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Over 20 years ago, a sustainable selling point for R/3 was: click, click, click, and the original document is there! The 3-tier client/server model was simple: a central database engine, some app servers, and many clients.
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
August 27, 2020
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Naturally, this scenario is no longer up-to-date, but the "click down" to the individual documents was convincing and thus the database consistent. The focus has shifted: Obviously, today it is less the function and a central, consolidated data storage that counts and more colorful interfaces and "ergonomic" GUIs. Fiori is the star in the SAP universe!

SAP CEO Thomas Saueressig has thus also promised end-to-end processes based on and with the help of Fiori. Not every SAP application will be lifted onto a consolidated Hana platform in an IT-scientific way, but only an app and data harmony will be feigned by means of "optical illusion". The user may not notice that his data is only being passed on - from one colorful screen to the next.

However, reporting, predictive analysis and AI applications will hardly work without consistent data storage on the Hana platform - one of many questions: So what to do with Qualtrics, which steadfastly shuns any contact with Hana like the devil shuns holy water?

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Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

Peter M. Färbinger, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief E3 Magazine DE, US and ES (e3mag.com), B4Bmedia.net AG, Freilassing (DE), E-Mail: pmf@b4bmedia.net and Tel. +49(0)8654/77130-21


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