AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Customers often want to augment and enrich SAP source data with other non-SAP source data. Customers can now use the AWS Glue SAP OData connector to extract data from SAP. The SAP OData connector supports both on-premises and cloud-hosted (native and SAP RISE) deployments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The launch by SAP of new AI capabilities in its SuccessFactors HCM (human capital management) suite Monday is a case of “better late to the party than never,” according to an analyst with Info-Tech Research Group. Or because SAP missed the boat on this trend and is now playing catchup to Workday?” he asked. “It

IT 111

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It provides data catalog, automated crawlers, and visual job creation to streamline data integration across various data sources and targets. Currently, this data is centralized in the ERP system, specifically SAP. Given that we are dealing with a SaaS integration, AWS Glue is the logical choice for seamless data ingestion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2025

SAP is fully committed to agentic AI as it seeks to reimagine the future of enterprise applications. SAP started off slow in this space, says Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at the Info-Tech Research Group. SAP said it plans to make AI hub generally available in Q4 2025.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

We’re an IT company that’s very integrated into the business in terms of applications, and we put innovation at the center. Vibram has also switched to SAP S/4HANA to better manage the entire B2B and B2C supply chain, while Adyen harmonizes different products in the cloud. “I But there’s an even more essential area for Pacetti.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2025

SAP in February dusted off its legacy on-prem Business Suite label and resurrected it for the cloud era under a new strategic banner Business Unleashed. Because, by definition, a suite requires the seamless integration of the SAP solutions it contains, uniform operating models, and clear migration and implementation strategies along the way.

Strategy 73

Strategy Cost-Benefit Data Lake Modeling 73

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 21, 2025

SAP change management is a challenge in most organizations, and its an area that Basis Technologies currently serves with its Intelligent Change Management products. Basis Technologies has been working with SAPs Application Life Cycle Management team for over eight months on the problem of change delivery, Apostolakis said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Consider the following business solutions in their early forms: Workday for HR Salesforce for sales Adobe or Hubspot for marketing SAP for ERP These solutions reformed the way we thought about HR, supply chain, or CRM, but they did not transform the work itself. If you work in finance, youre working in SAP. Not necessarily.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With the growing emphasis on data, organizations are constantly seeking more efficient and agile ways to integrate their data, especially from a wide variety of applications. By directly integrating with Lakehouse, all the data is automatically cataloged and can be secured through fine-grained permissions in Lake Formation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud. Integration with Oracles systems proved more complex than expected, leading to prolonged testing and spiraling costs, the report stated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

SAP has added AI capabilities powered by its AI assistant, Joule, to SAP Build Process Automation and SAP Build apps, extending the existing AI capabilities in SAP Build Code and ABAP Cloud.

IT 69

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We recently talked with one company whose Data Journey is a path from SAP & Teradata to ADLS (Bronze/Silver/Gold) and finally to Synapse for usage. Routine checks for row counts, null values, and integrity constraints can help detect missing data early in the pipeline. Alternatively, suppose you do not control the ingestion code.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scale trusted workflows with agentic AI Appian, Atlassian, Cisco Collaboration, Forethought, IBM, Ivanti, Pega, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Tray.ai, Workday, Zoho, and others launched service-oriented AI agents in 2024. CIOs should consider placing these five AI bets in 2025. Why focus on the marketing department?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Still, CIOs have reason to drive AI capabilities and employee adoption, as only 16% of companies are reinvention ready with fully modernized data foundations and end-to-end platform integration to support automation across most business processes, according to Accenture. These reinvention-ready organizations have 2.5

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Jen Stirrup

MAY 22, 2025

It was interesting to see SAP subtly reinforce the message about the importance of connected enterprise data as a foundation for AI. This renewed focus signifies SAP’s return to its core enterprise objectives. Data as a Foundation for AI For more SAP information, you can visit their site directly: SAP Sapphire page.

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Uncertainty Enterprise Data Integration Technology 64

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The company first discussed the new functionality at its Sapphire conference in June, announcing that Joule would offer an integration with Microsoft Copilot enabling users to, for example, query their Outlook calendar from Joule. But, noted Walter Sun, global head of AI at SAP, in an interview, there is always a human in the loop.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

With the addition of these technologies alongside existing systems like terminal operating systems (TOS) and SAP, the number of data producers has grown substantially. This is further integrated into Tableau dashboards. The architecture is depicted in the following figure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The migration conundrum Migrating to SAP S/4HANA is no small feat. This no-code SAP data management platform handles the nitty-gritty of data migration. It integrates seamlessly with the SAP Migration Cockpit and uses AI to automate data extraction, validation, transformation, and loading.

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Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Integration Data Quality 64

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The next generation of SageMaker, an integrated experience for data, analytics, and AI, addresses these challenges and more. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (Preview) solves this challenge by providing an integrated authoring experience to use all your data and tools for analytics and AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The more strategic concern isn’t just the cost— it’s that technical debt is affecting companies’ abilities to create new business, and saps the means to respond to shifting market conditions. While CIOs understand the crushing weight of technical debt — now costing US companies $2.41

ROI 136

ROI Cost-Benefit Metrics Strategy 136

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 23, 2024

A new survey of SAP customer organizations shows that, despite AI experimentation, few have implemented AI and generative AI technologies across their enterprises. A small portion of SAP customers reported their organizations were using AI in many areas (6% DSAG, 7% ASUG, 5% UKISUG).

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Experimentation Optimization Digital Transformation Manufacturing 59

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 4, 2024

While artificial intelligence is a key focus at SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, this year, the company has announced that it is also enhancing its Business Technology Platform — application development and automation, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities — by adding features to extend its components’ functionality.

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Paul Blogs on BI

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It’s been over 13 years since SAP acquired BusinessObjects and really stepped into the world of Business Intelligence. During the first few years after the purchase, SAP sold a ton of BusinessObjects licenses and, for at least one or two years, they sold more BusinessObjects licenses than they did SAP ERP licenses.

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Strategy Business Intelligence Data Processing Reporting 141

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

SAP announced today a host of new AI copilot and AI governance features for SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). With today’s announcements, SAP is building on that vision. Nearly every customer has an information architecture that expands beyond SAP. Collibra does a fantastic job of understanding it.”

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Unstructured Data Dashboards Business Intelligence Data Governance 129

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This launch brings together widely adopted AWS ML and analytics capabilities, providing an integrated experience for analytics and AI with a re-imagined lakehouse and built-in governance. At re:Invent 2024, we unveiled the next generation of Amazon SageMaker , a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI.

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Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven Optimization 98

Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One of the sessions I sat in at UKISUG Connect 2024 covered a real-world example of data management using a solution from Bluestonex Consulting , based on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). Introducing Maextro: The Solution Enter Maextro, an SAP-certified data management and governance solution developed by Bluestonex.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

SAP is reorganizing its AI activities. Herzig now reports directly to CEO Christian Klein, and will oversee the entire value chain for SAP business AI from research and product development through to implementation at the customer. Herzig’s team will work closely with other innovators within SAP. percent of the total workforce.

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Manufacturing Software Sales Reporting 142

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2024

SAP wants developers to view its Build platform as the one extension solution for all of SAP’s applications, according to Michael Aneling, chief product officer for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). By year-end, the extensibility wizard will enable developers to create custom SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 applications as well.

Technology 119

Technology IT Software Enterprise 119

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

‘Rising’ to transformation Accenture has been a long-standing partner of SAP, using its ERP solutions to manage its core business processes, such as finance and procurement. Beyond that, re-solutioning legacy custom code to leverage extensibility has provided its own benefits.

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Cost-Benefit Finance Strategy Risk 126

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

Microsoft has begun migrating its internal SAP systems to S/4HANA under the RISE with SAP umbrella. All three major cloud providers host SAP applications for their customers, and all three run at least some of their internal financial systems on SAP. Microsoft, though, is the first to adopt the RISE with SAP offering.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

APRIL 9, 2024

For example, purchasing, integrating and deploying a variety of tools can be complex. On the other hand, a consolidated platform may not be integrated well enough itself and may not be open to use with other components. In our most recent Analytics and Data Buyers Guide SAP was rated Exemplary and an overall leader.

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Analytics Software Enterprise Technology 130

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Prepare to be amazed as we dive into how GEA transformed their sales, manufacturing, and service channels by harnessing the power of integration and innovation! Enter SAP Commerce Cloud and Guided Selling, seamlessly integrated with SAP ERP. A future filled with triumph GEA’s remarkable achievements did not go unnoticed.

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Sales Manufacturing Marketing Management 124

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Following the lead of its enterprise software rivals, SAP too has announced it will now be entering the agent era of AI. Last month saw SAP rivals ServiceNow and Salesforce announcing agentic AI for their respective offerings. Joule is to be integrated ever more deeply into SAP’s software landscape.

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Strategy Finance Enterprise Software 122

erwin

MAY 22, 2025

As SAP PowerDesigner approaches its end of life (EOL), you could soon find yourself plunged into data modeling darkness. If youre still relying on SAP PowerDesigner, you must ask yourself: Can my business afford to be left in the dark? Data integrity risks Relying on a defunct tool puts data consistency and security in jeopardy.

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Modeling Uncertainty Metadata Data Integration 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

SAP is expanding its AI ecosystem with a partnership with AWS. Such AI partnerships are important for SAP, said Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller, pointing to other cooperations, for example with IBM, the chip manufacturer Nvidia and various universities. In addition, SAP is also working closely with Microsoft and Google on AI.

Manufacturing 124

Manufacturing Machine Learning Finance Optimization 124

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

SAP wants to give new meaning to the resources in enterprise resource planning, going beyond the boundaries of the enterprise and accounting for its impact on the whole planet. SAP is addressing both of those by working with organizations like the World Business Council for Sustainable Development,” McComb said.

Reporting 141

Reporting Enterprise Software Management 141

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Because so much of the organization’s strategic information was already on SAP legacy systems, Colsubsidio began working with the world’s leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor to construct the application. As evidence, data analysis that once took 35 days can now be completed immediately. “One

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