E3 Category: MAG 24-09

What a typical medium-sized company does to counter growing SAP cybercrime: Monitoring with SolMan and round-the-clock support for the SAP landscape.

SAP is increasingly pushing customers towards licensing according to authorizations. Most existing SAP customers are therefore threatened with additional payments and a time-consuming inventory of the roles and authorizations previously assigned.

Artificial intelligence will be at the heart of future transformations in the retail sector. The necessary optimization of master data quality still poses challenges for established ERP systems such as SAP for Retail.

Planning, production and delivery are central to manufacturing. The processes of the three phases must therefore be ideally coordinated - end-to-end. This can be achieved with Synchronized Planning (SAP IBP including MP&S) in conjunction with SAP EWM.

SAP is continuing its massive restructuring: the successor to SAP Business Suite, S/4 Hana, has long since arrived. The end of mainstream support is also fast approaching, making a migration an inevitable next step. Furthermore, SAP is repositioning itself in the market with a focus on cloud solutions.

Although AI brings enormous benefits, especially in purchasing, users remain hesitant. Many companies simply lack the specialist expertise necessary. An AI strategy that supports them in the selection and implementation of suitable intelligent purchasing tools would be helpful.

80 percent of companies worldwide have increased their investments in generative AI compared to the previous year.

84 percent of respondents who have already migrated from Oracle Java report that the process was easier than expected or went as planned.

This case study shows how the targeted use of artificial intelligence (AI) in a complex transformation project led to measurable time and cost savings as well as quality improvements.

Professor Hasso Plattner is regarded as the inventor of the SAP Hana database, which can accelerate an ERP system if all the prerequisites are met.

The digital transformation towards sustainability presents managers with challenging transformation tasks. They demand economic solutions through number-based decisions as a valid foundation for all "green" endeavors.

SAP describes itself as The Cloud Company and has greatly expanded its range of cloud-based solutions in just a few years. The introduction of the S/4 Cloud Public Edition and Rise in particular underpins the cloud-first approach.