SAP-Solution: Kolumne

SAP HCM Payroll, quo vadis? Many HCM user companies are faced with the challenge: What to do with SAP Payroll? How can investments made be carried over into the future? Is H4/S4 the only right way?

The silo security of a traditional SAP environment is reaching its limits in an era of increasing interconnection between SAP and non-SAP systems. Does this lead to sacrifices for the security of a process landscape?

For a long time, SAP user companies were reluctant to migrate to SAP S/4 Hana. Now there is movement on the issue.

SAP users are caught between the conflicting priorities of migration and innovation. Migration projects with lift-and-shift procedures often dominate at first, and innovation falls by the wayside. But there is a better way.

The main finding at the DSAG Technology Days Conference was that users are still experiencing uncertainty regarding necessary modernization. Time is pressing; after all, the 2027 deadline has once again been confirmed.

Shifting up a gear: If you run your own software development within your organization, you can no longer avoid DevOps. The advantages are manifold. Especially when it comes to accelerating processes.

Orchestrate with open source. Everything is going digital. Everything is being automated. But who keeps track? Which software do we trust to control the flow of all digital processes?

According to Statista, 84 percent of companies in Germany now use cloud computing. At the same time, voices are being raised questioning the switch to the cloud.

That I implement innovations in the company is not a question. It's more a question of the timing of the implementation. The pressure on SAP teams to implement the requirements of the business units as quickly as possible is enormous.

Cloud computing has permanently changed the IT landscape. Not only in the offerings of the major public cloud providers, but also in the principles of how IT infrastructure is thought about and implemented - including at SAP.

The sustainability of supply chains is becoming increasingly important. At the beginning of this year, the "Act on Corporate Due Diligence in Supply Chains", or Supply Chain Act (LkSG), came into force in Germany.

Open source stands for innovation. It is also an integral part of the SAP world. Almost every player in the SAP ecosystem—be it a partner, an independent software vendor or an add-on manufacturer—is therefore embracing open source.