Author: Simone Sailer, e3zine.com

Nine out of ten companies have already had to stop innovative projects because of data protection requirements. Widespread criticism is levelled at the lack of support from supervisory authorities.

Sapphire is SAP's annual review of the community. In the keynotes, people analyze and conjure up the future. This time it was different: The past was not accounted for, but suppressed. The visionary look into the future was dominant.

The virtual Cloud Foundry Summit Europe took place on October 21-22, 2020, and brought community engagement and new project announcements.

The year 2020 has shown that (business) journeys must change. Now is the time for innovation, claim the keynote speakers at the virtual SAP Concur Fusion EMEA 2020.

The theme of NetApp Insight in Barcelona in December 2018 was "Data Driven," and multicloud was the buzzword of the day.

German companies are making greater use of data as part of their digitization strategy. A recent survey by Bitkom shows that one in seven companies is currently creating jobs for data scientists. But so far, there are only a few experts on the job market.

The next few years look extremely promising for IT service providers. This is hardly surprising - new technologies such as blockchain or AI, but also topics such as cloud migration and the automation of business processes are increasing the demand for external support.