CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

SAP and Nvidia announced an expanded partnership today with an eye to deliver the accelerated computing that customers need in order to adopt large language models (LLMs) and generative AI at scale. Herzig notes that SAP has a large ecosystem of partners and various LLM providers, with new LLMs popping up seemingly every day. “We

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SAP Artificial Intelligence Policies Enterprise 96

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

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SAP Cloud Artificial Intelligence Financial 125

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. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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SAP Groups Survey Cloud 105

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.

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SAP IBM Applications Telecommunications 95

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.

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SAP Oracle Government Software 89

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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SAP Conference Survey Cloud 101

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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SAP Tools Enterprise Enterprise 128

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.

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SAP Enterprise Enterprise Resources 130

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. SAP has made a number of moves since then to help enterprises make the move.

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SAP Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 107

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

CGA also has its own SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for day-to-day activities, including accounting and project management. Time for cruise control with SAP CGA turned to SAP Build Process Automation to accelerate and streamline the integration. So, 32 brands mean 32 different DMS systems to handle.

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Automotive SAP Groups System 96

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to Danone’s demand planning manager in Italy, while SAP IBP offers advanced technology, the manager’s group has found the solution easy to use, which has helped increase the group’s productivity. “As Package facts’ Currently, 42% of Danone demand planning is handled in SAP IBP. Digital Transformation

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SAP Data Analysis Company 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. “We

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SAP Cloud Licensing CTO Hire 115

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. One of the unique aspects of SAP is it has a vast portfolio of applications,” Sandhu said. “We

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SAP Applications Energy Cloud 116

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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SAP Engineering IBM Artificial Intelligence 111

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

SAP is reshuffling its executive board to place even more emphasis on serving its cloud customers. Many of them are increasingly unable to adopt SAP’s innovations because they’re simply not made available to them. The proportion was similar among members of DSAG, the German-speaking SAP User Group.

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SAP Cloud Engineering Software 81

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 21, 2023

Since SAP RISE came to the market, it seems that SAP’s goal is to force organizations into a relatively unproven and inflexible RISE model. To do so, they are obfuscating reality, limiting transparency, and changing their historic business practices to make RISE appear financially superior to the traditional perpetual license models.

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SAP Architecture Licensing Strategy 85

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

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SAP Microsoft CTO Hire Artificial Intelligence 102

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.

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SAP IBM Cloud Software 129

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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SAP Industry Tools Retail 93

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

Dear SAP Support, I don’t think we should see each other anymore. You call it your “RISE with SAP” program. They’ll even provide managed services for our SAP cloud products, including Ariba, Concur, SuccessFactors, and others. It’s not you; it’s me. No … wait … it’s mostly you. We now want different things. So, keep writing it.

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SAP Software Software Programming 90

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. Bucking the trend?

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SAP Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 81

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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SAP Licensing Cloud Software 95

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2023

In April 1972, entrepreneurs Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira, and Hans-Werner Hector started an amazing innovation journey, which culminated in SAP’s 50th anniversary celebration in 2022. Together with our customers and partners, we are happy to celebrate the 10 th Anniversary of the SAP Innovation Awards.

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SAP Programming Agile Resources 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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SAP Data Center Energy Cloud 98

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This is why I hold the annual SAP Innovation Awards very dear to my heart. This program celebrates and honors the world’s best innovators and disruptors that utilize SAP solutions to help the world run better. To see the power of SAP technology brought to life by organizations to serve different use cases is very fulfilling.

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SAP Energy Resources Programming 101

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.

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SAP 3D Automotive Industry 79

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. With the help of SAP SuccessFactors solutions, he said, they are now able to recruit the top talent with the digital skills Rostelecom needs. IT specialists leave Russia.

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SAP Telecommunications Oracle Software 106

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. Half a century is an eternity in the otherwise fast-moving IT and software business. The appeal met with a sympathetic hearing at SAP.

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SAP Software Software Groups 109

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 29, 2023

First and foremost, on behalf of SAP, we would like to thank all the SAP Innovation Awards 2023 participants for their hard work showcasing the many ways they are delivering impact within their businesses! Celebrating the Finalists SAP On that note, I would like to give a very well-deserved “Congratulations!”

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SAP Enterprise Enterprise Media 93

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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SAP Data Data Center Business Continuity 96

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 88

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

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SAP Cloud Licensing Software 89

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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SAP Meeting Transportation Cloud 87

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2022

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Focus: That will be the new work week for SAP in Germany beginning May 20, 2022. SAP, though, is taking that one step further by inviting employees to avoid scheduling meetings on Fridays and to use the time instead to clear their to-do lists.

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SAP Meeting CTO Hire Software Development 91

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.

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SAP Report Survey Architecture 103

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2022

At the same time, CIOs are working to reshape the business of IT, driving their organizations to the cloud and to new delivery and operating models. . Meanwhile, AWS, GCP, and Microsoft are partnering with consultants to present holistic cloud migration and application modernization strategies beyond SAP.

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SAP Strategy Licensing Business Transformation 77

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. However, SAP’s recent exit from Russia will see the company take an expected revenue hit of around €300 million. The company’s cloud revenue climbed 31% to €2.8 billion (US$3.02 billion from €6.4

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SAP Cloud Software Software 94