SAP Solution: Agility

If you want to survive in today's market environment, you not only need innovative products. You also have to bring them to market faster than the competition. Relentlessly increasing IT backlogs and update cycles lasting months become a fatal brake.

Mergers, acquisitions, buy-outs, carve-outs and spin-outs are supposed to make companies more agile, but they often lead to complex IT projects with far-reaching organizational consequences. It doesn’t have to be that way, though.

Organizations must be able to operate reliably, but at the same time be flexible enough to adapt to new innovations and changing market conditions.

There has never been more cloud than today. Almost any workload can be moved to or sourced from the cloud. This diversity offers opportunities as companies have proven that the cloud and digitized processes are the foundation for success.

The word "agility" has become an ongoing topic, especially in the IT scene: What is not agile, transparent and sustainable? Apart from its use as a buzzword, however, "agility" also has an important function:

A study conducted by Arvato shows how users rate SAP’s enterprise software and what requirements they have. The primary motivators for migrating to S/4 and Hana are more flexibility and agility.

Only a minority of German IT bosses think their company is already working in an agile manner, as Citrix found out in a recent survey.

Digitization as well as a Hana and S/4 upgrade require stability and agility in equal measure. Data structures belong separate from algorithms so that a roadmap emerges.

You can't get more challenging than this: digital transformation is putting all previous certainties to the test. Nothing concerns IT users more than the question of what digitization has in store for them.

140 years of success - the world-renowned Henkel brand is famous for its innovative strength and agility. These characteristics also characterize the in-house IT department. It has developed a recipe for decommissioning legacy systems - clearing the way for SAP S/4 Hana.

More and more companies are using DevOps for efficient application deployment. DevOps promises a shorter time to market, a better product quality and higher levels of customer satisfaction. However, it also entails new security risks.

No other system has grown as deeply into companies and their processes as SAP. Digitization presents SAP's existing customers with completely new challenges. What can DevOps do to help them cope with these tasks?