Author: Stefan Dunsch, itesys

"SAP in the cloud" is not synonymous with "everything in the SAP cloud". Customers who follow SAP into the cloud require new skills to take responsibility for their cloud IT: those of a provider manager.

Many companies create, process, and store their most valuable data in SAP. To effectively protect their data, SAP customers should assume that attackers have already successfully penetrated their system, either internally or externally.

The most important thing for successful implementation is a precise overview of the individual areas of the SAP landscape that is currently in operation. But this is often not the case. And because many companies lack the necessary IT specialists internally, they delay the changeover.