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

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Because, by definition, a suite requires the seamless integration of the SAP solutions it contains, uniform operating models, and clear migration and implementation strategies along the way.

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SAP publishes open source manifesto

CIO Business Intelligence

Manifesto is “more than a declaration of our current contributions; it’s a promise to continue driving open innovation and collaboration at a significant scale,” says SAP CTO. It arrives alongside the announcement of SAP’s Open Reference Architecture project as part of the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

She previously worked at Iron Mountain, where she was Executive Vice President and CTO. She co-founded Trend Micro in 1988 and has been leading the company ever since; first as executive vice president, CTO in 1996, and CEO since 2005. Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher. It was quite a juggle.

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SAP seeks to make builders of business technologists

CIO Business Intelligence

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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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. This type of functionality and scale can be a game-changer for mission-critical applications such as SAP.

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Pathways to Innovation: VMware Cloud Service Providers Driving Business Outcomes with Private Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Brown highlighted how it helps businesses lower operational costs and lower risk at the same time.

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