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Gearing up for the enterprise metaverse

August 12, 2022 10-MINUTE READ

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In brief

  • The emergence of the metaverse and Web3 is a signpost to the future of enterprise technology, user experience, and business operations.
  • As this enterprise metaverse evolves, the SAP ecosystem will have a key role to play—just as it does in so many businesses today.
  • Accenture’s Technology Vision for SAP Solutions 2022 explores the implications of this future for SAP customers—and how they can get ready now.
  • Companies can start building a new digital business world—with virtually limitless possibility for collaboration, innovation, and user experience.

Accenture Technology Vision 2022 for SAP solutions

The internet is evolving into something new—a continuum of metaverse experiences.

 

It’s happening thanks to two key developments. First, digital experiences are moving into persistent shared virtual spaces—the early incarnations of the metaverse. Second, Web3 technologies like cryptocurrencies, distributed ledgers, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are reinventing how value and data is stored and shared.

 

These new opportunities won’t just be for consumers or gamers. They’ll enable anyone and everyone—shop floor workers, field operatives, onsite engineers, supervisors, managers, business leaders, suppliers, partners, public officials, and many more besides—to meet, connect, and work in new ways.

97% of executives say emerging technologies are enabling their organization to have a broader and more ambitious vision.

This could revolutionize the way whole organizations, whole industries, even whole economies operate. And underpinning it all will be the core platforms and data that are critical to the smooth running of the modern enterprise.

 

It’s why SAP solutions are positioned to play a pivotal role in the enterprise metaverse—just as they do for so many enterprise operations today.

90%

of executives say their organization sees growth opportunities in participating in the metaverse

42%

believe the metaverse will be breakthrough or transformational

How can SAP customers take a lead?

As metaverse experiences and Web3 technologies evolve, companies running SAP solutions should be on the lookout for a series of key trends and opportunities.

Powering the enterprise metaverse

 

With the technologies and data that will power the business metaverse still to be defined, SAP solutions are ideally positioned to take up the mantle.

Managing business systems virtually

 

Blending physical and digital worlds will allow leaders to see their businesses in new ways with advanced data analysis at their virtual fingertips.

Evolving user experiences

 

The way people interact with SAP systems will become more immersive, collaborative, augmented with AI, and integrated with core business workspaces.

Changing relationships between people and assets

 

Physical business assets could become “smart metaverse” assets, able to interact with each other and with SAP systems autonomously in real time.

The long-term vision is of persistent and shared virtual spaces that people can enter, explore, and exit as easily as they move about the real world.

Four technology trends that will define the opportunity

WebMe

Business collaboration and innovation will be reimagined via metaverse and Web3 technologies—with SAP solutions at the core.

Programmable World

Technologies like edge computing, 5G, and others will enable enterprises to thread together physical assets with SAP systems in real time. 

The Unreal

Hyper-realistic synthetic avatars will work hand-in-hand with employees and SAP solutions to drive ever higher levels of business performance. 

Computing the Possible

A new class of high-performance computers will interface with SAP technologies and data to solve previously intractable computational problems.

As these momentous shifts in technology take shape, the friction that exists today between different digital platforms and virtual spaces will be eliminated.

It’s time to gear up for the enterprise metaverse

As the enterprise metaverse emerges, companies will be able to use SAP solutions seamlessly across a whole continuum of virtual spaces and experiences.

 

This will create new ways of working and new ways to interact and transact with partners, suppliers, and clients.

 

SAP customers will be able to build a new kind of digital business world—one with virtually limitless possibility for collaboration, innovation, and user experience.

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