SAP Solution: algorithms

Beyond any color theory, the SAP community is discussing whether algorithms or data structures should take center stage in the context of the upcoming S/4 conversion. The one determines the other. What should existing SAP customers focus on?

Cloud computing is a megatrend, but with each new quarterly report SAP shows its own difficulty in using and understanding this trend in a positive way - even if the figures look quite pretty for the financial analysts. However, CRM is a real SAP unique selling proposition.

Surprise - SurpRISE - with SAP CEO Christian Klein: Instead of going to a well-stocked computer science library and checking out Niklaus Wirth's classic "Algorithms and Data Structures," Klein is trying to force the Intelligent Enterprise with process mining from the acquired startup Signavio. I want to shout out to Christian Klein: "My friend, the art is old and new. It...

Alarm among IT security experts: the breakthrough of quantum computers may become a mortal threat to conventional encryption methods. Post-quantum cryptography is the order of the day.

Mathias Landhäußer wins Uniserv Research Award 2017 at KIT. He convinced with his dissertation "An Architecture for Program Synthesis from Natural Language" and takes a decisive step in programming for everyone.

More and more companies are taking up the cause of machine learning, and intelligent machines are more than ever a topic of public discussion. Yet the concept of machine learning is fundamentally not new. So why the hype?

Are employees career puppets or personnel developers in their own right? Digitalization is shaking up the training market. Personal Nord 2017 on April 25 and 26 will outline the current trends in training and personnel development.

SAP seems to be more and more addicted to new technology instead of focusing on real life.

It's more than a release upgrade, and SAP knows that about digital transformation. Nevertheless, with the latest ERP version and an in-memory computing database, it is trying to convince the SAP community that Hana, Fiori, Cloud and S/4 are sufficient.

The digital structural change is leading to profound changes in industrial purchasing. The days of operational purchasing as an organizational unit are numbered. Procurement processes are largely automated - also via Ariba and S/4.

Whether touted as the "Holy Grail," the "Egg-Laying Wooly Pig" or the "Silver Bullet: Every year, new technologies are presented at IT security trade fairs that supposedly solve all security problems better and more cost-effectively than anything before.

Purchased software is an ugly word - "on premise" and "licenses" sound much more intellectual. In the end, however, only "purchased software" will save us from ruin. And some fellow humans are also stocking up on gold again.