‘SAP Fioneer’s largest investor is a charity’
The Hasso Plattner Foundation has the largest stake in SAP Fioneer, a controversial spin-off for the financial services industry. SAP Fioneer's shareholders are questioning the joint venture.
The Financial Times discovered that SAP founder Hasso Platner holds a major stake in joint venture SAP F... Read more
‘Adoption and change management are neglected too often’
Implementation partners are missing opportunities in the areas of adoption and change management. Customers expect much more than reasonable prices and fast projects
myBrand asked IT decision-makers in Western Europe about the qualities they seek in an implementation partner. More than half of t... 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 patches several critical Log4j vulnerabilities
SAP released patches for a series of vulnerabilities in its software portfolio. Multiple critical Log4j vulnerabilities were resolved.
Most of the vulnerabilities were discovered by security specialist Onapsis. Onapsis found so-called ICMAD vulnerabilities that allow attackers to perform various... Read more
SAP acquires fintech company Taulia, pushes for funding market share
SAP is acquiring a majority stake in US-based fintech company Taulia. Taulia's platform helps suppliers get paid for goods and services at an early stage of the supply chain.
The acquisition promises to increase the capital and cash flow of both SAP and Taulia. SAP hopes to gain a foothold in th... Read more
SAP specialist Aiden acquires ITvisors, boosts services with low-code
Aiden acquires ITvisors. Through ITvisors' low-code expertise, Aiden hopes to grow on the European market.
Aiden was founded to merge several SAP partners. In the fall of 2021, Asecom/Agion, INSynQ, Serac and Xperi chose to continue under the same banner. Now, a few months later, the organizatio... Read more
SAP sets high goals for 2022 after attaining a 28% increase in Q4 cloud computing revenue
SAP reported a 28% increase in cloud revenue in Q4. Due to this high achievement, SAP's new goal is to boost revenue by 26% in 2022.
IT operating businesses are shifting their operations to SAP cloud databases, significantly boosting revenue. Therefore, in a 2021 closing preliminary earning stat... Read more
“Forget about application landscapes, think of moments of service”
At IFS, it's all about so-called moments of service at the moment. It's a central concept in the company's vision. CEO Darren Roos, of course, often talks about it as well. We spoke to him at length during the recent IFS Connect Benelux event, and dug a bit deeper into this topic. Why are moments o... Read more
Knative applies to become a CNCF incubating project
Google has green-lighted the project's admission to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
This week Google announced that they have submitted Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) for consideration as an incubating project.
Knative adds the necessary components that enable ... Read more
Kyndryl is to partner with VMware and further strengthen ties with SAP
Aiming to expand its ecosystem, Kyndryl is to enter into collaborations with VMware and SAP.
Kyndryl, a managed infrastructure specialist that resulted from a split-off from VMware, says its goals align with VMware's expertise. Both companies focus on helping customers transfer their application... Read more