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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

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 poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO Business Intelligence

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 trials meeting-free Fridays

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Embrace the Generative AI revolution: a guide to integrating Generative AI into your operations

CIO Business Intelligence

With relevant, reliable, and responsible Business AI, we can use this new toolbox to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, and redefine industries. As CTO of SAP, I witness firsthand the potential business benefits and ground-breaking use cases that GenAI brings to the table.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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How 3 Digital Champions Tackle Real-Time Data Challenges

CIO Business Intelligence

To the chief technology officer of SupPlant, which supplies farmers with critical agronomic insights, the more real-time weather, plant, soil, and water data the company’s solution can gather, the bigger the improvements in crop yield and productivity for customers. SupPlant Revital Kremer is greedy for data.

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How Pick n Pay’s migration to the cloud is paying off

CIO Business Intelligence

Critical to the success of the migration was AWS premier consulting partner Lemongrass, which enabled Pick n Pay to migrate its mission-critical SAP (including SAP S/4HANA) and non-SAP workloads to AWS, and provide the ability to manage these workloads with the highest levels of automation and agility.

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