![\"1](\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1-1706.jpg\" "\\"Sapanopticon")
<\/a>Government CIOs spend 21 percent of their IT budgets on digitization initiatives.<\/p>\nLeading private and public sector companies spend a higher percentage of their IT budgets on digitization initiatives on average (33 percent) than government agencies (21 percent).<\/p>
<\/a><\/div>\nThis was the finding of a recent global survey by IT research and advisory firm Gartner, which polled 2,598 CIOs from 93 countries.<\/p>\n
In 2018, leading companies will spend as much as 43 percent of their IT budgets on digitalization, while government CIOs will spend 28 percent. Generous Executive Board salaries almost cost the SAP Supervisory Board its discharge at the Annual General Meeting.<\/p>\n The discharge of the Supervisory Board went just right for Professor Hasso Plattner with 54.5 percent. The vote was preceded by a heated discussion about the level of the Executive Board's salaries.<\/p>\n CEO Bill McDermott can earn a maximum salary of up to 41 million euros if he performs well. SAP's Annual General Meeting on May 10 in Mannheim also approved the actions of the Executive Board for the 2016 financial year and the appointment of KPMG Wirtschaftspr\u00fcfungsgesellschaft as auditors for the 2017 financial year.<\/p>\n The shareholders have approved the management's dividend proposal. SAP shareholders will receive a dividend of EUR 1.25 per share for the 2016 financial year (2015: EUR 1.15). The total distribution to shareholders for the 2016 financial year amounts to EUR 1.377 billion. One in five digital companies (21 percent) considers artificial intelligence to be a top topic in 2017. With its new guide, Bitkom aims to provide orientation for those responsible in companies who decide on the use of AI technologies.<\/p>\n A year ago, the proportion was just nine percent. The guide \"Understanding artificial intelligence as automation of decision-making\", which is available to download free of charge, aims to help managers in companies bring order to the multitude of circulating AI definitions and thus better decide where appropriate solutions can be used. The focus is on the development of a five-stage model of decision-making. According to a representative survey by the auditing and consulting firm PwC, 41 percent of Germans can imagine consulting a \"robo-doctor\" instead of a human doctor in the event of illness one day - provided, of course, that the \"robo-doctor\" has similar capabilities to his human colleague by then. The Austrian technology and industrial goods group Voestalpine is the winner of the SAP Innovation Award. With this award, SAP recognizes the company's efforts to be \"one step ahead\" in the area of operational excellence by using the innovative process mining technology from Celonis.<\/p>\n Voestalpine uses Process Mining to analyze and optimize its processes, creating innovation in the order-to-cash process as well. SAP Austria presented the award at the SAP Forum in Linz in May. Implementation partner SCC impressed with two customer projects at this year's SAP Quality Awards:<\/p>\n The Upper Austrian manufacturer of drive systems BRP-Rotax received the gold medal in the \"Business Transformation\" category for the One Piece Flow pilot project.<\/p>\n SCC was awarded the silver medal for another project with the Austrian Federal Forests in the \"Fast Delivery\" category. Following a British court ruling, SAP has published a statement outlining its thoughts on indirect use. DSAG considers the statement to be inadequate.<\/p>\n Although this ruling on \"indirect use\" cannot be directly applied to users in the DACH region, the topic has been a topic of discussion among members of the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) for some time.<\/p>\n According to DSAG, the topic of \"indirect use\" must be viewed from two fundamental perspectives: On the one hand, it is about users using SAP software directly or indirectly. This form of use must be assessed under licensing law.<\/p>\n Depending on the use, you may need a corresponding right of use in the form of a \"named user license\" or an engine. Unfortunately, there is no clear definition or regulation for indirect use within SAP. However, SAP is now communicating pricing models for indirect use for various scenarios for the first time.<\/p>\n In DSAG's opinion, however, this publication is insufficient, as there are still a number of issues that require satisfactory clarification. \"In principle, it is to be welcomed that something is moving at SAP after many years,\" explains Andreas Oczko, DSAG Board Member for Operations\/Service & Support.<\/p>\n However, the document drawn up by SAP on pricing for indirect use is currently still immature, as essential questions have not been clarified and many aspects have not been taken into account, and DSAG has advised against publication at this time.<\/p>\n For example, the paper mainly looks at known cases, but leaves out some legal aspects. This will only increase uncertainty among customers and further block necessary investments in the future. Taking into account the fact that ERP systems are the central data hub of a company, it is inevitable in an increasingly networked world that external third-party systems need to access the database of an ERP system.<\/p>\n The commercial and legal question of which license metrics apply here and which license costs arise as a result have a significant influence on the development and supply of the market for third-party applications.<\/p>\n In this respect, we await SAP's design proposals with great interest and hope that the new license metrics for indirect use will be more in line with the interests of our partners and their customers than the previous system. Bitkom Managing Director Bernhard Rohleder comments on the Federal Government's final legislative report \"Digital Agenda 2014-2017\":<\/p>\n \"The first digital government program for Germany is a model for success.<\/p>\n The Digital Agenda must be updated in the coming legislative period and given even more ambitious targets.<\/p>\n Over the past three years, the German government has made good progress in implementing the Digital Agenda. Only four percent of the original 121 individual measures have not yet been implemented.<\/p>\n That is a remarkable result. However, there is still room for improvement overall, for example in the digitalization of administration, the modernization of the education system and the digital transformation of the economy. We need to make faster and better progress here.\"<\/p>\n Bitkom also sees structural obstacles to digitalization.<\/p>\n \"The Digital Agenda has shown the limits of national government action in a state that is integrated into Europe and has a strongly federal structure internally. The federal government has little or no responsibility in key areas of digital policy: Education, media, administration, even internal security. We are pursuing a digital parochial policy in Germany and the slowest one sets the pace.\"<\/p>\n With a view to the upcoming Bundestag elections, Rohleder says:<\/p>\n \"We cannot rest on our laurels. The elections must not become a brake on the digital transformation. We need a new digital agenda - and we have to take the federal states, cities and municipalities with us.<\/p>\n The next Digital Agenda must draw up a program for the whole of Germany and weave the digital patchwork together.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here you will find all articles from our popular \"SAPananoptikum\" section clearly listed. Simply click on the relevant tab to read the article under the heading.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":9799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13812],"tags":[966,4186,236],"coauthors":[19920],"class_list":["post-23611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sap-nachrichten","category-mag-1706","tag-digital","tag-indirekte-nutzung","tag-sap","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",1000,409,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",400,164,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-768x314.jpg",768,314,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",1000,409,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-100x41.jpg",100,41,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-480x196.jpg",480,196,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-640x262.jpg",640,262,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-720x294.jpg",720,294,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-960x393.jpg",960,393,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",1000,409,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",1000,409,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",1000,409,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",1000,409,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",1000,409,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",18,7,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",1000,409,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",1000,409,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",1000,409,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",600,245,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1.jpg",600,245,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sapan-1-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":" Hier finden Sie alle Beitr\u00e4ge aus unserer beliebten “SAPananoptikum” Rubrik \u00fcbersichtlich aufgef\u00fchrt. Klicken sie einfach den entsprechenden Reiter an um den Artikel zur \u00dcberschrift zu lesen.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Community Nachrichten<\/a>, MAG 17-06<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"E-3 Magazine","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/e-3-magazin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23611"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n54.5 percent<\/b><\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nAutomation of decision-making<\/b><\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nNo fear of Dr. Robo<\/b><\/h4>\n
<\/a>Germans see the increasing mechanization of medicine as more of a blessing than a curse.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nSAP Innovation Award: Voestalpine and Celonis<\/b><\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nTwo SAP Quality Awards<\/b><\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nDSAG considers SAP document still immature<\/b><\/h4>\n
<\/a>According to a decision by a British court, software companies can demand additional license fees if other programs access their software for the purpose of data exchange.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nStatement on indirect use<\/b><\/h4>\n
<\/a>We are pleased that SAP has reconsidered the issue of indirect use by partner applications and has announced new solutions. However, it remains to be seen how these solutions will be structured in detail and what license costs can then be expected in the respective application situations.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>
\n<\/p>\nThe boundaries of the nation state<\/b><\/h4>\n
<\/a>The industry association Bitkom also sees structural obstacles to digitalization.<\/p>\n