E-3 Rubrik: MAG 17-06

At Sapphire 2017, co-CEO and founder Bastian Nominacher presented the new machine learning capabilities of Celonis' process mining solution. In this exclusive E-3 interview, he talks about the opportunities that artificial intelligence opens up for process mining.

Until the 1990s, "procurement" referred almost exclusively to transactional aspects and tactical/operational functions. The purchasing departments were executive organs for covering the requirements of the business units: The aim was and still is to process their orders in a legally secure manner and in compliance with guidelines.

80 percent of all information is unstructured. SAP does nothing to change that! What SAP users are missing is a 360-degree view of all information, not just the structured information.

The linking of SAP Leonardo with IBM Watson and a new Cognitive Procurement Hub pave the way for forward-looking source-to-settle solutions.

Daniel Groos of Etventure made the bold statement "Digitize or die" at the very beginning of his talk on "Success factors for digital transformation" at the cuAcademy in Hamburg in May.

As a result of company acquisitions at the globally oriented machine and plant manufacturer J. Wagner, an inorganically grown IT landscape consisting of SAP and non-SAP solutions has emerged. To support further growth and improve transparency, Wagner has decided to introduce SAP step by step in all companies of the group.

DevOps is currently the talk of the town, as it is supposed to ensure faster time-to-market, better quality and more harmony between the development and admin teams in software projects. It seems to be working.

The digital transformation will change economic and social conditions to a similar extent as the industrial revolution did back then. SAP-based purchasing is also facing a massive transformation.

The clock is ticking: support for the current SAP Business Suite will end in 2025. At least 50,000 SAP user companies must have decided on an alternative by then - such as S/4 Hana, on-premise or from the cloud. German companies are still hesitant about the cloud.

Ceyoniq appoints new product manager, Georg Krause now heads Plaut Austria and some other updates can be found here.

A lot has happened in the Fiori world since its introduction in May 2013, and since Release 2.0 at the latest, one can speak of a mature technology.

Transmission system operator Ontras organizes the maintenance of Germany's second-longest long-distance gas network with SAP Plant Maintenance (PM). Recently, maintenance staff have also been able to call up their technical documents directly from the SAP module.