Forrester IT

DECEMBER 8, 2022

For years clients have been reaching out with the following question: If a significant portion of all my enterprise data comes from SAP or Oracle business applications (ERP, CRM, etc.), should SAP BW/4HANA or Oracle […]. Why would you make my life more difficult?

Enterprise 195

Enterprise Enterprise SAP Oracle 195

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 4, 2024

While artificial intelligence is a key focus at SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, this year, the company has announced that it is also enhancing its Business Technology Platform — application development and automation, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities — by adding features to extend its components’ functionality.

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SAP Development Tools Applications 52

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

SAP customers have a lot to navigate in 2024. Here are five predictions about what will play out for SAP customers as the year goes on, along with follow-on effects and questions SAP customers will have to address in their wake.

SAP 118

SAP Licensing Strategy Cloud 118

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

German tech major SAP has announced a 2 billion euro ($2.17 In 2024, SAP will further increase its focus on key strategic growth areas, in particular Business AI. Analysts believe the restructuring will help SAP find the right balance between experience and skills to grow in AI. Enterprise Applications, SAP

SAP 134

SAP Programming Google Cloud 134

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2024

The German-speaking user group for enterprise software giant SAP says that customers’ willingness to invest in the company’s S/4HANA cloud product is rising, but still lags behind flagship ERP products like ECC 6, and some customers see the need for more discussion on SAP’s prolonged move to the cloud.

SAP 124

SAP Groups Survey Cloud 124

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. Christ also said generative AI is key to the company’s growth.

SAP 116

SAP Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 116

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2024

SAP has won another convert to its Rise with SAP managed software offering. Self-service In Deutsche Telekom’s case its IT services subsidiary, T-Systems, is an SAP premium supplier for Rise and operates its own private cloud, Future Cloud Infrastructure (FCI), in which to host its parent’s applications.

SAP 105

SAP IBM Applications Telecommunications 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

SAP is paying a total of over $220 million to settle investigations by the US Department of Justice and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Our order holds SAP accountable for misconduct that spanned seven jurisdictions and lasted several years,” said Charles E.

SAP 110

SAP Oracle Government Software 110

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

SAP wants to give new meaning to the resources in enterprise resource planning, going beyond the boundaries of the enterprise and accounting for its impact on the whole planet. SAP is addressing both of those by working with organizations like the World Business Council for Sustainable Development,” McComb said.

SAP 141

SAP Enterprise Enterprise Resources 141

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

By year-end, users of a couple of SAP applications should have the option to ask generative AI copilot, Joule, to help with their work — and the company plans to roll the feature out across all its applications one by one in the years to come. ServiceNow, the last to announce, will likely be the first to deliver.

SAP 122

SAP Applications Energy Cloud 122

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

Every software developer is looking at how to incorporate generative AI in its products, even SAP. The ERP vendor, which turned 50 last year , is developing a companion app for its software, to be called SAP Digital Assistant, which will use generative AI to help SAP users provide a better experience to their customers.

SAP 114

SAP Industry Tools Retail 114

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

The Dublin-based, global professional services leader had grown significantly organically and inorganically, including expanding into diverse businesses, propelled by $14 billion invested in more than 177 acquisitions in the last five years.

SAP 111

SAP Cloud Applications Agile 111

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. That’s just as well, as SAP is only promising mainstream support ECC through the end of 2027.

SAP 126

SAP Cloud Licensing CTO Hire 126

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. What could be worse than to plan for an event that requires the scaling of an application’s infrastructure only to have it all fall flat on its face when the time comes?”.

Applications 138

Applications Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 138

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Enterprise Applications, SAP

SAP 105

SAP Microsoft CTO Hire Artificial Intelligence 105

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the first of this two part CIO webinar series ‘Driving business success with true enterprise applications’, a group of leading tech leaders heard from DXC Technology, customer Ventia and analysts Ecosystm about the challenges and benefits of “Overcoming barriers to application modernisation with SAP.

SAP 98

SAP Applications Enterprise Enterprise 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2023

ERP software provider SAP on Tuesday said it is partnering with IBM to infuse the latter’s Watson artificial intelligence (AI) engine across its entire solutions portfolio, including SAP S/4 HANA, S/4 HANA Cloud, SAP Business One, and SAP Business ByDesign.

SAP 116

SAP Engineering IBM Artificial Intelligence 116

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2022

IBM’s ERP transformation will be one of the largest under the “Rise with SAP” umbrella — perhaps rivaling that of Microsoft , which announced its own adoption of Rise with SAP for the first stages of its move to S/4HANA in March 2022. In February 2022, SAP named IBM as its first premium supplier for Rise.

SAP 132

SAP IBM Cloud Software 132

Forrester IT

JULY 29, 2019

Forrester has just published 2019 refresh of out Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) Platforms Waves ™. As the BI market and the technology continue to evolve, so does our research.

Research 312

Research Enterprise Enterprise Vendor Management 312

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

IDC forecasts the growth rate of enterprise applications software sales will pick up in 2024, and remain steady through 2027, despite a dip this year as a result of CIOs continuing to pull back on spending due to economic headwinds. of a projected $483 billion enterprise applications software spend in 2027, according to the study.

Applications 52

Applications Enterprise Enterprise Study 52

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Oracle is adding new capabilities to its Supply Chain and Manufacturing (SCM) Fusion Cloud to help enterprises manage their logistics. The combination of the data along with machine learning models will aid enterprises in making faster decisions around global logistics, the company said in a statement. billion in 2021.

Oracle 122

Oracle Cloud Transportation Business Intelligence 122

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2023

“Supply chains are under stress,” said Thomas Saueressig, member of the SAP executive board and head of its Product Engineering division, at the recent Hanover Fair. SAP builds AI into its supply-chain solutions At the fair, SAP announced it would further expand its logistics chain solutions.

SAP 97

SAP 3D Automotive Industry 97

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2022

Only a minority of companies who are either current SAP customers, or plan to become SAP ERP users, have completed their migration to the company’s S/4HANA system, even though support for its ECC on-premises suite will end in 2030, according to a report from digital transformation services provider LeanIX.

SAP 105

SAP Report Survey Architecture 105

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Fueled by strong sales of cloud-based ERP software that more than offset a decline in revenue from on-premises applications, SAP revenue jumped in the third quarter compared to the year-earlier period, according to company’s quarterly financial report, released Tuesday. Total revenue for the quarter ending Sept. billion (US$7.72

SAP 98

SAP Cloud Licensing Software 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Data is a growing, ever-evolving business resource that can be an analytical nightmare or a company’s greatest asset. Because large enterprises use massive amounts of data, this critical asset can quickly become unmanageable and can sabotage the accuracy and efficiency of hard-working sales teams. DIA steel pipe”.

SAP 102

SAP How To Training Applications 102

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2024

In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East. Oracle is helped by the fact that it has two offerings for enterprise applications, says Thompson.

Oracle 124

Oracle Enterprise Enterprise Cloud 124

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

That would have been an enviable situation for many of his contemporaries in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry — “Some have 20 or 30 different ERP solutions,” he says — but for Grayling, the 20% of the business still running on a legacy SAP product remained a source of discomfort, and something he wanted to change.

SAP 98

SAP Data Center Energy Cloud 98

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Enterprise adoption of SAP S/4HANA continues to climb despite the obstacles in its way, according to new research by user groups in the US and Europe. The biggest driver for the move to S/4HANA, cited by 70% of survey respondents, is SAP’s plan to end maintenance support for its ECC 6 and Business Suite 7 software in December 2027.

SAP 97

SAP Groups Survey Training 97

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

Enterprises that have adopted automation across their organizations—including development, IT operations, and business teams—often find it is difficult to scale their automations due to manual or old testing methods. As such, many testing groups are understaffed and overworked. But it is also the low-hanging fruit for automation.”.

Enterprise 103

Enterprise Enterprise SAP Devops 103

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Oracle is adding more AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX that provides software for sales, marketing, and service teams across an enterprise, the company announced on Thursday. SAP, too, since last year has been working on adding its generative AI assistant, Joule, to all its applications.

Oracle 142

Oracle Cloud SAP B2B 142

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Enterprises subscribing to Rise with SAP, a bundle of services wrapped around the core S/4HANA Cloud ERP application, can now pay extra for Premium Plus, a package of some of SAP’s newest innovations. Different actions will consume varying numbers of these units.

SAP 124

SAP Enterprise Enterprise Financial 124

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. EA, and its goals, however, are constantly evolving.

Architecture 128

Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Agile 128

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

SAP customer Union Pacific Railroad operates across 23 states with 32,124 miles of track, transporting 8 million carloads of freight using 7,500 locomotives across 30,000 rail crossings and 16,700 bridges. We’re a legacy company,” said Michelle Clark, AVP, Enterprise Systems at Union Pacific Railroad.

SAP 126

SAP Cloud Transportation Applications 126

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Moving SAP workloads to the cloud promises to be transformational, but it’s not for the faint of heart. Goals for an ERP modernization initiative often range from lowering costs through infrastructure savings to adding cloud-based capabilities to ERP tasks with minimal disruption to day-to-day business.

SAP 52

SAP Cloud Data Center Applications 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 8, 2022

To help meet demand from enterprises that are shifting asset management methods from legacy applications to cloud-based technology, ERP provider IFS has signed an agreement to acquire Netherlands-based enterprise asset management (EAM) software firm Ultimo. Enterprise Applications, ERP Systems year-on-year.

Enterprise 98

Enterprise Enterprise SAP Oracle 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

SAP acquired a majority stake in Qualtrics in 2018 for $8 billion with the idea of marrying customer experience management with ERP software systems. In January, SAP said it is also exploring selling its majority stake in Qualtrics to refocus on its core business. Enterprise Applications, SAP

SAP 52

SAP Software Software Enterprise 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2023

“Even though Qualtrics is still a market leader and a strong product, it just didn’t fit very well with SAP’s strategy,” said Hyoun Park, principal analyst at research firm Amalgam Insights. SAP was struggling to integrate Qualtrics sales into its existing environment. Qualtrics, according to Herbert, “presented a distraction” for SAP.

SAP 52

SAP Survey Strategy Research 52