SAP-Solution: CIO

SAP's authorization concept has been a challenge for the SAP Basis team since the beginning, because it has to be done quickly at the beginning of customizing and downstream no one wants to maintain the roles and authorizations.

A look at the CIO agenda for 2022 shows: Digitization and transformation will be more closely intertwined in the future than they have been in the past.

CIOs are facing a major challenge - are they up to it?

The modernization of IT and the associated cloud transformation are and will remain top issues for CIOs in 2020. The changes in the IT organization are becoming clear, according to the Lünendonk study "IT strategies and cloud sourcing in the wake of digital transformation".

IT and SAP managers must ensure that SAP systems and databases run around the clock without problems and failures and that the company's business processes are safeguarded. Monitoring the systems incurs costs and ties up personnel resources.

Many cooks spoil the broth and relationship management was once upon a time. In our IT procurement and controlling departments, SAP is like a pigeon coop: a constant coming and going. And what remains is ...

I have often called for long-term, verified and strategic SAP roadmaps here. The current minimal outlooks are neither complete nor useful. Panic turns into chaos: Because SAP no longer has a strategy, the Executive Board is reacting erratically.

The digital transformation is changing the framework conditions in companies. One of the CIO's tasks is to understand and describe these complex interrelationships so that he or she can ultimately chart the course. Communication is becoming a decisive factor for success.

Despite the fact that CIOs are becoming more creative and their influence is increasing, nearly two-thirds (65 percent) believe that a skills shortage is preventing their company from keeping pace with developments.

It is a long way from the R/3 HR module to SuccessFactors, reflecting both a technical and organizational evolution. Classic HR, personnel administration, is still current and essential. In addition, there are many new tasks and challenges that SAP partially covers with the acquisition of SuccessFactors. Starting with HR via HCM to cloud computing -...

IT and SAP experts have launched a CIO Roundtable in Heidelberg. The aim is to create a platform for IT managers to exchange professional and personal experiences.

More and more all-flash storage arrays are finding their way into data centers. They could dominate the primary storage environment as early as 2018/2019. This enables the CIO to increase the performance of the SAP landscape and optimize IT operating costs without major restructuring.