SAP’s future-proof vision: data, context & process
SAP is open for business, data. More specifically, SAP is open to helping customers use business data from their own data estates, from third-party sources where information streams have been ratified to be safe or anonymised and obfuscated… and SAP is open to using data services that stem from O... Read more
UKISUG doesn’t expect SAP to postpone S/4HANA migration deadline
UKISUG, an interest group for Irish and British SAP customers, expects the 2027 migration deadline from ECC to S/4HANA to hold.
Back in 2020, SAP extended the deadline from 2025 to 2027 because too few customers had made the move. Gartner doubts the feasibility of the new date, but UKISUG is o... Read more
IBM introduces snapshot protection for SAP HANA and Salesforce
IBM equipped its Sentinel backup system with snapshot technology for SAP HANA and Salesforce environments.
IBM Spectrum Sentinel for SAP HANA performs ransomware analysis on immutable primary storage snapshots, including automated recovery orchestration. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management is used... Read more
SAP wants to offer a best of suite platform with S/4HANA, but still lacks adoption
SAP has been beating the drum for some time now with its "RISE with SAP". We were particularly curious to see whether that message is getting through to customers and what SAP now exactly means with RISE. The goal of RISE is that you can grow your organization by using SAP solutions, where S/4HANA ... Read more
IBM launches migration service for on-prem SAP workloads to S/4HANA
IBM and SAP are strengthening their partnership. The pair is introducing 'IBM for RISE with SAP', a set of tools and consulting services for migrating on-premises SAP workloads to S/4HANA in the IBM Cloud.
ERP system SAP S/4HANA hs a handful of deployment options. 'Any Premises' licenses are pop... Read more
SAP and IBM partner to encourage financial institutions to move to the hybrid cloud
SAP has partnered with IBM to offer its finance and data management tools on the latter's Cloud for Financial Services platform. The announcement came on Wednesday as part of an ongoing effort to get industries to move to the hybrid cloud.
IBM's Cloud for Financial Services became generally avai... Read more
SAP opens business unit for customers in finance
SAP has announced that it is starting a new business unit aimed at customers in the financial industry. To set this up, the company will receive an investment of over 500 million euros from Dediq.
The efforts should lead to a joint venture with an independent management team. The whole thing sho... Read more
Microsoft and SAP expand partnership to integrate Teams
Microsoft and SAP are committing to integrating Microsoft Teams with SAP business applications by mid-2021.
This week, Microsoft and SAP announced they would build new integrations between Teams and SAP apps. These include SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Customer Experience. The two com... Read more
SAP shares take a dive after bad results ‘due to coronavirus’
German software corporation SAP has announced that it is postponing profitability targets because the company has underestimated how long recovery from the corona pandemic would take. The company will put more emphasis on cloud computing.
After the announcement, the value of SAP shares plummeted... Read more
IBM and SAP expand partnership on hybrid cloud
New project offers customers the capability to run business-critical SAP Software workloads on hybrid cloud.
IBM and SAP announced their partnership’s next evolution, with plans to develop several new offerings designed to create a more predictable journey for businesses to become data-driven ... Read more