Author: Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazin

Hana is a good SQL database that can deliver selected answers in real time thanks to in-memory technology. Hana is 15 years young and other database providers have now caught up technically. What now?

SAP has a personnel problem on its Supervisory Board and Executive Board. There is a lack of passionate visionaries and activists. Members’ commitment to work is often within the limits of acceptable and expected, but there is a lack of courage, character, and vision.

Christian Klein was the subject of a cover story in Manager Magazin, a German business magazine, which portrayed an innovative CEO who would rather look at the stock price and chase IT megatrends than look after his own customers.

S/4, the successor to SAP Business Suite 7, is and will remain an on-prem system. SAP CEO Christian Klein is unlikely to achieve his cloud goals this way, which says nothing about the quality of S/4 Hana itself.

In May 2024, Professor Hasso Plattner will step down as Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board. A successor was elected last year with 99 percent of shareholder votes.

The days of monocausal systems and singular solutions are long gone. Even SAP has recognized this development and has provided open and transparent platforms and frameworks alongside the Hana and S/4 monoliths.

Does SAP truly need AI? SAP CEO Christian Klein has discovered this megatrend and can no longer imagine an ERP system without it. But many tasks can be solved without AI, using SAP Hana PAL instead. Is there a good deal of fuss over nothing?

AWS, Amazon Web Services, lives up to its name. The company is a leading partner for services in and around the cloud. The services are aimed at customers and partners alike. Power of Three is a perfect example.

Uncover hidden insights and patterns with SAP’s Knowledge Graph. The Hana DB platform and Datasphere can do vector math! Why is this important? Because vectors in multidimensional space make it easy to represent the distance between data points, often even by calculating mentally. Generative AI requires this knowledge.

SAP CEO Christian Klein gave an interview to the German magazine Computerwoche and promised improvements in ERP conversion and maintenance in five years with the help of AI. The journey seems to be the goal. But is it worth the wait? SAP is meandering through IT.

In a week's time, the E3 editorial team will be publishing a report on SAP licenses in our German May 2024 issue, with the recommendation that companies should perhaps select a larger cloud license package than is currently necessary in certain situations. Why is that?

SAP customer Schaeffler achieves rapid software provision across the entire value chain with low-code. 30 widely used applications with more than 4000 users are in use.