CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2025

SAP in February dusted off its legacy on-prem Business Suite label and resurrected it for the cloud era under a new strategic banner Business Unleashed. Moreover, several points of SAPs strategy still need to be clarified.

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SAP Strategy CTO Hire Fractional CTO 183

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2025

Legacy platforms meaning IT applications and platforms that businesses implemented decades ago, and which still power production workloads are what you might call the third rail of IT estates. The first is migrating data and workloads off of legacy platforms entirely and rehosting them in new environments, like the public cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With its new Business Data Cloud, SAP wants to help enterprises unify data held in its own systems with that in other vendors applications: Its goal is to expedite advanced analytics and AI use cases. Although enterprises can continue using Datasphere for now, SAP clearly wants them to move to Business Data Cloud.

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Network World

AUGUST 30, 2024

Cisco is now offering its AppDynamics application management suite as part of Microsoft Azure cloud services. AppDynamics is Cisco’s core application management suite, providing real-time monitoring of application response times, error rates, and resource utilization, among other capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Acumatica has released a new “edition” of its cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software tailored to the needs of mid-size professional services firms. The number of potential customers for Acumatica’s new functionality — or similar products from competitors — is huge. trillion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2024

The market for enterprise applications grew 12% in 2023, to $356 billion, with the top 5 vendors — SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft and Intuit — commanding a 21.2% IDC attributed the market growth to the adoption of AI and generative AI integrated into enterprise applications. With just 0.2% With just 0.2%

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

1 No surprise then that SAP, along with other leading ERP vendors, is touting its AI capabilities. But many features — for example, the Joule AI copilot — are included only with the latest cloud solutions such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud and the RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP programs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

Cloud-based enterprise resource planning solutions are transforming and enhancing business operations. Understanding the scalability and security of RISE with SAP deployments on Microsofts cloud, Wipro, SAP, and Microsoft entered a strategic alliance to enhance the speed and effectiveness of RISE with SAP migrations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, however, CIOs face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex and rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.

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Cloud Strategy Architecture Enterprise 245

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

SAP is starting the 2025 financial year with a new executive board.The German software company announced that 39-year-old Sebastian Steinhuser will be promoted to the executive board. Steinhuser joined SAP in 2020 and has held various roles, including chief strategy officer. SAP introduced a new CTO and two new chief revenue officers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

Martin Bayer: At the moment, user companies are still hesitant to adopt cloud computing, but also SAP’s RISE and GROW programs, especially in Germany. Last year’s message that certain core innovations would only be offered in the cloud has also caused some resentment among users. But we have a strong cloud result.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

SAP’s award-winning FioriDAST project mimics user and attacker behavior to safeguard its web applications. While hackers target companies of all sizes, a tech giant like SAP may have a bigger bull’s eye on its back because of the sensitive data it manages and the critical role its ERP applications play in global businesses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

SAP is an enterprise software vendor based in Walldorf, Germany. Its cloud and on-premises enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, including S/4HANA, helps organizations manage their business operations and customer relations. To change this, SAP wants to work more closely with the appliedAI initiative.

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SAP Enterprise Enterprise Cloud 306

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2022

IBM is six months into a massive ERP modernization, moving core on-premises systems to Power servers running in its own cloud as it upgrades them from SAP’s legacy ECC software to the cloud-ready S/4HANA. In February 2022, SAP named IBM as its first premium supplier for Rise. Largest business segment first.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At TechEd, SAP said that Joule will include multiple autonomous AI agents, each expert in a particular function, that will collaborate to execute complex workflows. “We But, noted Walter Sun, global head of AI at SAP, in an interview, there is always a human in the loop. SAP also announced that Joule is coming to more of its products.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

SAP is expanding its AI ecosystem with a partnership with AWS. Such AI partnerships are important for SAP, said Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller, pointing to other cooperations, for example with IBM, the chip manufacturer Nvidia and various universities. In addition, SAP is also working closely with Microsoft and Google on AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Global professional services firm Marsh McLennan has roughly 40 gen AI applications in production , and CIO Paul Beswick expects the number to soar as demonstrated efficiencies and profit-making innovations sell the C-suite. Enterprises are also choosing cloud for AI to leverage the ecosystem of partnerships,” McCarthy notes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 4, 2024

While artificial intelligence is a key focus at SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, this year, the company has announced that it is also enhancing its Business Technology Platform — application development and automation, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities — by adding features to extend its components’ functionality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2024

SAP wants developers to view its Build platform as the one extension solution for all of SAP’s applications, according to Michael Aneling, chief product officer for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).

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SAP Applications Development Cloud 299

Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Options include getting off VMs altogether and shifting workloads to the public cloud, or going to a container-based platform like Red Hat OpenShift. Microsoft Azure Stack HCI For Microsoft shops, Azure Stack HCI is an option that leverages the Azure cloud and Microsofts Hyper-V hypervisor.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

NIMs are pre-built microservices that simplify the deployment of AI models including inference engines like Triton Inference Server, TensorRT, TensorRT-LLM and PyTorch, according to Nvidia and are aimed at accelerating AI inference development from the cloud to the edge. With increased memory bandwidth (1.4x

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IBM Enterprise Enterprise Storage 261

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. “We

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SAP Cloud Licensing CTO Hire 317

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 23, 2024

A new survey of SAP customer organizations shows that, despite AI experimentation, few have implemented AI and generative AI technologies across their enterprises. A small portion of SAP customers reported their organizations were using AI in many areas (6% DSAG, 7% ASUG, 5% UKISUG).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Mike Morton, VP of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, is urging Dynamics GP customers to move from the on premises product to cloud-based Business Central, and provided an overview of the process. Microsoft isn’t the only company attempting to lure its legacy customers into the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2024

SAP has agreed to buy WalkMe, a tool for offering workers personalized guidance on how to use software, for $1.5 There’s clearly a lot at stake for SAP as its offer, announced Wednesday morning, was 45% over WalkMe’s closing share price on Tuesday night. billion in cash. WalkMe recently announced a copilot for its AI-powered DAP.

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SAP Applications Business Transformation Software 299

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 30, 2024

Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer Julia White and Chief Revenue Officer Scott Russell will leave the SAP Executive Board on August 31, 2024. SAP’s explanation for why it is restructuring its Executive Board remains vague. Russell has been with SAP since 2010 and has been a member of the Executive Board since 2021.

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SAP Programming Cloud Software 306

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

SAP CTO Juergen Mueller will step down from SAP’s executive board at the end of September. “I I recognize my behavior at that moment did not reflect our values at SAP. I wish the team continued success,” Mueller said in a statement issued by SAP on Tuesday.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

While its still possible to run applications on bare metal, that approach doesnt fully optimize hardware utilization. Modern virtualization isnt just about abstracting any one single piece of hardware, but also about abstracting larger clusters in cloud deployments. Thats where virtualization comes in.

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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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Applications Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 347

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 4, 2024

SAP has announced additional integrations for Joule, the natural language generative artificial intelligence copilot that it added to its Business AI offerings last year. SAP also revealed additional capabilities for Joule. AI integrations But Joule isn’t the only AI in the SAP house.

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SAP Enterprise Enterprise Cloud 312

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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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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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 Tools Enterprise Enterprise 331

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Following the lead of its enterprise software rivals, SAP too has announced it will now be entering the agent era of AI. Last month saw SAP rivals ServiceNow and Salesforce announcing agentic AI for their respective offerings. AI is an application feature,” he said at TechEd, and he may be right.

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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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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. ServiceNow, the last to announce, will likely be the first to deliver.

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SAP Applications Energy Cloud 306