SAP-Solution: ERP

The S/4 conversion is the biggest challenge for existing SAP customers since the changeover from R/3 Enterprise to SAP Business Suite 7. An S/4 architecture means the release change to the Hana database, the decision about private cloud or public cloud and the adaptation of the license model.

Automation tools have long since become established for creating SAP system copies. SAP Basis teams expect providers to provide them with such software systems based on the latest technologies.

Austrian SAP customer Agrana is one of the world's leading food and industrial goods companies. In Germany, Agrana is probably better known for its strategic partner Südzucker, which is also an SAP user.

SAP S/4 Hana also calls the tax department into action: the calculation of VAT, part of every business transaction, is up for debate. Existing in-house solutions, configurations, and adjustments cannot be transferred from existing systems.

SAP is not taking AI seriously and is not investing enough resources in it. The company is additionally not making exceptions for indirect use licenses for AI applications. SAP is paving the way for an AI dystopia for ERP users.

DSAG's Chief Technology Officer Sebastian Westphal and SAP's Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller should focus less on entertaining and more on result-oriented discourse and problem-solving.

Customers act in more complex ways than before, as there are far more communication channels available. As a result, there are many interactions in which customers disclose their data to companies.

It was a dramatic time at SAP headquarters in Walldorf as many Supervisory Board members, Executive Board members and executives fought to keep their jobs. SAP Supervisory Board member and former Chairman-designate Punit Renjen was a danger that had to be averted.

Ex-Deloitte manager Punit Renjen will not become Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board. The alternative is the worst of all worlds: in May, Hasso Plattner's successor will be elected for only two years, meaning his position will be seen as insignificant and harmless.

The IT field of artificial intelligence has been around for many decades. HR management as an IT/Org topic is just as old. The idea of a composable ERP, on the other hand, is very new, which is naturally more than just best-of-breed.

High productivity, sustainable processes, and fail-safe supply chains based on a cognitive platform, combinable microservices, and a framework from Blue Yonder and Snowflake.

SAP is a shell of its former self. It has everything other IT vendors lack: content and knowledge. However, hyperscalers have the technology.