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. The company had 107,602 full-time employees at the end of December 2023. Last year, the company announced that it would be cutting 3,000 jobs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Accenture was going through a period most companies would envy. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

SAP is reorganizing its AI activities. Philipp Herzig, formerly head of cross-product engineering and experience, now leads a new “end-to-end growth area” focused on AI as the company’s chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Herzig’s team will work closely with other innovators within SAP.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. What does a business intelligence analyst do? The role is becoming increasingly important as organizations move to capitalize on the volumes of data they collect through business intelligence strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2024

SAP CEO Christian Klein kicked off the company’s Sapphire customer conference with the promise of a real productivity boost from AI. For Europe’s largest software company, AI is currently the linchpin of its entire product strategy. A central component of this is SAP’s AI bot Joule, which it introduced last year.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

SAP is reshuffling its executive board to place even more emphasis on serving its cloud customers. To prioritize innovation adoption in the cloud will annoy some of SAP’s most faithful customers. Many of them are increasingly unable to adopt SAP’s innovations because they’re simply not made available to them.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Ever since SAP CEO Christian Klein (pictured) told financial analysts in July that the company would only offer its latest AI and “green ledger” innovations to customers running its flagship S/4HANA ERP platform through its subscription-only, cloud-based Rise with SAP offering, the company has been on the back foot.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

SAP is offering on-premises S/4HANA users a credit of 60% of their first year’s fees if they migrate to its all-in-one cloud-based offering, Rise with SAP. In Q4 of 2023, when SAP sales staff were allowed to offer the 60% credit on a case-by-case basis, the carrot proved persuasive. “We It seemed to hit the right spot.”

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2024

SAP has won another convert to its Rise with SAP managed software offering. Deutsche Telekom intends to migrate systems used by its European operating companies to Rise over the next two years. It’s already five years since the company embarked on its ERP modernization journey.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2022

IBM is six months into a massive ERP modernization, moving core on-premises systems to Power servers running in its own cloud as it upgrades them from SAP’s legacy ECC software to the cloud-ready S/4HANA. In February 2022, SAP named IBM as its first premium supplier for Rise. Largest business segment first.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

SAP has unveiled new tools to build AI into business applications across its software platform, including new development tools, database functionality, AI services, and enhancements to its Business Technology Platform, BTP. Other companies don’t have the business data at their fingertips to build such a model,” Sun said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 27, 2023

First came the carrot of lower costs in the cloud with the bundled Rise with SAP offering. SAP said Thursday it will raise the cost of support for users of its on-premises software for the second year in a row, just days after announcing plans to withhold future innovations in its products from on-prem customers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

When speaking with IT leaders from the world’s largest companies about their greatest business challenges, there’s one thing I hear often. The same is true when it comes to resiliency planning. Today, businesses have a golden opportunity to do this by moving their ERP systems to the cloud. It’s easy to see why.

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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. Additionally, it can improve customer response times and free up service agents to deal with complex customer issues or scenarios, the company said.

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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. Joule is just one of three main layers in SAP’s AI strategy, said Sandhu.

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SAP Applications Energy Cloud 119

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. Cloud revenue alone rose 38% to €3.28 billion (US$7.72

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

German software group SAP reported first-quarter revenue growth of 11% for 2022 on Friday, driven in large part by its cloud business. The company’s cloud revenue climbed 31% to €2.8 billion) in the first quarter of 2022, while revenue for its S/4HANA cloud software was €400 million, up 78% year-on-year.

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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.

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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. What we’re trying to do is move companies from these averages to actuals.” These estimates and averages just aren’t sufficient any longer,” he said.

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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.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 21, 2022

SAP announced its Q2 2022 results yesterday, reporting revenue of €7.5 However, it was not all good news for the German business software group. SAP’s IFRS operating profit was down 32% to €673 million and its non-IFRS profit was down 13% to €1.68 In its Q2 statement, SAP said it still expects to see those losses.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

SAP has offered its customers in Russia the option to move their cloud data out of the country before its data centers there are shut down, according to Ukrainian news portal The Kyiv Independent. In a March 23 letter from SAP’s executive board, the Walldorf-based company gave its Russian clients three options to choose from.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

SAP has given CIOs another reason to consider moving to the cloud: rising support costs for on-premises software. The company will raise the cost of its SAP Standard Support, SAP Enterprise Support, and SAP Product Support for Large Enterprises contracts for existing customers from January 1, 2023.

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SAP Licensing Cloud Software 89

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2022

These days, the town of Walldorf is not really in the mood to celebrate — even though the managers of SAP, which is headquartered there, have every reason to do so. After all, the software giant can look back on 50 years of successful company history. So the company should be in party mood for its 50th birthday.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 30, 2022

Russian corporations believe they can replace software from Western vendors such as SAP with solutions they have developed themselves. Rostelecom is one of the largest telecommunications companies in Russia with more than 140,000 employees. Meanwhile, thousands of IT specialists are leaving the country.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Cloud doesn’t just open the door to enabling advanced technologies like AI, hyper-automation, and big data analytics – it unlocks a complex realm of costs and expense management problems that can threaten innovation and its financial sustainability. This is the first and most essential step for mastering today’s cloud economics.

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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.

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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. While companies are aware they need to invest in Industry 4.0 SAP is in charge of many initiatives in the industry,” says Saueressig, specifically naming two examples.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

headquartered in Argentina with offices in Spain and Brazil, has made its mission to provide intelligent agribusiness solutions to help farmers and companies. And BIT is using SAP software as the seed to make those operations more efficient, sustainable, and productive. Argobit is built on the SAP Business Technology Platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For the ERP, Kyndryl went with SAP, the same platform used by IBM, although it’s possible that Bradshaw’s 30 years of experience with SAP weighed as heavily as IBM’s history with it. Kyndryl is now running a clean version of S/4HANA Cloud private edition on Microsoft Azure. And that was pretty much our decision.”

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