Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the waters of enterprise software, ships like IBM, Microsoft, and SAP are well-known names. Singer and pianist Little Richard once said: “It’s not the size of the ship; it’s the size of the Waves”. Their size, breadth of coverage, brand recognition, and market influence reflect their success. As does their revenue.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They have mutually decided to go their separate ways, SAP said in a statement. At SAP’s Annual General Meeting on May 15, 2024, Renjen will also step down from his seat on the company’s supervisory board, which he only took up at last year’s AGM. With 67-year-old Ala-Pietilä, SAP believes it has found the right man.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

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. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the waters of enterprise software, ships like IBM, Microsoft, and SAP are well-known names. Singer and pianist Little Richard once said: “It’s not the size of the ship; it’s the size of the Waves”. Their size, breadth of coverage, brand recognition, and market influence reflect their success. As does their revenue.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

SAP announced today a host of new AI copilot and AI governance features for SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). With today’s announcements, SAP is building on that vision. Nearly every customer has an information architecture that expands beyond SAP. That hasn’t always been the case,” Menninger said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

SAP customers have a lot to navigate in 2024. Here are five predictions about what will play out for SAP customers as the year goes on, along with follow-on effects and questions SAP customers will have to address in their wake.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

India’s premier investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has filed a charge sheet against former Air India Chief Managing Director, SAP India, and IBM India for alleged irregularities in acquiring an ERP solution by Air India in 2011. Enterprise Applications, IBM, 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.

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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. 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

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

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SAP Cloud Artificial Intelligence Financial 128

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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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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Venture Beast

JANUARY 12, 2022

Though SAP works to secure the supply chain and provides basic zero trust for its infrastructure, they fall short of what enterprises need. Read More.

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SAP Enterprise Enterprise Security 98

Venture Beast

JANUARY 22, 2021

Microsoft and SAP are expanding their partnership in a move that will see Microsoft Teams integrated into SAP's suite of products. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2024

SAP has won another convert to its Rise with SAP managed software offering. Self-service In Deutsche Telekom’s case its IT services subsidiary, T-Systems, is an SAP premium supplier for Rise and operates its own private cloud, Future Cloud Infrastructure (FCI), in which to host its parent’s applications.

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SAP IBM Applications Telecommunications 98

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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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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CTOvision

JULY 2, 2015

Just announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA has expanded their availability to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA offers an open, integrated and highly available platform. Samsung and Red Hat team on mobile enterprise apps (fortune.com). Read more on MarketWatch.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

CGA also has its own SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for day-to-day activities, including accounting and project management. Time for cruise control with SAP CGA turned to SAP Build Process Automation to accelerate and streamline the integration. So, 32 brands mean 32 different DMS systems to handle.

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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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Computerworld Vertical IT

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Apple recently told us that SAP has now deployed tens of thousands of Macs across its business, so I caught up with SAP Vice President for Product Engineering Mobile Experience Martin Lang to talk about Apple in the enterprise , the move to hybrid work and the need for employee choice.

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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 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. One of the unique aspects of SAP is it has a vast portfolio of applications,” Sandhu said. “We

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SAP Applications Energy Cloud 119

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. In May 2023, around the time Xu announced her intention to leave the company, SAP said it would embed IBM’s Watson AI technology into its products. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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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

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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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

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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

As the company grew and expanded into new markets and services, its legacy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system became increasingly complex, costly, and inflexible. Large enterprises often have expansive landscapes, with legacy systems that stand in the way of speed, agility, and innovation.”

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

ERP giant SAP wants all its customers to migrate to its new platform S/4HANA, but it's a time consuming and expensive process. So the company is extending maintenance on its earlier platform.

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

SAP has announced a package of technologies and services under a single contract designed to ease enterprise CIOs' paths to digital transformation and its flagship software S/4HANA in the cloud.

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