SAP Solution: HCP

At the DSAG Technology Days, it was the most discussed topic: Hana Cloud Platform (HCP).

There are sensible cloud concepts, but food is eaten at home.

The disturbing sentence "Cloud only brings ERP into the dilemma" was on the cover of the DSAG member magazine. A wake-up call, but one that did not reach SAP Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert.

Have you ever asked yourself whether you are really using your SAP software for its intended purpose? We're not talking about whether you're managing, shipping and invoicing marijuana plants instead of tropical fruit. What is meant here is the "indirect" use invented by SAP.

Allgeier ES board member Jörg Dietmann sees S/4 as a generational shift with major changes and opportunities for existing SAP customers. In an exclusive interview with E-3, he answers critical questions about the interaction between S/4 and Hadoop, as well as about machine learning and security in the Hana Cloud Platform.

With DevOps, the boundaries between software development (Development) and system administration (Operations) are blurring. Jörg Landwehr from Basis Technologies talks about the challenges and opportunities for existing SAP customers in an exclusive E-3 interview.

Monitoring is also playing an increasingly important role for specialist departments, for example in order to be able to manage various business processes in line with requirements.

SAP focuses on the cloud-first strategy and offers its customers a wide range of solutions. Many do not have a real choice not to use these solutions. But how do customers achieve a healthy SAP licensing landscape that takes their licenses into account and optimizes them highly effectively?

At regular intervals, we critically and constructively scrutinize our paper's line. With our numerous comments from members of the SAP scene, we are clearly number one: We are the opinion of the SAP community!

This year's Sapphire was entertaining, but not insightful. What SAP really wants and where the group is just trying to keep up was not obvious in the keynotes. It remains tedious.

E-3 Round Table with Petra Ellmerich, Regional Vice President at BlackLine, Reimund H. Kuche, Head of Corporate Accounting at Imperial Logistics International, Dr. Christoph Ernst, Senior Director Finance Solutions at SAP, and Martin Wolleswinkel, Managing Director and European Advisory Practice Leader at The Hackett Group.

The medium-sized IT systems house Allgeier covers all relevant topics for existing SAP customers and complements SAP solutions with its own innovative answers. Allgeier thus offers a breadth and depth of SAP expertise that can hardly be found elsewhere. Allgeier CEO Jörg Dietmann spoke with E-3 Editor-in-Chief Peter M. Färbinger about the megatrends.