E3 Category: SAP Scene

The introduction of the new Supply Chain Act is imminent. Even though this will initially affect companies with at least 3,000 employees in Germany on January 1, 2023, Huss-Verlag has already published a brochure which answers all the relevant questions.

According to management and technology consultancy BearingPoint, the following five tech trends will be of particular focus to companies in the coming year: Generative AI, Metaverse, cloudnative platforms, embedded data and analytics, and Zero Trust at Scale.

The level of digitalization and cloud maturity continues to increase in companies, resulting in new requirements for IT departments to manage IT processes.

Public, Private, Industry or SAP BTP are just some of the topics that will keep us busy in the SAP universe. In the meantime, we have a certain capacity for suffering and are used to constantly learning.

In the current cloud discussion, it is important to distinguish precisely between cloud infrastructure and cloud functionality. Why? Because SAP and partner HPE also offer the best of both worlds, as an E-3 discussion showed.

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.

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.

During the conference call to present SAP's first-half 2022 results, CEO Christian Klein kept repeating, "This was a good quarter for SAP." Whether he was trying to convince the analysts or himself with this remains to be seen.

Retrieve the status quo, recognize patterns, take action at an early stage: To be and remain competitive in our fast-moving world, companies should make profitable use of the immense treasure trove of data.

BLG Logistics is strengthening its competitiveness in the automotive logistics sector by digitizing its strategic planning processes with SAP IBP. This equips the company for future challenges. The implementation partner is Consilio.

Disrupted supply chains and the current uncertainty among consumers require companies to be highly flexible and resilient. The key to success is to align people, processes, data and technology.

Two out of three companies consider themselves to be laggards in digitization, and by 2023, one in three intends to scale back digitization investments.