SAP’s 2024 Approach to Generative AI

By |January 29th, 2024|

        As SAP establishes its main focus points for 2024, a large priority for the ERP company is generative AI. SAP recognizes the benefits that the emerging technology has not only for its own systems, but also the ERP and technology industries as a whole. To further understand how generative AI will benefit businesses that use an ERP system, we will explore SAP’s fundamental approach:     SAP’s Goals and Approach A brief interview with Rahul Vig (Senior Directo [...]

The Successful Post-Implementation

By |January 26th, 2024|

As the final step to the implementation process, go-live/post-implementation is an essential step to business success. So long as you have conducted the project planning and construction process properly, go-live should be fairly straightforward. However, a successful post-implementation can be more involved. Preparing for the Go-Live Along with monitoring the systems to ensure everything is going according to plan, the team needs to prepare for the go-live event. Before the go-live, the team s [...]

Recent Insights on SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management

By |January 25th, 2024|

As an SAP application that has recently experienced some significant updates, SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is one of SAP’s many strong efforts to provide a cloud-focused service. Today, we will briefly discuss some recent discussions/advancements around the application. The Importance of SAP Cloud ALM In a presentation during the recent SAP ALM Summit EMEA, a speaker detailed Cloud ALM’s importance to SAP and the business productivity gap as a whole.1 In particular, he discu [...]

Latest Updates in the SAP Business Network

By |January 24th, 2024|

In yesterday's post, we discussed how the SAP Business Network is a helpful tool in the system SAP RISE. As a crucial tool for communication for supply chains, finance, procurement, and other logistics, SAP Business Network has undergone some significant changes over the past year. Ultimately, these updates aim to further simplify otherwise complex business and communication processes.   SAP Business Network for Industry As a new focus to the SAP Business Network introduced around May 2023 [...]

RISE vs GROW– Which SAP Program Is Best?

By |January 23rd, 2024|

As SAP continues to move more and more towards the cloud, businesses that are considering an ERP implementation need to familiarize themselves with SAP programs that support the cloud. If they opt for SAP, they should determine which program works best for them. In particular, SAP offers two major programs depending on your business needs: RISE and GROW. SAP RISE Geared towards larger businesses, SAP RISE focuses primarily on the cloud and overall business transformation.1 Generally, SAP RISE i [...]

Reducing Technical Debt for an ERP Migration 

By |January 22nd, 2024|

ERP systems have revolutionized the internal structure of not only large organizations, but also SMEs (small & medium enterprises). The demand for ERP continues to grow because of the cost advantages the software offers. For example, the systems provide data security, enable easier compliance, offer scalability, and improve workflows (among other things)—all on one centralized system.1 While an ERP application such as SAP’s ECC and the newer S/4HANA offers many advantages, it also presents [...]