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.

Artificial Intelligence 126

Artificial Intelligence SAP Development Software 126

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 112

SAP Cloud Licensing CTO Hire 112

CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Read Eamonn O’Neill list six steps in which companies can decide which cloud provider is best suited on Cloud Computing: I have worked on SAP engagement for enterprise customers for […].

SAP 182

SAP Cloud Google Enterprise 182

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.

SAP 71

SAP Applications Pharmaceuticals Enterprise 71

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 101

SAP Groups Survey Cloud 101

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.”

SAP 126

SAP Cloud Artificial Intelligence Financial 126

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.

SAP 73

SAP Cloud Engineering Software 73

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 106

SAP Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 106

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 89

SAP Licensing Strategy Cloud 89

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.

SAP 128

SAP IBM Cloud Software 128

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.

SAP 98

SAP Conference Survey Cloud 98

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 120

Oracle Enterprise Enterprise Cloud 120

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.

Oracle 126

Oracle Cloud SAP B2B 126

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.

SAP 90

SAP IBM Applications Telecommunications 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.

SAP 73

SAP Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 73

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.”

SAP 123

SAP Enterprise Enterprise Resources 123

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. Is SAP’s digital assistant mature enough in NLP?

SAP 113

SAP Engineering IBM Artificial Intelligence 113

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.

SAP 117

SAP Applications Energy Cloud 117

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. It’s a must have.

Cloud 98

Cloud Company SAP Case Study 98

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

SAP 82

SAP Cloud Licensing Software 82

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 90

SAP Industry Tools Retail 90

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.

SAP 80

SAP Licensing Cloud Software 80

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. Companies that not only survived but thrived amidst the myriad business challenges show why cloud-first application deployment is a critical component of a retooled IT strategy.

Applications 134

Applications Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 134

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 109

SAP Cloud Transportation Applications 109

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

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

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

JUNE 12, 2024

For some organizations, shifting to the cloud has been a relatively quick race toward highly publicized benefits, such as scalability. Following the merger, the energy company began its digital transformation by unifying the three networks under one ERP system, SAP, with plans to eventually evolve to SAP’s S/4HANA SaaS-based model.

Network 98

Network Cloud Energy System 98

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 107

Oracle Cloud Transportation Business Intelligence 107

CTOvision

AUGUST 11, 2016

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SAP 150

SAP Analysis Security Enterprise 150

Forrester IT

JANUARY 17, 2023

Forrester has analyzed the Q4 2022 earnings announcements of a basket of leading public companies that provide enterprise software including Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, and Workday. Here are some of the key points we heard and inferred: Cloud applications […].

Software 150

Software Software Adobe SAP 150

Venture Beast

AUGUST 16, 2021

SAP has acquired the intellectual property of SwoopTalent, a platform that automatically connects companies' talent systems. Read More.

SAP 140

SAP Resources System Company 140

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

As the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company planned its fiber build plan across its footprint, the company’s IT specialists realized that, with artificial intelligence (AI) emerging as the consummate transformative technology, Brightspeed needed to embrace adoption or fall behind. However, the transition would be challenging.

Internet 80

Internet SAP Google Enterprise 80

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.”

System 125

System SAP Company IBM 125

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.

SAP 72

SAP 3D Automotive Industry 72

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The company offers a suite of enterprise SaaS applications for services companies, including ERP, professional services automation, customer success, and configure-price-quote (CPQ), all built on Salesforce’s software development platform, Force.com. We’re pretty excited about it.”

Company 74

Company SAP Financial Software Development 74

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2024

And that’s all thanks to Beltzer’s decision to give RBC private equity advisors a vertical industry cloud that offered financial services out-of-the-box that are both customizable and extensible. And, with access to features such as Einstein, CIOs choosing industry clouds may be able to accelerate innovation further.

Industry 119

Industry Cloud Healthcare Financial 119