Role model: Apple and SAP

Inside, you live almost like in an IT paradise - breaking out is almost impossible. Don't many existing SAP customers feel the same way? R/3, Suite 7 and S/4 are excellent systems, as long as you respect the specifications from Walldorf.

Many existing SAP customers already paid a breakout with high "penalty fees" for "indirect use" (of their own data). Now Apple has presented a self-developed chip for a future desktop and notebook generation and given Intel the boot.

This will tie Apple's fan base even closer to the company, but they will remain sufficiently fair: The device prices will remain the same or even become slightly lower even with the ultra-modern chip, and the performance will increase many times over. Couldn't Apple be a role model for SAP before existing customers break out of Suite 7 and AnyDB prison and try a different ERP system?

SAP could promise that when switching from S/7 to S/4, not only will everything be better, but the license and support payments to Walldorf will also be ten percent lower - you can still dream, can't you? Personal addition: Last week I unscrewed my Lenovo X1 notebook, installed a second 1 TB M.2 SSD NVMe and formatted it. Working time: five minutes. Apple notebook owners can only dream of that!