The Cloud: Technical Innovation, Pressure for Business Transformation, and Digital Sovereignty

A macroeconomic and architectural turning point in the ERP landscape began many years ago with the advent of cloud computing. The global economy has been undergoing a sustained transformation of its business application systems since the rise of client-server-based data processing architectures (DV/Org) in the late 1990s.

The podcast for the E3 cover story is a supplement and continuation of the online texts from the E3 print magazine. A dialog between two AI avatars with knowledge from the German-speaking E3 editorial team provides an insight into the processes surrounding SAP and the SAP community. Translations into English, Spanish and French are provided by DeepL and Google.

Open source forms the foundation of modern SAP landscapes. But the deeper the dependencies run and the faster AI identifies new vulnerabilities, the wider the gap becomes between available fixes and secure deployment in production. This is exactly where Lightwell comes in.