SAP Solution: In-memory

Only a freely expendable IT architecture is able to support manufacturing companies in finding their way back to profitability. All projects should be focused on adding value to production.

Change dominates everyday professional life. Workflows and roadmaps have an ever shorter half-life. This makes the requirement for a sustainable architecture model increasingly relevant. SAP with Hana and IBM with Power have created sustainable platforms for this.

In a white paper from the beginning of this year, market researchers from IDC asked the question: Who can benefit from SAP Hana and S/4 based on the IBM Power System? In the meantime, there are numerous experiences from existing SAP customers and partners, so the clear answer is: Everyone!

The number-crunching began at SAP with the corporate acquisitions. Even before that, SAP was not a transparent company, but cloud computing is a crystallization point.

In 2015, four graduates of the Hasso Plattner Institute founded Valsight. Their vision: to improve the controlling of large companies by using state-of-the-art technologies. E-3 spoke with Managing Director Khai Tran about "Performance Management" in a digitalized world.

The digital transformation has arrived at companies. Many companies are converting their systems to the SAP Hana in-memory platform. But installation is not the end of the story. If you want to take advantage of all the benefits of in-memory, you should heed these practical tips.

The clock is ticking: on December 31, SAP discontinued support for NetWeaver 7.0 AS Java, and therefore for SolMan 7.1 also. If you want to continue to manage your architecture in a practical way, it is vital that you carry out the upgrade to 7.2, as the future will be about heterogeneity.

By switching technology to Hana, the Mega painters' purchasing cooperative is laying a solid foundation for long-term process optimization.

IBM expects that the 1000 mark in Hana on IBM Power systems sold will be surpassed in the current third quarter. Despite slightly higher system acquisition costs, the Hana hardware latecomer considers itself to have an advantage over the Hana on Intel competition. Flexibility, RAS and performance aspects are highlighted.

More and more companies are taking up the cause of machine learning, and intelligent machines are more than ever a topic of public discussion. Yet the concept of machine learning is fundamentally not new. So why the hype?

The clock is ticking: support for the current SAP Business Suite will end in 2025. At least 50,000 SAP user companies must have decided on an alternative by then - such as S/4 Hana, on-premise or from the cloud. German companies are still hesitant about the cloud.

Against the background of their experience with the introduction of double-entry accounting, decision-makers in the municipalities are still struggling with strategies for switching to the next generation of SAP software. What is the potential for e-government in S/4 Hana?