E3 Category: Chefredakteur-Blog

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.

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?

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?

S/4 is only the successor to ECC 6.0, but the SAP Business Technology Platform brings new perspectives, expanding horizons. SAP, however, is losing its unique selling point, and customers are gaining new freedoms.

On the trading floor, SAP CEO Christian Klein is taking off at breakneck speed. His reputation in the SAP community, however, is in tatters. Even the well-intentioned call for a reset by the German magazine Manager Magazin has not moved him to improve the situation.

The new central star in the SAP universe is supposed to be the BTP (Business Technology Platform). However, analyst Joachim Hackmann of PAC has found that only 24 percent of SAP customers are consciously using the BTP.

SAP is not taking AI seriously and is not investing enough resources in it. The company is additionally not making exceptions for indirect use licenses for AI applications. SAP is paving the way for an AI dystopia for ERP users.

SAP has tried and failed to build platforms for its successful ERP. NetWeaver failed as a middleware platform because of the Java stack; the Hana DB platform remained a SQL machine; and now we have the BTP disaster.

SAP wants to, but doesn't dare: Generative AI and large language models are both a revolution and a risk. The results of AI are spectacular, but are they also economically and legally valid?

Ex-Deloitte manager Punit Renjen will not become Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board. The alternative is the worst of all worlds: in May, Hasso Plattner's successor will be elected for only two years, meaning his position will be seen as insignificant and harmless.