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Enterprises in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are accelerating their transition to cloud-based ERP solutions, with SAP playing a key role in their digital transformation strategies. However, there is a notable decline in organizations maintaining a stable SAP budget, with only 23% keeping spending unchanged compared to 32% in 2024.
The launch by SAP of new AI capabilities in its SuccessFactors HCM (human capital management) suite Monday is a case of “better late to the party than never,” according to an analyst with Info-Tech Research Group. Or because SAP missed the boat on this trend and is now playing catchup to Workday?”
German process mining specialist Celonis has filed a lawsuit against ERP giant SAP. The Munich-based startup accuses SAP of abusing its market power and harming competition, and thereby negatively impacting customers, according to the 61-page indictment filed by Celonis in San Francisco District Court on March 13.
The clock is ticking for many SAP customers. The standard maintenance for SAP ERP and Business Suite is set to expire at the end of 2027. After that, SAP user companies would have the option to purchase the more expensive extended maintenance for an additional three years. S/4HANA migration postponed until 2033?
SAP has patched high-severity vulnerabilities in its Commerce and NetWeaver enterprise software packages. The updates came as part of 25 security patches released on Tuesday for the latest edition of SAPs monthly patch release cycle. The vulnerability scores 8.8 on the CVSS scale, well toward the critical end of the spectrum.
The market for enterpriseapplications 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 enterpriseapplications. With just 0.2% With just 0.2%
IBM has broadened its support of Nvidia technology and added new features that are aimed at helping enterprises increase their AI production and storage capabilities. This type of interoperability is increasingly essential as organizations adopt agentic AI and other advanced applications that require AI model integration, IBM stated.
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. Compatibility issues : Migrating to a newer platform could break compatibility between legacy technologies and other applications or services.
As IT professionals and business decision-makers, weve routinely used the term digital transformation for well over a decade now to describe a portfolio of enterprise initiatives that somehow magically enable strategic business capabilities. Ultimately, the intent, however, is generally at odds with measurably useful outcomes.
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.
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.
width="2500" height="1406" sizes="(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px"> With a new Business Suite in the cloud, in which all functional modules are integrated with each other along the process chains, SAP wants to build on old on-premises successes. Process chains can therefore be completely covered.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Our vision is to be the platform of choice for running AI applications, says Puri. Enterprises are wrestling with a gamut of tools and technologies that are always changing, he says. The system integrator has the Topaz AI platform, which includes a set of services and solutions to help enterprises build and deploy AI applications.
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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.
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. Time management is specific to the Professional Services Edition as it helps enterprises capture time spent by employees or crews on specific projects or services.
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.
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.
Emmelibri Group, a subsidy of Italian publishing holding company Messaggerie Italiane, is moving applications to the cloud as part of a complete digital transformation with a centralized IT department. We’re an IT company that’s very integrated into the business in terms of applications, and we put innovation at the center.
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.
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).
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.
The enhancements aim to provide developers and enterprises with a business-ready foundation for creating AI agents that can work independently or as part of connected teams. Llama is the most widely used open model across every enterprise, but it didnt have reasoning.
Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterpriseapplications 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?”.
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.
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.
Following the lead of its enterprise software rivals, SAP too has announced it will now be entering the agent era of AI. Agentic AI is being billed as the next wave of AI in the enterprise , with a focus on operational decision-making over content generation. AI is an application feature,” he said at TechEd, and he may be right.
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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.
Microsoft will end product support and updates for Dynamics GP, its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) product for small and medium businesses, on September 30, 2029, the company announced on Tuesday. In 2020, SAP announced an innovation commitment for SAP S/4HANA until the end of 2040.
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.
SAP wants developers to view its Build platform as the one extension solution for all of SAP’sapplications, according to Michael Aneling, chief product officer for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
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.
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. EnterpriseApplications, SAP
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.
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.
There are not many organizations that can take a hit on net profit due to monstrous restructuring costs, yet at the same time raise their operating profit projections for 2025, but SAP is one of them, according to its latest quarterly results released this week. You are an Oracle CIO, a SAP CIO or a Dynamics CIO.
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.
This is seen clearly in enterprise resource planning (ERP). RISE with SAP represents SAPs efforts in delivering ERP-as-a-Service. In essence, RISE with SAP opens doors to a future-state operating model that focuses on building business value for customers and teams.
Cisco has added AI features to its AppDynamics observability platform that promise to help customers more quickly detect anomalies, identify performance problems, and resolve issues across the enterprise. This allows for real-time identification and blocking of attacks, according to Cisco.
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