{"id":4087,"date":"2018-11-21T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/sap-qualtrics-contextor_112118\/"},"modified":"2021-12-03T07:47:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:47:54","slug":"sap-qualtrics-contextor_112118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/sap-qualtrics-contextor_112118\/","title":{"rendered":"The cocktail of SAP (ERP), Qualtrics (UX), and Contextor (RPA): Tastes like the OneOffice, but lacks one critical ingredient – RPA experience"},"content":{"rendered":"
The software giant and world’s premier system of record, SAP, was on an acquisition spree over the last two weeks. First it spent $8billion on the acquisition of Qualtrics<\/a>, a User Experience (UX) software that helps to collect and analyze data for market research, customer satisfaction and loyalty, product and concept testing, employee evaluations and website feedback. And then it acquired Contextor<\/a>, a small little-known France-based Robotic Process Automation (RPA) product to augment SAP Leonardo’s intelligent technologies portfolio.<\/p>\n It appears that SAP is starting to mix a heady cocktail that enables its systems of record with the triple-A trifecta (AI, Analytics, and RPA) and embedded UX capabilities. Tastes like the OneOffice? <\/em><\/p>\n Well, definitely for SAP mighty front office portfolio, but the huge disparity between the $8bn splurged on Qualtric and – whatever negligible sum was invested in Contextor – does not excite us that SAP is in anyway deadly serious about dominating the back-to-middle office automation space, which is critical to knit together disparate processes and systems. <\/p>\n What is the Digital OneOffice and why it matters?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Digital OneOffice<\/a> is where teams function autonomously across front, middle and back office functions to promote broader processes with real-time data flows that support rapid decision making. It’s where front, middle and back offices will cease to exist, as they will be, simply, OneOffice:<\/p>\n The HFS Digital OneOffice<\/span><\/p>\n Click to Enlarge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n The OneOffice Framework is a guide to align the entire organization to driving a customer experience (CX) that gives them a competitive edge. This means breaking down the siloes between front, middle and back office so that information and data flows freely and enterprises are able to predict and cater to customer needs. OneOffice is realized when the needs and experiences of the customer are front and center to the entirety of business operations. This means enabling automated data flows between the customer interface, your customer-facing staff and operations staff in order to create common goals and outcomes across the organization. Hence the addition of Qualtrics has terrific potential to bridge critical gaps between customers and employees, and effective RPA provides a real gateway to digitize processes and create a gateway to broader AI possibilities<\/a>. <\/p>\n Qualtrics and Contextor are attempts to plug SAP’s solution gaps in the OneOffice vision<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The reason behind the success of Qualtrics (and the driver for the 20X PSR!) is that Qualtrics-driven UX is not about just a fancy UI. Qualtrics enables SAP to offer solutions that combine front and back-office data. SAP is already a leader in managing organizational transactional data but lacked the capability to understand its implications on customer satisfaction, loyalty, and experience. With Qualtrics this is now a distinct possibility.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n