SAP-Solution: Bosch

European companies prefer supporting service providers that cover multiple geographic regions for the deployment and management of their IoT networks.

Bosch and SAP want to simplify digital business processes and have agreed on a strategic cooperation to this end.

For SAP CFO Luka Mucic, it must have been an eerie déjà vu: Once again, more SAP employees want to leave the company with an acceptable severance package than Mucic and SAP CEO McDermott had planned. It was a similar story last time: SAP employees saw the fair offer as a chance to take stock of the situation and to appreciate SAP's challenging work environment....

One of the characteristics of an IoT platform is its openness to interfaces and file formats. Instead of delimited platforms, there is a trend toward open structures. SAP is also accommodating customers here.

Follow-up to the 1st Handelsblatt Conference "Artificial Intelligence". Artificial intelligence is all the rage and hardly a week goes by without a conference on the subject. The peak of information and education was already reached in March this year with the 1st Handelsblatt Conference "Artificial Intelligence", organized by Euroforum in Munich.

Good CEO Bill McDermott wants to go to heaven with SAP Cloud Platform. Bad SAP customers are going everywhere, including AWS, Google and MS Azure cloud - and HCM on-premise.

Hasso Plattner saw it in California at Apple, Google, Amazon and Salesforce: Cloud computing is the future! Now his fear is that SAP will no longer exist in a few years unless Bill McDermott and Luka Mucic also push the ERP group in the direction of the "cloud".

The new year has begun with disastrous measurement results. A first IoT field test with hundreds of sensors has shown that SAP's Hana Cloud Platform is not prepared for Big Data. Cobbler, stick to your last!

Bosch provides SAP with its IoT microservices on the Hana Cloud Platform. SAP contributes the Hana database platform to the Bosch IoT Cloud.

SAP continues to focus on the topic of variant configuration. This became clear at the 9th VC Congress. The event provided deep insights into the current challenges and solution scenarios around offer configuration, individual pricing and the latest technologies.

56 percent of manufacturing companies are already using Industry 4.0 software solutions, according to a recent study.

The Chinese IT and telecommunications (ICT) market is booming: According to the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO), there was an 11.4 percent increase in sales to around EUR 351 billion in 2014 alone - significantly more than the ICT growth expected in Western countries.