CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

SAP and Nvidia announced an expanded partnership today with an eye to deliver the accelerated computing that customers need in order to adopt large language models (LLMs) and generative AI at scale. Herzig notes that SAP has a large ecosystem of partners and various LLM providers, with new LLMs popping up seemingly every day. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

SAP is paying a total of over $220 million to settle investigations by the US Department of Justice and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Our order holds SAP accountable for misconduct that spanned seven jurisdictions and lasted several years,” said Charles E.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2024

The German-speaking user group for enterprise software giant SAP says that customers’ willingness to invest in the company’s S/4HANA cloud product is rising, but still lags behind flagship ERP products like ECC 6, and some customers see the need for more discussion on SAP’s prolonged move to the cloud. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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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

MARCH 22, 2024

SAP has won another convert to its Rise with SAP managed software offering. Self-service In Deutsche Telekom’s case its IT services subsidiary, T-Systems, is an SAP premium supplier for Rise and operates its own private cloud, Future Cloud Infrastructure (FCI), in which to host its parent’s applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

SAP is offering on-premises S/4HANA users a credit of 60% of their first year’s fees if they migrate to its all-in-one cloud-based offering, Rise with SAP. In Q4 of 2023, when SAP sales staff were allowed to offer the 60% credit on a case-by-case basis, the carrot proved persuasive. “We

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Timo Elliott

JUNE 16, 2023

SAP Sapphire Barcelona was a few weeks ago, and you can review the highlights from the event on the virtual site. I had the honor of giving a 20 minute overview of SAP Business Technology Platform and the benefits it offers to business looking to innovate faster and unlock their business potential.

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Timo Elliott

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Apple uses SAP to create applications for their staff. See this blog to see the resources available for developing with SAP Fiori and iOS devices: BTP and iOS Moving Forward

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to Danone’s demand planning manager in Italy, while SAP IBP offers advanced technology, the manager’s group has found the solution easy to use, which has helped increase the group’s productivity. “As Package facts’ Currently, 42% of Danone demand planning is handled in SAP IBP. Digital Transformation

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

SAP wants to give new meaning to the resources in enterprise resource planning, going beyond the boundaries of the enterprise and accounting for its impact on the whole planet. SAP is addressing both of those by working with organizations like the World Business Council for Sustainable Development,” McComb said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

SAP has unveiled new tools to build AI into business applications across its software platform, including new development tools, database functionality, AI services, and enhancements to its Business Technology Platform, BTP. SAP is training its model on anonymized data from thousands of enterprises using its software, with their consent.

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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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Timo Elliott

MAY 19, 2023

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) is a winner of one of the prestigious 2023 SAP Innovation Awards , in the “Experience Wizards” category. You can see their full entryv” Enabling a Data-Driven Culture by Integrating SAP Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform ” on the awards site.

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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. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

SAP is reshuffling its executive board to place even more emphasis on serving its cloud customers. Many of them are increasingly unable to adopt SAP’s innovations because they’re simply not made available to them. The proportion was similar among members of DSAG, the German-speaking SAP User Group.

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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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Timo Elliott

MAY 17, 2023

This is my personal summary of the Day 2 Customer Success Keynote at the 2023 SAP Sapphire Customer Conference in Orlando, Florida. And so that was the theme of Day 2: five real-world examples of companies showcasing how they became future-proof with some help from SAP — and of course, it’s my own personal favorite topic!

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Timo Elliott

MAY 8, 2023

I recently talked Marcio Magalhaes of Petrobras , one of world’s largest oil and gas producers, as part of the SAP Better Together series of podcasts and best practice videos. Petrobras works with mission critical industrial equipment to run operations at the Buzios field in Brazil, the world’s largest deep water reservoir.

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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. Because of the way SAP is positioning RISE in the market, organizations must also re-evaluate their cloud strategy. It is important to require a detailed infrastructure prospective from SAP.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

Every software developer is looking at how to incorporate generative AI in its products, even SAP. The ERP vendor, which turned 50 last year , is developing a companion app for its software, to be called SAP Digital Assistant, which will use generative AI to help SAP users provide a better experience to their customers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2023

ERP software provider SAP on Tuesday said it is partnering with IBM to infuse the latter’s Watson artificial intelligence (AI) engine across its entire solutions portfolio, including SAP S/4 HANA, S/4 HANA Cloud, SAP Business One, and SAP Business ByDesign. Is SAP’s digital assistant mature enough in NLP?

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. In May 2023, around the time Xu announced her intention to leave the company, SAP said it would embed IBM’s Watson AI technology into its products. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MARCH 1, 2019

I am happy to offer some insights on SAP drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic representation of our assessment of how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This is why I hold the annual SAP Innovation Awards very dear to my heart. This program celebrates and honors the world’s best innovators and disruptors that utilize SAP solutions to help the world run better. To see the power of SAP technology brought to life by organizations to serve different use cases is very fulfilling.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2023

“Supply chains are under stress,” said Thomas Saueressig, member of the SAP executive board and head of its Product Engineering division, at the recent Hanover Fair. SAP builds AI into its supply-chain solutions At the fair, SAP announced it would further expand its logistics chain solutions.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Vyaire Medical’s applications landscape has multiple ERPs, such as SAP ECC, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics AX, SAP Business One, Pointman, and Made2Manage. In this post, we share how we extracted data from SAP ERP using AWS Glue and the SAP SDK. Set up the SAP SDK on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) machine.

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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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Timo Elliott

MAY 16, 2023

SAP has been embedding AI into lots of different areas for many years now, in areas like logistics, finance, travel receipts, etc. But of course the the latest technology changes mean new business opportunities, and the main SAP AI product page has been updated to include new AI application examples and messaging.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2023

In April 1972, entrepreneurs Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira, and Hans-Werner Hector started an amazing innovation journey, which culminated in SAP’s 50th anniversary celebration in 2022. Together with our customers and partners, we are happy to celebrate the 10 th Anniversary of the SAP Innovation Awards.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

Dear SAP Support, I don’t think we should see each other anymore. You call it your “RISE with SAP” program. They’ll even provide managed services for our SAP cloud products, including Ariba, Concur, SuccessFactors, and others. It’s not you; it’s me. No … wait … it’s mostly you. We now want different things.

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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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DataRobot Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Today, SAP and DataRobot announced a joint partnership to enable customers connect core SAP software, containing mission-critical business data, with the advanced Machine Learning capabilities of DataRobot to make more intelligent business predictions with advanced analytics. Tune in to learn more. Registration is free for both events.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 30, 2022

Russian corporations believe they can replace software from Western vendors such as SAP with solutions they have developed themselves. With the help of SAP SuccessFactors solutions, he said, they are now able to recruit the top talent with the digital skills Rostelecom needs. IT specialists leave Russia.

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Timo Elliott

JUNE 19, 2023

I recently recorded a stream-of-consciousness video interview on the top topics that SAP Partners (and customers!) Here’s the recording and a transcript below: SAP Innovation Evangelist SAP on the top topics SAP Partners should be thinking about. should be taking account of in the coming months and years.

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