E-3 Rubrik: Chefredakteur-Blog

In mid-January, the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) took place in Davos, Switzerland. This time, it was SAP Chief Development Officer Thomas Saueressig's turn to represent the global ERP leader at the WEF.

SAP is starting the new year 2024 with a dual cloud leadership. The global ERP market leader is focusing on the technical operating concept of cloud computing. At the same time, SAP CEO Christian Klein is trying to boost his employees' morale.

In enterprises, there is often talk of a treasure trove of data. Not only does this treasure need to be found, it also needs to be recovered and maintained. One solution SAP offers is Datasphere, which Jürgen Müller, SAP's Chief Technology Officer, announced. Though he is well-intentioned, are his efforts enough to meet SAP customers’ needs?

The good news is that SAP will not delete any code related to Compatibility Scope. Everything else is currently under discussion. Only the stars know the details on which compatibility packs are affected and how.

The share price is rising and shows no signs of stopping. The ERP group is growing and makes a solid impression, but danger is looming over the horizon from agile, young, innovative cloud-native providers.

SAP's favorite topic is of course cloud only. However, AI is the top priority for users and the IT industry. Together with Aleph Alpha, SAP could become an AI pioneer. SAP CEO Christian Klein is focusing on the wrong things.

SAP is expensive, but with a few tricks up your sleeve, you can save when purchasing from SAP. In addition to the recommendation to wait until December 31 before signing a contract, there are a few more tips you can try out.

Can SAP Copilot be used to program an S/4 successor as a composable ERP? Not yet, because Copilot does not support Abap, but that may change. Theoretically, S/5 could be developed by users and partners.

Clustering, i.e. finding similarities, can often provide to be very enlightening for large amounts of data. The trick is based on the Euclidean distance formula and can be done without Hana as a simple mental calculation.

The SAP Business Technology Platform is becoming the third successful pillar of the future after Hana and S/4. SAP executive Martin Heinig explores the question of what BTP will look like in ten years. There is still hope for SAP ERP users!

If you had the ability to control changes in SAP at will, what would be the first thing you’d ask for? This is what Basis Technologies asked about 200 SAP users. The answer: better understanding of the impact changes have before they are introduced.

Ambitious SAP customers have already chosen to complement their ECC 6.0 system with SAP’s Enhancement Package 8 and are now evaluating the S/4 compatibility list to begin their conversion.