SAP Solution: Flexibility

As a company, it is good to create freedom to focus on complex issues as well as your own strengths. This often works better when administrative activities such as invoice entry and verification are outsourced to external service providers.

A study conducted by Arvato shows how users rate SAP’s enterprise software and what requirements they have. The primary motivators for migrating to S/4 and Hana are more flexibility and agility.

Traditional data center and hosting providers are currently facing new competition from hyperscale cloud providers such as Microsoft and Amazon with their Azure and AWS platforms. But can a monetary advantage also be gained from this?

Cloud computing has become indispensable in the SAP environment. As the level of service increases, the flexibility to freely design the application decreases and, in turn, the degree of automation increases.

SAP CEO Bill McDermott was in Davos, before that in Barcelona at the SAP Fkom, Field Kick-off Meeting. There was little sign of flexibility and responsibility there. The Davos topic could also have come from the DSAG user association. When will SAP start listening to its existing customers?

Companies need to rethink and act quickly to ensure success and competitive advantage in the long term.

By acquiring the B2B online network Ariba, SAP has opened a door between the digital networking of sales and procurement processes.

I rarely make anagrams. Here it fits: Open source software - OSS - and the Linux of cloud computing - OpenStack, OST - are developing into a successful future - and are highly significant for SAP.

Oracle wants to put the fear of God into SAP. Thanks to an add-on module that is to be available in the database giant's portfolio in the first half of 2014, Oracle users will then also have the option of significantly accelerating their applications by using in-memory technology with Oracle databases.