The battle for data sovereignty

The list of simple and higher programming languages is now unmanageable. For the time being, this development ends in no-code/low-code platforms.

One of these programming platforms is Mendix, a kind of non-profit organization similar to Mozilla (Firefox), which Siemens acquired for 600 million euros in order to build a "programming platform" for IoT.

SAP also offers this service: SAP Cloud Platform Rapid Application Development (RAD) by Mendix. Will serverless computing be followed by algorithmless computing?

No-code/low-code platforms offer the opportunity to do this. This shifts the focus to data structures - once again a reference to the computer science classic "Algorithms and Data Structures" by Professor Niklaus Wirth.

Data hubs, master data management, positioning and moving "big data" in a hybrid cloud infrastructure appear to be more strategic and essential than apps with more or less meaningful algorithms.

The app becomes a disposable product, while the data becomes a company treasure - this idea is not entirely new, of course, but the radical way in which we can now implement it is revolutionary: Why analyze business processes with process mining in the sense of SAP partner Celonis when new algorithms can be customized within a few days with no-code/low-code platforms?

Perhaps business process management is vastly overrated. The winner in IT is not whoever designs the smartest algorithms, but whoever has data sovereignty. SAP is pursuing a dual strategy: CEO Bill McDermott loves "his" Qualtrics and the supposedly intelligent marketing algorithms, but the offering also includes the SAP Data Hub, see our webinar together with Suse Linux and SAP.

In a no-code/low-code IT world, data structures and big data seem to play the essential role. So let's leave Bill McDermott to his Qualtrics C/4 show at Sapphire in Orlando next week. The real focus should be on the SAP Data Hub.