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. That’s a big investment effort that we’re making at SAP.”

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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. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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SAP Groups Survey Cloud 111

TM Forum

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Vodafone’s migration of its SAP system to Google Cloud is the latest step in its radical IT transformation. Dubbed Evo2Cloud, Google describes it as “one of the largest and one of the most complex SAP migrations in EMEA.” Google in a blog.

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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. ServiceNow, the last to announce, will likely be the first to deliver.

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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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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 113

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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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 121

Forrester IT

MAY 21, 2018

Here are a few thoughts from the SAP Leonardo Center launch in Singapore in early May. The good news: since we last reported on Leonardo, SAP is clearer about what Leonardo actually is, and has more mature messaging and interesting customer examples to share. Leonardo itself, though, continues to be a work in progress.

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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

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?

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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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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. Merging app ecosystems.

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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. Because of the way SAP is positioning RISE in the market, organizations must also re-evaluate their cloud strategy. It is important to require a detailed infrastructure prospective from SAP.

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SAP Architecture Licensing Strategy 87

CTOvision

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Read Matt Hines explain how CipherCloud offerings protect cloud applications on Security Boulevard : It goes without saying that your own organization’s most strategic cloud application is the most important […].

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SAP Security Applications Cloud 276

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 132

Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Given the current rate of client conversion, fewer than 50% of SAP ECC customers will have completed their transformation to S/4 by 2027. Furthermore, about 13,000 ECC customers are on EHPs 0–5, with support only up to 2025 and calling for an even more urgent decision on the future of their ERP. Moreover, 90% of […]

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 21, 2022

SAP announced its Q2 2022 results yesterday, reporting revenue of €7.5 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. The Applications, Technology and Services segment was up 11% to €7.1

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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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Computer Weekly

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

SAP is acting in an anti-competitive manner and could be in breach of the US Sherman Act, according to a Duke University School of Law professor

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IT Toolbox

JUNE 18, 2016

SAP's customers have many choices about how they choose to manage application data but in my view, many of them (the customers that is) don't look at all the data objects that the business users manage. But the reality is a stark contrast to this incredibly narrow view of SAP application data and the management thereof.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 6, 2018

Three announcements impacting CRM came out of SAP Sapphire, held in Orlando on June 4-7. The announcements are: A renewed focus on CRM in order for SAP to be considered a viable player in the $45B CRM market. SAP’s cloud CRM (formerly known as SAP Hybris Cloud For Customer) is renamed SAP C/4 HANA.

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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. 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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Computer Weekly

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database

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SAP Licensing Applications 225

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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2022

SAP, for example, has launched its RISE offering , including reimagined partnerships with AWS, Google, and Microsoft as well as its consulting partners such as Accenture and IBM to bring a vertically integrated solution to market. Choosing SAP S/4HANA RISE vs. perpetual license model. Establishing an SAP partner strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 6, 2023

PwC set about building an innovative application to check the clients’ value chain. They decided to tap into the SAP Business Network which has connections with over 40 million suppliers around the world. The PwC risk methodology provides continuous monitoring and analysis of 13 thematic areas including child labor and slavery, etc.

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SAP Analysis Applications Artificial Intelligence 78

Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

The trigger is the SAP vs Diageo verdict , which generated a lot of hysterical blogging and tweeting with dire predictions for SAP customers. IMO most commentators have overlooked the crucial parts of the judgment and therefore significantly overstated the case's negative implications for SAP customers. Software licesning.

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SAP Licensing Software Software 240

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?

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Computer Weekly

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Blinds manufacturer Hillarys, a long-time SAP customer and Hana advocate, has revealed the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications to be the operating system underlying its stack

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SAP Linux Enterprise Enterprise 163

Computer Weekly

JUNE 22, 2017

Survey finds many SAP users are considering augmenting their existing enterprise resource planning with cloud applications rather than go to S/4 Hana

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SAP Survey Resources Applications 223

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 105

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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Venture Beast

JUNE 2, 2021

SAP this week expanded its portfolio of cloud-based applications and services to accelerate digital business transformation. Read More.

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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. In the UK and Ireland, 89% of SAP customers are either using or planning to use S/4HANA, up from 74% in 2021, according to a survey conducted for the UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG).

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SAP Groups Survey Training 84

CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

FastCompany published a good overview of SAP NS2 and some of their use of artificial intelligence capabilities titled "SAP NS2 Targets Terrorism with AI". SAP National Security Services , which describes itself as an independent subsidiary of the German-based software giant that’s operated by U.S. Marty Meehan.

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SAP Artificial Intelligence Big Data Media 150

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. What’s more, adds Mishra, many organizations are likely to encounter a “long-tail” of interdependencies between applications and infrastructure that requires special expertise to unravel.

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