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SAP forecasts clarity in the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Christian Klein: I understand there’s some reluctance among [German-speaking SAP user group] DSAG and some other customers to embrace the cloud. SAP has a legacy of on-premise systems. We’ve made a long-term maintenance commitment for on-premise applications. In the past, many SAP users have customized their systems extensively.

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SAP 2024 outlook: 5 predictions for customers

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

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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.

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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

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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?”.

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Business AI will change the way businesses are run

CIO Business Intelligence

However, we at SAP are not entering this race as newcomers. And as part of this, we recently launched SAP Joule , a generative AI assistant that will be embedded throughout the SAP cloud portfolio. Of course, the real value of business AI comes from knowing how to apply AI to solve specific business problems.

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Avnet’s outside-in approach to cloud ERP migration pays dividends

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To better serve its industrial customers, it began building its first automated warehouses in the mid-1980s, run on homegrown logistics software, and then about 30 years ago put SAP’s ERP system at the heart of its business. Peter Robinson, VP of IT for the Americas and global applications, Avnet. Max Chan, CIO, Avnet.

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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO Business Intelligence

Boot camps can be anything from traditional workshops held over the course of a few days or full-fledged, instructor-led courses that run for weeks or months at a time. Courses are often offered both in-person and online; alternatively, your organization might bring a boot camp to the company to run a four-day workshop.

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