The document discusses the significance of 'event mesh' as an architectural layer essential for digital transformation in enterprises, enabling the seamless flow of events across various environments. It emphasizes the importance of adapting to changing technologies and customer demands to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency. SAP's strategy is outlined, focusing on delivering an intelligent enterprise through advanced technologies and a digital platform powered by SAP HANA.

1. Crispin Clarke
SVP Europe, Solace
Martin Bachmann
Head of Product Management Connected Cores SAP SE
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Gartner CIO & IT Executive Summit 2019, Munich
Event Mesh
The architecture layer that will power your Digital
Transformation

2. Events have become the life blood of the modern
real-time enterprise
Events need flow freely and easily, across every
environment and component of the digital
enterprise.

3. Event mesh is an architectural layer that
routes events from producers to consumers
in a flexible, reliable and governed manner,
no matter where your apps are deployed.

4. “80% of new business ecosystems will require support
for event processing”
Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018: Event-Driven Model. 8. March 2018

5. “By 2022, event-sourced, real-time situational
awareness will be a required characteristic for 70% of
new digital business solutions.”
Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018: Event-Driven Model. 8. March 2018

6. Enterprises are implementing an Event Mesh
to power their digital transformations.

7. SAP Case Study
Using Event Mesh to integrate the
Intelligent Enterprise

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The Digital Era is evolving into The Intelligence Era
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
CUSTOMER VALUE CREATION
• Mobile & Smartphone
ubiquity
• Cloud Computing
• Social Networks
• Big Data
Cloud, Mobile & Big Data
2000s - 2010s
Digital
Transformation
• Widespread PC adoption
• Broadband Internet
• ERP and business process
technologies
Client Server & Internet
1990s - 2000s
Business Process
Automation
Mainframe & PCs
1960s – 1980s
• Transistors & silicon
revolution
• Large scale Mainframe
Computing adoption
• Emergence of PC’s
• Plant floor automation
Industrial
Automation
• Machine learning (ML) and
artificial intelligence (AI)
• Internet of things (IoT) and
distributed computing
• Blockchain
Intelligent Technologies
2010s - 2020s
Intelligent
Enterprise

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Every enterprise today is struggling to address 3 key challenges:
How do we deliver a next-generation customer experience
in a world of disruption?
How do we drive maximum cost synergies to
fund innovation?
How do we better engage our employees to
attract and retain top talent?

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SAP is positioned to deliver next practices to our customers
• Automated invoice and payment
matching
• Machine learning-enabled resume
matching
• Predictive lead management
• Automated sales discount approvals
• Warehouse automation
• Real-time supplier and demand
management
• Predictive maintenance and service
• CXO dashboards and a boardroom of
the future
• Machine learning-enabled employee
approvals
• Guided buying for materials
procurement
• Self-service enabled by chatbots and
voice
• Personalized and distinctive customer
experience
• Omnichannel customer service
(available anytime and anywhere)
Redefine the end-to-end
customer experience
Deliver a step change in
productivity
Transform workforce
engagement

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SAP Strategy – Deliver the Intelligent Enterprise
THE INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE
features 3 KEY COMPONENTS:
1 Intelligent Suite
Intelligent Technologies3
2 Digital Platform

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Digital Platform: Unlock data-driven intelligence and innovation
SAP HANA powers SAP
applications as the
foundation of high-
performance data
warehousing and
analytics
Next-generation data
management expands SAP
HANA in-memory database
to address structured and
unstructured data use
cases and external data
Platform for extending the
business processes of the
Intelligent Suite and enabling
new innovations
Marketplace for
ecosystem to build new
innovations leveraging
APIs and business
services
SAP Data Hub provides
data orchestration and
metadata management
across heterogeneous
data sources
Delivering deep data
and process
integrations through
APIs and
microservices

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Central catalog: Systems/Apps,
APIs, Events
SAP Cloud Platform Extension Factory - vision
Registration
People
Engagement
Manufacturing
& Supply Chain
Customer
Experience
Network &
Spend Management
Digital Core
Runtime &
infrastructure of
choice
APIs
Cockpit integration
Trust & Metadata
(APIs & events)
Trusted & Managed
Connectivity
Workload Traffic
Requests / Events / Data
Servicecatalog
SAP Cloud Platform
μ
ε
λ
SAP Cloud Platform Extension Factory
1 Bring your own license for Kubernetes compute capacity
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Objective – a global virtual event bus
An illustrative example
SAP Cloud Platform DCAWS
SAP Cloud Platform DCSAP
SAP Cloud Platform DCAWSSAP Cloud Platform DCAzure
SAP Cloud Platform DCAWS
SAP Cloud Platform DCAzure
SAP Cloud Platform DCGCP
SAP Cloud Platform DCAWS
SAP Cloud Platform DCAWS
SAP Cloud Platform DCALI
SAP Cloud Platform DCSAP
[C/4]on-prem
[S/4]on-prem
Enterprise Messaging – Event Bus

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Crispin Clarke
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