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Dear SAP Support – We’ve Grown Apart

CIO Business Intelligence

Dear SAP Support, I don’t think we should see each other anymore. You know my budget is tight; I can’t afford that. 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. End of the road.

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SAP user groups see pick-up in migration to S/4HANA

CIO Business Intelligence

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’s new generative AI pricing: Neither transparent nor explainable yet

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprises subscribing to Rise with SAP, a bundle of services wrapped around the core S/4HANA Cloud ERP application, can now pay extra for Premium Plus, a package of some of SAP’s newest innovations. Different actions will consume varying numbers of these units. In other words, uncertainty abounds.

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Madrona leads $4.9M round for Stratify, a new fintech startup that aims to automate budgeting

GeekWire

He previously spent 12 years at Deutsche Bank and nearly four years at Concur, the travel expense giant that sold to SAP for $8.3 The startup aims to automate the budgeting and forecasting process, replacing legacy software used by various types of companies. billion in 2014.

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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

CIO Business Intelligence

The version of their SAP ERP system was out of support and the SAP instance they chose wasn’t available as an on-premise capable, supported hardware platform. This is especially true for an industrial facility where the IT budget constantly competes with the budget for the machines and vehicles used for product production.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Business analysts need a “strong understanding of regulatory and reporting requirements as well as plenty of experience in forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis combined with understanding of key performance indicators,” according to Robert Half Technology.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Max Chan, CIO, Avnet. Improving Avnet’s quoting process was among the first tasks the development team tackled.

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