Businesses must continuously adapt and evolve to stay competitive—or risk extinction. However, legacy technologies have become a tremendous obstacle to business evolution. Although these dependable old systems may have contributed significantly to a company’s success, their designers failed to foresee the modern digital business revolution that demands agile, flexible systems to deliver engaging user experiences.
HCLTech recognized this challenge and has developed innovative solutions that embrace leading-edge generative AI capabilities, including Microsoft Copilot, to empower companies to unlock the full potential of their legacy investments without replacing existing technology. For example, the company’s Microsoft Power Apps for SAP enhancement leverages core SAP systems and digitally surrounds them, transforming them for modern businesses and their technologically astute workforces.
Empowering employees with Power Apps for SAP enhancement
HCLTech’s Power Apps for SAP enhancement service seamlessly integrates Microsoft Power Platform with SAP systems. This powerful combination enables organizations to automate and digitize processes, interact more intelligently with data and build generative AI-powered conversational interfaces for their existing SAP environments.
One of the key advantages of this service is the low-code/no-code development approach of Power Platform components, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Copilot Studio, whose generative AI capabilities let you rapidly create virtual agents to automate tasks. This methodology empowers non-IT employees to develop and manage applications and democratizes app development to foster innovation and ensure that solutions are tailored to the specific needs of end users.
For instance, salespeople and other front-line employees can develop apps to retrieve comprehensive customer data from multiple systems in real time. This enables the sales staff to provide more tailored recommendations, close deals more efficiently and help other front-line workers offer faster and more personalized service delivery. Meanwhile, service engineers can report product issues more efficiently, and back-office staff can quickly match information in the SAP system, reducing the time, effort and costs associated with data processing.
Additionally, the integration between SAP and Microsoft Power Platform allows for innovative and adaptable interactions with legacy data, a crucial capability for a rapidly changing business landscape in which organizations must respond swiftly to new opportunities and challenges.
Extending SAP’s reach with a wraparound service
While the Power Apps for SAP enhancement service focuses on augmenting existing SAP functionalities, HCLTech’s wraparound service for SAP apps takes a more comprehensive approach to modernization. This service is part of HCLTech’s broader legacy application modernization program, which aims to transform legacy systems into modern, cloud-native architectures.
By integrating Microsoft Power Platform with SAP, companies can build custom applications, automate workflows and generate business insights, all while leveraging the power and reliability of their existing SAP systems. Generative AI, including Copilot, is integrated into the service to enhance data analysis, automate complex tasks more efficiently and provide intelligent insights. This approach brings agility and flexibility to SAP environments, enabling organizations to respond more quickly to changing business needs.
The wraparound service not only improves the user experience by providing more intuitive and user-friendly interfaces, but it also reduces the need for expensive and complex customizations, lowering overall IT costs. Additionally, it streamlines business processes and improves operational efficiency by automating routine tasks and providing better data insights.
The service is designed to be scalable and adaptable, supporting a wide range of business processes and use cases. This flexibility ensures that organizations can continue to evolve and adapt as their needs change without being constrained by their legacy systems.
Accelerating digital transformation with HCLTech
HCLTech has a long-standing partnership with SAP and has collaborated on specialized solutions that drive innovation and digital transformation for clients. In fact, HCLTech is establishing a generative AI center of excellence to develop industry-specific solutions leveraging the SAP Business Technology Platform.
Organizations can unlock new possibilities and stay ahead in the digital age by leveraging HCLTech’s Power Apps for SAP enhancement and wraparound service for SAP apps. These innovative offerings bring legacy systems into the modern era without the need for complete replacement, maximizing existing technology investments while embracing the benefits of digital transformation.
