SAP-Solution: On-prem

Even if the ERP operating model is changing and the preference of existing SAP customers has not yet been determined: from on-prem to hybrid to private and public cloud or even a sovereign cloud. In all cases, the existing SAP customer needs an established basic team for S/4 Hana and the new SAP Business Suite. The challenges, tasks and duties are traditionally defined in the...

The digital transformation not only demands new technologies from companies, but also an intelligent combination of flexibility, security and performance - especially in the SAP environment.

For this article’s title, I‘ve borrowed a phrase from Friedrich Merz, a member of the German Bundestag, who used it in the last German Bundestag debate before the election in response to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's speech. This article has been inspired by German politics.

SAP CEO Christian Klein’s statement at the DSAG Annual Congress 2023 in Bremen proves that he wants “cloud only”; however, he has no concept behind it. Because “cloud only” does not mean that everyone is in the cloud; rather it means that there is only one version of it.

With the new invoice workflow for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition on SAP BTP, xSuite Group opens up new areas of application in P2P workflow.

Two fundamental changes will occupy SAP users in the next few years: a) Migrating from existing applications to S/4HANA and from existing databases to HANA by 2027 at the latest, b) The introduction of non-ABAP SAP cloud products (e.g. SuccessFactors, etc.).

Datasphere is designed to provide a unified solution for managing business-critical enterprise data. Whether and how companies benefit from this also depends on the interaction with Analytics Cloud and Data Intelligence Cloud.

For many years, the expert opinion was that there can be no alternatives to SAP because no other software provider masters similar business complexity. This statement is still true! But what if SAP's existing customers are themselves the alternative?

Still up to date? When the CCC forum of the German-speaking user group was canceled last year, there was a great deal of uncertainty. Is there no such thing as SAP Basis anymore?

Should existing customers now believe SAP that cloud computing is very attractive: Faith belongs in the church and the cloud is a bad cloud cuckoo land. But a good foundation is the guarantee for success.

More and more companies are opting for the data center refit. This saves resources, money and time.

Cloud solutions are an integral part of operational processes and business models in more and more companies. Nevertheless, it can be observed that in some places there is still great skepticism about implementing hybrid or even full cloud models.