SAP Solution: M2M

The fourth industrial revolution is facing the challenges of increasingly complex supply chain management (SCM), which at the same time must guarantee more customized and flexible production.

No! There will be no SAP's act of courtesy towards European existing customers, developers and analysts in 2018 either. Europe has become SAP's "cash cow." Communication takes place elsewhere.

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".

I have often called for long-term, verified and strategic SAP roadmaps here. The current minimal outlooks are neither complete nor useful. Panic turns into chaos: Because SAP no longer has a strategy, the Executive Board is reacting erratically.

The digital structural change is leading to profound changes in industrial purchasing. The days of operational purchasing as an organizational unit are numbered. Procurement processes are largely automated - also via Ariba and S/4.

At the tenth anniversary of the M2M Summit, industry leaders and startups presented the latest solutions for IoT & Co.

Digital transformation is not a reduction to the binary system of digital electronics, but the creation of new business processes based on digital technology. Disposition, logistics, perfect plant, supply chain management are almost perfectly digitized. However, IoT, the Internet of Things, is triggering a "Digital Tsunami". Björn Dunkel, member of the management board of SAP partner G.I.B, talks about the changes...

The digital transformation process has to be non-disruptive for almost all existing SAP customers - regardless of technology, use and business cases. "Hybrid" is thus a key term to evaluate a roadmap. E-3 Editor-in-Chief Peter Färbinger spoke with Roger Illing, OpenText Vice President Enterprise Sales EMEA, about the transformation of Enterprise Information Management.