Author: Peter Langner, Adventas

Anyone looking for dates for TechEd in Europe or the USA this year can search for a long time. One only finds the dates for the realization in Bangalore, India, on November 2 and 3, 2023. The dates in Europe and America have been cancelled without replacement.

Customer orientation remains SAP's weal and woe. 2023 is "year one" for SAP after its fiftieth birthday. Not a year of retrospectives, speeches and reminiscences. Rather a year of proving oneself.

What do most people associate with SAP? Software is probably the most common answer, perhaps also accounting or ERP. In the cloud age, another word should come to mind: learning.

Many companies are hesitant to move their entire IT landscapes to the cloud not because they don’t want to, but because they can’t - which is why SAP’s key to cloud computing success isn’t in the cloud.

Clean, lean, agile: this is what customers expect from S/4 Hana. SAP urges its customers to keep the core clean and only use a few customized solutions.

Thorough preparation is everything when it comes to S/4 Hana migrations. Many companies are hesitant to switch to S/4 and Hana, waiting for the perfect moment to migrate - which will never truly come.

The intelligent trading company of the future is interactive and deploys a combination of machine learning and human services.

Verticalization is no longer a foreign word in business. The SAP component Global Trade Management (GTM) helps to map new processes in purchasing and sales.