ORLANDO, Fla., May 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Kore Inc., an SAP partner and emerging leader in the enterprise bots category, today announced a new suite of bots that will be available for demonstrations at SAPPHIRE® NOW and ASUG Annual Conference being held May 17–19 in Orlando at booth #1450. Kore Bots help users to communicate more simply with business-critical systems running SAP® solutions through natural language, in the form of text and voice, on a variety of platforms including SAP Jam™, Skype, SMS, Amazon Echo and email. Kore's Bots integrate with SAP solutions including SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors®, Concur®, Ariba® and others through SAP HANA® Cloud Platform.

As part of Kore's OEM partnership with SAP, the company has successfully completed its SAP solution qualification and received certification from SAP Integration and Certification Center. In addition, Kore is a 2016 SAP Pinnacle Awards finalist for OEM Partner of the Year.

Today, the average employee uses as many as 30 applications at work. Getting a job done requires toggling between multiple apps with distinct interfaces, in numerous places, which hurts productivity. Kore simplifies the way people work by naturally connecting them with the enterprise applications they already use from wherever they are communicating. How? With bots. Kore Bots connect smoothly with SAP solutions. With natural language users can receive alerts, get reports, execute direct actions and complete workflow tasks. Instead of wasting valuable time navigating disparate interfaces, users simply speak to, email or message their Kore Bots and the bot carries out a task for them.

"Today's workforce is bombarded with alerts, notifications and emails," said Raj Koneru, founder and CEO of Kore. "They waste hours weeding through applications to get one task done. Our vision is to change how the workforce – from services to supply chain to sales to HR – communicates with the business-critical systems companies rely on. SAP's commitment to helping clients 'Run Simple' matches naturally with our goal of empowering people to work simple. We're excited to demonstrate these integrations at SAPPHIRE NOW and highlight our partnership with a company dedicated to helping enterprises maximize their operations, productivity and potential."

In addition to workflow efficiencies, there is also a clear business impact that helps reduce costs and drive growth:

• Increase agility by using natural text and speech to perform complicated tasks that normally require multiple interactions
• Accelerate productivity by reducing response time between receiving alerts and taking associated actions
• Reduce complexity by enabling users to interact with SAP solutions from familiar social and messaging platforms like SAP Jam, SMS, Skype and email
• Increase user satisfaction by providing users with a modern and innovative way to work with systems of record
• Deploy quickly and efficiently because the creation of new bots only takes a few hours instead of the weeks or months it typically takes to build custom apps and integrations

The Kore platform is available for Android, iOS and desktop at www.kore.com.

Visit Kore at SAPPHIRE NOW at Booth #1450 to see a LIVE demo and view Kore's presentations at the following dates/times:

• Wednesday, May 18, 11 – 11:20 a.m., Partner and SME Solutions Topic Area 1
• Tuesday, May 17, 1 – 1:20 p.m., Digital Enterprise Platform Topic Area 3

Listen to Raj Koneru (CEO at Kore), Vic Bhagat (Former CIO and EVP at EMC Corporation), and Uddhav Gupta (Global Vice President of Platform-as-a-Service at SAP) discuss how bots will revolutionize enterprises of the future on SAP Radio.

SAPPHIRE NOW focuses on how companies can enable their digital business strategy and get more from their technology investments. SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference are the world's premier business technology event and largest SAP customer-run conference, offering attendees the opportunity to learn and network with customers, SAP executives, partners and experts across the entire SAP ecosystem.

About Kore
Kore is a bot-based messaging platform that empowers users to communicate with SAP systems as easily as they communicate with people. Kore Bots are lightweight services that connect directly through SAP HANA Cloud Platform, allowing users to send and receive information in SAP systems. At the user's direction, these bots deliver alerts, perform tasks and provide reports. The result is a fluid conversation between employees and systems they rely on to do their jobs. Kore provides bots for SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, SAP Hybris® Cloud for Customer, Ariba and Concur and comes with more than 100 other bots that empower users to work simply.

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