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

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

MARCH 24, 2022

Microsoft has begun migrating its internal SAP systems to S/4HANA under the RISE with SAP umbrella. All three major cloud providers host SAP applications for their customers, and all three run at least some of their internal financial systems on SAP.

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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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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. SAP has made a number of moves since then to help enterprises make the move.

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Computer Weekly

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database

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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. The Applications, Technology and Services segment was up 11% to €7.1

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2023

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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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. Total revenue for the quarter ending Sept. billion (US$7.72

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2022

SAP, for example, has launched its RISE offering , including reimagined partnerships with AWS, Google, and Microsoft as well as its consulting partners such as Accenture and IBM to bring a vertically integrated solution to market. Choosing SAP S/4HANA RISE vs. perpetual license model. Establishing an SAP partner strategy.

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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. To do so, they are obfuscating reality, limiting transparency, and changing their historic business practices to make RISE appear financially superior to the traditional perpetual license models.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At last, exactly two years later, the long-awaited sequel to my hit, if overly censored, blog post: Five Shades Of Grey (How software buyers and license managers should be compliant without being submissive). My analysis, subject to the usual IANAL disclaimer, is that the real implications are: Read more Categories: SAP.

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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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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Enterprise adoption of SAP S/4HANA continues to climb despite the obstacles in its way, according to new research by user groups in the US and Europe. In the UK and Ireland, 89% of SAP customers are either using or planning to use S/4HANA, up from 74% in 2021, according to a survey conducted for the UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The SAP transformation Zeiss CIO Carsten Trapp wants is not really a big deal for the corporate IT department. Like all other companies, we’re doing it right now because SAP will end support for R/3 and become S/4 , so at some point you’ll be there.” The pilots are structured based on an organization: that did not previously have SAP.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She started out as senior director of engineering and climbed the ranks to excel at numerous positions, including senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Cloud, Compute, and IoT business, chief strategy officer, and general manager of applications. Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

It prevents vendor lock-in, gives a lever for strong negotiation, enables business flexibility in strategy execution owing to complicated architecture or regional limitations in terms of security and legal compliance if and when they rise and promotes portability from an application architecture perspective.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 10, 2018

The CIOs of SAP customers need to pay close attention to the vendor’s announcement earlier today with details on how it intends to modernize its software licensing model. Please don’t think that “software licensing” is an esoteric topic that you can delegate to someone a level or two down in your organization.

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

CIOs have a tough balance to strike: On one hand, theyre tasked with maintaining a large number of applications research from Salesforce shows that in 2023 organizations were using 1,061 different applications in varying stages of age, all the while maintaining interoperability and security and reducing overall spend.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2023

With the threat of a recession looming, cost pressures increasing, and the deadline to move off SAP ECC swiftly approaching, SAP customers have a lot to consider as they plan for the year ahead. Here are some of the trends we expect to play out as the year goes on, specifically for SAP customers.

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Computer Weekly

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Indirect licensing of SAP software was the big story, with SAP’s victory over Diageo in the High Court proving a tinderbox. AI, machine learning and blockchain oscillated between hype and reality

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

After two years on the market, SAP RISE is becoming increasingly positioned by SAP as a solution for customers looking to move to the cloud. Despite SAP pushing RISE as an ideal option for customers, it is still important to evaluate your options against your own goals and objectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The company is increasingly focused on supporting generative AI across its database, infrastructure, and applications offerings. Oracle APEX adds generative AI assistant June 18, 2024: APEX AI Assistant allows users to create applications using natural language and add a conversational AI interface to any application being developed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

IBM and VMware understand that each client has a unique business, IT process and applications,” says Badlaney. VMware Cloud Foundation is a refreshed strategy that offers IBM and VMware clients the ability to bring multiple offerings and licenses to IBM Cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications at the heart of many a company’s operations, the consequences of a failed software rollout can be serious, including shareholder lawsuits and financial meltdown. However, it said that the $22.2

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

IDC forecasts the growth rate of enterprise applications software sales will pick up in 2024, and remain steady through 2027, despite a dip this year as a result of CIOs continuing to pull back on spending due to economic headwinds. of a projected $483 billion enterprise applications software spend in 2027, according to the study.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

Reducing technical debt Lowering technical debt by decommissioning legacy applications ranks among the most important and toughest aspects of digital transformation as it involves mindset changes. We leveraged lower cost licensing because of our global contracts,” he adds. To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring.

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IT Toolbox

MAY 28, 2017

SAP Leonardo includes application licenses, analytics licenses, IoT Services on the SAP Cloud platform, and machine learning microservices, each of which has its own subscription price. It also includes consulting under Leonardo Innovation services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

UK Power Networks was created following a merger of three licensed electricity distribution networks brought together under one roof in 2010 by EDF Energy Networks, where Webb served as head of enterprise data management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

In the words of Barry Brown, Technical Sales Director at IBM Cloud, VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud enables critical use cases, including data center and application modernization, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience for SAP workloads.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Where the widespread adoption of SaaS previously distributed IT and lines-of-business selected and implemented their own applications, the pendulum is now shifting back with CIOs pursuing large-scale transformations to drive value and re-centralize operations. Plus, the IT organization itself can be fertile ground for automation.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Business technology company Acumatica expanded its expense reporting capabilities as part of a broader wave of product updates this week, promising a lower-priced alternative to offerings from SAP Concur, the travel and expense management powerhouse based a short drive away in Bellevue, Wash. billion euros in revenue for the period.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such a move requires a foundational mindset shift — from forcing processes to fit within a rigid, tightly integrated application to a portfolio approach that builds out around the core ERP suite. The modular nature of the composable ERP philosophy allows IT decision-makers to plug different SaaS applications into their core system.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

For example, Microsoft announced a price increase for its 365 suite in the range of 8%-20%, depending on the edition, in late 2021; SAP increased its maintenance pricing by up to 3.3% CRM Systems, Enterprise Applications in late 2022; and Slack increased prices by 8%-9% around the same time.

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