Containers and Microservices

The dominant theme of the past few years for the three board members Christian Klein, Jürgen Müller and Thomas Saueressig has been the integration of SAP's innovation on a common standard. The project has come a long way and is showing mediocre success, yet the question must be allowed: Is it still up to date?

Computer science itself has been working with microservices and containers for many years to make large monolithic IT architectures manageable. Ultimately, it is about the management of complex ERP landscapes. The digital transformation is continuously expanding the range of topics, so it is to be feared that Klein, Müller and Saueressig are too late with their efforts for final integration. The first cries are already being heard: Smash SAP!

This does not mean the corporation itself, but its ERP architecture. The effort to integrate is a Sisyphean task: No sooner is A integrated with B than C comes around the corner and the whole process starts all over again. A microservices architecture and container management are designed from the start to integrate everything - come what may! And many more innovations will hit the SAP community.