SAP-Solution: Corona

German industry will have a special role to play in the coming years and decades - as a pioneer of a new era. The major trends and guidelines are obvious.

A Workday survey of labor market sentiment and priorities shows that the 18- to 34-year-old group is particularly struggling with the pandemic.

After ten years of growth, the 15 largest management consultancies headquartered in Germany have seen a decline in sales, mainly due to the corona pandemic. However, other market dynamics have also influenced the result.

Everyone should be granted a work-life balance, and the home office anyway. But there are situations where hiding behind an answering machine, webcam and kitchen table becomes counterproductive. Corona recreation should also increase visibility.

Digitization has become more important in 95 percent of companies, and six out of ten are already using Industry 4.0 applications. Investments often increase despite Corona crisis.

The number of video calls has risen sharply since the start of the corona pandemic. Men are less concerned about their appearance in front of the camera than women.

Corona partially leads to delays in S/4-Hana conversions. Nevertheless, the majority of the ERP modernization is to be completed by 2025.

IDC has released its global IT industry forecasts for 2021 and subsequent years, explaining how businesses will need to respond to the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic.

In response to Covid-19, companies are reducing their spending on managed services. However, there is still strong demand for cloud services that enable distributed working.

In an interview for Handelsblatt Online (August 19, 2020), André Bechtold, Head of Strategic and Corporate Services at SAP and "right-hand man" to CEO Christian Klein, says he is responsible for creating the content strategy for the various stakeholders within the company.

SAP systems and therefore SAP data security solutions are indispensable! Data availability ensures business continuity—in times of global crisis and beyond.

Companies depend on technologies that provide them with reliable information. SAP wants to meet the responsibility of meeting this requirement with new initiatives.