SAP-Solution: On-prem

SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise offers a wide range of opportunities, from Agentic AI to Composable ERP. All the necessary IT tools for this are available in SAP’s portfolio. Ultimately, however, the question of affordability—based on licenses, maintenance, and Digital Access—remains.

As the end of SAP Process Integration (PI) and Process Orchestration (PO) approaches, an issue that has long remained in the background is now taking center stage: integration. Companies often underestimate the effort required for this.

Tabular foundation models seem tailor-made for SAP’s ABAP world. In an ERP system where everything is based on tables, an LLM (Large Language Model) has no place. With TabPFN (Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network), the startup Prior Labs can save SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise.

AI knows only one path: to solve a given task optimally and once and for all! What seems like a radical approach to humans is, for the machine, its logical raison d’être. Because AI has no humanistic values, it will continue to optimize until its very end.

With an antitrust ruling, the EU has provisionally brought an end to an anti-competitive chapter in SAP’s history. The global leader in ERP was accused of exploiting its dominant market position in maintenance and support to force customers into an inescapable service straitjacket.

Geopolitical developments are increasing European companies' desire for IT sovereignty. Less well known: SAP also offers on-prem options in its cloud portfolio. HPE provides the right infrastructure with GreenLake - as the basis for AI innovation and hybrid cloud.

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.).