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SAP customers on Business Suite: New strategy, same old concerns

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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. Theres still a lot to do to create a fully integrated business suite, Westphal said.

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SAP restructures board to emphasize AI-first, suite-first strategy

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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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SAP CTO to step down after ‘inappropriate behavior’

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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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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

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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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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

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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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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

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Scale trusted workflows with agentic AI Appian, Atlassian, Cisco Collaboration, Forethought, IBM, Ivanti, Pega, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Tray.ai, Workday, Zoho, and others launched service-oriented AI agents in 2024. Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms.

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Massive modernization: Tips for overhauling IT at scale

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Its a very long and painful process, notes Don Henderson, CTO at BetaNXT, a wealth management company that provides tech services to clients. IT is also creating a new platform architecture to enable the firm to move off legacy technology and build cloud-based capabilities. Were also running legacy Oracle version 12 from 2012, he adds.

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