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.

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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.

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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.

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Forrester IT

JULY 28, 2020

SAP just announced its intent to spin off Qualtrics – the $8 billion dollar purchase it made less than two years ago. This moves goes against much of what was said when the acquisition took place, when it was stated that the two companies were bringing together two powerful systems, one operational and one experiential. […].

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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.”

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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. SAP is training its model on anonymized data from thousands of enterprises using its software, with their consent.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2024

More than 120 ‘flavors’ to handle When your company is dealing with today’s volatile market, a variety of products, and a supply chain covering 120+ countries – each with its own rules and processes – demand planning, including forecasting, can get a bit gut-wrenching. As a result, the company was able to check off that wish list.

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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. Christ also said generative AI is key to the company’s growth.

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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.” These estimates and averages just aren’t sufficient any longer,” he 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.

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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. Joule is just one of three main layers in SAP’s AI strategy, said Sandhu.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

SAP is reshuffling its executive board to place even more emphasis on serving its cloud customers. Many of them are increasingly unable to adopt SAP’s innovations because they’re simply not made available to them. The proportion was similar among members of DSAG, the German-speaking SAP User Group.

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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.” Irnich believes the speed of innovation in telecoms will quadruple in the next five year.

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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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Dataconomy

JANUARY 24, 2024

Having a rigorous SAP security strategy in place is important to control access to a business’s sensitive data and monitor the SAP environment for unusual activity and potential threats. This article will go through what exactly SAP security is and why it is a critical component of cyber security. What is SAP security?

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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

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. Sun replaces Feiyu Xu as SAP’s global head of AI. She joined the company in 2020, after a three-year stint in a similar role at Lenovo. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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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. 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.

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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. Bucking the trend?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 30, 2022

Russian corporations believe they can replace software from Western vendors such as SAP with solutions they have developed themselves. Rostelecom is one of the largest telecommunications companies in Russia with more than 140,000 employees. Meanwhile, thousands of IT specialists are leaving the country.

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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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Forrester IT

MAY 17, 2017

SAP Ariba & IBM today announced a partnership that had been a rumour for a few days now. Part of the deal includes IBM gradually retiring Emptoris and encouraging its customers to migrate to SAP Ariba. It's an ambitious move by SAP Ariba. The partnership makes sense for both companies. Read more Categories: IBM.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

SAP has offered its customers in Russia the option to move their cloud data out of the country before its data centers there are shut down, according to Ukrainian news portal The Kyiv Independent. In a March 23 letter from SAP’s executive board, the Walldorf-based company gave its Russian clients three options to choose from.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2020

SAP announced Sunday that it will spin out its Qualtrics unit with an IPO, less than two years after acquiring the experience management company for $8 billion. SAP plans to maintain majority ownership of Qualtrics, which is co-headquartered in Provo, Utah, and Seattle. SAP previously acquired Bellevue, Wash.-based

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 16, 2021

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

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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 […].

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Forrester IT

JUNE 26, 2020

Adobe strives to be an enterprise software company with the same reach and influence as Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Salesforce. It successfully pivoted its creative tools business into a proper SaaS offering.

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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. SAP, Technology Industry billion, which is up 12.7% year-on-year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2022

These days, the town of Walldorf is not really in the mood to celebrate — even though the managers of SAP, which is headquartered there, have every reason to do so. After all, the software giant can look back on 50 years of successful company history. So the company should be in party mood for its 50th birthday.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 6, 2023

Achieving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets can increase a company’s worth beyond the feel-good. When it’s done right, it can increase company valuation with investors, open windows to subsidies, gain favorable supplier ratings with customers, and make companies attract and retain talent.

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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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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. However, the company has a long way to go. billion (US$7.72

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

headquartered in Argentina with offices in Spain and Brazil, has made its mission to provide intelligent agribusiness solutions to help farmers and companies. And BIT is using SAP software as the seed to make those operations more efficient, sustainable, and productive. Argobit is built on the SAP Business Technology Platform.

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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. Many companies encourage employees to set aside blocks of time each day for “deep work,” and some even automate that process using tools such as Microsoft Outlook’s focus time feature, part of Viva Insights.

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Computer Weekly

MAY 5, 2017

Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev says it intends to defend “vigorously” against software licensing claims by SAP

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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. They’ve been an SAP customer for over 20 years and recently selected RISE with SAP to transform in the cloud. It’s easy to see why. It’s a must have. Every journey is different.

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