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

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. Christ also said generative AI is key to the company’s growth.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Ever since SAP CEO Christian Klein (pictured) told financial analysts in July that the company would only offer its latest AI and “green ledger” innovations to customers running its flagship S/4HANA ERP platform through its subscription-only, cloud-based Rise with SAP offering, the company has been on the back foot.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

SAP has given CIOs another reason to consider moving to the cloud: rising support costs for on-premises software. The company will raise the cost of its SAP Standard Support, SAP Enterprise Support, and SAP Product Support for Large Enterprises contracts for existing customers from January 1, 2023.

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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. One of the unique aspects of SAP is it has a vast portfolio of applications,” Sandhu said. “We

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

CGA also has its own SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for day-to-day activities, including accounting and project management. Time for cruise control with SAP CGA turned to SAP Build Process Automation to accelerate and streamline the integration. So, 32 brands mean 32 different DMS systems to handle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 27, 2023

First came the carrot of lower costs in the cloud with the bundled Rise with SAP offering. SAP said Thursday it will raise the cost of support for users of its on-premises software for the second year in a row, just days after announcing plans to withhold future innovations in its products from on-prem customers. Bucking the trend?

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud.

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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. A cloud-first enterprise applications strategy helps make data more accessible to distributed users and workflows, he says.

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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. The biggest driver for the move to S/4HANA, cited by 70% of survey respondents, is SAP’s plan to end maintenance support for its ECC 6 and Business Suite 7 software in December 2027.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 6, 2014

Vendors team up on a service offering aimed primarily at clients who bought HANA but have not started deploying or using all capabilities their licenses cover. Big Data Enterprise Hewlett-Packard accenture sap sap hana'

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

“Especially for enterprises across highly regulated industries, there is increasing pressure to innovate quickly while balancing the need for them to meet stringent regulatory requirements, including data sovereignty. Badlaney also notes that VMware’s addition to the Broadcom family comes at a strategic time.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

At Trellix, which is positioning itself as a leader in extended detection and response (XDR), she heads the Enterprise Technology and Operations group.Anstett said at her appointment : My number one priority as CIO is to deliver insights to our business to serve our customers. Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

Dear SAP Support, I don’t think we should see each other anymore. Not only do you want me to migrate to HANA and S/4HANA, but you also want me to give up my perpetual licenses and replace them with subscriptions. You call it your “RISE with SAP” program. It’s not you; it’s me. No … wait … it’s mostly you. So, keep writing it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

A move that is likely to unlock similar investments from competitors — Google in particular — and open the way for new or improved software tools for enterprises large and small. In 2020, Microsoft became the first to license OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI software for inclusion in its own products and services.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

And, as explained in Rethinking ERP Reimplementation in the Age of AI , AI is causing significant impact on enterprises worldwide. Why limit your enterprises innovative potential to the speed of a big ERP vendor? And while SAP and Oracle could emerge as major AI players, theres a lot of greenfield out there.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

With the AI revolution underway which has kicked the wave of digital transformation into high gear it is imperative for enterprises to have their cloud infrastructure built on firm foundations that can enable them to scale AI/ML solutions effectively and efficiently.

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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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Oracle is an enterprise software vendor based in Austin, Texas. This announcement came on the heels of a very busy June for Oracle as it announced earnings, including 12% growth for cloud services and license support revenue and new extensions of relationships with Google and Microsoft, respectively. Should CIOs listen?

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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

JULY 5, 2022

The solution is powered by SAP’s ERP Central Component (ECC) , an on-premises enterprise resource planning system, along with SAP HANA data management software. With the SAP software, eZRx could integrate finance, inventor, and product data seamlessly on the web as well as on mobile devices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

With the cloud being an inevitable part of enterprise digital transformation journeys, IT leaders must keep on top of the latest developments in the cloud market to better predict downstream impacts on their roadmaps. The cloud services landscape is in constant flux.

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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

JULY 10, 2023

The digital transformation journey for any enterprise is protracted and complex. For such initiatives to conclude successfully, enterprise technology decision makers must overcome inertia, build momentum, and bring about changes across their large organizations. To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

They provide cloud solutions, ranging from public cloud, community cloud to sovereign cloud, using VMware Cloud Foundation as their platform, thereby unleashing a seamless and robust architecture across all of their enterprise footprint. Brown highlighted how it helps businesses lower operational costs and lower risk at the same time.

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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% The new list prices will be Professional Edition $80 (up $5), Enterprise Edition $165 (up $15) and Unlimited Edition $330 (up $30).

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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

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. I think we made the wise decision to walk instead of running to the cloud.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue.

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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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