CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2022, Microsoft announced the “end of innovation” for Dynamics GP, and in 2023, it said that no new licenses would be sold after April 2025. In 2020, SAP announced an innovation commitment for SAP S/4HANA until the end of 2040. Customers have had plenty of warnings about the product’s retirement.

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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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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

There are three software licensing options, including a free community edition for enterprises that want to kick the tires.The Hive Fabric Enterprise option includes HCI, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), guest pool deployments and user profile management. HiveIOs Hive Sense is used to proactively monitor and detect anomalies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2022

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.

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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

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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Computer Weekly

DECEMBER 1, 2017

SAP and the UK & Ireland SAP user group have been thrashing out the topic of indirect licensing in 2017. Is there an amicable settlement in sight?

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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. Microsoft, though, is the first to adopt the RISE with SAP offering.

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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. SAP, Technology Industry billion, which is up 12.7% year-on-year.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

SAP’s award-winning FioriDAST project mimics user and attacker behavior to safeguard its web applications. While hackers target companies of all sizes, a tech giant like SAP may have a bigger bull’s eye on its back because of the sensitive data it manages and the critical role its ERP applications play in global businesses.

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Computer Weekly

MARCH 7, 2017

The SAP legal case against Diageo highlights the seemingly arbitrary rules governing software licensing

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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 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

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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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

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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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

I have written before on the challenges presented by licensing indirect SAP use and despite the launch of a new mechanism to check compliance this area still represents and area of concern for SAP customers.

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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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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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Computer Weekly

MAY 5, 2017

Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev says it intends to defend “vigorously” against software licensing claims by SAP

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Computer Weekly

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

SAP UK and Ireland User Group has reacted to the supplier’s High Court victory over Diageo in indirect licensing dispute

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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

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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IT Toolbox

MAY 7, 2017

Yet another SAP customer hits the spotlight as a license violation case begins

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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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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

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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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget. The system, intended to streamline payments and HR processes, is now unlikely to function correctly before 2026 four years after its 2022 launch.

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Computer Weekly

MAY 17, 2017

At SAP’s annual Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida, CEO Bill McDermott rules out of court charging for static read access in third-party systems

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Computer Weekly

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Connect, the SAP UK and Ireland User Group conference, hears that just 2% of customers intend to use the supplier’s Leonardo AI toolbox, and 49% are unaware of new licensing policy

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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

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

JANUARY 14, 2025

While vendors wield the promise of AI as a forcing function for reimplementation, customers who comply with vendor-dictated AI roadmaps likely face four significant challenges: Challenge 1: Roadmap limitations & delays How do SAP and Oracle stack up in terms of AI features and functions?

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