As you may have heard, sales of SAP® Enable Now® will be discontinued from the second quarter of 2025*.
There is no concrete date or timetable for a successor product - and questions about the conversion of existing content remain unanswered.
Why datango instead of SAP® Enable Now®?
We would like to take advantage of this opportunity and offer you concrete help to secure your investments, minimize possible risks and not leave your economic success to an uncertain future.
As a medium-sized company with 25 years of software expertise, we put all our energy, experience and knowledge - apart from a brief interruption from 2012-2016 when SAP® bought datango software - into the development of our datango Performance Suite. The result is an alternative tool with excellent performance, a modern user interface and many additional functions that makes your existing content usable and easy to use.
In addition, by using datango software you can significantly reduce your annual costs compared to your current contracts with SAP®.
Many SAP® Gold Partners have already expressed interest, as they do not want to carry out their customer projects without such a tool. In addition, many SAP® Enable Now® customers are already looking at change options that are sustainable and cost-efficient.
Here are some of the more than 50 companies that have already decided to switch to datango: Autobahn Tank & Rast, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Landeshauptstadt München / Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb München, Steiermärkische Krankenanstalten, WashTec, Wolffkran and Zschimmer & Schwarz.
*SAPblog post: https://community.sap.com/t5/human-capital-management-blogs-by-sap/reimagining-digital-learning-as-an-integrated-part-of-a-digital-adoption/ba-p/14008825
What convinced our customers of datango?
- Core competencies in user adoption, e-learning and documentation
- Product available as on-prem or cloud version
- Technical options for reusing the content you have produced with SAP® Enable Now®
- Possibility of licensing an unlimited company license
- Use datango immediately and pay only after your SAP® Enable Now® contract expires
- Philosophy of customer proximity:
- Direct personal support from a competent support team
- Customization options and joint further development of the product
- Modern look & feel of the authoring and user interfaces
- Implementation of new technologies such as AI, process automation and testing
- Multilingual software with over 40 languages and, among other things, DeepL plug-in for automated translations of all content
Safely into the future with datango
datango is and remains a software-neutral provider that focuses on its core competencies and the service concept and offers you a modern product with the best possible range of functions either as an on-prem or cloud solution.
On request, our customers can conclude maintenance contracts with a term of up to 7 years and use this planning security to safeguard their content investments.
Currently, more than 400 customers worldwide with more than 2,000,000 users are already using the datango product. These include large corporations such as Siemens Energy, Mitsubishi Electric, Fressnapf and Vaillant.
You can find more information in our blog.
We would be delighted if you also decided to make the switch.
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datango vs. SAP Enable Now® / WPB® - the better alternative
SAP® is undoubtedly a leading business software solution in numerous industries. However, in order to make optimum use of the extensive functions of SAP®, appropriate training is essential. Although SAP® offers its own SAP® Systems Enable Now® (SEN) solution for this purpose, we believe that datango offers the better alternative.
In this blog post, we will therefore take a closer look at the advantages of datango over SEN and find out why datango is the ideal choice to expand your SAP® knowledge and ensure the progress of your company.
Keeping pace in the dynamic digital world
To succeed in a fast-paced and competitive environment, companies need a comprehensive and targeted digitization strategy that enables them to keep pace with the latest technologies and trends. An important component of this strategy is the continuous training of employees across different generations as well as the holistic support of processes, especially during internal change cycles. After all, only when employees can accept and use the new digital tools and processes can the full potential of digitization be realized.
In the course of this digital transformation, business software solutions such as SAP® play a decisive role. This is an enterprise resource planning system (ERP) that offers companies an extensive range of modules and functions to plan, control and manage personnel, resources, capital, operating resources, materials and information and communication technology in a timely and needs-based manner in line with the company's purpose.
Employees are a key component of the successful implementation of SAP® software in companies. It is crucial that there is a high level of acceptance for the change and that the new tools are not perceived as a disruption, but as a necessary step towards innovation and greater customer satisfaction.
The decisive factor here is that they feel "pleasure in" rather than "frustration with" the software. Another important aspect is the time needed for the "change" before operations return to normal. The decisive factor in achieving these goals is SAP® training in e-learning format. They enable employees to develop a deeper understanding of the functionality of SAP® in a short space of time and to use it to its full potential. Through targeted training programs, companies can therefore ensure that their employees have the necessary know-how and ensure smooth operation and successful implementation in a timely manner. E-learning software should be capable of "workplace learning" so that parallel working is guaranteed. The support options should be as individual as the users. When introducing such extensive systems, particular attention must be paid to ensuring that the process documentation can be created simply, easily and quickly by the author.
SAP® Systems Enable Now & Workforce Performance Builder - What's behind it?
SAP® Enable Now® (SEN)" is a software solution from SAP® itself that helps companies create and deliver training and learning content for their SAP® systems. SEN enables users to create interactive training materials, online help and documentation to improve the effectiveness of training and increase user competence.
Workforce Performance Builder® (WPB) was the original name of the software before it was renamed SAP® Enable Now. WPB offered similar functionality to SEN and was therefore used by companies to create and manage customized training content. The renaming to SAP® Enable Now® was done to emphasize the close integration with other SAP® products and solutions.
Both programs therefore aim to optimize employee training and development and help companies to impart the knowledge and skills required to use SAP® solutions effectively and improve work processes.
But did you know that both programs are further developments based on code that SAP® acquired from datango AG in 2012?
In the process, our software solution has been newly developed since 2016 and is therefore adapted to the increased complexity of today's applications.
In addition to the modern code, the datango Performance Suite is characterized above all by improved performance, a contemporary user interface and numerous additional functions.
One reason why datango is the better alternative.
Why datango?
The new datango Performance Suite has already impressed over 400 companies, including well-known companies such as Siemens Energy, Ritter Sport, Vaillant, Signal Iduna, Blaser Group, Autobahn Tank & Rast, Mitsubishi, Wenco, Vattenfall, Zschimmer & Schwarz, AWO Saarland, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Stadtwerke Potsdam, GE Aviation, SHW, SEG, Windmöller and Hölscher as well as many others.
There are numerous reasons why these companies have chosen datango:
- Core competencies in the areas of user assistance and documentation in digital processes and applications
- Our in-house learning platform with extensive analysis and reporting functions as well as compatibility with alternative LMSs offers a holistic solution
- datango is an industry- and platform-neutral software provider that is able to recognize all Windows and web applications
- There is a possibility to purchase a company license and remove the author limitation
- Improved performance and efficiency is achieved through the use of a new code base
- A modern look and feel of the user interface ensures increased acceptance among authors and users
- As a medium-sized company with around 100 dedicated employees, we devote ourselves solely to the datango solution and our more than 300 customers
- With many years of experience datango offers strategic consulting for the implementation of our systems
- Our focus is on customer satisfaction, which is why we guarantee fast response times and the ability to call competent support staff directly
- Customer proximity is a core value that enables close cooperation and joint further development
- SCORM compatibility enables easy import and export of content
- Multilingual software with over 40 languages
- DeepL Plug-in for automated translations
You can also be sure that you stay up to date with us, because our products are constantly being developed further in our development center in Berlin!
Discover the better alternative to SAP® Enable Now® / WPB® with datango and receive optimal support for your company.
Our innovative digital adoption solution offers you a combination of performance support, learning management and documentation. With customized e-learning for your systems and processes created at the touch of a button and live online support, we help your company to introduce new or changed business processes as well as new systems and applications easily and effectively.
With our datango Performance Suite, we offer you a complete package that helps to increase acceptance of change and thus contributes to a successful corporate culture.
The datango Performance Suite consists of:
datango Creator - Your tool for professional software documentation, e-learning and universal training
With the datango Creator, you can easily create customized training material for your company. From interactive scripts to exercises and test environments - our authoring tool offers everything you need for successful process documentation and universal training. And the datango Creator generates all the necessary resources for the targeted training of your employees with a single recording - in over 40 languages if required.
datango Collaborator - All relevant interfaces can be combined here
As a learning management system, the datango Collaborator enables the clear administration of your
e-learning content. The learning content can be precisely tailored and assigned role-based in the form of courses - with or without certificates - in the datango Academy, while authors, training instructors and knowledge managers can work together effectively. The datango Analyzer also offers comprehensive and, if necessary, anonymized reporting on courses, performance and weak points.
datango Live! - For a learning experience with live online help and various e-learning modes
datango Live! is at your employees' side exactly when they need support. With context- and application-sensitive functions, datango Live! enables end users to retrieve the appropriate documentation or learning sequence at the moment of need and thus learn effectively. Finally, with customized support - from practice mode to hands-on mode and from the preparation phase to the live process - you ensure that your learning content is actually understood and used.
Successful employee enablement thanks to datango
Implementing new ERP systems in an organization can be challenging, especially when it comes to employee adoption.
The datango Performance Suite reflects the importance of a well thought-out and early communicated rollout of ERP systems and supports companies in preparing their employees for the changeover and giving them sufficient time to familiarize themselves with the new ERP systems.
Personalized training materials and continuous, transparent communication are key strategies to increase employee enablement and ensure a seamless transition.
We firmly believe that every employee makes a decisive contribution to the company's success. That is why we offer targeted support with our user adoption platform to the extent required by the individual and precisely at the "moment of need" - this applies equally to preparation and the live system.
Mastering change with datango
With datango, you have a reliable partner at your side who will help you to successfully and efficiently carry out SAP and ERP training courses. Choose the datango Performance Suite and experience the benefits of a customized solution for your company.
datango is both a catalyst and fuel for digitization in companies and the #1 tool for successful change management. This allows datango to realize enormous savings and optimization potential.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are always at your disposal to inform you in detail about your options.
We look forward to hearing from you!