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IT meta-level

What many computer users would like to see, a metaverse with limitless data and information exchange: A game piece or a purchased tool would be able to be used without limits in a metaverse. You must not tell an existing SAP customer this vision - he would probably have tears in his eyes.
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
23 June 2022
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This text has been automatically translated from German to English.

This universal use of data is an old demand of the SAP community. Only consolidation, harmonization, and orchestration can deliver the necessary added value. SAP tried to square this circle on its own platforms - primarily on the SAP Business Technology Platform, BTP. This is too short-sighted and cannot succeed. The universally thinking SAP inventory customer needs an IT meta-level for all its applications: from R/3 to S/4 Hana to legacy software. If SAP does not provide its existing customers with an IT meta layer in the coming years, other IT companies will. The fact is that the complexity of Industry 4.0, supply chain, MES and CRM, and SRM will need an ERP metaverse.

If you think consistently end-to-end to the end, you need a meta level for orchestration. SAP can take this step and deliver an ERP metaverse - but this step will not be easy, see Facebook. Already, SAP's existing customers suffer from data inhomogeneity and spend far too long consolidating disparate data silos. Once upon a time, SAP's Data Hub was a real idea, but the technical implementation was poor and the project slumbered - it was also never declared dead! What has remained is the desire for a meta-level on which data and algorithms can be consolidated and harmonized.

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Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

Peter M. Färbinger, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief E3 Magazine DE, US and ES (e3mag.com), B4Bmedia.net AG, Freilassing (DE), E-Mail: pmf@b4bmedia.net and Tel. +49(0)8654/77130-21


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  • Wie wäre es mit folgendem Gedanken: Das ERP stellt den Ist-Zustand in Realtime dar. Jetzt wird zusätzlich jede Änderung im ERP in ein Distributed Transaction Log System übernommen. Dieses zeigt also die komplette Historie wir man zu dem aktuellen Ist-Zustand gekommen ist.
    So ein Distributed Transaction Log ist natürlich schwierig: Es muss mit riesigen Datenmengen umgehen, alle Interessierten müssen sich die Daten abholen oder den Änderungsstrom mit Latenz im Sekundenbereich konsumieren können. Glücklicherweise gibt es so etwas schon und setzt sich immer weiter in Firmen durch: Apache Kafka.
    Was man also benötigt, ist ein Mechanismus die ERP Daten nach Kafka effizient zu bringen. Schon hat man den schwierigsten Teil obiger Vision erledigt. Das predige ich bei SAP schon lange und erste Kunden haben diese Architektur bereits für sich selbst gebaut. SAP jedoch macht das genaue Gegenteil.

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