E3 Category: Editor-in-Chief Blog

Although AI agents like SAP Joule show great potential, their ability to adhere to all compliance rules has yet to be proven. Might SAP and other AI providers suffer the same fate as the sorcerer's apprentice in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's eponymous ballad?

The idea is obvious yet has not been widely discussed. An operating system for managing AI agents. Instead, SAP is constantly creating new Joule AI universes for specific tasks. Does SAP not see the “big picture” of AI?

The familiar CCoE (Customer Center of Expertise) could become the CCCoE (Customer Cloud Center of Expertise) because RISE and GROW are not all-inclusive offerings. Without the contribution of SAP customers, little will change. SAP itself is undergoing a transformation!

It is one of the most discussed topics in the SAP community: license costs for the SAP Cloud ERP Suite. SAP and the hyperscalers claim that cloud computing also brings savings for users. Statements by SAP CEO Christian Klein suggest otherwise.

At the virtual SAP Annual General Meeting in mid-May, CEO Christian Klein explained the entire ERP offering and the BTP and BDC platforms. It was a consistent picture, but S/4 was missing and the flagship product was not mentioned. What now?

The SAP Business Data Cloud, BDC, will be the catalyst for a future ERP digital twin. Computer science has known about the simulation of dynamic systems for many decades, and now SAP has discovered it.

This SAP option is an admission of years of failure. SAP has many customers, but SAP also has a good overview of the ERP system portfolio. With a little foresight—not just in terms of stock price—the disaster should be obvious.

SAP has been using the term "Cloud ERP Suite" for several months and SAP customers have been puzzling over what it means. Now, SAP CEO Christian Klein has shed some light on the matter: the transition from private to public cloud should occur, and it should be successful!

For data management, SAP not only has an SQL database in Hana, but also a platform for graph theory and data vectors. Both methods are often better suited to displaying information than SQL tables. In the past, SAP made little fuss about these IT innovations.

A dashboard for the CCoE manager, Customer Center of Expertise, is a perfect answer to the Composable ERP. Hana, S/4, BTP and BDC create an almost unmanageable ERP architecture. LeanIX can help out to some extent, but SAP for Me is the better answer.

It makes a big difference whether an existing SAP customer is presented with extensive and diverse IT tools for their challenges, or whether SAP and partners offer clear answers to defined problems. SAP can do everything, but at the expense of its existing customers.

Existing SAP ECC and S/4 customers who want to participate in the latest IT innovations such as AI, LLMs, databases, cloud and edge computing should customize the Business Technology Platform. SAP BTP offers all the degrees of freedom that S/4 denies.