E3 Category: MAG 18-09

Peakboard was honored as one of 14 companies in the "100 Places for Industry 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg" competition.

SAP supply chain management specialist Leogistics supports a development cooperation project of the University of Kassel.

NTT Data acquires automotive sales and aftersales specialist Genius DMS.

The study, published jointly by PAC and Arvato Systems, has the intention of providing an overview of the current situation regarding SAP's ERP product generation SAP S/4HANA.

The migration to S/4 Hana can take SAP customers around two to three years, depending on the size of the landscape. In addition to the technical migration, the SAP contract will also be converted. This is a great opportunity to finally clean up existing legacy issues.

Germany is to become the world's leading location for artificial intelligence. To this end, there is to be data cooperation between the state and the private sector.

In the coalition agreement, the German government agreed to develop a master plan on artificial intelligence and has now presented the first key points.

Robotic Process Automation is just the beginning. Robots for standard processes are on the verge of a breakthrough. Autonomous agents with "real" AI are still dreams of the future.

AI is the most important driver of digitization. In just a few years, it will be found in almost every product and service.

In 2025 at the latest, the time will have come: There will be no more maintenance provided for older SAP releases. Until then, SAP customers should already have migrated to S/4Hana. The corresponding announcement from Walldorf was made in 2015. Even in 2018, the number of companies who have already migrated is still in the single-digit percentage area, and the figure of existing SAP customers who successfully migrate to Hana with the provided standard conversion tools may be just as low. That’s because although they work excellently, they only have advantages for customers who have remained in the SAP standard.

Virtual and augmented reality are an integral part of corporate strategies.

Master data plays an increasingly important role in times of digitalization, S/4 and Industry 4.0. The Swiss manufacturer Franke Kitchen Systems is taking a new approach to continuously improve its data quality in a process-oriented manner.