E3 Category: Coverstories

Workday has unveiled a new toolset that opens up the Illuminate AI platform to customer and partner developers.

From left to right: Gerhard Kuppler, Vice President SAP Alliances, Oracle, and Kuen Sang Lam, Senior Director—Global SAP on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Technology, Oracle. In recent years, many black box systems have been replaced by hybrid architectures and composable IT. Oracle is at the forefront of this development with an extremely broad range of solutions.

In enterprise IT, there are few systems that can match the complexity, size, and importance of SAP applications running on Oracle databases. As a result, strategies for protecting the data of these systems are carefully considered, funded, and continuously improved.

SAP ECC demands the highest performance—Oracle Exadata delivers it. As a platform fully certified for SAP NetWeaver, Exadata offers extreme speed, reliability, and easy scalability—whether on-prem, in the cloud, or hybrid.

Many SAP customers are faced with the challenge of operating their NetWeaver-based applications efficiently and securely. This requires an optimized infrastructure that helps ensure performance, scalability, and security on-prem as well as in cloud or hybrid environments.

SAP's ERP universe has been opening up in technical and business terms for many years. The black box R/3 has become a composable ERP, which is fed by many SAP cloud services, ERP/ECC 6.0, the new SAP Business Suite and numerous functions from third-party users and hyperscalers. With its expertise, global SAP partner Nagarro brings a methodology to this...

The two classic SAP operating tasks in the context of SAP on RISE—infrastructure management and SAP Basis administration—are known to be clearly regulated. Does this mean that customers no longer need their SAP Basis administrators? The answer is no.

The SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is a strategic PaaS offering designed to help companies develop faster and work more efficiently. But how exactly is it possible to reconcile internal and external requirements?

Joking aside, no, ECC is not making a comeback. These announcements also fit in with the strategically congruent decisions that SAP has been making since 2023. Why 2023? Because a major stumbling block in SAP's communication was cleared out of the way at that time.

With the migration to S/4 Hana, the German energy supplier Badenova has renewed its ERP system landscape. Selective data migration, separation of IS-U and ERP core and the introduction of new structures created the basis for modern, modular processes.

Slow SAP applications, outages, and risk reduction: ensuring flawless software delivery and meeting rising expectations is more important than ever. Thorough, automated testing should therefore be an integral part of SAP transformation projects.

Never before has SAP offered such a wide range of IT tools, ERP solutions and end-to-end business processes as well as AI support. SAP's existing customers now have to choose from this huge range. Many are overwhelmed. SAP partner Fsas Technologies and open source pioneer Suse have jointly decided to take users by the hand.