SAP solution: AI/Joule

SAP has announced a major expansion of its learning ecosystem to fundamentally change the way professionals acquire and demonstrate SAP expertise in an AI-powered world.

Europe and Germany are clearly lagging behind the USA and China in terms of rapid AI scaling despite good prerequisites. KPMG study sees opportunity for Europe to strengthen technological sovereignty and reduce dependencies without abandoning responsible standards.

Cloud computing is no longer a megatrend. The SAP share price has fallen by up to 40 percent from its all-time high. In an interview with Manager Magazin, SAP CEO Christian Klein promises to restore the old glory, this time with AI.

SAP has fallen out of time: It's not that S/4 is a bad ERP, but rather that SAP CEO Christian Klein overslept the social and technical change.

The global ERP company hardly plays a role on the international IT stage anymore. SAP was absent from Viva Tech 2025 in Paris and CES 2026 in Las Vegas. What about Davos?

While existing SAP customers are forced into an expensive straitjacket with the Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Business Data Cloud (BDC), which cement vendor lock-in, independent iPaaS solutions such as Boomi or hyperscalers demonstrate true agility. They orchestrate hybrid data streams as composable ERP without rigid ABAP constraints. Anyone seeking true digital sovereignty must critically...

Generative AI is the tool of the hour for moving companies forward. A largely standardized and cloud-based environment is required for it to be effective - as well as good data quality. Our path to a modern IT architecture.

The topic of AI naturally also dominates the SAP community, that is well known: However, an offer analysis of the 180 SAP partners at the DSAG Annual Congress 2025 Bremen shows that AI hardly realizes any relevant added value in productive ERP systems such as Business Suite 7 or S/4 Hana.

Volatile markets, fragile supply chains, rising costs and growing sustainability pressure are challenging production companies. Sales volumes fluctuate, customer orders change at short notice, unplanned machine breakdowns and staff shortages create additional uncertainty.

The days when CFOs only managed balance sheets and ensured that budgets were adhered to are over. Today's CFO is a dynamic strategist at the center of the company's direction and growth.

Although German supervisory boards are better than the global average in many aspects of AI, they are still self-critical.

It was with great astonishment that I read the text "AI agents are turning Salesforce and SAP into rivals. Artificial intelligence is blurring the distinction between front office and back office" in The Economist on June 5 of this year.