SAP Solution: Mag 22-06

Home office, flexible working hours and new forms of collaboration: The modernization and digitalization of the working world have accelerated further in the corona pandemic.

In the awards of the "Great Place to Work" institute, the Henrichsen Group can boast successes in three categories, making it one of the best German workplaces.

The business climate in the digital industry improved noticeably in April. This is due to full order books at companies in the IT and telecommunications sector.

More and more companies are turning to the support of a digital twin when planning new production facilities and supply chains or when expanding or improving old logistics concepts.

Platform provider Como relies on SAP Fioneer's Cloud for Banking (C4B) application. This gives the Luxembourg-based PayTech's customers direct access to real-time payment processing and a cost reduction of up to 60 percent.

The SAP community remains skeptical: Even the first survey of the SAP community in 2021 indicated that the big "move" from SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4 Hana in the cloud via the "Rise with SAP" initiative would not be so easily communicated.

The cloud market is bustling with activity. Not least due to the entry of the Schwarz Group - parent company of the Lidl discount chain - the market is facing changes.

The majority of IT decision-makers in Germany believe that the issue of cybersecurity has taken a back seat in digital business initiatives over the past year.

As part of the Cloud Computing Market Barometer Germany 2022, cloud service providers based in Germany were asked for their assessment of the status of the cloud market.

By its very nature, a public cloud would be a one-time lottery win for SAP and many other providers. The positive scaling effects are gigantic, but individuality, innovation, agility and resilience fall by the wayside.

Many years ago, the user association DSAG postulated that SAP Business Suite 7 could be sufficient for digital transformation. Now the proof.

The subscription economy with its agile business models will shape the future of almost all industries. However, the shift to agile subscriptions also requires new strategies, business processes and back-office systems.