Author: Joachim Hackmann, PAC

Geopolitical turbulence is having an impact on the future direction of companies' IT strategies. Sovereignty is the order of the day. What can business application providers contribute?

The SAP service market is booming thanks to S/4 migrations - but the end of this wave is in sight. What comes next? New opportunities, new challenges and a change of strategy in the SAP partner ecosystem.

Our current survey on the status quo of S/4 Hana migration in German companies shows that a slight majority of participants are aiming for or have installed an on-premises version of S/4 as their target platform.

There is no doubt that users' SAP landscapes are (once again) in a state of upheaval. S/4 Hana, Business Transformation Platform, cloud computing, IoT, automation and digitalization are examples of technologies and offerings that are having a fundamental impact on SAP installations and business processes.