Author: Michael Kramer

The E in EHS stands for environment and colloquially for green. Anyone who delves deeper into this topic will notice that it is a system of its own that must be taken into account.

The history of order management systems in SAP is long. There were early approaches in SAP Retail, then after the acquisition of Hybris it was to be located there. Later it was SAP CAR (SAP Customer Active Repository), and currently S/4 is supposed to fix it.

Order management systems love complexity. Complexity means effort and optimization. The trend towards online shopping and multichannel increases the need for OMS. The focus on sustainability will further strengthen this course.

Successful companies are sometimes successful because they act early on a trend or even create it. Or they come late, but make better decisions than the early movers, on whose experience they can build.

In the discussion about digital transformation, the pandemic is often seen as an accelerator for digitization projects. Does this assumption pass the fact check?

Recently, it was the 40th anniversary of the IBM PC. Now, standard software is not conceivable without standard hardware. Therefore, it makes sense to take a look at the mutual firing of both standardizations.

The Fraunhofer Institute and IBM inaugurated Europe's currently most powerful quantum computer with the participation of politicians and scientists. Will quantum computers really revolutionize the way we use IT solutions?

When IT and business departments are asked about IT projects that have been started or are planned, the topic of AI comes to the forefront. So let's look at what AI actually is and the expectations behind it.

... control is better. You know the saying. In today's complex world, transparency and anti-counterfeiting are becoming increasingly important. That's when solutions help, where everyone gets the information that's relevant to them.

It is not often that an app, which is also free of charge for users, is the subject of such public discussion. We're talking about the infamous Corona app, which SAP developed together with T-Systems on behalf of the German government.

Christian Klein has announced SAP's new "Rise with SAP" offering. It advertises bringing together everything you need to transform your business. The simplification of digital transformation processes is promised, which caught my attention.

In my penultimate column, I described how the medium-sized company Pakic is driving its digital transformation. What are the factors that make such a project successful?