Even in systems outside of SAP, automation techniques – often involving AI – play a large role in landscape simplification now and in the future. They allow for speedy processing that also ensures accuracy, all while freeing up the team to focus on more thought-centric tasks. To ensure continued agility, businesses need to keep up-to-date with the current strategies to automating the SAP landscape simplification process. At the same time, they need to keep in tune with their own business needs [...]

In the past few years, cyber-attacks have increased, exploiting vulnerabilities that the shutdown around COVID-19 caused. For example, Check Point reported that from 2020 to 2021, cyber-attacks across all industries increased by 50%.1 More specifically, they found that organizations suffered about 900 attacks on average per week in Q4. Looking particularly at ERP platforms, software vendor attacks increased by 146% and averaged at about 536 attacks per week. Unfortunately, SAP is not immune to [...]

  Today’s enterprises face a dynamic landscape. As data continues to increase, so does the complexity of the SAP landscape. To ensure a smooth simplification, an agile business needs to formulate streamlined data management strategies before it even begins the landscape simplification process. After all, a business that properly manages its data will find that many of the steps also promote landscape simplification. The SAP Data Management and Landscape Transformation (DMLT) platform provi [...]

As a rapidly updating and emerging technology, cloud migration strongly impacts SAP landscape simplification. Cloud migration has become a trend in the SAP space for a reason. As more businesses migrate to the cloud, they consolidate their systems and reduce the number of customizations, simplifying their SAP system. As a result, they have a more streamlined and efficient system that is easier to manage and maintain. Additionally, cloud migration can reduce business costs, as it eliminates the [...]