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Next Generation Business Apps

powered by sovanta

Manuel Egger

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Founded in 2009

Headquarter in Heidelberg, Germany

Currently 30+ people

Development Lab in Heidelberg and Buenos Aires, Argentina

sovanta® stands for Business Apps, a new generation of applications combining the simplicity of consumer apps with the depth of business applications

SAP Endorsed Business Solution (EBS) Partner

SAP development partner for mobile business apps

SAP Branded Reseller (SBR) Partner

sovanta AG | The Company

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2013.

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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

Business Apps | The Best of Two Worlds


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 Smartphones Tablets

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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.


sovanta | design driven development


Sales & Marketing Human Capital Management

Management Reporting

Competitive Differentiation

Standard & Custom Apps

Components Library

Business Apps | sovanta® 3 +1


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

Business Apps | Examples


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

sovanta® iPeople iPad

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Functions:

Organizational View

Regional View

Top/Low Lists

Events

Info Channel (News, Web, BI tools)

Focus Groups:

Top Executives

Senior Management

Supported Device:

Apple iPad

Others tablets will follow Free demo version available on the AppStore

sovanta® iPeople | Solution Overview

http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/sovanta-ipeople/id410572272?mt=8


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

sovanta® iPeople | Architecture & Security


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

Business Apps | Performance & Talent Management (PoC)


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

Business Apps | Talent & Succession Management (PoC)


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

Business Apps | sovanta® iTalent


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

Business Apps | Mobile Job Search


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

Business Apps | sovanta® Idea Management


Mobile Device

SAP ERP HCM target Idea Management add-on

send by email

SUP (Sybase Unwired Platform)

sovanta® Idea Management | Architecture


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

Send documents or links directly to other project members


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

Search for and within documents


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

Business Apps | Manager Workflow Approval


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

Business Apps | SAP HCM Interview Assistant


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

Business Apps | Energy Monitor


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

Business Apps| sovanta® Citizen App

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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

News Feeds, e.g. Google, Bing

Social Media, e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter

SAP CRM / ERP

Office Documents

Groupware (e.g. Microsoft Exchange)

Analytics

and others


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

sovanta AG | Products & Services

Thank you!

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Contact

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