SAP Solution: Private 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...

Since the beginning of this year, Christian Klein has been communicating in a completely confused manner and without any context. Always in the best of moods, he says whatever comes to mind, true to the motto: What do I care about last day's chatter?

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.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced application, analytics and developer services for its GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. They support data-centric modernization in hybrid cloud environments.

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.

One of the best-kept secrets is on-prem cloud functionality for Hana and S/4. Those with patience and good nerves can ask SAP if there is a way to run Hana and S/4 with cloud functionality in their own data center.

Artificial intelligence, big data, or the switch to SAP S/4 Hana: SAP's midmarket customers are gradually setting the technological and process-related course for the future. Flexible infrastructures support them in this.

It all started with IBM mainframes. The resounding success came with SAP R/3 and a lot of help from Hewlett-Packard. Today, SAP has the broadest B2B software offering and users are looking for the optimal infrastructure. Parallel to SAP's success, Microsoft developed an open IT ecosystem: cloud computing for all SAP business processes. With Sabine Bendiek, Chairwoman...

Cloud First: SAP sees the future of HCM in the cloud; from 2026, all HCM solutions are to run via the SuccessFactors software-as-a-service solution. In addition, SAP is examining whether SuccessFactors can also be operated in a private cloud, i.e. in the data center of the SAP customer.

Like so many others, Syntax implemented its first Hana systems as appliances because there was no alternative. This was a challenge, to say the least. For example, we could only order the appliance once the customer had signed the contract—and technically, the customer then owned it.

Just in time for the turn of the year, the focus is on the developments of the past months, the current status and the plans, opportunities and challenges. There are three trends that user companies will be dealing with in 2019 and beyond.

In Germany's manufacturing industry, three out of four companies already obtain IT services from the cloud. But how can the actual costs be efficiently determined in a complex multi-cloud environment in order to optimize cloud costs?