to operate more effectively.

The SAP ecosystem includes:

• Trusted, targeted partner solutions and services
• Unique communities of innovation
• Flexible business process platforms for collaboration

Trusted, Targeted Partner Solutions and Services

As a valuable advisor to customers, SAP provides trusted, targeted partner solutions and services through many initiatives and programs. SAP ensures that customers like you connect with solution and service providers that best fit your needs. To meet this goal, SAP works closely with leading software partners, technology partners, and service partners. Check out our customer successes and partner directories.

We draw on 30 years of experience in creating world-class, business-process solutions with industry specific solution maps for SAP, customers, and partners to collaborate. Together we identify and address important customer problems and opportunities with our software and services partners. The SAP ecosystem advantage is having the right partners with the right solutions at the right time. Read more about SAP partners.

Unique Communities of Innovation

Every SAP customer has the opportunity to be a co-innovator. SAP ecosystem communities encompass customers, partners, and individuals who share critical business needs, ideas, and technical and business expertise, and experiences to co-innovate in providing solutions to meet customer needs. SAP's community-powered ecosystem provides you with a task- and role-based approach to quickly and easily engage with the wealth of resources available. Learn more about SAP communities of innovation.

Consistent Foundation for Collaboration for Your Business Process Platform

All SAP solutions share key components that address common, cross-industry business processes in your unique business process platform. All SAP ecosystem members can collaborate to create extensible, compatible, and fully integrated business solutions that meet customer and partner needs. A common approach and language enables the SAP ecosystem to create valuable service definitions, co-innovate across industries, and enable participation and leadership in industry standards groups.