E3 Category: MAG 16-02

Energy providers gain immediately with the conversion to SAP for Utilities on Hana. This is shown by the results of the IT service provider Gisa from Halle, which has now successfully migrated an IS-U customer system to SAP for Utilities on Hana.

A year ago at the SAP Fkom in Barcelona (Field Kick-off Meeting), they tried to save what can be saved, because S/4 and HEC are pipe creapers in Europe.

Uncertain economic and political developments as well as constantly changing framework conditions make the work of strategy departments increasingly complex.

SAP has by far the largest installed base in the mechanical and plant engineering sector. The new SAP S/4 Hana poses considerable challenges for both users and medium-sized system houses.

Only if you can prove your point of view with objective information vis-à-vis automated system measurement, the annual SAP license audit will not be a case for risk management, but a real opportunity.

The succession of Gerd Oswald by Michael Kleinemeier holds and is thus solved in the best possible way. The start of the year is about more painful things. The SAP document Simplification List for S/4 states unequivocally that new license fees are due. S/4 is not a successor to ERP/ECC 6.0.

Digitization is taking hold. Seven years ago, there was no Apple App Store. Today, there are more than 1.4 million iOS apps that have been downloaded more than a hundred billion times. Ten years ago, today's popular e-readers were just an idea and bookstores feared the worst. Today, in seconds, we can find the...

The digital factory - people - processes - workflows. Simulations and automation of manufacturing processes and workflows minimize business risk in medium-sized companies and make a lasting contribution to efficient management.

"IS has its own encrypted WhatsApp" - that's how headlines read recently. After events like those in Paris, politicians are always quick to brand encryption as the devil's stuff and to want to provide it with "backdoors".

A large proportion of German companies see digitization as an opportunity. A dynamic data center is the key to success: With a Software Defined Data Center and DevOps, IT becomes the driver of innovation.

SAP Platform as a Service (PaaS) usage based on HCP (Hana Cloud Platform) is growing vehemently. As members of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, SAP and Suse are jointly pushing the coupling of PaaS and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).

Things went very badly for SAP in 2015, and Supervisory Board Chairman Professor Hasso Plattner still had to justify his S/4 and Hana in the last days of the old year.