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SAP names Philipp Herzig as chief artificial intelligence officer

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SAP is reorganizing its AI activities. Herzig now reports directly to CEO Christian Klein, and will oversee the entire value chain for SAP business AI from research and product development through to implementation at the customer. Herzig’s team will work closely with other innovators within SAP. percent of the total workforce.

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SAP doubles down on cloud-first innovation with executive reshuffle

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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.

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SAP user group: S/4HANA usage is growing, but still in the minority

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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.

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SAP and Nvidia expand partnership to aid customers with gen AI

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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 announces $2.2B restructuring program that’ll impact 8,000 jobs

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German tech major SAP has announced a 2 billion euro ($2.17 In 2024, SAP will further increase its focus on key strategic growth areas, in particular Business AI. Analysts believe the restructuring will help SAP find the right balance between experience and skills to grow in AI. billion Euros ($9.2 billion Euros ($2.72

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

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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. The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available.

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SAP faces breakdown in trust over innovation plans

CIO Business Intelligence

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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