E3 Category: Mag 22-09

The number of companies that have a consistent, enterprise-wide encryption strategy has increased from 50 to 62 percent in the past year. The desire for greater control of data was cited as the driver for this.

SAP is introducing an automatic price increase for its cloud services. The fees are to increase by a fixed 3.3 percent each year, according to the terms of the contract, which the group published a few weeks ago without announcement.

With the Speedi VMI solution, Vishay carries out consignment processes with Vendor Managed Inventory in an integrated, largely automated and uniform manner in SAP ERP. Internal IT is relieved, as there are hardly any support requests due to reliable processes.

A clear cloud-only trend has been evident in SAP's strategy for some time. The SaaS application Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) plays a central role in this - so the future of analytics with SAP is predetermined.

NTT Data Business Solutions has restructured the management of system copies on the basis of a standard system copy environment. This achieves several benefits.

50 years of SAP have naturally brought many ups and downs. Until two years ago, things were always looking up. But the crucial mistakes came earlier.

A large majority of the population sees digitization as an opportunity.

Open source is shaping the future, also in the SAP world. This change also affects long-standing SAP partners. They have to ask themselves how they can best get on the open source path in order to participate in the same way.

Although the first positive project experiences with people analytics are available, HR in particular is shy about the data analytic options.

IBM and SAP have announced a milestone in their long-standing partnership. IBM is undertaking one of the world's largest transformation projects based on Hana and S/4 to drive its own growth and better support its customers.

PwC conducted a study to examine the status quo of the data and analytics capabilities of companies in Germany. The decentralization of data platforms is gaining momentum and the data mesh is considered a promising architectural paradigm.

thyssenkrupp was faced with the challenge of transferring the Service area, which was fully integrated in the SAP system, to the three product areas Cement, Mining and Chemical Plant.