Age of Openness
Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert proclaimed the "Age of Openness" and bowed to the open source scene. Ultimately, however, it is also an admission of the company's own inability.
In the important technology area of AI (artificial intelligence) with machine/deep learning, SAP itself is not doing anything at all: without the help of Google with the open source framework TensorFlow and the matching hardware structure from Nvidia, there would be no machine learning at SAP.
It is therefore clear that the open source scene around Suse Linux is increasingly becoming a lifeline for SAP: OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Ceph, Docker and now TensorFlow.
Does this have a future?
Business processes come in the form of ECC/ERP 6.0 or S/4 from SAP, the ERP is hosted on AWS, Google or Microsoft Azure, supplemented by numerous open source innovations. This makes SAP a secondary business app supplier in an open IT world.
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