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Here’s How To Get Your S/4HANA Migration Plans Under Control
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Given the current rate of client conversion, fewer than 50% of SAP ECC customers will have completed their transformation to S/4 by 2027. Furthermore, about 13,000 ECC customers are on EHPs 0–5, with support only up to 2025 and calling for an even more urgent decision on the future of their ERP. Moreover, 90% of […]
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SAP enhances Datasphere and SAC for AI-driven transformation
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. Customers should be encouraged.
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SAP HANA: A Fantasy Football Use Case
CTOvision
JUNE 22, 2015
In 2013, the NFL launched an enhanced fantasy football analytics platform, powered by SAP, that provides users with real-time insights to help them make more informed decisions as they manage their teams, and offers a competitive edge as they face off with others in their league. New IBM-SAP Sales-Kit for Business Partner available (ibm.com).
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SAP, IBM Consulting partner to offer genAI-based services
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 9, 2024
IBM’s consulting arm and SAP are partnering to offer generative AI -based services to enterprises to help accelerate digital transformation. The partnership, announced on Wednesday, will see both companies offer generative AI-based services via RISE with SAP offering , the companies said in a statement.
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Vodafone accelerates IT transformation with migration of SAP to cloud
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.” Google in a blog.
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SAP unveils tools to help enterprises build their own gen AI apps
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. That’s a big investment effort that we’re making at SAP.”
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SAP forecasts clarity in the cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 7, 2024
Christian Klein: I understand there’s some reluctance among [German-speaking SAP user group] DSAG and some other customers to embrace the cloud. SAP has a legacy of on-premise systems. We’ve made a long-term maintenance commitment for on-premise applications. In the past, many SAP users have customized their systems extensively.
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SAP to buy LeanIX to advance process optimization with AI
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. LeanIX has been a partner to SAP Signavio for quite some time.
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SAP and Nvidia expand partnership to aid customers with gen AI
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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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. Making it easier to evaluate existing architecture against long-term goals.
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Hasso Plattner stepping down signals another turning point at SAP
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 15, 2024
It’s difficult to imagine SAP without Hasso Plattner, who’s been there from the beginning and has significantly shaped the fortunes of Europe’s largest software manufacturer for more than five decades as founder, board of directors member, and, most recently, as chairman of the supervisory board. Our startup phase lasted about 10 to 15 years.”
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3 benefits of engaging hyperscalers when evaluating SAP RISE
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 21, 2023
Since SAP RISE came to the market, it seems that SAP’s goal is to force organizations into a relatively unproven and inflexible RISE model. Because of the way SAP is positioning RISE in the market, organizations must also re-evaluate their cloud strategy.
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Lack of IT alignment hampers migration to SAP S/4HANA, report says
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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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 16, 2022
Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. What could be worse than to plan for an event that requires the scaling of an application’s infrastructure only to have it all fall flat on its face when the time comes?”.
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Accenture’s cloud migration sets standard for other large businesses
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 29, 2024
‘Rising’ to transformation Accenture has been a long-standing partner of SAP, using its ERP solutions to manage its core business processes, such as finance and procurement. Beyond that, re-solutioning legacy custom code to leverage extensibility has provided its own benefits.
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Groundbreaking HR solution earns BT Group unique SAP Innovation Award honor
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 7, 2023
The Group was dependent on a complex HR technology architecture driving inconsistent, manual processes – forcing HR teams to engage in time-consuming tasks like completing Word and Excel documents, emails, and phoning colleagues. Both companies already had a long history with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software leader SAP.
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9 business intelligence certifications to advance your BI career
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 7, 2022
BI analysts, with an average salary of $71,493 according to PayScale , provide application analysis and data modeling design for centralized data warehouses and extract data from databases and data warehouses for reporting, among other tasks. Each applicant is given 90 minutes to complete each 110-question exam. Organization: SAP.
Riled by SAP’s AI policy, customers issue list of demands
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Many SAP customers are still looking for the transformation melody that suits them. This was once again made clear at this year’s annual congress of the German-speaking SAP user group (DSAG) , which the organizers held under the motto “Triad of the future: users, SAP, and partners as the pacesetters of transformation.”
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Nearly 25% of SAP ECC customers unsure about their future
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 6, 2024
The future of SAP architectures is hybrid. But according to a survey conducted by the Financials subgroup of the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG), where exactly the journey will go has not yet been decided for many organizations. One quarter (24%) are seeking to migrate to S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition with RISE with SAP.
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In transition: How Kyndryl’s CIO weaned the company off IBM’s systems
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
For the ERP, Kyndryl went with SAP, the same platform used by IBM, although it’s possible that Bradshaw’s 30 years of experience with SAP weighed as heavily as IBM’s history with it. Living in the platform The move to a greenfield SAP system illustrates what Bradshaw means by “living in the platform.”
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German Federal Foreign Office uses AI to get personal
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2024
In keeping with the times, this would be the agency’s first cloud-native development, an approach to building, deploying, and managing applications in a cloud computing environment, ensuring scale, durability, and elasticity. SAP’s Malware Scanning System scans all files before storing them.
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SAP/HANA Does Big Data for National Security
Cloud Musings
MAY 13, 2015
Carmen Krueger, SAP NS2 SVP & GM While SAP is globally renowned as a provider of enterprise management software, the name is hardly ever associated with the spooky world of intelligence. That is one reason why I jumped at the opportunity to talk with SAP executives responsible for the company’s work in that clandestine marketplace.
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SAP/HANA Does Big Data for National Security
Cloud Musings
MAY 13, 2015
Carmen Krueger, SAP NS2 SVP & GM While SAP is globally renowned as a provider of enterprise management software, the name is hardly ever associated with the spooky world of intelligence. That is one reason why I jumped at the opportunity to talk with SAP executives responsible for the company’s work in that clandestine marketplace.
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5 Driving Forces of Global Professional Services
Trends in the Living Networks
MAY 9, 2011
A little while ago I co-authored a White Paper for SAP titled Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability , focused on large professional services organisations. Source : Service Delivery Innovation SAP White Paper. Evolving technology architecture. Increasingly sophisticated clients.
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Accelleron turbocharges harmonized data management
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 19, 2024
In that time frame, Accelleron was expected to migrate its entire enterprise resource planning (ERP) structure – including 23 SAP ECC 6 systems in more than 40 countries – from the ABB to the Accelleron ecosystem. Both ABB and Accenture shared a relationship with SAP, the world’s leading ERP software vendor.
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SAP seeks to make builders of business technologists
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
SAP’s new platform, SAP Build, aims to give business technologists — or builders, as SAP calls them — secure access to business processes and data to augment enterprise applications and automate processes through a drag-and-drop interface, while letting CIOs manage that access.
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The targeted approach to cloud and data CIOs need for ROI gains
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Our digital transformation has coincided with the strengthening of the B2C online sales activity and, from an architectural point of view, with a strong migration to the cloud,” says Vibram global DTC director Alessandro Pacetti. SAP S/4HANA in the RISE version has more innovations and features than the on-premise version,” says Paleari.
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In a changing world, LEOCH sets enterprise automation standard
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 17, 2024
While enterprise resource planning (ERP) had existed for three decades, its architecture and implementations were designed in a different era, before the globalization of the economy and supply chains, and the advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing.
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Avnet’s outside-in approach to cloud ERP migration pays dividends
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 11, 2022
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. Peter Robinson, VP of IT for the Americas and global applications, Avnet. Max Chan, CIO, Avnet.
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How to talk to your board about tech debt
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 2, 2024
The more strategic concern isn’t just the cost— it’s that technical debt is affecting companies’ abilities to create new business, and saps the means to respond to shifting market conditions. While CIOs understand the crushing weight of technical debt — now costing US companies $2.41
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10 master data management certifications that will pay off
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Developer, Professional Certification Mastering Data Management and Technology SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP Master Data Governance The Art of Service Master Data Management Certification The Art of Service Master Data Management Complete Certification Kit validates the candidate’s knowledge of specific methods, models, and tools in MDM.
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SAP rounds out data warehouse cloud functionality, renamed Datasphere
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 8, 2023
It’s part of SAP’s move to become a more significant player in the business data fabric space, said Irfan Khan, SAP’s chief product officer for its HANA database and analytics. Khan said SAP is going beyond the usual capabilities of a data fabric by preserving the business context of the data it carries. “We
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A feat of skill: Moving SAP workloads to the cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 13, 2023
Moving SAP workloads to the cloud promises to be transformational, but it’s not for the faint of heart. What’s more, adds Mishra, many organizations are likely to encounter a “long-tail” of interdependencies between applications and infrastructure that requires special expertise to unravel.
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IBM Cognos: Established Business Intelligence Player
CTOvision
MARCH 13, 2015
This support enables interoperability with leading commercial Hadoop offerings, such as IBM InfoSphere® BigInsights™, Cloudera, Apache, Hortonworks, and Amazon Web Services Elastic Map-Reduce, along with popular analytic data stores, including IBM DB2® BLU and SAP HANA. Common data view from all interfaces. Extensibility.
Pay for in-demand IT skills rises fastest in 14 years
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 28, 2022
Other skills with fast-rising premiums included WebSphere MQ, Apache Ant, Azure Cosmos DB, DataRobot enterprise AI platform, Tibco BusinessWorks, RedHat OpenShift, Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager and SharePoint Server, mobile operating systems, and a clutch of SAP technologies. Among them, only TensorFlow and SRE fell.).
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CIOs take note: Platform engineering teams are the future core of IT orgs
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 19, 2024
BSH’s previous infrastructure and operations teams, which supported the European appliance manufacturer’s application development groups, simply acted as suppliers of infrastructure services for the software development organizations. They may also ensure consistency in terms of processes, architecture, security, and technical governance.
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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 24, 2023
The Business Application Research Center (BARC) warns that data governance is a highly complex, ongoing program, not a “big bang initiative,” and it runs the risk of participants losing trust and interest over time. As a practice, it is about establishing systematic, formal control over these processes and responsibilities.
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IFS to acquire enterprise asset management firm Ultimo
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 8, 2022
To help meet demand from enterprises that are shifting asset management methods from legacy applications to cloud-based technology, ERP provider IFS has signed an agreement to acquire Netherlands-based enterprise asset management (EAM) software firm Ultimo. Enterprise Applications, ERP Systems
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10 most powerful ERP vendors today
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2024
Back-office ERP systems are gaining strategic importance as organizations seek to digitize and automate business processes, modernize their application stack, migrate to the cloud, and accelerate the speed of business. In terms of market share, there’s a clear demarcation between the Big 3 — SAP, Oracle, Microsoft — and everyone else.
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Boomi burnishes API management capabilities
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 10, 2024
The Boomi AI Agent Framework allows the automation of repetitive application integration administration tasks. Boomi’s iPaaS (integration-platform-as-a-service) technology creates a platform that allows organizations to move data between different cloud-based applications, databases, and other workloads. APIs, PaaS
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IBM is using VMware Cloud Foundation to help enterprises address challenges and accelerate innovation
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 20, 2024
IBM and VMware understand that each client has a unique business, IT process and applications,” says Badlaney. Clients can leverage thousands of hardware profiles and storage options without having to re-architect their existing applications, allowing for control of their data and where it resides.
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Kyndryl bets on partnerships, consulting arm to redeem itself
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Other collaborations include partnerships with software providers such as Cisco, Red Hat, Veritas, SAP, Oracle, Nokia, and Veeam. Kyndryl Consult has also expanded its existing partnerships with hyperscalers, such as Google Cloud, to ready itself to deliver on generative AI, Slaga said.
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What is product lifecycle management? Organizing the development process
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 25, 2022
PLM solutions vendor Propel says the methodology and solutions can help manufacturers maximize efficiency and profitability in numerous areas: Design and manufacturing integration: Production processes use a range of software applications for design and manufacturing. PTC’s Windchill offers a portfolio of PDM and advanced PLM applications.
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