SAP Solution: Hana Enterprise Cloud

In operational use, the SAP Business Technology Platform becomes a cost trap and a deceptive package.

Microsoft and SAP have been working closely together for decades. But without the triad of Microsoft, SAP and system integrator, the journey to S/4 Hana or the cloud will not work.

The Technology Days of the German-speaking SAP User Group e. V. (DSAG) at the World Conference Center Bonn attempted to answer the question of what common ground there is on the way to the cloud and what requirements can be derived for SAP.

2004 was not a good year for SAP: The complete takeover of the consulting subsidiary SAP Systems Integration from Dresden into the Walldorf-based parent company became a lasting loss of knowledge in the areas of outsourcing, hosting, SaaS and ultimately cloud computing.

The disturbing sentence "Cloud only brings ERP into the dilemma" was on the cover of the DSAG member magazine. A wake-up call, but one that did not reach SAP Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert.

Mobile applications and in-memory computing are now used in a variety of forms. In view of these progressive developments, consulting firms are constantly faced with new tasks and challenges.

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.

Microsoft and SAP have unveiled integrated offerings that enable enterprise customers to migrate to the cloud efficiently and securely so they can focus on the digital transformation of their business.

Allgeier ES board member Jörg Dietmann sees S/4 as a generational shift with major changes and opportunities for existing SAP customers. In an exclusive interview with E-3, he answers critical questions about the interaction between S/4 and Hadoop, as well as about machine learning and security in the Hana Cloud Platform.

SAP focuses on the cloud-first strategy and offers its customers a wide range of solutions. Many do not have a real choice not to use these solutions. But how do customers achieve a healthy SAP licensing landscape that takes their licenses into account and optimizes them highly effectively?

The increasingly offered cloud solutions from SAP use OpenStack infrastructures. Suse platform solutions such as SLES for SAP Applications and the Suse Linux High Availability Extension play a central role in the SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud (HEC), among others.

This year's Sapphire was entertaining, but not insightful. What SAP really wants and where the group is just trying to keep up was not obvious in the keynotes. It remains tedious.